Dipre
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That's the main problem. They don't care whether we're interested or not.
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By design. His draft philosophy is acquiring talent heavy athletic guys that can man the up-the-middle positions. They haven't drafted top-tier pitching in the initial rounds most of the time because it doesn't jive with their philosophy. His philosophy's fine overall, but they haven't hit on any middle-to-late rounds, international or trade pitching talent worth its weight in salt, which was a staple of his TBR teams.
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Number 2 answers your number one. He has said himself he was too tight around the shoulders, a swing with a tight upper body leads to all types of injuries.
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Neither has Alonso since that season. Hitting 50+ bombs is hard. But he could settle in around 35-40. He has the power to do it, but needs to work out of that passivity.
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What?
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If Matt Olson was 25/26 with the track record of production Devers has while playing 3B instead of 1B, he'd get 300MM easy in the current MLB economic climate. Kinda reactionary to be so down on Devers over what amounts to a bad month. Ever thought of rooting for the Phillies? Because you're very Phillie Fan-ish in this whole "Turn on a player if he struggles for more than a week" thing. right now.
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I will be here to soak up all your praise and admiration as CEO of the Casas Fan Club once he really starts raking. Kid has Pete Alonso upside with better plate discipline.
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You'd be surprised how many guys have specific timing devices for initiating their swings other than leg kicks and toe taps.
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Bro, that's how it works in any corporate environment. Grunts do all the hard work, boss gets the hoopla if things go well, or the axe if things go badly and he doesn't find a scapegoat. I don't see any of you blaming the scouting department on their inability to find pitching in the later rounds.
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But the directive was "build up the farm system", and he's done that. Also, you can hoard a bunch of prospects, and they can all suck. Drafting is both a science and an art. Not trying to defend Bloom here, just trying to look at things objectively.
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You're forgetting about Yorke, who's a righty bat, and the guy I would bet the most money on being an impact bat in less than a season after promoted. He will struggle, adjust, and then take off if things break right.
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Look, IRL I work with a lot of people under pressure because they either set up a pyramid scheme, or had an investment fund that flunked. I see a lot of parallels between Bloom's recent actions and people in those kinds of situations, when the pressure really mounts and they start making mistakes.
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The Sox have a 5-year plan in place with Bloom. This team went from having the second worst farm system in baseball, to being in the 10-15 range in most publications, graduating Duran, Casas and Bello, and still having 3-4 prospects in the top 100 of most major scouting publications (Some combination of Mayer, York, Bleis, and Rafaela) plus a lot more projectable talent in Summer leagues/A-Ball. He's going nowhere.
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If they were willing to take that backlash they should have signed Trevor Bauer, who is at least talented.
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Casas is a very special talent. That sort of plate control with that level of power is a phenomenal combination. You can fix a swing to lower strikeouts, or improve plate coverage, but you can't teach power of plate approach.
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Not the first or last time a player signs a huge deal and struggles out of the gate. And what does watching him play or not have to do with anything? We all watch him, but the results are plain as day, that's not the point. There's a mountain of pressure on Devers with that contract and the fact that it's "his" team now.
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I had to look that up. That's not what we call it in Spanish. On topic: That's not exclusive to this FO.
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Devers is going to be fine. Something about the Betts negotiation seems odd to me. Maybe the FO felt he didn't want to be here? they've never really been shy about spending money to keep their own guys if they feel they warrant it.
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Lots of insider knowledge here. The Devers hate is unwarranted though.
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Cora doesn't make these decisions. All of these decisions are FO dictated. He has "some" input, but that's how it works now.
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Yorke looks like a Pedroia-type to me. The kind of guy who, in 0-2, has the pitcher right where he wants him. Great approach, great swing, and able to make adjustments.
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Even if it wasn't a lost year. Gotta build part of the roster from within.
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He'll get plenty of playing time, but mostly on favorable matchups.
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What's more important for the purposes of the analysis of overall player performance? A 2-month sample, a year of data, or years of data? I can dig countless examples of guys coming up, providing one-two months of crazy stats, regressing, and ending the season as a below average player. Sometimes, it's luck, sometimes a player adapts, the league adapts back, and they don't have an answer for it. We all know Wacha is who he is, a guy with mediocre stuff who doesn't strike out or overpower a lot of batters. That's who he is.
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I'm actually much more confident in Wacha eventually sucking than JD.
