FredLynn
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Can’t go down looking Roman
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I’d send Hamilton here
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Yup Wong has looked better over the past few weeks
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Mistakes by Wong, Story, and two by our “GG” CFer. Leading baseball in errors. Not a good look
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Two buffoons in the OF. That’s Rafaela’s fault too Its the CFers ball
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Wanna join us? Its by invitation only
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Bello has been more than impressive for a long time now.
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Exactly
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Another error Still leading baseball in errors? Yup
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Anthony has a hole in his swing down and inside He needs to adjust
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I want Rafaela to succeed as much as anyone here. I just don’t think he has it in him. Not with a bat in his hands
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It was a tough play but one I expect a GG CF to make
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Just doing my best to imitate you as the foremost baseball moron here! Ill never start making it personal but I feel free to respond when someone else (YOU) starts it.
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Rafaela has to make that play. Hit him in a bad spot I guess-the glove
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Rafaela is BELOW my Mendoza line for the season. And I fully expect it to get worse. Where’s your OPS cutoff for him to get used as a late inning replacement?
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I agree with most of this. Maybe even all of it. Romy, Hamilton, and Wong simply aren't that good. Unfortunately watching Rafaela seems worse because he can't seem to lay off balls in the dirt or a foot outside. The other guys don't really have better numbers, I agree, but somehow, to me, watching them is less painful. This team has definitely been badly bitten by injuries and as you said, we have had to rely on subs way too much.
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Thats just it: I DON'T expect him to change. So he will remain a below average hitter and at some level the team will not be able to afford to have him in the lineup every day, just like what happened to JBJ.
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I HAVE commented on the other guys who are slumping too! I won't waste my time listing them: you know who they are. The difference is that most of them have much better plate discipline than Rafaela and therefore have a better chance of picking it up again.
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It accomplishes nothing other than stating the obvious, I agree. Look, I wish he could "get going" too. I just don't see it. Very few players who lack plate discipline are successful with a bat. I think he will have a few more streaks where he is better, but overall the trend will be negative for him, unfortunately.
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I could say the same thing about his "data". WAR is only one metric. There are others. For example, his OPS+ is down to 94, BELOW average. His OPS is .709, also BELOW average. Since the ASB his BA is .188 and his OPS is .491-in 137 PAs, not a small sample. I wrote earlier that I thought this would happen as he got tired from the long season. In a vacumn given his defense it might be tolerable, but with so many other guys falling off the cliff (Narvaez, Gonzalez etc) he's a liability. But as I said, cheer up! He's not going anywhere. But he remains fair game to be targeted for criticism just as the Sox announcers have done ("we gotta get him going" etc). It strikes me as a bit blind for ostensibly knowledgeable posters not to see that.
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As I have written here over and over again: its a matter of context. Rafaela had a minor flash in the pan. Thats over now. As I suspected because he has no plate discipline his numbers are again tailing off, down to near the level you said you would not play him regularly, below .700. Wong doesn't have that fatal flaw, and DHam is simply a backup player from whom we can expect very little-anything we get from him is gravy. Put it all together and we need more punch in the lineup that Rafaela is providing.
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Who’s defending Wong? While I admit he’s looking a bit better at the plate lately his performance for the year is horrible
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Both of those I don’t hate Cedanne. I didn’t hate his twin JBJ either. I just don’t think he is a contributor to our offense the way the team needs contributors right now. He’s fallen off the cliff as far as I’m concerned.
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What you mean to say is that I don’t agree with you. I understand baseball just fine, like just about everyone here. But I don’t subscribe to groupthink. I do my own thinking and I post my own take on things. You aren’t required to agree with it. We all have the same goal and we all have our own opinion on how best to achieve it.
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Narvaez has tailed off as expected. DHam is a sub who is going to see more reps than he really should. Wong will likely improve on his abysmal OPS to date because there’s no place for him to go but up. Even Story has an OPS barely above league average. These are some of the reasons we can’t afford to have a black hole like Rafaela out there every day
