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Even worse. He was expected to miss the game with back issues as of this afternoon.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Gibby Show. JD is a superb interview and I miss him.

Seattle showing they are a mediocre team without J Rod in the lineup to save them.

While acknowledging that his flyball heavy profile is conducive to a low BABIP, .217 is almost impossibly low and extreme outlier seasons are rarely repeated. While he isn't a walk machine, he's never walked less than 8% of the time and sees a lot of pitches in my viewings. The low OBP is driven by the BABIP. The only MLB player in that stratosphere this year is Anthony Rizzo. He's a similar hitter in some respects and has a career .279 BABIP. I don't know if we'll see that next season, but we'll surely see some regression to the mean.

This Twins and Indians game is wild. You don't see many go to the 14th anymore.

I was doing some work on my boat and had the radio on. Ben Nicholson Smith kept calling his partner Ben, but it didn't sound quite like Ben Wagner. It's actually Ben Shulman! He's not blessed with his father's voice, but he's a natural and doing a great job.

Miguel Cabrera has had well documented weight issues for his entire career, even with the Marlins. I never made an argument that increased weight wouldn't affect Vlad, but you can't just infer that he is going to go full Cecil Fielder in the future. There's nothing to suggest that this is going to be the case. I also didn't compare him to Juan Soto. You really don't have an answer to any of the points that I brought up and that's ok, but making up fictional arguments and responding to yourself is a little silly.

The list was on Sportsnet the other day and is a top 10. It's not some cherry picked creation of the top 17 players to hit opposite field home runs on Wednesdays.

It was really encouraging to see him cut down on the K's and maintain or increase his power production as the season progressed. That's a strong indicator that he still has room to grow and will take further steps in 2023. Prospect lists are making a mistake when they omit him based on BABIP in my opinion, but we will have to see what happens going forward.

Go Angels!

The range at short is a question mark given his size, but his arm is strong enough to definitely stick at third in my opinion. He's arguably got 80 grade power and his strikeouts are not all that bad given his age and level. We've got a special player on our hands if he makes some progression in his second year at AA.

There's going to be a utility player gold glove this year.

Orelvis Martinez hit his 30th HR, the 14th and youngest player to do so in MiLB this year.

I thoroughly enjoyed the radio broadcast.

The Yelich comparison makes it seem like you didn't read what I said. He was 26 and 27 during his MVP level seasons. Bellinger also got started a couple of years older than Guerrero. Age makes a big difference when it comes to predictions, which is why I brought it up. Your comparable for weight are also imperfect and don't really add anything to the conversation. Miguel Cabrera is the obvious comp and you didn't even mention him. What about Tony Gwynn, Kirby Puckett, and Babe Ruth? His career path is not going to be defined by his previous weight. We've seen many other lists like this, but look at the youngest players to hit 100 home runs, for example. Mel Ott Vladimir Guerrero Jr Alex Rodriguez Eddie Mathews Bryce Harper Andrew Jones Johnny Bench Miguel Cabrera Tony Conigliaro Albert Pujols You'll get the same kind of list searching by any number of important indicators. I'm not saying he belongs in Cooperstown already or that MVP calibre players never regress. I'm saying that players who are this good at this age almost never fail to have Hall of Fame calibre careers. There's a big difference.

Players that do what Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has done at this young of an age turn into Hall of Fame players, almost without exception. A couple months of average performance are not enough to make me forget what a special player this is. I don't hesitate if he asks for 10/300. I think it will be more than that.

Perhaps he has health problems again?

So the umpires have cost us 4 runs so far Very well done.

It would be pretty hard to justify firing the hitting coach of the league's best offense.

Manoah is certainly right, but he just needs to stay off of twitter. There's nothing good that can come of it.

They are certainly trying to win home field advantage over the Yankees.

He's only given up 6 base runners in his last 8 appearances, so that's not supported from a statistical standpoint. It's just a fan created narrative.

Eight consecutive scoreless appearances for Cimber now, with 1 walk (today) and just 4 hits. There's a narrative on this forum that he's been unreliable, when it really isn't the case. You couldn't ask for a much better middle reliever.

I'm not buying it. He didn't even look at 2nd and had all kinds of time.

Nice job by Cimber keeping it together after that error. I don't get everyone s***ing on him. He's been incredibly valuable this year.