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  1. Bertz
    I'm pretty over the whole "our team has a quirky costume guys put on In the dugout after hitting a dong" trend but Vinnie Pasquantino making Team Italy do shots of espresso is absolutely beautiful
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    Has to be a physical, right?
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    Kade Snell with a 111 MPH double is nice He probably needs to make quick work of South Bend to stay on track. SSS but promising ST numbers make you hopeful he's about to do that.
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    Velo was fine I wouldn't jump to any health related conclusions
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    Small sample size, spring training, blah blah blah all fair but James Triantos walking more than 20% of the time and rocking a league average groundball rate is fun and super encouraging.
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    Oh you know who else deserves a mention is Mo Baller. He's been catching a bunch and I find myself barely even noticing him behind the plate. Considering the discourse, "I forgot he was back there" is a win IMO.
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    Probably one of the pitchers whose velo is way up? Shota comes to mind first but Assad, Brown, and Roberts are all up to a notable degree as well. On the position player side maybe Carlson or Triantos?
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    Hunter Greene out until July with bone chips in his elbow. Really hard to see the Reds doing anything without getting monstrous results from their rotation.
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    Jefferson Rojas has been the biggest positive surprise out of camp by a healthy margin. But Pedro has been #2 and he's got a healthy lead on #3. The power this spring looks like it's grown into being probably average-ish, but that's way better than what I was expecting coming into the spring. This is a guy with plus defense, plus plate discipline, and plus contact ability. Those pluses with 5-10 dong power is a quality bench guy or second division starter. With 15+ homer power? Now we're talking about a quality starter. Need to make sure he can keep the groundballs in check, and that the new power doesn't have a major contact tradeoff (it hasn't this spring), but it's exciting.
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    FWIW Matt Lombardo reported this weekend that Evans is firmly in the wants to play for a contender is willing to leave some money on the table stage of his career. So this probably isn't completely off base.
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    We're getting a lot of Busch/Hoerner/Happ 1/2/3. Curious if that's the default lineup vs. RHP, or if it's just because Bregman and Seiya are at the WBC.
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    I know he's had some impressive exit velos but if Pedro can go deep to the opposite field that kind of fundamentally changes how we should think about his ceiling.
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    Josiah Hartshorn is the starting DH today!?!
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    Snider and Roberts both with more velo than they had last year but less than they had their first few outings
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    Brown sitting 97 is fun, I wonder if he can keep this up as he continues to get stretched out.
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    I believe the first iteration of the ABS was full depth and a bunch of cheap unhittable breaking balls grazing the front bottom corners kept getting called. Making it a plane halfway back ended up giving results much more in line with expectations.
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    His velo's been high this spring too, hopefully he's back to his 2023 form. Assad's had an insane run of luck to start his career, but in 23 he actually pitched pretty well and just got lucky on top of it.
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    Turns out that his single earlier in the game was hit harder than any ball he's ever hit in a regular season game. They were cagey about what kind of stuff he was working on over the winter too...something's up with him.
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    The zone as umpires actually call it and the zone as it is in the rulebook are very different. Here's a really great graphic Jumping whole hog into robot umps instead of starting with challenges is begging for massive unintended consequences.
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    A) It's an entertainment product It's okay to make decisions that reflect that. In the multiple years of studying this in the minors they found 2 challenges a piece to overwhelmingly be the sweet spot for cleaning up the bad calls while keeping games watchable B) On a practical level ABS is literally changing the shape of the strike zone. It would be frankly moronic to not take an incrementalist approach to implementing it
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    It feels really notable that he's getting into so many ST games. I've been looking around and the last guy to get into multiple ST contest before playing a single game in full season ball looks like Ballesteros? I can find guys who got into a game (Cristian Hernandez, Pedro Ramirez, Ty Southisene), but three and counting seems like a high bar. And even just getting into a game has some signal to it, neither of Chris Paciolla or Ronny Cruz got gifted one for draft pedigree. Overall Hartshorn's exciting. It sounds like the bat is about as polished as can be for a high school kid, with a fun combo of contact/power/patience from both sides of the plate. I feel like every time I read about his defense and athleticism I end up dropping my expectations for him outside of the batters box, so that's probably not ideal? But I guess if he wants to be Mark Teixeira or Lance Berkman I'll learn to live with it.
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    Three more at bats today, three line drives (two of those over 100 MPH). Six swings, zero misses.
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