GDT Game 1/3 Orioles @ Jays Sweep Please!

[Waylanderz]

Key to the game... Just score more than the Orioles.

[BlueJays]

It's raining dingeerrrrrrrrrssssssssssssss

[Eat My Shatkins]

Key to the game: get into O's pen

 

Haha f*** that. Keep Means in there!

[max silver]

Well, generally speaking when MLB players are being evaluated in the minors regarding when they are ready to come back up, alot of it is process related rather than results oriented. If he's having great ABs and just finding gloves with his contact, it doesn't mean he isn't ready. What they want to see is A) is he having good PAs and making good decisions, and if they have recommended changes or adjustments, is he consistently showing those adjustments in his PAs.

 

The results are not the focus. Nobody on this board can speak intelligently as to whether he was ready to be called up or not based on a slash line and statements like yours above are missing about 99% of the information being evaluated, and are therefore... worthless.

 

That said, nobody realistically expects any player to get 3 hits in a game no matter who they are. There's lots of players who, if they do get 3 hits it's not a real shock, but expecting 3 hits in a game is not an expectation for any hitter.

 

It seems to me that your entire lecture is worthless. I didn't even suggest that Biggio shouldn't have been called up, I simply pointed out that he had been struggling against inferior AAA pitching, and that it would be unrealistic to expect him to be called up and suddenly lock in against far superior major league pitching. Generally the organization as a whole prefers to call minor league players up after they have had a run of sustained success in order to give them the best chance to succeed against the superior competition that the major leagues have to offer.

 

Biggio has been having a very rough go against AAA pitching. Does a k rate of 28.9% and ground ball percentage of 49% against poor quality minor league pitching suggest a player who is having good at bats and is ready to succeed in the major leagues to you? Just like was the case with your Ryu argument you are once again grasping at straws and using the poorly thought out argument of poor batted ball luck to try to make your point again. When you look at the raw numbers it becomes apparent that the 68 WRC+ isn't indicative of some sort of hard luck, it's well earned as line drive rate is low and ground ball rate is through the roof, along with a very high strikeout rate and without the hallmark high walk rate that Biggio can produced when he's performing at his best. Obviously none of us have likely watched his at bats but it's certainly not hard to look at the results of those at bats and determine that Biggio has not been at his best or anywhere close to that in Buffalo this season.