Transmogrified Tiger
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7 man pen if we think Wesneski is still starting, Brown and Thompson both probably down, so it's those two plus Alzolay to bridge to Leiter/Neris. -
He gave up 7 baserunners in 5 innings, and a collective .158 xBA on contact. He gave up 3 balls over 90 mph, the first 2 hitters of the game, and the home run. Yes in a perfect world he keeps that contact management and cuts out some walks too, but they are related.
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I don't see many red flags with this performance. He didn't give up loud contact, and put up a solid CSW% to limit his exposure to randomness. You could nitpick and as for one less walk or another GB or two, but there's nothing about that performance that says it can't happen again.
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and then a .380 xBA HR that's out of less than half of ballparks, come on
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xBA of .680, .580, .420, .350, and .690 two singles and 3 outs
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If it were longer term maybe, but Dansby is expected to have a minimum stay so we're essentially talking a week. Also, Madrigal OPSed 1.192 in a brief AAA stint last year while Mastrobuoni was at .921, and Vazquez is down to .806 this year(.744 total in 538 PA).
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Here's a fun game, one of these is Madrigal's season line in 56 PA, and the other is Bregman's in 154 PA: A: .201/.273/.266 B: .208/.250/.264
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Cuas has been much better than either at Iowa, seems like he found the feel for the sweeper and is striking out nearly half of the batters he faces.
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.970 xBA from Morel, cool coolcoolcool
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Slider looks much better today, they were not picking it up well at all. Fastball got drilled twice, which is at least partially on him missing spots with it when he's normally pinpoint. I don't know if Adbert getting back to his 2023 form will be incremental, but if it does I think this is a marker in a positive direction.
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If PCA played 81 games in PNC National Forest he might be a +25 defender
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 5-10-24
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Inaccurate measurement. -
Nicky two strikes two outs
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Baseball Savant Expands Statistical Offerings:
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Jason Ross's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'm pretty sure I just heard Boog say on tonight's broadcast that Morel is 6th in MLB in swing speed, between Acuña and Judge IIRC. -
Taillon seemed pretty confident he could go, so I don't think he's gonna keep Brown on the shelf for the whole series just in case. I think you deal with that if you get bad news, which could mean Shota, bullpen game, or Hendricks, probably in that order.
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Busch every time Morel turns to fire his way
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hey mister umpire we don't need to give Jones 3 inches off the plate glove side, thanks
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Christopher you can throw the ball through a human being, you don't need to rush a backhand
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The Pirates are 3-4 in Jones starts, the over/under for combined IP in those Skenes outings is probably 8, and seeing the same pitcher twice in a week is almost certainly an advantage for the hitters. They'll be above .500 at the start of the Cardinals if they win 1 game per series until then, I think they'll be alright. EDIT: Also, I've seen the "Jones + Skenes twice" thing repeated several times, but unless they go to a 6 man(possible, given Skenes' workload) they'd miss Jones in the 2nd series.
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If I were to put too much meaning on using "TBD" instead of just saying Shota, that might point me towards it being something like an illness or maybe some personal issue like bereavement.
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I find myself more and more on an island with this among the analytical baseball obsessives so I'll admit my bias there, but I think the AAA outcomes are still meaningful. If he was doing fine to decent but still had some yellow flags about his productivity translating to MLB, I get that argument and don't have a strong objection(especially considering the defensive value). The sticking point for me is he was not good at Iowa pre-callup, pretty much across the board. Not hitting for average, not hitting for much power considering league/park, not walking, not avoiding Ks, his wRC+ is higher in Chicago! That's the foundation for my thinking, let him get to the point where we can even question if he'll translate, because especially if we think AAA is further from MLB than ever, him regressing across the board(from a fairly modest 2023 line) in his time at Iowa tells me he should spend more time there.
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Rosenthal, Why prospects are struggling.
Transmogrified Tiger replied to CubinNY's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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The hope is that PCA is a long term fixture in the lineup, his development should take precedence over the marginal benefit to late inning defense/baserunning(neither of which are huge gaps without him). Let him go back to Iowa and at least look MLB-ready there(he was not before his callup), then I think the argument for him to come up and be a part-time player gets a lot stronger.
