moonslav59

Interesting point on getting on base without a hit. JBJ is actually 3rd, but when a guy is 9th in OBP, placing 3rd in this area is pretty telling. (1. His BA is so damn bad at .190 and 2.He gets hit by a pitch a lot. His BB rate is not all that much higher than most of the team.) .163 Betts (45 BB+ 2 HBP/288 PAs) .130 Beni (31+4/269) .129 JBJ (22+5/209) .121 Moreland (22+0/174) .119 Bogey (32+0/270) .117 Chavis (18+3/180) .110 JDM (25+2/245) .090 Devers (23+1/267 .058 Vaz (10+0/172) BB% 15.6 Betts 12.1 Moreland 11.9 Bogey 11.5 Beni 10.5 JBJ 10.2 JD 10.0 Chavis 8.6 Devers 5.8 Vaz 2.7 Nunez

2019: .541 1st in Line up .943 2nd in Line up And now, he's moved back to first.

He will.

Who's Marco? (Sarcasm alert)

Loving this!!!!

1st Game: Centeno with a tater. Marco Hernandez 2-4 (.848 OPS) 2nd Game: Ockimey with his 14th tater. Tobias with a tater. Mejia 1 IP 5 H 1 BB 5 ER (6.59 ERA) blowing 4-2 lead AA Duran 0-4 J Nunez 4-5 including 3rd tater Tendler & Matheny with taters and 2 hits each. Dalbec 1-3 Thompson 6 IP 3 ER H Smith 3 IP 0 ER and the save A Mata 5 IP 0 ER 2 H 1 BB 5 K

s***** loss tonight. JBJ's OPS went up another .001.

Another fix is in.

Yes, I showed that Poyner had worse numbers. I'd still go with the lefty.

It's obvious what these numbers were designed to show, and it's not to show Chavis in a positive light. You are showing Chavis is slightly better than a guy who imploded shortly after this sample size shown...

JBJ is not going anywhere.

What a wondrous site to see!

Right. It's always a comp to a flame out.

Me, too. The overhaul should take time.

We have a double header coming up, too, but does this mean he plays both games?

No JD.

It would be nice to have some homegrown SP'ers!

My numbers were based on the #1 and #2 hitters having a .333 OBP and no DPs, CS or picked offs before the #3 guy comes up. So far this year, our top 2 slots are... 1. .328 2. .394 Last year, 1. .418 2. .340 The number is probably around 40% of the time, for us, that the 3 hitter comes up with 2 outs and none on in the first inning.

So does the lefty, Poyner.

Maybe his 5.14 ERA in AAA? His .797 OPS against? His 1.33 WHIP? Josh Taylor has much better numbers, so far.

Why? Because he's not even near the best guy in the minors, we have Eovaldi returning in less than 10 days, and Mejia just plain sucks. The only thing he has going for him is ML experience, but Poyner, ERam and others do,too. I'm not sure when (out-of-options) Brian Johnson is going to be ready. True, Poyner has a WHIP if over 1.50, while Mejia's is under 1.25, but I'd take the lefty over Mejia, for now.

Agreed. We all pretty much know the career trajectory of WMB. Using an example of a flash in the pan for every player who looks strong out of the gate is not all that useful. Yes, it reminds us that small sample sizes can be very deceiving, but over and over a again gets tedious.

I think the differentials are so small between the 3rd, 4th and 5th slots that saying they are all very important run-producing slots is always going to be true. I was a firm believer in the 3 slot for your best all-around hitter for decades, but I trust the studies. It's not something I will go to my grave defending, especially because the differentials are very small. I think we've beaten this subject to death, but I will add two points: 1) Taking away the first inning seems to favor the idea that the 4th hitter is more important than the 3rd hitter, who has these 4 guys up before him: 8, 9, 1, 2, while the 4 hitter has 9, 1, 2, 3 and the 5 hitter always has 1, 2, 3, 4 before him, counting the first inning- all the best hitters on the team. 2) One question I'd ask about these studies that show the 3rd slot hitter should be your 5th best hitter is this: did the study differentiate between great hitting teams and poor ones? When you have a team with 5 guys with an OBP above .350 and an OPS above .800, maybe the numbers change. Maybe teams with crappy hitters skews the numbers. I'll not complain when JD bats 3rd. I think Cora knows what he's doing, and right now Betts, Bogey, JD and Devers are pretty interchangeable, except for the speed component, so there shouldn't be much swing anyway we go. (Even Beni is heating up right now.)

Plus, yesterday's game. I doubt we see him unless there's an injury, or it's September.

It's hard to do going oh-for.