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  1. notin
    To who? Blue Cross Blue Shield? Groome might be the first player to get injured merely by being traded…
  2. notin
    Or we could pretend his MLB service time path is blocked by Martin Perez and Nick Pivetta…
  3. notin
    Actually it was Mark, but don’t tell Al…
  4. notin
    Oops. Would it be believable to say I was doing a head stand in my yoga class when I checked that?
  5. notin
    FIP and xFIP are both half a run lower on the road for his career.
  6. notin
    Because his dad was a Yankee!!
  7. notin
    At some point, does it become relevant that neither Aiken nor Appel ever pitched in the majors?
  8. notin
    Mark Appel would be another precedent…
  9. notin
    While I like this team so far, it’s really not a winning season until we get that 82nd win. There’s still a long way to go….
  10. notin
    Prior to his UCL tear in 2020, he was also 37 years old…
  11. notin
    Jon Gray outside of Coors might be worthwhile…
  12. notin
    While good, sometimes you find yourself paying for Justin Verlander but getting Justin Masterson…
  13. notin
    Boone might never manage at the MLB level again. Cashman will be getting offers as he walks out of the owner’s office….
  14. notin
    Another name I toyed with was Dexter Fowler. He did have a lot of mediocre seasons, however…
  15. notin
    … and has already accrued 2.1 fWAR!! Third highest total on the team, just ahead of some guy named Mookie!
  16. notin
    … until spending too much prevents you from extending Devers or Verdugo or…
  17. notin
    History has shown that managers go before GMs. If Cashman gave Boone a team good enough to win and Boone can’t win, he’s likely gone…
  18. notin
    How about Chris Taylor? Former infielder. Since 2019 has similar K/BB, top ten in BSR, good ISO (.201). Peaked at 4.8 fWAR, but has had issues with PT in a stacked Dodger lineup…
  19. notin
    He’s also a better defender. But he is, when healthy, a 4-6 fWAR player…
  20. notin
    Fair enough. Great if true…
  21. notin
    So for me I’m thinking Marcus Wilson as a young Brian Goodwin with Duran as a young Tommy Pham. Pham has certainly had the better career and is the better player, but Goodwin has spent his career largely as an underappreciated and unheralded player whose always done his job pretty well. Good or bad comps?
  22. notin
    Hamilton has been worth 10.8 fWAR in 8 seasons. Sure his BSR was good when he actually got on base. Grady Sizemore, especially early Grady, feels a bit lofty of a goal to me. Think Duran can post 6 to 7 fWAR annually? I was thinking more like maybe a Tommy Pham, but without the stab wound…
  23. notin
    I don’t get to see the tools, only the results. But I probably wouldn’t know what to look for anyway. I get that Duran puts the bat on the ball better, but we’ve also seen lots of players with “game impacting speed” who really had very little impact, with Billy Hamilton at or near the top of the list. So to put it into terms I can relate to, who would be a good MLB comp for Duran? With Wilson, Brian Goodwin seems to leap to mind. At least to me. Any thoughts?
  24. notin
    Just making a point about early evaluations of players. Despite my repeated condemnation of Wilson, I’m starting to wonder if he isn’t at least as good as Duran. He’s been as good or better for a few years now. Both Wilson (BABIP) and Duran (Polar Park) have reasons to question their current seasons. So I’m just wondering why Duran is “the answer” while Wilson is considered a stopgap at best. The one thing in Duran’s corner is the professional evaluators like the folks at Baseball America (who, needless to say, are superior to me at this kind of stuff) clearly love Duran and largely ignore Wilson. But that still makes me wonder why…
  25. notin
    Oh it wasn’t for long. But they drafted Grichuk first. It’s just the most famous of many examples of inferior players being drafted ahead of superior ones…
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