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Finau is just cursed/in his head at this point (he’s switching up his putter stroke like crazy). I feel bad for the guy, well as much as one can for a guy making millions to golf and firmly has his tour card for the rest of his career. He seems like such a good dude too. Guy just can’t close out even when all the metrics say he should have like 3-5 wins by now. Homa winning at his hometown course in LA was cool though and he seems like a decent dude.
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Well Ervin was just DFA for Marisnick Hopefully we are able to keep Ervin and he doesn’t get claimed. Liked his fit more for the roster than Maybin and would’ve rather just cut Maples, Norwood or some horsefeathers RP.
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As I've posted before, they could have a very good year and win 90 games, if they were only playing Central Division games like last year. Unfortunately, MLB is making us play real ML teams this year. The majority of the games are still vs the NL and AL Central (AL Central is inter league matchup this year). And it’s not like the rest of the NL is overly loaded. There’s still the Marlins, Phillies, Rockies, Giants, and D’backs and even the Nats. Plus it’s baseball not like you can’t go win 2 of 3 or 3 of 4 vs the Padres or Dodgers on a random weekend. Someone in the NL Central is getting to 90+ wins and it could easily be us since all the none Pirates teams are about the same.
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Probably. I think Williams can still be a player and may still have the highest ceiling, but id rather have Haliburton at this point. Williams was a pleasant surprise early on, but has kind of stalled out since. He’s still 19 and shows flashes, but I can’t say I feel as confident about the pick as I did a month or two ago. May just be a bit of a rookie wall, which is going to be common for a 19 year old, especially in a somewhat condensed season. Pretty sure in a redraft LaMelo goes first and then Haliburton, Edwards, Wiseman would be the next 3. Some other guys like Bey, Quigley, and Anthony have seen their stock rise tremendously too. I think Wiseman still goes top 2 in a redraft. A guy with his size, shooting ability/potential and the little bit he’s shown is still incredibly valuable and hard to find.
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Hard to see a path for him to make the opening day roster with Ervin and Marisnick, as they have more clear attributes to help the team. But glad they brought him back and he seems like a really good culture guy at least. Hopefully there’s a way for him to be on the MLB roster at some point.
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Think it’s part offenses being smarter and taking more efficient shots and defense definitely seems down this year. Don’t know if guys just aren’t trying as hard, they’re being coached not to (I’ve heard some podcasts how teams are coaching their defense to give up more 3s), or the short turn around. I listened to a pod last week and the average FG% of losing teams this year is like 44-48% which is the highest ever by far. The Pelicans lost a game shooting like 56% this year already.
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There were some questions if Adbert had an option or not, good to see he does have one. It’s obviously a sink or swim year for him but with a innings limit on him it’s nice to have the option for flexibility and may not be the worst thing to start him in Iowa or hold him back in Arizona or whatever. He’ll get his major league innings anyways. Or they can play the games with sending him up and down to keep the innings in line like the Dodgers do.
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uh well first mike hampton pitched 5 seasons after signing that contract before blowing out his arm and missing two years from 33-34, he is a pitcher, and he signed that contract 21 years ago so even if he were a good comp i would think you'd pick someone more recent lol Maybe there's not a good comp, then. How old was Prince Fielder when he signed his deal? You do know Tatis is 21/22 and not some near 30 year old signing this extension, right? I mean there’s obviously a risk, maybe he blows out a knee or breaks an ankle and has to move to LF or 2B or plateaus like some of our guys from great to just good and isn’t worth the money. But trying to liken the downside risk with an example of a 30+ year old pitcher or almost 30 year old in bad shape first baseman is like not even in the same universe of where Tatis is now.
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Acuna should probably put a hit out on his agent after this extension.
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I mean, there's ALWAYS the risk that Tatis "Mike Hampton"s himself and is out of the game in two years, but yeah, I'm all for saying "horsefeathers it" to all the arbitration years and just locking up your obvious superstar I think it would be more of a “Oscar Tavares’s” himself to be out of the league in two years.
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I’m fairly confident he came out and said repping himself was a mistake because he ended up not making as much and/or made some mistakes with some clauses.
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WAR may be literally the worst metric to evaluate RPs than any stat for the non elite guys. ERA, Saves, Holds and wins mean more.
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Isn’t that all sorted out in market? They’re with all the providers, even streaming services, aren’t they? Out of market you still need MLB TV to watch them or Extra Innings (or whatever it’s called if your cable/dish provider has it).
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Yeah this might just be a Jake type scenario with Workman with the Phillies messing with him. “Hey, you’re curveball (in Jake’s case cutter) has really good metrics. Throw it more.”
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Watching some Workman random videos on Baseball Savant. Looks like he already throws a spike curve or a very similar curve type, would think they like something there. Plus I noticed he goes out of a full wind up with no men on base, seems like very few RPs do that anymore. Wonder if they think they can tinker with that/make him go out of the stretch full time
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Yeah I really like this. It may blow up but it’s cheap and he has upside and with Wick down we need another upside guy vs a safer vet play I wanted like Kennedy or Greene who lack that. Only reason for concern I have here is Workman’s BB numbers, we haven’t exactly been great at fixing that with guys and even guys who come in with good BB rates they seem to rise a bit.
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Velo was down, stuff wasn’t right, walked 6 in those 2.1 innings and he dealt with some sort of injury(s).
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Not good, would assume the odds of him being ready by opening day are nearly zero.
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The tweet isn’t clear, but since Jake is official I’m guessing if you’re put on the COVID list you don’t count on the 40-man? So that was the move for Jake.
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Who’s all out of options. Underwood and maybe Adbert? Fenter too as a Rule 5 guy (they could always just complete the transaction and send some money or nothing prospect over to the Orioles as well to get his options.). Anyone else?
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No. As part of the health and safety protocols they scrapped that. So 26 man rosters with no pitcher limit. In the abstract I hate it, but it's probably necessary for this year. Seems like this year, even more than last they should’ve had 27 or 28 man rosters.
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No idea who this is, but people in the mentions and quote tweets seem to think he’s legit.
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We watched David Robertson's session. I like him as a bounce back candidate. Yeah if he is healthy and stuff looks there he’d be fine too. I think we were connected to him in FA or at a trade deadline in the last few years.
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The problem is going to be what the definition of "a little money" that he's willing to sacrifice. I don't think Boras and PTR will define it similarly. It also takes another team coming in and outbidding them for him and whatever amount more, I don’t think there’s a guarantee he’s going to have some robust market. We also only have like $45 mil on the books next year. Even if the overall contract is less than whatever from other teams, we should be in a spot to give him more actual cash in the first year or two than what other teams are willing or able to do. Like let’s say the Mets offer 5/125, straight $25 mil a year and no opt outs. If we offered 5/95 or 6/110 but the first 2-3 years he gets ~$28-35 mil a year and then he gets opt out(s) maybe that’s a trade off he’s willing to take. Little less overall guarantee, but gets more money short term and can re enter the market in the next 2-3 years to go get more money.
