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  1. ZiPS projected a 1.2 win season for Wilyer which I crowed about all offseason. He's already at 1.3. The projections are nonsense IMO.
  2. Cora benched Masa last year for like 2 straight weeks when he was healthy. He'll do the same for Duran if he needs the PA's.
  3. Per Statcast, Jarren has Matthew Lugo sprint speed this season.
  4. And Duran will have a much shorter career since he was a rookie at 26. Not much reason to put a lot of effort into developing him, especially when what you do try to provide him just washes right over him and doesn't stick. Stop making excuses for these players. Duran has been in the system and playing OF since 2018. How many more years does he need to figure it out?
  5. I'm going to hold off on that return just yet. Hicks is probably garbage. I don't have much to say about Tibbs at the moment but Harrison has a lot of potential.
  6. They swapped Chris Sale (27M, 4.30 ERA, 2.1 fWAR '23) for Lucas Giolito (18M, 4.88 ERA, 0.9 fWAR '23). They went cheap and it didn't work out. Should have spent more and brought in Sonny Gray and we'd be complaining less.
  7. Jim Rice was 28 in 1981. Nobody was like, "boy this guy needs more time..."
  8. Youth movement? He's older than Devers.
  9. Just smile, wave to the cameras. Don't engage with the players!
  10. Attitude wise, he could be a good fit in Philly with DD who drafted him. I want what's best for him and Cora is as supportive of him than any manager could be, but it's just not working out.
  11. They spent A LOT of time working on defense with him. YEARS. He just doesn't concentrate when he's in the field. He still doesn't take good routes. They spent a lot of time tweaking his swing to maximize him at the plate. It worked last year, but he's definitely regressed to '23 or worse this year. Sometimes it's the player, not the coaching.
  12. Sox can't pull the ball. If they could, they'd be hitting it out more.
  13. It's not surprising. He looked really bad last time out. Arm issue?
  14. You can pitch 8 innings, not give up a hit and still lose the game. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE199204121.shtml I don't believe we can say it was clearly "the right move" though.
  15. It's not something that's going to get fixed overnight. It's a problem that crept into the game and now they have to figure it out. I'm not paid to figure out how to fix it though.
  16. For a MIF prospect was the weirdest part of it. I know they needed an MLB ready 2b, but they could have just found a short term FA. The system had Mayer, Rafaela, Yorke, Meidroth, Paulino, Romero (all at AA or above) and that doesn't even count Campbell who was having a crazy amount of helium during the offseason workouts that year. If MIF is the strength of your system, don't go trade for another guy to take away from someone else's reps.
  17. I think Cora was fine with the trade because he realized the situation was no longer solvable (i.e. the problems between Raffy and FO). A trade was going to happen at some point so may as well trade him now even if there were no locker room issues.
  18. If they were more focused on contact, I think it'd be easier to deal with the velo and spin TBH. In baseball, everything is just max effort all the time because that's what the spreadsheet demands. It hasn't made for a better game at all.
  19. It's not going to happen anytime soon. We just have to be honest with his performance. It's fine to look on the field and say "yeah, this is on the CBO."
  20. He had a CY winner on his staff and traded him away. He got nothing back. That's on his ledger. It's how it works. If he made a trade where he dumped Blaze Jordan and got a CY winner back, we'd be singing his praises.
  21. Since 6/10 27th in runs scored 3.15 runs/game 4th in K% 22nd in BB% 30th in line drive% 25th in pull%
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