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  1. sneakypower
    tbf he just beat the Saints with Scotty Miller, Breshad Perriman, Russell Gage as his most targeted pass catchers
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    AJ Reed is the closest comp i can think to for flame-out scenarios, but still doesn't seem too analogous bc that guy had apparent conditioning issues
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    that's a very hot take considering it's such an apples to apples comparison; what is KA likely to do better than PCA? we already know PCA blows him away defensively so it's an uphill battle at the outset [attachment=1]Screenshot 2022-09-07 at 11-02-48 Kevin Alcántara 2022 Minor Leagues Game Logs & Splits Baseball-Reference.com.png[/attachment] [attachment=0]Screenshot 2022-09-07 at 11-02-02 Pete Crow-Armstrong 2022 Minor Leagues Game Logs & Splits Baseball-Reference.com.png[/attachment]
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    Scott Parker and his £1650 blazer are available
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    I could look very dumb about this, but I think we could see Willson's market fail to materialize. It only takes one team to fall in love or have money burn a hole in their pocket, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if he doesn't beat Grandal(4/73) in years or dollars. It certainly seems like the lack of a trade market means the industry as a whole aren't super enthused with Contreras. I'd happily take him back if he falls to the 3/60 or 4/75 range.
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    expected woba was .289 last year, it's .288 this year, that's what should be anticipated from him and that's just a bench player for any team that tries to win games; you're projecting very fluky performance to repeat, the age-old Cubs 2B trap we've seen what feels like a thousand times
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    3+ wins from 2B without spending time higher on the defensive spectrum is pretty good, but the BABIP brings up the other point about Madrigal I've made before. He's supposed to be a hit tool outlier, it's his defining valuable trait that stands apart and why people put a 70 grade on it. Madrigal hitting .320 for an extended stretch with no HR and few Ks(and the BABIP that creates) shouldn't be thought of as an extreme outlier. It shouldn't be the *expectation*, but even if you drop him to something like .300/.360/.350 over a larger sample, you're still talking about an above average player on a team that could use more of them. As of today his MLB career even with multiple ups and downs is 130 games, 504 PA, .296/.343/.364 for a 98 wRC+ and 1.8 fWAR. he gets lazy 70 grades on his hit tool simply for never striking out, his ZiPS babip is still .307 doing unexpectedly well "for an extended stretch" and unexpectedly poorly for an extended stretch adds up to an overall liability, why are we talking ourselves so hard into Aaron Miles 2.0
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    so what you're saying is, even with a .367 babip he's still pretty average
  9. sneakypower
    oh no i got sniped on the thread
  10. sneakypower
    really pulling for this guy to be a thing
  11. sneakypower
    welp, cya in '24
  12. sneakypower
    Bench Drop: Ozuna Add: Vinnie Pasquantino
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    i'd love to hear some internal rumblings on Luis Verdugo to understand if/how he somehow flipped a switch [attachment=1]x6Sidfll.png[/attachment] [attachment=0]2_mFmtWN.png[/attachment] "one simple trick turned me from Andrelton Simmons to Freddie Freeman"
  14. sneakypower
    he had a very upright stance and a pronounced hitch in his swing
  15. sneakypower
    i'm gonna need more clues than that
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    after a bad April he's been insanely productive, feels like one of those offseason helium guys when services realize how dominating he's been [attachment=0]Screenshot 2022-08-10 at 12-04-36 Yonathan Perlaza 2022 Minor & Winter Leagues Game Logs & Splits Baseball-Reference.com.png[/attachment]
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    good, then he should be easy to re-sign
  19. sneakypower
    they reportedly haven't even made him an offer to this point
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    have to think that fans of the lowly $1.6B franchise probably think it's hilarious that they just added the best hitter in baseball and are fine with hitting the CBT while an esteemed $3.8B franchise doing a multi-year firesale and preaching wisdom of fiscal responsibility twenty games under .500
  22. sneakypower
    the Soto trade honestly feels like a HR for both sides, pretty cool
  23. sneakypower
    he adds a bullpen arm
  24. sneakypower
    ..why does this narrative continue to prevail? 4.28 ERA last 3 years, all 3 seasons are 4+ That's mostly garbage time innings. Cubs relievers are 2nd in WPA this year and were 4th through last year's deadline. 10th in 2020, and I'm not gonna spend the time slicing and dicing it but I bet it's top 5 after Kimbrel's horrific first couple weeks. do you take out Kimbrel's otherworldly first half in '21 in this mental exercise? are the relievers getting bombed in garbage time innings not part of the 'pen?
  25. sneakypower
    kings ransom wtf Preller
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