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  1. mvp 78
    Option 1 is fine. Romy can also play corner OF in a pinch. It really just depends on how long they think Abreu will be out for.
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    I think Mayer needs at least a few months in AAA. He has at lot to work on offensive wise to be a MLB hitter. Romero is really a 2b going forward. I don't think Campbell is a capable MLB SS and isn't part of the equation. If Story goes down, I think Hamilton is the emergency backup in the near term. If we get closer to July we may see Mayer.
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    Narvaez could have higher fWAR simply because of his defense. Wong's defense hasn't looked better this spring even though we had some glowing articles about his offseason work. I agree about his offensive numbers from '24 too.
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    Statcast era is more accurate. Also, the Statcast era hr's were clearly excluded from that list per the list's title. Of the top ten Statcast Hr's, three have been above 500: 1. Nomar Mazara, Texas Rangers - 505 feet (2019) On June 21st, 2019, Mazara smashed a 94.7 mile-per-hour fastball from Reynaldo Lopéz in a game against the White Sox- setting the Statcast era record for the longest home run ever. 2 (tie). C.J. Cron, Colorado Rockies - 504 feet (2022) Three years after Mazara, Cron unloaded a 504-foot rocket against the Diamondbacks on September 9th, 2022. It is the longest measured home run in Coors Field history. 2 (tie). Giancarlo Stanton, Miami Marlins - 504 feet (2016) Six years prior to Cron, Stanton hit a homer for the same distance against the Rockies, with it being the first 500-foot homer in the Statcast era.
  5. mvp 78
    Adding Bregman's Pull Air % for reference as many people think he's going to have a huge Fenway bump.
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    Because if I gave you the Game 162 roster today and it was filled with a team that looked ready to compete in the playoffs, you'd be more excited about the upcoming season than if it looked like how it looked on 9/30/24, 9/30/23, 9/30/22, etc. That's why I care about more what the roster will look like later on than what it looks like now.
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    Almost every decade has had a guy who could launch 500' hr's. It's just that the measurement systems and fields are completely different from one era to another.
  8. mvp 78
    If you're out of the race in August, your team would probably be constructed a little differently on Game 162 than if they were in the race in August.
  9. mvp 78
    MiLB contract with opt out. He was decent last season.
  10. mvp 78
    Longest Home Runs: Pre-Statcast Era 1: Babe Ruth, New York Yankees - 575 feet (1921)* 2: Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees - 565 feet (1953)* 3: Reggie Jackson, Oakland Athletics - 539 feet (1971) 4 (tie): Adam Dunn, Cincinnati Reds - 535 feet (2004) 4 (tie): Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates - 535 feet (1978) 6: Dave Kingman, New York Mets - 530 feet (1976) 7: Darryl Strawberry, New York Mets - 525 feet (1988) 8: Jim Thome, Cleveland Indians - 511 feet (1999) 9: Mo Vaughn, New York Mets - 505 feet (2002) 10 (tie): Joe Borchard, Chicago White Sox - 504 feet (2004) 10 (tie): Adam Dunn, Arizona Diamondbacks - 504 feet (2008) No Frank Howard? *distance after ball rolled for a while and maybe carried by a local stray animal
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    Mantle's 565' blast: The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. Ruth's 575' blast: They combed hundreds of newspaper accounts from the days afterward and found that the majority of the stories put the actual distance in the 550-560 foot range -- with the Boston Globe's Mel Webb having the most accurate depiction. He was the only writer to actually go out and measure the distance of the ball from home plate. Webb walked all the way out to right-center field, foot after foot, to where, for some reason, a security guard had marked the ball's final resting spot with a pile of stones. “I measured the distance covered by Babe’s homer yesterday, making it in 179 strides of slightly more than a yard. The boost was certainly better than 540 feet.” Why can't stadiums be built so that balls can just roll an extra 100' as measured by a team publicist or sports reporter?
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    Ottavino was so dialed in that he wasn't focused on Arroyo.
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    That cop's Statcast page is all blue for sure.
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    Rafaela RF Duran CF
  16. mvp 78
    In this instance, it was about the '25 Sox. I'm not sure if it would change for other years.
  17. mvp 78
    Ask Wade Boggs how adding the 406 club impacted the ball at Fenway. Just because there are two ballparks in 100 miles of one another, doesn't make it an apples to apples comparison. RFK had a high roof that went all around the ballpark. Camden Yards is out by the water and completely open. Physics will impact a ball's trajectory uniquely at each ballpark.
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    Raffy has been in camp for a long while, even before many pitchers. I think his shoulder just isn't ready and they want him close to 100% before they ramp him up.
  19. mvp 78
    Trayce Thompson is OLDER than Rob Refsnyder.
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    If Anthony is on the Opening Day roster, there is no room for a guy like Trayce Thompson. I think Anthony starts in AAA due to the plague.
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    Chris Hatfield said something pretty interesting that I'll summarize "the Opening Day roster doesn't matter all that much, what really matters is the roster on Game 162."
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    Howard played at stadiums that don't exist today. In its ten seasons as the Senators' home field, RFK Stadium was known as a hitters' park, aided by the stagnant heat (and humidity) of Washington summers. Slugger Frank Howard, (6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 255 lb (116 kg)), hit a number of "tape-measure" home runs, a few of which landed in the center field area of the upper deck.
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    He probably does.
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    If Tiger Stadium still existed, we'd see balls up there. The fact of the matter is that the stadiums have all changed so it's not an apples to apples comparison. Manny hit some moonshots in TOR from what I remember. I wonder what that would have looked like at Tiger Stadium? I think the numbers are probably just more accurate now. It's like how people are trying to say that Nolan Ryan was the hardest thrower of all time and if guys today throw 105, he must have thrown 110. It's the "things were better back then" nonsense that we deal with all the time. https://www.mlb.com/video/aaron-judge-s-10-longest-homers-of-his-career Manny Ramirez TOR 5th deck Manny Ramirez Upper Deck Yankee Stadium
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    He's about to turn 34! Born 3/15/91 His wRC+ was below 100 last season in AAA in 432 PA's as a 33 year old! If you only want to look at his MLB numbers, go for it, but there is a reason he's been a AAA guy (9 seasons, 2350 PA's) and is now in his 10th organization.
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