squally1313
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Look I know it's cool to be down on everything, but this is just wrong. Busch is 5th in wOBA among first basemen, 6th in wRC, 5th in baserunning value, and 5th in defense. What he's doing is plenty impressive, and the improvements he's making month to month even more so. Paredes is 9th in wOBA, 7th in wRC among third basemen and to get ahead of the next rebuttal, he's 7th in both in road games this year. If you want to nitpick on 'special', sure, whatever. If you truly believe that they 'won't provide much with the bat'.....you should take a closer look at the rest of the league.
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Paredes
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Yeah the actual ranking itself is probably kinda worthless. Definitely see your point, though you could argue that there's a bevy of guys who haven't been good enough to play consistently enough to be qualified, so you could bump him down the rankings and also keep his percentile probably pretty consistent? I think my larger point was just how depressed the offensive environment is across that league. Still would want more, but holding out hope for some slugging improvement in AAA, even if it comes with decreased avg/obp.
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Heartbreaking: The Most Pessimistic Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
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Sore neck for whatever reason. Expected back tomorrow, though it's fair to say we've heard that one before.
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Seiya is hurt
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Not ironically hoping that this somehow gets to PCA?
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Alcantara turning into Mike Cameron is like a 99.5th percentile outcome.
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Duran is nasty, I don't have any idea how he's only striking out 8 per 9. Jax has been better, assume we'll see him in the 9th. Potential saving grace is that his last two outings were against the Sox and so it's possible he forgot how to pitch to major league hitters.
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This ump is flipping a coin apparently
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Worth pointing out the Alcantara's slugging is 17th in the Southern League (out of 49 qualified), which obviously isn't elite (you'd want him putting up a higher number than Triantos, as an example), but more so just shows the overall environment. Feel like I've seen discussions of his exit velocities being pretty elite, which is nice, but we're also looking at a below average BB/K ratio.
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His numbers don't look terrible once you normalize down his BABIP and HR/FB rate in AAA and his 20 innings in the majors. Lot of Ks, decent control. I think both teams are just going to try and launch as many fly balls as possible and we'll see who gets more into the LF basket.
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Well, sure, but that's baseball. Ryan Helsley is probably a top 10 reliever in baseball and we got 3 off of him on Thursday with a home run that only leaves 2 other parks and three sub-100 EV hits. If we're over here pissed we didn't get a sweep and they're over there pissed they didn't get a split....maybe we should all find other hobbies.
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'Winning games actually makes me angrier' is certainly a logical conclusion to the general mood of this board.
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If PCA can OBP 350, he would probably be the MVP frontrunner.
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Yeah I’m sure Romero is death on lefties but that seemed like a suboptimal spot to make that move.
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Good point, nevermind
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Fun times
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The totally replaceable taillon down to a 3.25 ERA on the year
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That seems better
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Man, take care of business tomorrow and we get a chance to go for the sweep on Sunday Night Baseball with Steele on the mound against Mikolas and all his weirdness/bad at pitching-ness? nowyouvegotastewgoing.gif
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WWW
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thanks blue, horsefeathers
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I think there was one if you go back to the 7/30 thread. Not going to call them out specifically. But think most of us want to hang on to Seiya.
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Shaw should be at AAA right now, would assume he spends more time there than AA the rest of the year.
