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  1. Bellhorn04
    Right, and that's why I've lost a lot of my patience.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I think we do this time.
  3. Bellhorn04
    It'll just pave the way for the July selloff.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Some of it comes down to circumstances. Pedroia was a highly touted homegrown prospect. You're sort of obliged to give a guy like that some leash. He had his initiation as a callup in a dead season. Grissom is a guy we traded for who was expected to step right in as a starter, with some MLB experience and great minor league numbers. I'm not sure how much leash they can give him. And of course it doesn't help that the guy they traded for him is posting Cy Young numbers.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Seems like that might be a problem.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Pedroia benefited to some extent from having his adjustment period at the end of a lost 2006 season and then the first month of the 2007 season. Then he caught fire.
  7. Bellhorn04
    It's another year of .500ish ball. Sometimes they look much better than a .500 team and sometimes they look much worse.
  8. Bellhorn04
    True, but unfortunately Grissom's numbers are so epically bad it's hard not to fixate on them. They're worse than Dalbec's, and Dalbec's 2024 sample was enough to convince everyone that he's just not a major league hitter.
  9. Bellhorn04
    What about the stretch of 50+ games without a long ball? That's something no one seems to be talking about.
  10. Bellhorn04
    I'd say some of the expectations of Grissom were put on him by the organization. They traded Chris Sale for him and penciled him as the 2024 second baseman. We heard stories about how he was a star in the making. How much of a leash are they prepared to give him in a season that supposedly matters? With Hamilton suddenly hitting so well, they now have options.
  11. Bellhorn04
    It just seems like there's such a vast gulf between minor league pitching and major league pitching now. Guys can absolutely rake in AAA and when they're promoted it's like they've run into a brick wall. And when you look at Grissom's 2022 game log, he got off to a tremendous start, but at a certain point the pitchers seemed to figure him out.
  12. Bellhorn04
    In 2023's 80 PA's Grissom hit .280, but his OBP was only .313 and his SLG only .347. I think there are more reasons to be concerned than just his BA. The lack of power and shortage of walks are issues too. Even if more of the line drives start falling in we might be looking at an average or below average hitter.
  13. Bellhorn04
    The thing I keep coming back to is that he's a PROSPECT. Yes, he had some major league experience in 2022 and 2023, and on the face of it the numbers he posted in 2022-23 were "OK" - a 105 OPS+. But if you dig a little deeper you'll see that he got off to a red hot start in 2022, with a 1.123 OPS in his first 14 games. After that he gradually cooled down. In his last 15 games in 2022 he hit 174/264/196 for an OPS of 460. His OPS in 2023 was 659. It's fair to say that after that red hot start in 2022 it's been mostly a struggle to hit MLB pitching. I'm also a bit shocked at the lack of power. He hasn't homered in his last 54 MLB games.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Grissom 65 PA's 129/169/145 OPS 314 Dalbec 59 PA's 132/207/170 OPS 377 Grissom has to start turning this around soon, right? Maybe me starting this thread will do the trick.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Makes perfect sense, yes. The only caveat might be that some injuries are totally fluky, but even then, it probably increases the chances.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I agree. Rafaela seems to be the somewhat rare case of a guy you want on the field every day in spite of the ugly-looking WAR. He has to start pulling that out of negative territory at some point, needless to say.
  17. Bellhorn04
    There has never been anything like Tiant's windup and delivery.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Simple, the Reds would be at a huge disadvantage because of the extra velocity and spin.
  19. Bellhorn04
    True, but you also get the absurdity of the D'Backs taking out the Dodgers last year.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Right, so we're not really talking about improvements in ability, just in technology. And the great plays Willie Mays and Brooks Robinson, for example, made in their careers, will always be great plays by any standard, because fielding skills aren't affected much by technology.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I think to make things fair, you'd have to transport the 1975-76 Reds into 2022, then give them a year to adapt to the higher velocity pitches and stuff like that.
  22. Bellhorn04
    OTOH if those olden time guys had all the training and technical tools at their disposal that players have now, they'd be better too.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Schiraldi had 2 blown saves in that game! Crazy.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Thankfully I survived the 26 years between 1978 and 2004 and saw Dent throw out the first pitch in ALCS Game 7 followed by a 10-3 Sox win.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Poor Stanley had a role in both the 1978 playoff game and 1986 Game 6.
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