mvp 78

It took him 600 PA's to figure out AA pitching.

1. The extension would be cheap as he's a platoon guy. 2. Anthony doesn't want to be extended. 3. It's probably just moving on from Duran, which Alex has advocated for numerous times.

If you think about it, don't you want your hitters higher in the order so that they have a chance to hit more often (1st and 2nd)? The only other difference is the discussion about 3rd where there used to be a lot of value, but there is a belief that "this batter comes up more often with nobody on base and two outs so that position is a little less valuable." You could also say that it gets more PA's in a year than the cleanup hitter! IDK. I'm not too hard up about devaluing the three hole.

Off to a bad start IN AAA!!!!

I don't think he should be thrown into first base. He's barely even practiced there. While we jokingly say it's easy to play, it would be a bad decision to throw him out there without him really being ready for it. He at least had MiLB/college experience in CF.

MLB: 317 Innings 2B 0 Innings SS MILB: 420 Innings 2B 298 Innings SS College 24 G 2B 0 G SS

Sox like hard mode and/or don’t believe in day/night splits.

Campbell’s defense at 2b is excellent!

Are you sure you don't want to try to defend being a Jhostynxon superfan for 5 years? I was looking forward to that post! 😸

Instead of quote replying to the starting pitching portion, you replied solely to: "I keep hearing that he's trade bait, but I kinda want him as my 1B next season. 🫣" So your response of "yeah after 5 years" was very confusing!

Story's Fldg Pct at SS in MiLB ROOK 915 Low A 949 High A 957 AA 954/963 AAA 976 It clearly takes a player a while to adjust to playing SS professionally AND the fields at the lower levels are awful. Campbell is not a good SS. He has a weak arm and poor range for SS. If he is struggling currently at 2b, how much worse would it get at SS?

Fat Joe needs to get on stage with Big Pun's hologram.

Stargell won in '79. 😫 Thunder would have known that as he's a huge Buccos fan now.

I just wanted to give a shout out to all the busted prospects out there. It's not your fault.

Jhostynxon didn't even pop until last year. There's no way he was advocating for him in '23 and '24 (much less longer) when he was the lesser prospect than Johanfran. I was just wondering if moon was confused and thought I was referring to someone else. I watched a ton of Salem games early on in '24 and the Garcia Bros were a real bright spot for that team. I can't take credit for being "on" him first or whatever since there were good reports about him in ST. He didn't even become a top 30 prospect until after April '24 for SoxProspects.

Was just providing reasons for why he shouldn't be complaining.

I am not Willie Stargell just in case anyone was wondering.

I agree that just inserting Anthony and Mayer would add a lot to this team. We saw in in ST! I don't know what their plans are with Campbell in 1B. I'm not sure they even know. Cora and Breslow are likely not on the same page. It's kind of a mess and it's not a surprise that we have no idea what's going on. I can't blame players for being confused either.

That's a huge hole in the lineup after Breggie. Woof.

Huh?

The highlights: A look at various breakdowns shows that Story’s offense is basically… breaking down. He’s chasing far more pitches than ever, swinging and missing more than ever, hitting the ball on the ground more than ever, pulling the ball less than ever (particularly in the air), and absolutely getting eaten alive by four-seam fastballs. Over his first three seasons in Boston, he began swinging a bit more often (50.4% for 2022–24), but his chase rate took a bigger leap, to 33.4%, and his production receded. This year, he’s swinging at 55.6% of pitches and chasing 37.8%; the latter rate ranks in just the sixth percentile, and the combination of those two rates suggests he’s pressing, expanding his zone and trying to do too much. And of course, he’s missing a whole lot. In or out of the zone, Story is particularly struggling against four-seamers. He’s whiffing on 22.8% of those fastball while hitting just .164 and slugging .180 against them. His expected numbers against the pitch (.182 xBA, .285 xSLG) don’t make a much stronger case. His Statcast run value on fastballs (-7) is in a virtual tie with Michael Toglia for the majors’ lowest. Once Story does make contact — at nearly a career-low rate (70.8%) — things aren’t exactly going great. He’s hitting more grounders than fly balls, something he’s never done before; his 48.4% groundball rate is 14 points above his carer mark, while his 1.41 groundball-to-fly-ball ratio is almost double his 0.79 career one. His 31.3% pull rate and 7% pulled air rate are both the lowest of his career; the latter is less than half of last year’s previous career low, 14.8%. Given that Story has hit .466 and slugged 1.717 on pulled air balls during his career, you can see how that might be a problem.

Hard hit 56.7% 4.91 xFIP Career low GB rate Career high BB rate Coming off surgery

Adding a poll to see how everyone would realistically get Anthony onto the active roster.