MLBTR Top 50 Free Agent Predictions

[fireballW]

Morneau isn't better than Colabello and Smoak. Don't be fooled by the Coors effect, he's not a neutral-setting .360 wOBA guy.

 

 

Not as much lol, no.

 

Well agree to disagree. I don't think it is even close between Morneau vs Smoak/Belo. Plus I can just imagine the added strain that would put on the pitcher. One more player in the lineup that absolutely doesn't strike out. We could always take him out vs. lefties and go with a Pillar, Pompey and Revere outfield with Bautista DHing, although I haven't checked his splits.

[THANOS]

Well agree to disagree. I don't think it is even close between Morneau vs Smoak/Belo. Plus I can just imagine the added strain that would put on the pitcher. One more player in the lineup that absolutely doesn't strike out. We could always take him out vs. lefties and go with a Pillar, Pompey and Revere outfield with Bautista DHing, although I haven't checked his splits.

 

Worse case a Morneau/Cola combo is definitely an upgrade. That said Cola/Smoak combined to hit around .275 with 33HR, so that would be tough for Morneau to cover alone.

Edited November 10, 2015 by THANOS

[fireballW]

I'm not too exited to see what Belo does next year.

[CJ-Freeway]

Are you going to start spamming like you did last year?

 

#shotsfired

[THANOS]

I'm not too exited to see what Belo does next year.

 

I think he's going to surprise people and potentially generate a similar BABIP/AVG. He seems to have great hitting instincts and, I could be wrong, but he seemed to spray a ton of line-drives all around the field, this year, to the point where it could be a repeatable skill.

[fireballW]

I think he's going to surprise people and potentially generate a similar BABIP/AVG. He seems to have great hitting instincts and, I could be wrong, but he seemed to spray a ton of line-drives all around the field, this year, to the point where it could be a repeatable skill.

 

Meh. 96 strikeouts in 333 ABs does not inspire a lot of confidence for me that he has the bat control to really outspray a standard BABIP. He doesn't have any speed either to be legging out grounds so I just don't see it happening. I do like how he talks about needing to continue to adjust and the types of hitters he is learning from. It is different than a guy like Arencibia who is too much of a block head to realize what his weaknesses might me. If he can improve some then his numbers might not be waaayy worse next year.

[THANOS]

Meh. 96 strikeouts in 333 ABs does not inspire a lot of confidence for me that he has the bat control to really outspray a standard BABIP. He doesn't have any speed either to be legging out grounds so I just don't see it happening. I do like how he talks about needing to continue to adjust and the types of hitters he is learning from. It is different than a guy like Arencibia who is too much of a block head to realize what his weaknesses might me. If he can improve some then his numbers might not be waaayy worse next year.

 

Like you mentioned, Cola said, at one point last month, that after the season he's going to look at all of his stats and reflect/train on how to improve during the off-season. Maybe he figures out a way to cut the K-rate to under 20%? If he can do that, I'm confident he'll be productive for us.