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[/b] Although he got caught stealing in his first attempt, he’s got good running skills, too!

The guy had an awesome rookie and 2018 season. He’s already at about a o.3 WAR after a week.

We’re on pace for 9 runs,

Vaz hit that pretty well. Bummer.

WAR Leaders fWAR player bWAR 2.7 Bogey 2.7 1.9 JD 2.3 (high for a DH) 1.8 Devers 2.1 1.0 Verdugo .8 .7 Vaz .6 .5 Arroyo .4 .2 Santana .2 .2 Chavis .2 .2 Renfroe .3 (-.1 Marwin +.5) 1.8 Eovaldi .7 1.3 Barnes 1.0 1.0 Pivetta .9 .8 Pérez .7 .8 ERod.1 .7 Richards .5 (.1 Whitlock .5)

It’s already started. OPS last 14 days 1.133 Santana 1.125 Plawecki 1.000 Dalbec .762 Cordero The people who keep saying Renfroe is hot: he’s not.

Arroyo’s career splits are better v RHP, so starting him instead of Dalbec or Renfroe might have been a good idea.

It’s almost all on the starters in the 6th, although some inherited runners were allowed to score.

Runs allowed by innings: (Avg per 9 inn) 6.19 6th inning 5.25 1st 4.10 9th 4.09 8th 3.92 2nd and 4th 3.56 3rd 3.19 5th (15.75 10th, 9.0 11th and 9.0 12th) Runs scored by inning: 7.31 1st 7.13 5th 6.19 2nd 5.73 8th 5.44 4th 4.50 6th 4.13 3rd 3.38 9th 3.19 7th (9.0 10th & 11th and 27.0 12th)

We are 15-0 when scoring 7 or more runs. 20-1 scoring 6 or more 1-2 in 5 runs scored games, but 5-0 in 4 run scored games. 3-14 when scoring 1, 2 or 3 runs. We are 10-0 when allowing 1-2 runs. 17-3 with 1-3 runs allowed. 3-5 when allowing 4 but 202 when allowing 5. (Weird splits on the 4-5 run games) 1-4 when allowing 6, but 2-1 when allowing 7. 0-3 when allowing 8, but 2-0 when allowing 9! Basically, we need to allow an odd number of runs: 17-7: 1,3,5,7,9 runs allowed 10-12: 2,4,6,8

Agreed, but Renfroe and Dalbec do so badly vs RHPs, I question why one is not on the bench and Arroyo, Marwin or yes, even Cordero is not playing instead. OPS vs RHPs, this year: 1.253 Santana 1.092 JD 1.058 Devers 1.014 Bogey .881 Verdugo .787 Kike .697 Vaz .688 Arroyo .657 Plawecki .557 Renfroe .554 Marwin .516 Cordero .550 Chavis .462 Dalbec Ok, OK, Renfore is actually doing better than Cordero & Marwin but not Arroyo.

"People"- LOL. Look at the numbers some players got who were worse than Betts and older. I guess I should say there "should be no doubt," because someone always doubts everything, whether it is worthy of doubting or not. Is your position the pandemic did not lower his amount received- even by a little? Does anyone hold that position?

Recently updated mock drafts (July 13): MLB.com 1. Mayer HS 2. Lawlar HS 3. Davis Louisville 4. House HS 5. Leiter Vandy 6. Rocker Vandy Baseball America 1. Lawlar 2. Mayer 4. Leiter 7. Rocker Prospects.live 1. Lawlar 2. Leiter 3. Mayer 4. Rocker 5. Jobe 6. Davis 7. House mymlbdraft.com 1. Leiter 2. Lawlar 3. Rocker 4. Mayer 5. House 6. Davis Fueldedbysports.com 1. Leiter 2. Rocker 3. Lawlar 4. Mayer 5. House 6. Madden 7. Davis

I don't think there is any doubt, for his age and his history, he was expected to make more- before COVID hit.

I was with you the whole way on this one. If someone took him, so be it. Finding a replacement as bad ...errr, I mean as good as him is easy.

Kinda shows he's not all that good. We can't even give him away!

Well said, and it appears that is what they are doing.

Maybe not "heavily influenced," but to some extent, I feel it must have.

I agree, and honestly, I have no idea when he will be "deemed" ready. IMO, his bat is ready to be tested at the ML level, but part of that decision involves evaluating a player's confidence, ability to handle set-backs, ability to make adjustments on the fly, and other aspects none of us may be aware of. His defense almost certainly needs more time, but they might think it's not a big enough drawback that would drag down the plus his bat projects to be. Again, they might also be thinking about how he might react, if he makes a couple costly errors or gets roasted by the media for "taking wrong routes to the ball" or whatever. I'm not sure any of know about his emotional and psychological make-up- not that the Sox know it all, either, but that is one area that may or may not be a big concern. I remember seeing Devers come up and thinking, "nothing phases this kid," and I mean that in a good way. He could make 3 errors, and still hit the winning HR in the 9th. I think that was one reason they had no problem fast-tracking him to the bigs- that and the fact that throughout his whole professional minor league career, he was the youngest player at every level.

To definitively grade a draft going back 5-15 years is still not enough. I'd say when a player's team control runs out, he's ready to be graded as a draft pick. That is more than 5 years back.

Cordero has massive "holes" in his swing, too. I have total confidence that when Duran is called up, he'll be as ready as he needs to be.

That would not surprise me, but if Duran keeps raking, and Cordero keeps whatever he's doing, it could be sooner.

I saw that, but one point is that top players taken in the last 1-4 or even 5 years might still amount to something decent of even special. I'd look back at the 5 to 15 years ago sample.

We might get JD to restructure his deal, where he gets more years at a lower AVV.

And Cruz only got $13M per.