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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Most aggressive baserunning play I've seen from them this season, glad it worked
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    It's for this reason that I think you're looking at rentals or maybe a guy with 1.5 years to FA as a target, especially if that 1.5 years is on a FA deal that manages the prospect cost. The most 'premium' reasonable option probably being someone like Hunter Harvey?
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    It is cherry picking, but even if you take the logic to a further degree of accuracy I think it holds up. That strips out his two bad outings where he gave up 10 runs. But, if you only look at the first 10 hitters of those outings: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 4/1 K/BB 2+ IP, 3 H, 3 R, 0/1 K/BB, HR So your new total for the season facing 10 or fewer hitters: 20.1 IP, 11 H, 8 R, 31/7 K/BB, 1 HBP, 2 HR
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    That line was confusing, and hilarious because the crowd started erupting in cheers when he said confirmed. But it was very quickly clear as he finished the announcement he was calling him out and every Mets player and fan did one of these
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    Yeah you can give up first base a lot more times without getting burned. Weird as it is to say, Adbert has been very normal aside from the HR. Normally whatever root cause leading to the HR would have him giving up a bunch of other lasers all over the field, but so far nope, 5 HR, 7 1B, no 2B/3B
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    I think Neris will pick things up but this still got me
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    Bullpens giving up runs is not equivalent with them being terrible, trusting the pen to throw 2 innings after they used 1 reliever of note yesterday is fine.
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    ahahahahahahahahah
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    That's not conclusive, his hand goes wide and up
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    The bullpen is neither terrible or depleted, and Shota has to pitch again in 5 days when he's used to pitching every 6.
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    Decent pitching development and one of the best pitcher's parks in baseball 81 times a year.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    Shota leads qualified pitchers in ERA by over half a run.
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    Of all the spiked throws, I'm actually fine with that one, even more than the average back hand you're at very high risk of sailing the throw so erring on the side of making it scoopable is okay. Another forehand that Busch struggled with, first one I've noticed where he couldn't get the glove on it.
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    He hadn't gotten hit particularly hard but wasn't completely cruising. I'm guessing that decision was a combination of things. 3-4-5 due up for the 3rd time, tie game, and a long stretch without off days so Assad has to bounce back on 4 days rest.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    The Pirates just got swept by the A's and are now 3-13 since their high water mark of 11-5.
  16. Transmogrified Tiger
    Carl has settled in a bit at Iowa, his line since his 3 BB first outing: 8 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 7/3 K/BB, 0 HR
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    Not volunteering, but maybe there's a periodic 'state of the offseason' article that could be written/re-written on an interval to get double benefit of being a catch-all of non-newsworthy chatter while also providing the broader benefits we aim to get from articles in general?
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    Updating this since the game's over now and I don't have to do a bunch of napkin math: 92 PA, .352/.495/.465, 19/19 K/BB, 7/9 SB
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    I agree that especially in the offseason there's some nuance. I don't like everything being funneled into a single thread that spans hundreds of pages, but there were also a couple times where I felt like I was replying and making the same point in the same day because the same convo was essentially happening across threads. Maybe in the offseason there's a way to split the difference in a similar way that game threads do. We had a winter meetings thread that worked decently for that period of time, but repeating that idea for smaller intervals than *the offseason*, while still creating new threads when genuine news arrives, might be a middle ground? It's also just really hard when you have a slow offseason too, there's lots of interest in roster building but you've got 3+ months of information/news trickle and there's not a perfect way to solve for discussing that.
  21. Transmogrified Tiger
    Brett Bateman may need to make his way to Tennessee soon. Very little power but he's not really being challenged, plus he's 21/24 SB in 52 pro games.
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    Madrigal does have options. He is also a good reminder of the gap between AAA and MLB. In rehabbing his injury last year Madrigal hit .424/.514/.678 at Iowa in 70 PA. Vazquez is hitting well for his first AAA exposure but there's little reason to think he is a better option going forward, and he would lose developmental momentum with Madrigal's current spotty playing time. Plus, if they were to send down Madrigal, bringing back Mastrobuoni to have a LHH infielder and PR option would probably be preferable.
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    Really curious if they'll put Weah back there given his qualities and the reps he's getting at wingback for Juve. Would also solve the 'problem' of the front 6 having to sit an excellent player when everyone is healthy.
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    we don't have to do this
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    I suspect the overall thesis here is true, due to Gomes’s bat slowing with age. But also we need to be honest with ourselves that we’re talking about < 20 games each, hitting performance is not particularly meaningful or predictive, and defensive measures are basically a RNG at that sample size.
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