Well there is size bias.
Like, in 2012 Marcus Stroman should have gone like 6th in the draft. But he was 5'7" on a good day so he went 22nd. His numbers were probably better than Kyle Zimmer but Zimmer was 6'3". And other players picked ahead of him like Courtney Hawkins were beeeeg and stroooong.
Zimmer 88 IP 104 Ks
Stroman 98 IP 136 Ks
Appel 123 IP 130 Ks
Heaney 118 IP 140 Ks
Gausman 123 IP 135 Ks
Wacha 113 IP 116 Ks
Stratton 109 IP 127 Ks
All of those college arms went ahead of Stroman. None had a stuff argument for going ahead of him (probably). Most of the arguments were about size and frame.
Not necessarily. If the premise is true then one of the following things follows:
a) he's underrated
the body issues are a valid reason to value him less.
on , maybe being fat and generally unathletic leads to aging harder and earlier and/or added injury risk. seems logical enough.
wait wait wait
did I see a graphic last game that said Toronto is #1 in baseball at pulling the ball?
during this hot streak?
who was it on this board that had a borderline mental breakdown saying that the team should pull the ball more?
Jansen was f***ed up, you could see his hand and finger trembling when they were testing him.
The problem is Danny Jansen is a huge alpha chad so when he says he wants to keep playing what is Bongos supposed to do? Boss him around? Lmao as if
Well yeah we have been told that I think based on his Toronto time
But these Angels issues are years old. Not enough depth. Their SP rotation coming into 2022 was disgusting. How could they start 2022 with that depth chart? Other than Ohtani it was kind of just a bunch of shots in the dark.
So Brad Keller is kind of annoyingly effective with his groundball rate.
Will be interesting to see if the Jays can get the ball in the air off him. Ostensibly the Jays have some minor groundball and double-play issues. Well, we have one big hitter who has those issues.
fat + short
baseball: it's possible. not easy, but possible.
hockey: short yes, fat not so much
basketball: short NO, fat NO but sort of if you are tall and fat
soccer: short yes, fat not so much
football: fat yes (LB), short yes (RB), but NOT BOTH
Tonight is a good example of the three times through the order penalty. If Kansas City had any intention of prioritizing winning they would not let a mediocre SP like Lynch pitch the sixth. But they did and it's 6 nothing instead of 3 nothing.