His framing runs on BP took a positive jump recently. Up to 9th, +2 runs.
Joseph +5, Grandal +4.5 lead the way.
Framing runs make him #3, behind Dee and Trout. The "being Dee Gordon" penalty makes Dee ineligible, so Martin is #2 behind Fish.
Oh look, Russ Martin is the best C in baseball: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=c&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2015&month=0&season1=2015&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0
Rodon just hit 99 in the 6th
He should be annoyingly awesome, IF the arm stays on his body.
That's a big if though. Hence my capitalization of it.
Meanwhile, Greg Bird it hitting like .190 in AA.
You are a genius and have constructed a time machine, but you can only use it once and then you lose the machine and the knowledge of how to do it. The choice you have is as follows:
A) Go back to the 1930s and murder Hitler
Go back to 2000 and sabotage Anthopoulos' mailroom work with the Expos so they give him a bad reference
Flip it to +1.8 and it takes him from a below replacement level player to a replacement level one... still not contributing either way.
That tends to happen when you hit like a pitcher, and half of the game is offense.
Secret Steve Pearce Plan
Step 1: Suck and lose DH job to Jimmy Parades (who?)
Step 2: Talk Buck into trying you at 2B for exactly 5 games, gaining Yahoo eligibility
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit
He used to be able to turn on pitches inside, but you're right that he can't at all anymore. Must be some combination of age + mechanics + injury toll.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/cache/location.php-pitchSel=592717&game=gid_2015_05_08_bosmlb_tormlb_1&batterX=&innings=yyyyyyyyy&sp_type=1&s_type=&league=mlb&pnf=&zlpo=&cache=1.gif
Looks like 7 called balls inside the zone, 2 called strikes outside.
He got screwed on the one side of the plate but the plot still doesn't inspire confidence. Look at all of those pitches just hung up and inside to righties. That's a huge issue for him.
Agreed, and I doubt it.
It seems pretty likely to me that Chiarelli would have been fully capable of taking the missed playoffs as a wakeup call and altering his own process in a way that would please ownership and get them back there soon. They were easily a top 8 team in the conference this season based on talent, probably top 5.
I don't follow hockey close enough to know anything about their AGMs or whether or not they might have someone qualified already in house.