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Yes that seems incredibly dumb Especially when Jose Berrios is as bad as he is

Why can't they just do this up here Give him a couple of try it out games against real hitters

George Kirby getting destroyed by the Athletics 2.1 IP so far 6 hits (3 XBH) 2 walks only 1 K (it got worse) bearish day for the Mariners playoff visions

Austin Meadows also left lol Hard to imagine a season going any worse for a team that wanted to start trending up. Front office changes for them right now though. Expect them to start operating a bit better going forward.

His 4S velo, extension, and spin rate all look very good It must be something like spin direction that is very bad Like the pitch just moves right into the barrel of the bat

A lot of the Phillies baserunners late in the game were lucky Even the winning hit was pathetic lol. It could have easily been a one hopper right to the pitcher, double play. Change the launch angle a tiny bit and that's the result.

Cimber has 3 HBP in September alone. 7.2 IP 5 K 3 HBP 2 BB 1 HR FIP 5.46 xFIP 5.70 Obviously it's a small / meaningless sample size but he has not looked good this month. Seems to have lost his release point or something. He's kind of all over the place. But with the playoff race as boring as it is I guess you just keep throwing him out there, so he figures it out

If they try to stretch him out again I will f***ing cry

Adam Cimber has not looked confident in a while.

7-5-2 for BTS Categories in play Hits (tied) Homers (tied) OBP (decent 0.040 edge for JB) SLG (decent 0.031 edge for JB) Holds (+1 for JB) RBIs and Runs are borderline. BTS has an 8 RBI and 8 Run lead, hard to catch but not impossible. I don't think any other category is in play. All the pitching ratios + Wins and Ks are heavy in BTS' favour and he also has significantly better SPs lined up between now and Sunday. What does this mean? BTS has the tiebreaker so I think this means JB needs to win Hits and Homers and then pray for huge surge in RBI. There is no other conceivable path to JB winning.

we know

100%

lmao Merryweather you plug how can someone be so ineffective with his stuff the mind, it boggles

Diaz has a .133 career ISO He has big biceps but he probably punches like a baby

Pujols will be at 699 in the last game STL will bat him leadoff and the other team will only throw him fastballs in the zone He'll fly out on the warning track 5 times

wasn't the initial call about battery or something?

Do they ever use those extra SP as relievers, in between their starts?

yeah but Baker Mayfield is an honorary black because he got arrested that one time

I don't think so. It's an abstraction - think of it like a positional adjustment. We first just need an accurate and holistic measurement of what the extra roster spot is worth (this is extremely hard if not impossible) Then you apply that figure to Ohtani. Because he unlocks that potential value.

Have to kind of ignore WAR at this point anyway, and just do an assessment of the projected value/talent of the teams in question. Of course WAR will correlate highly with that But sometimes there are big differences. Like with Seattle.... Haniger and Winker are (I think) significantly better than their 2022 production to date and projections agree. In the rotation: Ray is (I think) better than his FIP/WAR this season Kirby was in the minors for a bit to team WAR in 2022 misses out on measuring some of his "talent" Castillo deadline acquisition, so team WAR in 2022 misses out on measuring basically all of "talent" Bullpen - pretty nutty if you look at stuff and K rate. Possible its value is missed by WAR and it could be a postseason difference maker. I still don't think they are awesome because on the whole the bats are still clearly behind some of the other playoff teams. And in the rotation despite incredible depth 1-4 they arguably don't have any shutdown, playoff style Aces. Too early to call Gilbert or Kirby that. Ray is a HR liability always. Castillo, not really an Ace.

Isn't the Ohtani rule that he does not count as a pitcher, towards the limit on arms? I do think the notion that the extra player is a near replacement level in every organization so Ohtani allowing an extra roster spot has little/no value is too simplistic. Even if the extra man is a replacement level reliever: 1) that could mean less stress on your GOOD relievers, increasing their production 2) that could mean you get to have valuable MLB looks at promising replacement level players. So some benefits in development, or roster churn. Like, I bet the Rays would benefit A LOT from having a player like Ohtani. A team could literally use the "extra reliever" as a waiver claim churn spot. If the team is any good at hunting for gems, once in a while that "extra guy" could end up as a real bullpen dude. But the Angels are benefiting NOT AT ALL lmao. Because they suck as an org. So the extra roster spot could be worthless for the Angels and all bad orgs, but could be valuable for a smart org. I think.

I don't disagree with you But there is some merit to the "coded racist language" angle even though it is of course one anon and the media cherry-picked it to create the narrative in that article like you don't see scrappy white QBs ever described as streetballers

Does WAR work for Ohtani? He arguably gets the DH penalty unfairly It does not capture the value of the "added roster spot" he brings either

that's nice of Canada

I wonder why he declined so hard I guess he would have been about 29 when he fell off the cliff. That's normal sports aging. It just happened very quickly for him. With defenseman you tend to think of guys being able to stay useful into their mid 30s. I guess Subban played more like a forward than a defenseman. Very reliant on speed