Regardless of those projections, I think Barnes is perceived as a guy who may have finally reached his potential, and that's why people think it was a good price. Time will tell.
To be perfectly honest I'm a little concerned about the sticky stuff issue.
I'm not sure what to think of fWAR for pitchers.
fWAR absolutely loves Rick Porcello. His career fWAR is nearly 50% better than his bWAR.
In 2020 Porcello registered a 1.7 fWAR in 59 innings with a 5.64 ERA.
In 2019 he had a 1.8 fWAR in 174 innings with a 5.52 ERA.
If memory serves correctly, you are not a big fan of his.
Yes, I think that's correct.
The calls for Duran to be promoted first started 2 months ago, and needless to say, some of them were of the 'WTF are they waiting for?' variety.
I do think there are different levels of pressure though.
And we've seen pretty frightening cases of baseball players developing the yips. Steve Blass, Daniel Bard, Steve Sax, Chuck Knoblauch etc.
See, there are hardly any golf fans here. Everybody who knows golf knows that there's choking in golf. Players even talk about it themselves. The term 'the yips' came from golf.