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  1. moonslav59
    I'd like to see him try 1B, especially if it fast-tracks him to the bigs. I'm not sure he's ML ready, now. I am a big fan of his, but I admit, I mostly just look at box scores and read the hype or criticism to get my opinions on prospects. I like his bro, too.
  2. moonslav59
    Yes, I just explained, I thought I was responding to your other post.
  3. moonslav59
    OPS Against last 4 weeks: (team .721) .154 Guerrero (13 PAs Against) .452 Chapman .480 Wilson .562 Hendriks .564 Slaten (.000 last 14 days) .565 Weissert .574 Bernardino .656 Crochet .720 Buehler (.364 last 14 days) .777 Newcomb .798 Bello & Dobbins .841 Whitlock .941 Houck .944 Burdi (9) .
  4. moonslav59
    OPS over last 4 weeks (team .760) 1.180 Devers 1.002 Narvaez .961 Bregman .904 Refsnyder (22 PAs) .802 DHam .783 Abreu .774 Duran .684 Rom (25) .666 Rafaela .626 Sogard (33) .538 Toro (26) .519 Wong (24) .496 Campbell .368 Story
  5. moonslav59
    I thought I was replying to your post about getting an ace (Crochet.) We finally got an ace.
  6. moonslav59
    It seems unlikely, but something like .740 and plus D is okay.
  7. moonslav59
    Finally, after like 5 years.
  8. moonslav59
    Nor I.
  9. moonslav59
    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.
  10. moonslav59
    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.
  11. moonslav59
    That idea was thoroughly debunked, line by line. 🤪
  12. moonslav59
    And it matters, whether we like it or not, yes!
  13. moonslav59
    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.
  14. moonslav59
    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.
  15. moonslav59
    I woulda, if I coulda.
  16. moonslav59
    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)
  17. moonslav59
    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?
  18. moonslav59
    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.
  19. moonslav59
    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.)
  20. moonslav59
    Big win. Maybe the ejections will be the spark... LOL (I'm reaching- I know.)
  21. moonslav59
    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.
  22. moonslav59
    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.
  23. moonslav59
    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.
  24. moonslav59
    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.
  25. moonslav59
    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.
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