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Live wRC for Ian ‘trade him for a bag of balls’ Happ: 109
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Oh no now shota is broken. Does he have options to go get straightened out??
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I think the organization has earned the benefit of the doubt in being able to piece together an effective bullpen that's going to end up better than the sum of its parts, as much as we'd like to think we stole the key piece of that over the offseason. And that's with Devin Williams having not thrown a pitch but on his way back. Their starters look thin though. Peralta is a stud, obviously, but Miley is down for the year, Ross has a back issue, some lesser signings (Hall, Junis) are fighting injuries and also general ineffectiveness. This Gasser kid has come out hot (1 walk and no HRs in 23 innings), but isn't striking anyone out. Ashby looks broken and there's not much support left at the AAA level. You'll have to assume they'll figure out one or two guys to support Peralta, because they always do, but think the back half is going to be pretty dire for the foreseeable future.
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a little bit of splitting hairs here, but Busch to the IL would also probably qualify
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Assume there will be a roster move on the Megill front before tonights game, but otherwise according to FG the Brewers pitched every pitcher except for one last night, and that one pitcher (Hudson) threw 32 pitches the day before, so they're a little thin. If we think they try to avoid the 3 games in 4 days issue, that would also put Pegeuro, Payamps, and Paredes on the 'they'd like to avoid using them' list, and Milner is already going on three games in four days so assume he's definitely out (though he kinda seems to have a rubber arm with that funky delivery). This is all supporting Bryse Wilson who is already at 44 innings this year after only pitching 76.2 last year, and it looks like they tried to use an opener for him last time out, so it seems they're a little concerned about his usage. To continue the good news, while his ERA (2.86) looks good, he's running a .232 BABIP and a 90% LOB, so the advanced stats think he's been pretty mediocre. Yes, I'm aware, black holes, abominations, pathetic choking dogs, etc....but you have to like your chances with Shota (who they haven't seen before) against the current version of the Brewers pitching staff, which is the road split you're realistically hoping for (and I like Taillon vs Rea on Thursday too).
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Hoping for everyone’s sake here that fangraphs makes it easy to exclude extra inning statistics from their misery porn
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Feel like morel is the prime example of third and fourth time through the order penalties. Once he sees a dozen or so pitches, he just locks in. Obviously would be nice to have it not take that long, but that was max effort from peralta and morel didn’t flinch
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lol elite announcing performance tonight
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Because it's a thread essentially calling the entire contract a mistake when he's produced 5 fWAR in one and a third seasons. It's ignoring 4 months of being really productive, half his time here, and only looking at 4 months of mediocrity. Agree that more recent performance should be weighted heavier but it's also a pretty consistent entire career of performance and arguing that he permanently fell off a cliff in the middle of last year seems a little unfair. What the rest of the team has done this month is pretty irrelevant to this particular conversation.
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In the last two months across all of baseball, league wide OPS starts with a 6. I think in the other thread you mentioned how some people were too easily satisfied. I think your expectations are not in line with what modern baseball looks like. You went out of your way to cut out the first 2 months of 2023 where he had the 9th most offensive fWAR in all of baseball just to showcase a sample size where he was the 63rd best offensive player (Correa: 76th). If this is ultimately just a 'I hate how WAR is calculated' thing, then, sure, whatever, take it up with Fangraphs/BR and then, I don't know, put Matt Shaw at short, Busch at second, and Caissie at first and see how that plays out.
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Ignoring whatever else you were trying to say there in that wonderful response, going back to the beginning of last year Dansby has been the 8th best shortstop in baseball and Javy has been the 52nd. I understand that for 90% of the people here, the most fun sample size to use is 'beginning with when they started to struggle and ignoring any success before then' (and then like, you just move on when that stops working, people have been real quiet about Happ and his 115 wRC this month lately!), but it's ok to occasionally acknowledge stretches of success.
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Well this year Swanson has been worth 0.4 fWAR and Baez has been worth -0.5 fWAR. Unfortunately that makes it pretty tough to run a 'Dansby Swanson is X times better than Javy' calc. 55 points in OBP, 55 points in slugging, actual defensive productivity. xwOBA is 57 points higher. But if you'd like to use all of 36 ABs as the best measuring point for the remaining 6 years of the contract, I guess...good point? So anyways, like I said, no, there is no comparison.
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Since Swanson signed his contract he has been 13x more valuable than Baez, so, no.
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Playing devil's advocate here, Busch seems to very much be a bat first guy, Suzuki was never supposed to provide much value defensively, to the extent you believe they were choosing between Chapman and Bellinger at the end of the offseason, they went with the guy with the higher offensive ceiling and are more or less letting Morel sink or swim at third (to varying results). I don't think it's fair to say they chose Gomes over Contreras as much as they just chose not to spend $90m on a catcher in his 30s. There's actually something aesthetically appealing, to me, about a version of baseball where you are solid defensively, you steer away from the three true outcome guys, you make good baserunning decisions, and you're solid up and down the line up with good/not elite hitters that can work counts and put the ball in play. Which is the kind of baseball that drove so much of their hot half a season last year and was working for them in April of this year. But, yeah, it's seemingly all fallen apart the last few weeks, to the extent where I'm wondering if the kind of baseball team I theoretically enjoy does not line up with the type of team that actually consistently wins games. Tinker at the edges with Madrigal/Bote/Vasquez/whatever all you want, it doesn't mean anything with Seiya, Swanson, Morel, Busch and the catchers all playing like they are currently.
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Yeah no sorry, I’m just being weird and thinking about how like, during every poor Steele start last fall there was an opponent lineup that had a mini hot streak, who in theory should have been just as worn out. Like, I highly doubt there’s an increase in league wide ERA in September. Is it an actual thing or is it something that’s just easy to point to
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I was very much in this camp down the stretch last year, but now kinda wondering if ‘fading down the stretch’ is somewhat of a convenient excuse for poor performance or regression to the mean or whatever. Totally appreciate the gradual ramp up of pitcher innings, but curious if there’s actual documented proof of like, a September swoon phenomenon
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We don’t have to guess. Go see what Vasquez had been doing in AAA. Then, for fun, compare it to what madrigal did in AAA last year.
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As a Chapman guy I was keeping my eye on his numbers…he had 650 OPS through April, couldn’t even imagine the reaction there, but has been .880 in May. That said, morel has made significant strides and all the advanced metrics say he should be hitting a lot better than he is.
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You guys he just doesn’t like the information that the stat is telling you. People were doing this with wRC yesterday. Let the people fit their narratives.
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To be clear, if we're just basing this off of accumulated 2024 fWAR prorated out, that means the guy who goes to the bench is Morel (-0.1 fWAR). Tauchman has been our best player, Bellinger, Happ, Seiya are all positive contributors, Busch is our second best player. We all good with that? Struggling offense, Morel out, PCA in? Or do we want to mvoe the sample size again to fit arguments better.
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Thought I saw 2.84 on the live page for FG but that’s been a little buggy for me. Also obviously was mostly joking and a little making a point about volatility and sample sizes.
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Mason ‘we should trade multiple top 100 guys for him’ Miller: 2.84 ERA Hector ‘Cut his ass yesterday, he is the worst pitcher I’ve ever seen’ Neris: 2.50 ERA
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Really couldn't have handpicked better weather for this series. First night was a little sticky/warm but got those awesome clouds and the really cool sky, the last two days have been absolutely perfect. Probably missing out on some of the boisterousness of the weekend crowds, but other than that, been ideal.
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Nick Madrigal since May 1: .227/.292/.250, 62 wRC Luis Vazquez since May 1: .143/.273/.232, 39 wRC - goes without saying, but this is at a lower level of competition Madrigal put up an 83 wRC last year. ZIPs ROS has Vasquez at an 84, and who knows how often they rerun those numbers on minor league players but hitting at AAA league average probably can't help much. Madrigal is a bad hitter with one functional offensive skill set. Some guy running a hot month in AAA (Vasquez in April: .341/.418/.506, 142 wRC) does not automatically become a vastly better hitter just because he's new and different. You know who had a hot month in AAA? Nick Madrigal, when he had 70 PAs there last year and went .424/.514/.678, 203 wRC, more walks than Ks.
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