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wait a minute does this mean the front office knows what they are doing when it comes to handling SP in games? no. that's crazy...

Kikuchi needs to get demoted. Sad.

Ooooof

There is a massive disconnect between his defensive stats and what traditional baseball people think of his defense

Sal Perez won't get in. That would be insane.

I'm not sure the Phillies really gave up much of anything for him though. Moniak is a replacement level player. Jadiel Sanchez does not seem that interesting. So it was Frasso (good prospect) for White (lots of control, could be good MLB SP or just a swing man) vs maybe something like, I dunno, Otto Lopez and Trent Palmer (just throwing out two random names who another team might want in their org but are much worse than Frasso) for Syndergaard and taking on his remaining 2022 salary.

His K/9 is 4.68 with Philly lol It kind of feels like teams had this progressive window where they could easily tweak a pitcher's pitch mix to make them better, but that is gone now. Like a few years ago it was easy to tell a SP hey your sinker blows, throw it less. But most of the pitchers in the league have now been through that filter at least once so those changes are not as easy. Like with someone like Kikuchi, it seems super easy to say throw your cutter less it f***ing blows but there are reasons theoretically that he kind of HAS to throw it even though it blows or else he is even worse. Maybe maybe. So yeah Syndergaard with no CH or 4S does he even miss bats? That means he's like 45% sinkers and then mostly sliders. Bizarre.

he probably sucks if no other team wanted him on their big squad

careful with MiLB batted ball categorizations, it's just stringer data and it's calculated weird sometimes

yeah he's obviously an extreme flyball hitter and gets under everything to the detriment of his BABIP buuuuuut of all swing plane "issues" that one might not be that bad. all they need to do is bring down that average launch angle just a tiny bit. turn a few popups into flyballs

ignore everything else if all you look at is this, knowing this is 2019 Rookie ball, 2021 A, 2021 A+, and this year 2022 AA... ... Orelvis looks to be progressing just fine, right? Ks spiked at AA and need to come down a but the BB% trend is steady and good enough and the ISO is great and the K% isn't atrocious atrocious. like it's very much in the realm of possibility for him to make some minor changes and have a K% in the low 20s next year in AAA

Yeah the 25 man is more concerning

So who gets demoted or cut for Mayza and Merryweather

I’ve heard numerous pundits say Manoah is Toronto’s Ace. It’s just Wins and ERA bias I guess

If it’s pointless then why the f*** do you care?

that's... dubious

I highly recommend listing to Rates and Barrels it's Eno Sarris' fantasy podcast he talks about stat player evaluation stuff from time to time and it's all very insightful

If the goal is to separate hitting into new skills OR tools that a basic scout or statistician could be trained to rank on the 20-80 scale I would probably go with: 1. Hit tool; ability to put wood on the ball or but the sweet spot of the bat on the ball (proxy measures are contact% and sweet spot %) 2. Swing decisions; tendency to swing at good pitches to hit and spit on others 3. Pitch recognition; identifying pitch types and ball/strike out of the pitcher's hand 4. Power; easiest to measure. it's basically max EV 5. Swing plane; is the swing mechanically conducive to contact or good launch angles? #5 is not really a 20-80 scale thing more of a categorical thing. But I am thinking of players with say good physical hand-eye coordination, good power, good decision making who just have a mechanically improper swing with holes in it that sells them short. It would be helpful to have a way to identify and measure that. #2 and #3 sound the same and they are similar but I think they are distinct enough. Recognizing the pitch and deciding whether or not to swing at it might be two different things? I dunno.

You can limit runs without missing a ton of bats, and produce runs without making a lot of contact A lot of these things are tradeoffs. Doesn't really make sense to rank them. It would make sense to try to distill their relative importance though, to get a sense of what kind of tradeoff is sensible i.e. is 10% less contact for 30% more power good or not enough? Also, you have to decide how proximate you get to the physical person. Like Barrel Rate is a RESULTS stat combining launch angle and exit velocity. Launch angle is influenced by both swing decisions and swing plane and hand eye coordination. Max exit velo is a decent proxy measure of brute strength + bat speed but average exit velocity is also influenced by hand eye coordination (making decent contact a lot). You could even remove the human from baseball and measure: hand eye coordination visual-mental decision making rapidity (eye tests) and accuracy raw strength rotational speed range of motion / flexibility These are the physical components of all of your stuff right

Now you just need three different women on air whose voices are all the same

No it's f***ing dogshit what kind of question is this wilko? literally nobody likes this other than the people who own youtube and apple

Best option vs Judge to basically keep it a comfy game

Romano needs work Do any of you even watch baseball?

Koooooooooch relief ace

Well they didn’t