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I do hear you MVP when you say that he loses a ton of value at infield. I remember hating the idea of Swihart at 1b and it smelled to me like people just didnt want to accept that he was a bust. Im like, the dude is so subpar hitter as a firstbaseman, hes a bat first catcher but not like a bat first player regardless of position. Hes useless at 1b. The difference with Cedanne is I dont care what the stats say. I dont think hes useless at 2b. Or at least , I dont think hed be useless if given a little time there. I think hed be damn good kind of like when mookie went from a very good infielder to a very good outfielder back to infielder I also think its temporary. YOu are just parking him at 2b until an OF gets hurt and it will happen at some point.

That makes sense. Prob not until Roman was up. So campbell was prob playing of only against lefties when abreu sat.

Regarding does elite pitching beat elite hitting .... theres prob some data. Like when the top 10% of ERA match up against top 10% of OPS, does the OPS go down more than the ERA goes up? I dont want to go looking because i cant even find the zips projections by team

okay, my main thing is that run prevention equals run creation. If you think the run prevention side 35/15 is bad and its more like 40/10 even more, i wouldnt get triggered and id hear you out. If baserunning = fielding in importance, than hitting the ball is prob pretty close to throwing the ball. I just reject anythnign like pitches and defense wins because in my experience common sayings are for common men.

I dont think cedanne will be a cf or a 2b. I think he'll be both depending on who is healthy, who is sluping, the handedness of the pitcher... Im nothing if not flexible. Not like physically, im terrible at yoga

they chose campbell at cf and rafaella at 2b, they coulda just flipped em.

thats not exactly easy to do

I dont think hes a 0.0 WAR player at 2b.

last year?

If Cora likes breslow and wants breslow in his role, then we are stuck with breslow until king cora says we can move on If cora doesnt like breslow , breslow should be fired immediately

If you are worried about who will be gm after breslow if we fire breslow the answer is cora.

Why?

cedanne is prob a 2.5 WAR player in the outfield, and a 1.8 WAR player in the infield. Having him play the infield 20% of our games is not going to kill us.

First of all, you are all underestimating cedanne at 2b. Hes going to be a plus there and a big one. Hes too good to not be. I think if hes an A+++ centerfielder, hes nothing worse than a B+ at infield and anything else is small sample size or adjustment , but he'll figure it out Its also temporary. Even if hes getting some reps at 2b, hes still playing a lot in cf (even with full health) and there will likely be an injury to an OF at some point, opening a spot for him. Hes prob already there vs lefties as one of duran / abreu prob sitting. Im not worried about it. Versatility is always good.

And we still do, so.....

if we are noodling at the plate and bres doenst get a big bopper at the deadline , hes out for the same reason bloom was. I dont think brez fails a third deadline with so much on the line.

but whats done and done and we chose to upgrade our #2,3,4 pitchers to Gray,Ranger, Oviedo I would have put more focus into the bats, but im not throwing in any towels. Im not pumpsie, and judge could get hurt. I also think our lineup will improve MULTIPLE TIMES between now and next playoffs. So thats not just paredes. Thats paredes + an offensive bust out from somewhere + another deadline bat. Slackers get benched.

My only point is if anyone other than Crochet is on the mound (and Judge is healthy) or vs Tor (and Vlad is healthy) Our best way to win is to score some runs vs hoping that a starter who isnt crochet blanks the 2 superstars 3 times and then our bp blanks em another 2. Score3 runs so if judge goes 2-5 with 2 rbis we can win. HOping that Gray/Ranger blank judge over and over again is asking for a lot (IMO)

we win the the 2026 playoff series against them

I believe the narrative that breslow accused boras of bluffing and thought he had the best offer on the table and didnt. We may be better for it, agreed. So I agree here. With all of it.

I think pitchers should win MVP more, and I really dont think they should be penalized for having a good defense behind them. Wins matter for MVP in basketball and thats taking into account something the player himself doesnt control. I think Crochet was clearly our MVP last year, and he probably should have gotten votes considering where the team was with him vs where without him. Prob skubal too. But Judge and Raleigh had monster years and were so far out in front of most batters (more so out in front than teh pitchers were) but keep in mind, im saying all of this with crochet in place. You can beat the yankees or the blue jays 2-1 when croceht is on the mound. But not when anyone else is. Judge is going to eat off your #2 pitcher or he wouldnt be Judge. And hes prob gonna eat off crochet too, but at least you have a chance. Sonny Gray vs Whomever the yanks got out there...it doesnt matter, cuz we couldnt hit against their 4,5,6 pitchers last year (they had a lot of pitching injuries) schittler was like their early and he dominated us. So it doesnt matter who we pitch (unless its crochet) cuz they gonna eat. And it doesnt matter who they pitch cuz we're not gonna eat. Cuz we didnt eat against them last year despite them having a slew of pitching injuries.

They were playing KC in the outfield and Cedanne at 2b and that only changed cuz KC forgot how to hit.

But yet it happened last year.

I agree, and thast what im trying to say that hitting + baserunning = pitching + defense TO say that one side mattes more, I disagree with. I disagree less if someone says the offensive side matters more, but I wouldnt go as far as to say I believe that run creation > run prevention. But I think that defense > baserunning. Its just logic Run creation = run prevention hitting + baserunning = pitching + defense defense > baserunning Therefore hitting > pitching

No, its because run prevention elements include more than just pitching.