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What player hit in every game he ever played (13 games) and ended up with a .425 BA in 43 PAs- never to play again. (Hint: it happened this century.) Answer: Glenn Williams with the Twins in 2005.

Trivia question: Who has the highest career BA of 1.000 and the most PAs for that 1.000 BA? Answer: John Paciorek of the 45 Colt's- 5 PAs, 3 for 3, 2 BBs and 4 runs scored in one game. He never played again. Hover mouse with right click on to the right of "answer" to see the answer.

MLB.com... More aggressive Yoan Moncada tapping into talent WWW.MLB.COM A little more than four years ago, Yoan Moncada entered American baseball as one of the most instantly hyped prospects in recent memory. In February 2015, he signed with the Red Sox for a record-smashing $31.5 million bonus that actually cost Boston twice that much, including the penalty for exceeding

We did end up scoring 8 runs.

None, so far. (IMO)

I was hopeful that this would be the year he stays consistent. The sample size is still small, but we are approaching the time where we will be able to say he had another up and down year.

JBJ will begin hitting better.

One thing that will make it harder for us to stay strong... MLB reports... 2019 Amateur Draft Pool Allocations By Jeff Todd | April 11, 2019 at 10:25pm CDT With less than two months until the 2019 amateur draft, analysis of this year’s class is hitting full stride. Baseball America just produced its ranking of 300 prospects; Fangraphs has updated its prospect board; ESPN.com’s Keith Law released rankings not long ago (Insider link). [RELATED: 2019-20 International Bonus Pools] As always, spending power is key. Jim Callis of MLB.com recently broke down all the key financial info for this year’s festivities. While the outcome of the still-pending free agencies of Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel could still shift things around, the situation is mostly set at this point. (Click to find out what selections teams would lose by signing one of those players before the draft and what picks their former teams could stand to gain.) More than any team in the league, the Diamondbacks are in a power position in the draft. Though they won’t pick until the 16th slot, the club has accumulated a variety of lofty selections via compensation picks for A.J. Pollock and Patrick Corbin as well as the acquisition of a Competitive Balance pick in the Paul Goldschmidt trade. Arizona has over $2MM more to work with than any other club in the Majors. You can find the slot bonus allocation and pick basis (compensation, competitive balance, etc) for every single selection in the draft at the above BA link. We’ll just run through the total bonus pools for every team here: Diamondbacks: $16,093,700 Orioles: $13,821,300 Royals: $13,108,000 Marlins: $13,045,000 White Sox: $11,565,500 Braves: $11,532,200 Rangers: $11,023,100 Padres: $10,758,900 Tigers: $10,402,500 Rays: $10,333,800 Pirates: $9,944,000 Twins: $9,905,800 Reds: $9,528,600 Giants: $8,714,500 Blue Jays: $8,463,300 Mets: $8,224,600 Dodgers: $8,069,100 Angels: $7,608,700 Mariners: $7,559,000 Yankees: $7,455,300 Rockies: $7,092,300 Cardinals: $6,903,500 Phillies: $6,475,800 Guardians: $6,148,100 Nationals: $5,979,600 Cubs: $5,826,900 Athletics: $5,605,900 Astros: $5,355,100 Brewers: $5,148,200 Red Sox: $4,788,100

What does "overrated defensively" mean? Leon is consistently near the top of just about every important catcher stat, and then there is the whole CERA thingy.

As bad as things have been, we're just 1.5 games behind the Yanks and 4 behind the Astros.

People were talking about how hard JBJ has been hitting the ball. I showed some data that shows that may not be true.

Just saw this, mi amigo!

Hopefully, this is the spark that leads to a wildfire.

yes!

Mitch: The King of April!

There are many cases where specific pitchers almost always pitch to just one catcher. I doubt it's mostly because of that catchers ability to keep the ball from rolling to the backstop. (I admit several pitchers don't seem to care or don't do much different no matter who their catcher is. With Sale & Price it seems to matter.)

Tiny sample sizes.... Line Drive % 39 Swihart 26 Devers 20 Vaz & Bogey 18 JD 14 Moreland & Beni 13 Betts 11 Holt 7 Nunez & JBJ Medium to Hard Hit % 95 JD 92 Swihart 90 Vaz 89 Betts, Devers, Holt & JBJ 87 Bogey 86 Moreland 83 Beni 46 Nunez

Okay, let's say Leon was picked up by the Rays, and is immediately used primarily with 2 starting pitchers. How many starts would you think it takes for him to get near the level he got with Sale and Price? I know Price got off to a rough start with the Sox in 2016, but he did end up with much better numbers with Leon by year's end. Chris Sale saw his WHIP improve just about every month of his first year with the Sox. I'm not saying this is proof of anything, but I think it takes at least a couple months to build a tight relationship. Yes, some are better than others at building that tightness quickly.

No, they are pretty plentiful, but it takes time for a catcher and pitcher to build a great relationship, so it's probably not a good idea to continuously change your catcher-pitcher combinations.

That is certainly a possibility. I'm thinking GMs probably did not want to start fresh with a new catcher and wait out the learning curve or "comfort" building period. Add to that the $2.5M price tag, at a time when similar catchers were being signed for a fraction of that cost, and it's easy to think maybe GMs wanted Leon, but they just didn't think the timing or budget hit were worth the trouble. Just my opinion in response to those saying that because no GM claimed him, he is not valued.

Let's see if Eovaldi can be the "stopper."

$2.5M is a lot for a catcher- any catcher. Leon's strength is how he builds a comfort level with a few starting pitchers. That takes time. I disagree that no team claiming him means he has little value to us or other teams.

It would be nice, for sure, but we are no where near a must win point.

...or that the sample size is so damn small, it hardly matters.

It takes time for a catcher to build up to a comfort level that makes a significant difference. Just because a team decided it did not want to pay $2.5M and then wait out a learning curve, does NOT mean no team wanted him or finds him valuable.