Actually, in Varsho's case the negative value seems to be from like one or two baserunners advancing on balls hit to him.
His UZR/150 is elite but he has a random negative figure hung on his arm so far
Why even look at them so early though?
A player could have a negative defensive value very easily by pure chance alone. It could be caused by them literally not getting a chance to make any difficult plays for example
Hard disagreement from me
Espinal sucks and the magic is gone. He's a bench player for me.
But Merrifield is old with eroding skills. Unless he is locked in, he should be platooning.
Yeah
Maybe a confidence thing
Or maybe the focus in the off-season was mostly on slider command or tiny little shape changes that make it easier to command
His sinker does NOT have a great stuff number but the model isn't great for sinkers
The biggest difference this year is he is just throwing his slider a lot more.
Don't know what you're looking at mate but it's like two ticks off if you look at this start and last
This fat tub of overconfidence is up there throwing 91 mph sinkers in the year 2023
GameDay app actually has one improvement this year
You can watch a highlight package of concluded games that is put together like a Facebook story. It's pretty good and a better highlight viewing experience on mobile for sure.
11 strikeouts
5 outs on balls in play
2 walks
1 hit
0 barrels
the pitchers making him look horrible aren't even good. he's getting dominate by Zack Grienke and Jordan Lyles..
It's not a GOOD team by any measure
It's just not a complete wasteland IMO
but look, you said "gaslight". that's a trendy word. i bet you feel very modern and young and cool. gaslight gaslight gaslight