Tryptamine
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I know we're busy hating Madrigal, but in the time since his return from AAA he put up a .328/.409/.466 SLG good for a 144 wRC+. Obviously I do not expect him to suddenly be a slugger, but it's very possible he figured something out. The quality of contact certainly improved. Before he was sent to AAA 23.8 SOFT%, 56.0 MED%, 20.2 HARD%, 18.1 LD%, 66.3 GB%, 15.7 FB%, 85.3 EV After return from AAA 11.1 SOFT%, 66.7 MED%, 22.2 HARD%, 17.6 LD%, 51 GB%, 31.4 FB%, 87.6 EV
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Passivity is the biggest thing I see. He almost never goes after the first pitch and, though I don't have the numbers in front of me to support it, he seems to take an abnormal amount of called strike 3s. He feels like he's almost always working from behind in the count.
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I may be wrong, but I thought I had read that Stroman can't be given a qualifying offer because he has a player option. I know you can make a qualifying offer if it's a declined team option.
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The Astros are certainly not the team to employ this strategy with, but if we're talking the like the Orioles and the Cubs have to throw in like Nelson Velazquez to bump up the package to include Coby Mayo, then yeah go for it.
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They need to do a lot of consolidating since the overwhelming strength of the farm is the depth and that is going to bring a lot of 40 man issues over the next few years
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The point is, why use one of the two valuable trade chips to try and fill a hole, that may already be filled if they'd just give Mervis an extended look.
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No one is saying a top 50 prospect, but a team with very little is more unlikely to give up their top guy then a team like the Orioles is likely to give up their 7th or 8th best guy.
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Why is it all the bad farms.....
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Cards will finish ahead of the cubs
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It should be immediately, but incompetence dominates this organization
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Well there goes half of that positive run differential that people use to justify buying.
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Wisdom and Young into the game, Amaya still wondering what he did wrong.
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I keep looking and Orelvis Martinez is definitely the guy if you're dealing with Toronto. 21 in AA, BB% up significantly to 14%, K% down to 20.5%. Tons of power. I'm curious as to why he always has really low babip, it looks like he almost hits too many flyballs at the cost of line drives.
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Include Rucker on the list of players to fire into the sun
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Nico with his 4th strikeout in 2 games.
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Another stellar Mancini AB
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And that should just about do it for any chances they become buyers.
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They never showed it, but I thought the same thing. He couldn't have been going very hard to allow Devers to get to 2B.
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Nico really lighting the world on fire
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Cobs
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Another Nico K
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Why the hell are you trying to steal 2B on a 3-0 count with no outs?
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Good thing the struggling hitter was in the clean up spot and not the guy who is torching everything.
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A catcher putting up a 138 wRC+ on the season and is on pace for 4.3 fWAR per 162, but has played on back to back days once since June 11th. Meanwhile Mancini has posted a 78 wRC+. PA Since June 1st Mancini- 65 Barnhart- 39 Gomes- 83 Amaya- 56
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I guess Orelvis Martinez + Barriera would be nice, but the Cubs would probably have to throw a reliever back. Unfortunately Leiter and Merryweather suck lately.
