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He's not really playing 3B anymore so it doesn't seem likely

Good point but I think teams were/are turned off by the shape of his season and probably a little confused by the drop in pull% He went from 47% pull rate to under 40% Is that a sign of bat speed slowing down? Would love to see him just return to a high 40s% pull rate and 25+ dingers Similar to Bellinger as just a generally confusing player. Jordan Montgomery is also kind of confusing as his underlying talent measurements don't line up with recent production and the playoff narrative. Snell is just the classic really good pitcher with some injury history and episodic walk problems. Not really confusing.

Agree that Atkins fumbled Had to let the offseason play out first but these contracts in the last few weeks have made the conclusion somewhat clear I think when they gave KK $10M they probably assumed guys like Duvall and Pham would get close to that, at least $6M or $7M, and they thought KK was far more valuable based on defense and projections. Well, those guys might sign for $1.5M at this point. Probably could have bought a Pham + Eddie Rosario platoon in LF for less than $10M total. $18M for IKF and KK. Take the more generous of the available projections and they project for like 450 PA each and 3 to 3.5 WAR total. They aren't a BETTER team if they replace those two guys with bottom of the barrel options right now, but they are a cheaper team that is likely close in projected total WAR, and of course they could have more money to incentivize a Chapman pillow contract right now which is the whole point. The only saving grace here would be good years from KK and IKF. If IKF's defense is as good as the team thinks and he does anything with the stick he's a 2+ win player and you'd prefer him for $7.5M to the aging Chapman at 3x the AAV. This entire season rides on Falaffle tbh. 2024 is his year. The whole country is on his shoulders.

Yeah who watched Cooke pitch Need scouting report

Nah I'd say he lost a little bit of weight Still fat af tho

Mitch White throwing 98

It will definitely sting if Chapman signs for $22M or so and it's not with Toronto Well, it will sting until IKF has more WAR than him

Hilarious lineup

That's a best case scenario for Bellinger fantasy owners isn't it No pressure of a big deal in a new place.

Wow, has market was non-existent

Not really worried, except for the fact that he looked that bad several times in the regular season last year The one splitter he threw was nice though, haha

These guys like Bregman and Altuve are more about barrel control and having the ability to pull fly balls at will Bellinger might have become such a player but his career long strikeout issues make one skeptical of him having that level of hit tool / barrel control

Jim, he used to hit it almost 113 mph and hard over 40% of the time He has IKF maxEV and hard hit rates now Cody Bellinger is not redefining wOBA or xwOBA

MaxEV, dude

94, good breaking ball Looks like a relief prospect

Huh? Pretty sure all the damage was on his s***** fastball He was throwing 96 on those taters. That's barely an above average fastball for a RHRP.

Ben Shulman is good!

I dunno man Not like Toronto had any pitching depth to deal from

It's mostly performance These things are correlated, anyway. If Vladdy fails to demonstrate consistent maturity and work ethic, he probably won't perform, as we have seen!!!

But it's Tricky Ricky. Small hamstring issue this week, hip flexor next week, then his kinetic chain is out whack and he has an interior capsule strain in late March. See you in 2025, Rick.

LMAO f*** offf

Yeah that would be a Miggy or Pujols contract Those are reserved for GOAT slam dunk HOF hitters who never slump. And even then, the last several years of both of those deals were painful as f*** To get the Matt Olson deal, Vladdy *should* need a good 2024 followed up by a 5+ WAR platform campaign in 2025. He should get it or something close to it if he just.... performs "as projected"

Olson was very young!

Did not expect to see Barriera's name in this article Wonder if people are overreacting to his 2023. Yeah he got fat and stuff, and got hurt, but the numbers were good in his limited innings and pitchers get hurt all the time. Fat Barriera was good in his few chances on the bump...

It's just not necessarily true Think about platoon players Some players are worth more if deployed strategically (read: less)