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Well, this was all pretty awesome.

Jake Arrieta Age: 27 Height: 6'4" Weight: 225 Throws: Right Bats: Right Upside: Male

#wart imo

Guess he just needed to Loosen up.

This season is an outlier. Last tyear he was .299/.330/.445 vs. RHP and .308/.354/.433 against LHP. The year before he was .269/.299/.351 vs RHP and .278/.316/.356 vs LHP.

I'm so weirded out by the ages listed to two decimal places.

Also there seems to be a lot of demand among the contending teams compared to last year.

We really didn't at all. The argument for Jackson was that he struck out at one pace to a point, then he spiked while at the same level and maintained that spike to present day. With Olt, it's the opposite. He was at one level, turned bad for one month, took a month off to get his eyes treated, and came back doing the same thing he was doing in the first place (which is definitely not what Jackson has done).

He's 2012 Brett Jackson. All the things you worried about with him got worse at AAA, the performance dipped, age becomes a bigger factor, couldn't make contact to save his life in a brief MLB stint, etc. He won't necessarily turn into 2013 Brett Jackson, but that's where he is now. A .713 OPS and 31% K rate at AAA at age 24 is a lot of red flags. If they still like the potential to fix him he's still an intriguing talent, but I wouldn't have him headline a deadline return(which in turn means he probably wouldn't be dealt here). I would agree with this if there weren't clear extenuating circumstances AND a clear before/after picture. Before: .139/.235/.236/.471, 11.1% BB, 39.5% K After: .258/.356/.551/.906, 13.6% BB, 24.3% K Not that a 24% K rate isn't still cause for concern, but it fits his existing profile (24.0 last season). The sample size for each is around 100 PAs, so it's still fairly small, but he's been good for longer than he was bad, and he was bad for a reason. Obviously, when you nearly double your OPS over a similar sample size, the numbers are going to skew toward the worse number. He's the same guy he was a year ago, IMO, unless you think the vision thing is going to come back again somehow. At worst, his April numbers make the best case for an outlier juxtaposed against his past and current production.

So we have another reason to want to leave Daytona besides the rainouts.

Holy crap, man, read the thread, THEN post. It's not hard.

And hey, only 2 hours after it was already said in this thread.

It's also probably the fact that he's underperformed his peripherals for pretty much the entire time he's been in the organization, which may lead some people to wonder if that just may be part of his profile. Or the mole.

Nah, they should definitely force him to listen to "Be a Man" by Macho Man Randy Savage on loop.

Soler 4th with the glove? That sounds...odd.

The fact that they do it on a scale that starts at 20 is even more mind-boggling.

It looks vaguely like some kind of Victorian handsaw.

Alcantara goes 2-4 with a pair of doubles and his 17th steal in 19 attempts. Now at .290/.369/.479 on the year.

Alcantara's walk rate is now 10.6%, or double what it was last year.

Eh, fangraphs threw me off. I thought it was odd that he would have so few homers.

Tons of Ks, HRs, and BBs last year. This year he's taking the Ks to the extreme and has quit walking, and the power isn't really there, either.

Chad Krist quietly putting together a very impressive walk rate so far.

That doesn't beat some people failing to spell "Ramirez" for damn near a decade.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Alcantara start breaking top 50s soon.

Interestingly enough, although he has 20 errors already, he's actually improved his fielding percentage by a significant chunk. Also, I didn't realize he had played so many games at 2B this year (12). He also has a bizarrely blatant L/R split, considering he's a switch hitter, so I checked previous years and there was no such issue. Sample size?