I think Freddie Freeman got 60 doubles for a very good reason. He is probably the best at directional hitting without sacrificing quality of contact. Freeman is a 142 hitter with a career BABIP of 344 and a LD rate of 28 v 18 for Soto. Soto has a career GB rate of almost 50% and has put up an LA above 10 once in his career. There should probably be more like a ~40 point difference in BABIP but I think most of the tale is told in those statistics. He definitely has to get that LD rate up to the ~20 and he would see a nice rise in BABIP. He ranked 125th in LD rate.
I think your numbers are pretty much spot-on, however. 35 AAV will probably be around where he ends up. Some team might give him more years but I doubt he takes less than 10. He is so bad in LF that I don't think you lose that much overall value moving him to 1B. He should still be a 5 win player on the offense alone for several seasons.
33,000 fans poured into Coors to watch the 103-loss Rockies final game of the season.
19,000 fans made an appearance to watch the Rays first postseason game today.
Not sure I will ever be comfortable with him in a 2 minute offense to lead a GW. His career 4th quarter numbers are unbelievbly bad. 48 rating when trailing and less than 2 min/ 2:6 with 8 sacks. 14 of his 26 career picks are in the 4th.
It wasn't just better, it was nearly 3 yards better last year. Herbert is far better for those stretch runs. I like how Monty absorbs contact and keeps moving but he lacks explosiveness; I don't think that can be debated. Obviously there's a lot more season to go but he's never cracked 4.3 in his entire career.
I think he does have his finger on the pulse better than most others. He seems to recognize the potential breaking point sooner and gets his guys out of there when he feels hitters are getting a bead on the starter. He doesn't manage as if he expects his starter to escape an inning; he cuts off the momentum with a sub. I think he manages his staff excellently. Yes he has had some incredible arms as well, but I give him a lot of credit for his button-pushing also.
I don't feel like parsing it and maybe there's an easier way I am not aware of to accomplish it, but I'd be interested in seeing what the Brewers record has been in 1-run games since 2017.
It would have been from the 30 to the 30 and I hope you are better at counting than that. You don't have to exaggerate so much and put words in my mouth to belittle my point. It would have taken a great throw but it was doable. Fields is the type that can make those off-platform throws. If Mooney had some horsefeathers awareness it would have been a 30 yard pass (35 to the 35) that probably a dozen QBs in the league could make.
Dude what? At the 7-8 second mark Mooney is 40 yards away, Fields has 5 yards on the pursuing defender, and if he squares up and Mooney comes back to the ball that's a 30 yard air throw and not all that difficult to make.