FredLynn
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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
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Offensively he IS an impediment to winning. Hes just like JBJ when he went down the tubes.
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How’s his ops doing? And I think he’s got something like 6 hits in his last 65 ABs. He has no plate discipline and his offensive performance is sinking like a rock. He’s a fair target for criticism and trying to defend him for his offense really isn’t a good look. Face it: he’s not helping the team with his bat, and he has too much company. I predicted his end of season OPS was going to be between.720-.740. I don’t think he’ll even be that good.
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How’s that OPS doing? Or the latest hitting streak of batting roughly .100 coming along? JBJ reincarnated!
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Wrong again! I focus on winning and Rafaela is an impediment to doing that.
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Of course it is-offensively. We are never going to agree on this. Given the fact that we have guys like Narvaez and Yoshida and Hamilton on the roster we simply can’t afford to have a black hole in CF. We were there once. We shouldn’t go back. Only Bregman and Anthony are hitting very well. But you’re in luck! Rafaela isn’t going anywhere. So we will all have the privilege of watching him flail around out there with a bat in his hands like a fish out of the water.
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Unrealistic to who? You? As I’ve written here many times it all depends how many other guys in the lineup you have that are useless with a bat in their hands. If you have 6-7 mashers you can afford players who are offensive bums. If not you aren’t going to compete with better teams
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No need
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Or THAT
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We need one more here so Chapman isn't needed
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Safe
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Run Trevor Run!
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Hello of a job by Gio tonight. We needed that.
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Now don't start bashing Rafaela. Get your own target. Rafaela is mine.
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Second prize is TWO dinners with me.
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One more inning for Gio....then Chapman. I'd play it that way.
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Great outing by Gio....I'd send him back out there because we are playing so many days in a row.
