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  1. Bertz
    Oh for sure I know you're jusy passing it along Yeah the Dodgers are really instructive. They play moon baseball in the lower minors and so their youngest hitters are constantly getting glazed before reality starts to hit at AA. Glad to finally get some of that.
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    Everyone complained incessantly when we had the softest tossing staff in the league. That was not wrong, but insulating ourselves (somewhat) from this nonsense was part of the calculus.
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    Bad news for both SPs as each are pretty dong-prone. Also sounds like Corbin Martin is up to replace Palencia.
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    Love what Ramirez is doing. but saying he has 65-70 grade power is pretty silly. Like yeah it's a .600+ SLG and a .300+ ISO but we're still firmly in SSS and it's an insanely hitter friendly league. The top end exit velo's are firmly average. And that's okay! Great contact, good patience, and average power is a hell of a combo.
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    Do we have any indication on whether David Bracho is a thing? Especially as a 21 year old that's the type of dominant outing that is usually not an accident.
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    Grant Kipp with 5 pretty stellar innings so far and pitch count where even this early in the year he might get a 6th
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    Hopefully means this is a weeks injury and not a months injury Still gonna have to white knuckle it with the RHP section of the pen for a while. I suspect we see a lot of 2-3 inning saves from Brown and Assad.
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    He's objectively worse from the right side and IMO his swing is kinda ugly. But when Happ really gets ahold of one right handed it's often an absolutely majestic dong.
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    I'm also hoping that it being so last minute they didn't even get someone in the building to replace him for today's game is a sign that it was something they were hoping would just nag him for a few days.
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    If he doesn't pitch himself into the top half of the first round Hunter Dietz feels very firmly like a Kantrovitz pick. You've got some helium, you've got a lengthy injury history, you've got the Arkansas factor.
  11. Bertz
    Another guy we miss this weekend
  12. Bertz
    There is no good news on this front only degrees of bad (insert Curb "Good Hodgkins' joke), but this is one of the better possible outcomes here:
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    I really hate facing teams on the skids like the Mets are right now. I know it's gamblers fallacy but it always feels like that just means theyre due for a breakout. Hopefully that waits until Monday.
  14. Bertz
    This all sounds something closer to reasonable until you check and see (as Jason already pointed out) it's what has already happened? - Groundball rate down 12% from.his 3-year average - Line Drive rate up 7.5% - Flyball rate up 4.5% So what in the world was the initial complaint about? Is this some sort of Pam Beesly "make improvements but accept no tradeoffs" thing?
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    BTW I can't believe it took me this long to put it together but Hartshorn's LHH setup and swing is clearly inspired by Bryce Harper
  17. Bertz
    Hartshorn got jobbed on a K, I feel pretty confident a full 4 man umpiring crew or MLB camera angles would show he held up
  18. Bertz
    More good than bad for Sanders (15 whiffs!) but would prefer we go back to his first two starts where it was all good news?
  19. Bertz
    Honestly the question for me is if the monster who eats UCLs and labrums has gotten his fill for the season yet or if he's going to want seconds. I feel somewhere between good and great about each of Boyd/Shota/Cabrera. There's a pretty decent chance one of Steele/Brown/Wiggins joins them before the end of the year. The bullpen's not in great shape, but it's not terrible and this team's pens tend to improve as the season goes on. So right now the medium term outlook for this staff looks pretty good IMO, but there are a couple of key arms that are very much load-bearing. And we're at the point of the season where you're still on heightened alert for injury.
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    If it helps they're tied for 11th in xFIP, so there's some legitimate hope for positive regression beyond "I guess the defense will keep us afloat?"
  22. Bertz
    Boyd's headshot on MiLB gameday lol
  23. Bertz
    Oh buddy if Pedro's hitting dongs right handed now too we are COOKING
  24. Bertz
    Right?! Was that subterfuge, is this SSS noise, or is it one of those things where like him aiming up the middle ironically helps him pull? I could actually see the latter, when he's struggling he pulls off the ball a ton. Aim for the middle knowing you're naturally going to be a bit early makes sense.
  25. Bertz
    Yeah Dansby. A lot of his numbers are up right now, but in a way that is probably normal "this is just what a hot streak looks like" way, but the pulled fly balls have me wondering if that might be a legit change.
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