moonslav59
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Are we ever going to face a lefty, again? They have Dalbec in the line-up vs this righty... 1. Kike 2. Devers 3. JD 4. Bogey 5. Verdugo 6. Story 7. Dalbec 8. Vazquez 9. JBJ Rich Hill on the mound vs RHP George Kirby. Our bottom of the line-up may be weak, but the M's have some low BAs tonight: 5. Suarez .209 6. Torrens .193 7. Toro .167 8. Moore .161 9. Aouza .200
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I'm not sure its about the ball travelling better in warm weather. Our pitching didn't seem to get worse with the heat.
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I think Dalbec and Kike seem to be warm weather hitters, despite Bobby Dee's low July numbers in his short ML career. Kike hit .949 in July and .926 in Aug, last year. Was it warm in October? Bobby Dee's best career months are AUG 1.170 and SEPT .947. Vaz is bad every month, but his best 2 are .706 in July and .753 in Sept. (.676 is close in AUG to his 3rd best month.) Story's best 3 months: .901 SEP .900 AUG .869 JUL He literally gets better every month: .794>.818>,845>.860>.900>.901
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Time for the bats to explode. (Hopefully, just ours!)
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This is very useful, but like all stats, it is flawed, too. It does not take into account a batter's baserunning skills, pitchers faced or park dimensions and opposing defense levels. I like ISO, though, but I rarely quote the numbers. I don't think many care about the stat.
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It certainly has flaws, but to me it's not the AB and PA thing. It counts singles twice and BBs once, and they are hardly worth double. OBP is still a very important stat as related to scoring runs, despite the new trend that seemingly steers away from it. SLG is very important, too. Adding the two makes sense, to me, despite it's flaws. It's easy and counts two major run scoring factors.
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I like OPS, despite its double counting some stats, so it makes sense that it be used to judge pitching, too. A poorly placed HR, like a granny, can really skew an ERA.
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Winning 4 out of 6 and 4 out of 8 sure changes the mood around here. Over the last 8 games... 1.486 Devers Forevers 1.132 Slow Bat JD .917 Bogey we hardly knew thee .826 Writing a new Story .804 Bobby Dee the benchee .678 Senior Cordero .586 Vazectomy .523 Ickee Plawecki .514 Kiki Smeekee .501 Dugo Smoo-go .345 Head scratcher
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Take away Crawford (8.44 ERA), Barnes 7.11, Brasier 6.08 and Danish 5.25, and our staff looks pretty solid- ERA-wise, anway. OPS Against: .962 Brasier .908 Crawford .834 Eovaldi (not going anywhere, for now) .797 Barnes .793 Diekman .741 Danish All others are under .680! Some of our best OPSA pitchers are not pitching many innings or are in AAA (Valdez): OPS Against and team ranking in PAS against .378 Schreiber 17 .413 Strahm 14 .467 Wacha 6 (on IL) .556 Valdez 16 (in AAA) .562 Whitlock 3 .579 Sawamura 15 Only Whitlock and Wacha are in the top 14. Should this change over the rest of the season? Will it?
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Mind-boggling. Let the man pitch! (Before he gets hurt!)
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The pen did better than the starters for a long while in April, and my expectations have not been very high on any of our pens over the last few years, but until this year, they have seemed to exceed expectations. Maybe, they still will. Havings a 10 man pen allowed for some crappy pitchers to get more innings than normal, and if we can not have to use them all that much going forward, we do have a few RP'ers that are doing well or "good enough." Pen OPS Against: Interesting to note: OPSA as starters is .662: as relievers .679. .378 Schreiber (27 PAs) .384 Whitlock 35 .413 Strahm 48 .556 Valdez 45 .579 Sawamura 47 .592 Robles .592 .704 Houck (.675 last 28 days) .705 Davis (.515 las 28 days) Assuming Whitlock stays a starter, these could be 7 of our 8 man pen, going forward. (Barnes and his salary keeps him at #8, for a while. Diekman probably keeps Valdez on the farm.)
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Well, didn't they just go 2 IP in their previous start to ready them for a call-up? You weren't alone in that thinking. I think that was a sign they are thinking both are ML ready, and then both just had another nice start.
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I'm not sure how they'd use him, if he is on an innings count- maybe in long relief. Maybe a few spot starts. If Bello is up, it means we had a fire sale, and it would be all about exposure to the bigs and building confidence while getting a better read about what we can expect from some of our ML ready farm hands. I'm not sure Bloom sees him as being ML ready, now, but maybe by August things will have changed.
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Trout has 22 XBHs. Judge 21, according to fangraphs.
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I've been arguing that Hill and Wacha have better histories than Eovaldi and Pivetta the 3rd time through a line-up, and to let them go deeper, but now Wacha is on the IL. They did let Hill go 6 innings, finally!
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No, but they look more Ml ready, as of now. I'm kinda surprised we have not seen one get a chance, by now.
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He's only at 34, now, so it could be possible he might be below 120 by August.
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You have a lot of competition.
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Devers has 13 XBHs to Judges 21, but since Judge walks more, he has 19 less ABs. Why not just use SLG%? .721 Ward .689 Trout .672 Judge .634 Harper .617 Chisholm .603 Cron .597 Arenado .588 Devers 11. JD .564 13. Stanton .538 28. Bogey .482
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Agreed. I don't think any GM offers Bogey 8+ years. He may not even get a 7 year offer. If he was a great defensive SS, he would get it.
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Yes, possible, but it's not like Seabold and Winckowski are struggling.
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I doubt they'd do it, even if we needed a 5th starter. We also have Sale and Paxton looking to rehab after the deadline.
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If we trade Eovaldi, Wacha and Hill? I have him, at best, third in the pecking order behind Seabold and Winckowski.
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I'm thinking, he might move to 3B or 2B, later in his career, where his hit toll translates better than at 1B.
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Many 1Bmen get paid big bucks. Devers is a great hitter, and playing 3B at an average to below average level vs playing SS at a below average level is actually a plus in Devers' favor. DEVERS FOREVERS!!!
