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It seems unlikely, but something like .740 and plus D is okay.

Finally, after like 5 years.

Nor I.

For sure. You don't finish near .500, every year, without having multiple weak areas or areas with little depth. You have to pick and choose, when you cut your budget or refuse to spend on quality talent while looking for bargain basement players to fill too many weak positions. 2B has been worse than 1B, since at least casas had some hopes. Ace was another neglected area.

They haven't had a decent plan for back-up 1B for years. It is one of the easier slots to fill, in an emergency, so if a team is going to skimp somewhere, this is a common area to do it. Not making excuses. We have neglected it for a long time, and have gone with the idea that the worst defensive 1Bman in MLB, Casas will be "the guy." It is an example of poor roster construction- agreed.

That idea was thoroughly debunked, line by line. 🤪

And it matters, whether we like it or not, yes!

It's pretty subjective, IMO. Judging how good a team is on paper vs what the manger got out of them is a multi-layered and complex undertaking, and even if a team underperforms or overperforms, we still never know how much the manager had to do with it. IMO, Cora was gifted some good to excellent teams, early on and did well with them. The 2020 team was a joke. The 2021 team overperformed, and the 2022-2024 teams did about as expected. On the surface, I'd say Cora has done okay with what he had with 2021 being the one year we can maybe say he did very well. 2019 could be blamed on him for the same reasons. To me, JH was more to blame starting w 2019's not replacing Kimbrell and Kelly with a budget that allowed for it, then it only got worse. Bloom is way more to blame than Cora, but that's not letting Cora off the hook, totally. I once though Cora was the best manager we ever had, or at least tied or close to Tito. I no longer think that, but I like him and think he is a plus manager. Sometimes, however, a manger loses his team and needs to go. I thought that happened to Tito. I'm not sure about Cora and this team. It's an almost whole new team.

Fringe views are welcome, as are all non-troll posters. Gotta expect push back with positions like that and saying things like "I already debunked that, before," like maybe there is no need to debate it anymore.

I woulda, if I coulda.

We are 4 games away from the one-third mark of the season, and when the sample size starts taking on more significance. Right now, our pen is 5th in IP, which is a major factor i WAR calculations. For perspective, that's about 30 more IP than #30, which is about 2/3 IP per game more. It's 13 more IP than the middle team. Our pen is 3rd in fWAE at 2.5 (0.1 from 2nd) I have to admit, this is a good argument that WAR is seriously flawed. 12th in ERA (3.50) but 4th in FIP 11th in xFIP as well as SIERA (3.56) 9th in ERA- and 11th in WHIP (1.22) 10th in K%-BB% and 3rd in HR/9 The .292 BAbip is about average (18th)

Some of us are curious why Yoshi could DH in ST'ing but isn't or can't now. I guess it is pointless, in that it makes no difference to the team, but has anyone even asked it?

Nope: none of Rafaela's spectacular plays count. Story's range counts for zero. Forget catcher defense, entirely, despite it being about or more important than SS D. Bregman is on pace for 16 errors and Devers made 12, last year. We should be 29th. Thus spoke TYPMathustra. 9 statues making every play hit right at him is the best defense that can possibly be. There is zero room for argument, since the metrics were officially debunked, line-by line, by the foremost authority of the subject.

Since we have no immediate roster crunch, since we have 2 guys we can easily move to the 60 IL, there is no hurry. He does provide DH depth, but the way I see it, if we lose Devers for the season and need Yoshi, we are toast, anyway. The million dollar question is why is Yoshi not DH'ing on some minor league team? Has Brez been asked this? It's not like "working on building up arm strength" is a 24/7 process. If he was hitting .900 in AAA, maybe his value increases. It's already as low as can be, so what's to lose? (That's the $1 question.)

Big win. Maybe the ejections will be the spark... LOL (I'm reaching- I know.)

He had a decent OBP in the minors and a little power, but the word was he was glove-only. It looks like Wong is the #2 for sure.

Jh Garcia hit a dinger in AAA. Anthony also homered, tonight. Van Belle has his ERA under 3.00 with his 6 IP, zero runs and just 3 Hits/ 0BB. Monegro went 5 and K's 10! (3 Hits, 0 ER, 1BB) Salem was down 5-0, but are now tied 6-6.

It does. IMO, he played too long. His rough start, hurt too. I'd call him close to even, over his career, when you factor in O + D. fangraphs has him at +13.5, and I can see the thinking that it's too high. His total PAs equals about 7 full years, so his fWAR is about 2 per full season. bWAR is too high, IMO (16.6) which comes to about 2.3/full year. I loved watching him play D, and he had a 5 year stretch, where he hit well for about 2 seasons and okay for 3.

I'm not saying the extra errors were cause by getting to extremely difficult balls. Many of these great-ranged SSs make errors on the balls hit to them, and yes, the score keeper rarely gives an error on a difficult play, unless he throws it away and the defender takes an extra base. Maybe a select few are called on some mildly difficult ones that the statue never even touches. Why you assume defense is only about making no mistakes, even if you are a statue baffles my mind. You don't answer the points made and offer no evidence or data to support your claim, You just repeat defining what Fldg % is, like we don't know, and that it is all there is to defense. You are wrong on so many levels, it's no longer worth the debate.

Are any teams desperate for a DH only player? Even if there are one or two, how much would Yoshida get on the open FA Market? $3.3M x 3? $4.5M x 3? If we could get $10-15M in salary relief, let's just cut ties. There is no hurry, as we still have 1-2 players we could move to the 60 day IL, but eventually, it will need to be done.

I'd call him a great fielder, if he made more plays due to his freakishly long arms. Yes, the metrics would capture the fact that he made plays nobody else could or does make. This is an example of it not only being about athleticism. Some tall 1Bmen make plays shorter ones do not.

I have mentioned parks, teams with staffs that K more than others or allow GB outs vs FO with significant differences. I mentioned how RF/9 had serious flaws. I only brought it up to show that some players do make 100-150 more plays than others, and yes, some SSs make 800 plays a year. Modern technology has allowed us to factor in onl the plays hit within the range of a position player, how hard it was hit, and how far away the defender was. If Player A gets 200 less chances, it factors that in. There have been some notecase flaws in the system, like fenway's short LF wall, and how some parks have very big areas that allow players to make more plays. Nobody says the system is perfect, but the SS position is a bit difference. The area of plays that can be made is near identical everywhere. The numbers of playable balls hit varies, for sure, but that is part of the equation, as is how hard the play is to make. You can choose to not trust the data or the results, but you dismiss it all out of hand, without even knowing what it is.

Player A - 90 outs and 10 errors Player B - 80 outs 20 hits and 0 errors Is the team better off with Player A. Yes. Is player A a better fielder NO. You outdid yourself with an even more absurd belief. Why is your definition of fielding only about just errors and no errors? Surely, there is more to it.

This has to be one of the most absurd statements and beliefs I've ever seen posted by someone who does not appear to be a troll.

Nobody disputes there are difference, and I even mentioned the flaws with the traditional range factor data. The data is NOT BASED ON ESTIMATES or PREDICTIONS! The data is based on scientifically evaluating each play that was actually hit towards a player and determining which players make the same plays and which ones do not. There is no guessing or subjectivity, like Fldg% has. Are the inaccuracies? Sure, same as Fldg%, but the data is useful when used with other data and yes, even Fldg%, combined.