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Everything posted by sk7326
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The analytics staff is still there (yes a lot of them left) ... Cora was hired partially because of analytics
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Terrific pickup for the Twins
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Jake McGee back to Rockies - best reliever on the FA trail, sigh
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The real thing is a MUCH more favorable contract potentially.
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Higher OBP - Moustakas is an okay third baseman, which makes him a better defender (positional advantage). Hosmer's metrics not great, although 1B not really a position where UZR sort of stats are very helpful. Both are risky bets. Hosmer has been more durable - although neither are bad. Both guys have been pretty volatile performance-wise. The significantly better OBP wins out here.
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Moustakas is not better than Hosmer - he does hit more homeruns
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You're right - it might take until he's 23 ... he forced them to call him up. Yes the guys they had stunk - but they could have given some magic beans for Todd Frazier. But they thought he was a better choice - and he was. I don't think they intended on promoting him in 2017 - but he made it impossible for them not to.
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He forced them to rush him - which is the way it should be.
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As long as he was? He spent sixteen minutes in AAA!! You don't think he hit some milestones defensively to move from AA? He needs work - but again, I have no problem betting on the kid, because the kid was earned that consideration.
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Given the prospect price, I'd imagine Abreu is lower ... but contractually we are thinking similarly, somebody with arbitration control etc. Ozuna has his 2 arb years coming up and makes $3.5M now. The skinflint Yeah Jeets ownership doesn't have to fire sale him yet.
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He has overcome every challenge the org has given him since he was 17. He forced their hand in making him their 3B last season (by simply being better than the alternatives, both in house and via trade). I'm betting on the kid. Best option for a bat is to revisit the Abreu trade to see if there is something reasonable - and then look at Santana for a high floor, meh ceiling one. Or Hosmer for the real boom/bust one.
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It will be interesting to see if the Sox re-visit the Abreu talks - and from a value perspective, he is the best option for 1B. And yes, I could see an argument for dealing Chavis and stuff for him.
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Fwiw, at minimum Keith Law pointed it out at Moncada's callup ... a lot of the scouting stuff I read saw a guy whose natural athleticism compensated for a lot of lacking craft which played at AA enough
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I think it could have worked - but Stanton had to want to come here. Alas
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it probably won't happen - but it would be fun for Stanton to turn the Yankees down
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He was - but it involved working with the stuff the team was giving them - scouts, analytic sorts, Francona. I was taking issue with the idea that he was doing it as some sort of Rain Man - that the Red Sox had not done any "computer analysis" in 2003-2005
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Except that is not obvious. There is a small gap in OPS sure ... but in the minors (to a certain degree) who cares? It's developmental, winning is a secondary goal ... and we don't know what a kid actually has to do to have passed the level. Moncada and Benintendi's OPS numbers were also close - but one was much, much more major league ready than the other.
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405 and 10 are awful ... the 5 is the only way to get to Anaheim, and genuinely terrible, unless Ohtani really chose the Angels for their large number of strip malls.
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Otani is basically nothing payroll-wise after paying the posting fee. Moreno wants to win, so stranger things have happened.
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it is also why minor league stats are um ... dangerous to use in this sort of manner Benintendi had a .515 SLG with a 11.9% K rate Bradley in AA had a .437 SLG with a 18.1% K rate Benintendi was making more frequent harder contact - Bradley was excellent in AA ... but had holes in his swing non-big leaguers were getting to regularly.
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LA > SEA > Anaheim ... especially with the traffic on the 5
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A lot of his peak was right in its wheelhouse. Because the Sox analysis was proprietary does not mean it did not exist.
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Honestly the sushi on the west coast is just a different level
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Adam Dunn (on offense) with an adequate RF glove = one hell of a valuable player
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The key is whether the reverse is true. That has been the funny part of the entire Stanton saga. Stanton has basically total control of the process - yet Classy Derek Jeter has acted like he doesn't.