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  1. squally1313
    110 wRC, second best 3B defense in baseball
  2. squally1313
    Has anyone saved their scorching hot streak for the playoffs? Busch?
  3. squally1313
    Oh boy
  4. squally1313
    Assume PCAs K rate is a little uncomfortable over the last week or so.
  5. squally1313
    26.2% at the moment. Though only 18%ish for the bye
  6. squally1313
    The nationals lead the league in runs and he’s getting strikeouts. This is more encouraging than his last start.
  7. squally1313
    With what I’d presume is a pretty shredded bullpen
  8. squally1313
    Can’t bother getting frustrated by the cubs with this inevitable brewers win going down like it is
  9. squally1313
    lol after all the Pedro glazing
  10. squally1313
    Yeah could definitely see that. Gives you a bunch of money to address the rotation, and finding a corner outfielder to stabilize things come June is about the easiest need to fill out there.
  11. squally1313
    I think they still like Thielbar as the loogy guy, for better or for worse. Small sample sizes but Peterson's LHH/RHH stats are funny/weird since coming over: v LHH: 42 batters, 7.71 K/9, 0 BB/9, 46.9% GB rate, 6.17/3.60/2.93 ERA/FIP/xFIP, .225 wOBA v RHH: 115 batters, 5.13 K/9, 4.44 BB/9, 44.2% GB rate, 3.08/4.91/5.04 ERA/FIP/xFIP, .333 wOBA So he could play as a lefty specialist, even though the results haven't shown it yet.
  12. squally1313
    He's certainly still improving, but can we get the xwOBA over .300 before we start talking about an every day corner outfield role.
  13. squally1313
    With the smoke about Ayers coming up next month, I see he's listed as a C/1B on FG. Maybe that's the plan, pending where the division/bye race is at, to give Busch a little mini-vacation heading into the playoffs.
  14. squally1313
    per fWAR this is the 165th best offensive season since 1945 if he doesn't play another game. if you add in his ROS projections, which are obviously deflated, you're looking at roughly the 50th best season over that time frame. if you let him continue his current YTD pace over the remaining 42 games, it's the 13th best season in the last 80+ years.
  15. squally1313
    Agreed on #75, but also wishing I would have bought in early on a PCA #51 jersey.
  16. squally1313
    Well yeah but you can't expect a .412 BABIP going forward either (it's been .254 in total since coming over). He doesn't strike people out, and that's going to continue to limit his ceiling significantly. But the GB rate is good and the HR rate is fine.
  17. squally1313
    Yeah he hasn't gotten lucky, it's more so that the metrics and the results are...middling? Slightly below average metrics, slightly above average results since coming over. Certainly not a problem, but I think it's definitely fair to say he's 6th in line once Cabrera comes back.
  18. squally1313
    Peterson is perfectly fine for who he is. He's pretty much the blueprint for Holmes, albeit with Holmes you expect a better starting point and better results. With Peterson, compared to his time with the Mets, his Ks are down a lot (8.34 to 5.92 per 9), his walks are down a little (3.97 to 3.08 per 9), his xERA, FIP, and xFIP are all worse...and yet his ERA is over 2 full runs lower. Mostly because his BABIP has dropped 96 points. Throw the ball in the strike zone, and let our defense take care of the rest. With Cabrera pretty close to being stretched out, I'm guessing he pushes Assad back to AAA and we see if he can find a next level in short bursts. Things have probably gone pretty wrong if he's starting a playoff game, but that's a good problem to have when a month ago, SP depth chart wise, it would have been like, Will Sanders.
  19. squally1313
    Oh I was talking more about like, next month bullpen option. You can squint and see the value in taking a shot he goes nuclear in that role for a few weeks, but at this exact moment he’s pretty far down my list, so the implication would be to maybe not expect as much from brown or Steele or whoever
  20. squally1313
    Don’t check in on the smokies tonight for palencia purposes. you can check in for Cabrera purposes though.
  21. squally1313
    I would read that as either a confidence boost/reset, or them looking at him as a potential bullpen option for the big league squad. Neither of which are great, but…a scoreless inning is a scoreless inning.
  22. squally1313
    Yayyyyy
  23. squally1313
    Since 2022, when seiya came over, Happ has been worth 15.5 fWAR to seiya’s 14.1 fWAR in roughly 100 more games. Happ outperformed Suzuki in 2025 in the same amount of games. I’ll lean Suzuki at the moment of the two but ‘much better’ is just (very) recency bias.
  24. squally1313
    did i do the math wrong was this was supposed to be cabrera day
  25. squally1313
    Looking like we'll get Irwin today who is a mediocre righty, better than he was last year, Jackson Kent tomorrow, who looks to be a mediocre lefty making his ML debut, and then Cavalli Thursday, who is good. Shame we miss Mikolas.
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