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  1. John_Havok
    I was going to mention this also, it's the same with Vlad. Overall pull rate might be similar to 2021 last year but it was mostly groundballs. This year, highest groundball rate of his career, lowest pull rate of his career. I'm not sure but it seems awfully coincidental that his damage against fastballs is also garbage. Whatever approach is being preached to him, it's completely df***ing wrong for a guy with his power ability. He should be looking inner half fastballs to put into the LF seats, instead, the only HRs he hits are hanging breaking balls that anyone could hit out and hangers really don't come around that often.
  2. John_Havok
    Yeah, it's just truly boring to watch
  3. John_Havok
    They're all the same people.who said "if healthy, the Yankees could be great"
  4. John_Havok
    75th percentile sprint speed. Speed is the one tool he actually has.
  5. John_Havok
    Nothing would be sweeter than walking off Pigf***er McGee 2.0
  6. John_Havok
    With IKF at 2b and Turner at 1b This has to fall in the "just to do something different" file because it's objectively pretty dumb.
  7. John_Havok
    Some pressure on Kikuchi tomorrow. Need him going 6 minimum, 7 would be nice.
  8. John_Havok
    An even worse plate approach than Vlad and about 10% of the talent. It's just nauseating watching him just take crushable pitches on pitch 1 and watching strike 3 so often.
  9. John_Havok
    Pretty uncharacteristic for KK to put a garbage throw like that out there.
  10. John_Havok
    I'm qualifying my yes in that I think the blue should have been been brighter. Darker blue on black doesn't give enough contrast. I like the red though, it pops nicely, especially with the red sleeves
  11. John_Havok
    So much relies on current roster guys bouncing back regardless. Impact trades are there...I don't really care at this point which prospects get dealt as virtually none look like true impact talent, but some have the right tools to be interesting to the right seller. There's no Soto-esque deals that's for sure though unless he gets really creative.
  12. John_Havok
    I feel the same, but at the same time there's definitely moves to be made that can help this season without compromisng the future. I'm not sure exactly what those moves are, but they are out there.
  13. John_Havok
    That's what I thought you. What's Soto supposed to do there to not get called out for interference. Rip back to the bg so fast and then round it back the 1b side? Very bad umpire interpretation there.
  14. John_Havok
    Kinda like he might be compensating for a slight injury A strikeout and 3 rockets given up, luckily only 1 left the yard 100.6, 107.3 (HR) and 107.2.
  15. John_Havok
    Romano looks hurt. He was grabbing his left side a bit
  16. John_Havok
    The absolute best of the Negro leagues for sure would have been stars in MLB, but to say that the overall skill in the Negro Leagues was on par with MLB is doubtful. More likely the Negro Leagues were a lot like early early MLB where the best guys were so far ahead of the worst players that they stood out way more.
  17. John_Havok
    Best call of his career
  18. John_Havok
    I like the design but the colour's just don't pop on the front. I like the sleeves with the red and blue, but the dark blue city skyline on black with like faded orange lettering just doesn't stand out enough. Should have used the same red from the sleeves and hat on the lettering, and given the skyline more detail with a brighter colour. Any more than 5 feet away it's just a blue smudge
  19. John_Havok
    Just ran an arbitrary cutoff date of May5th to present... Schneider basically is using all the hottest hitters in this lineup with 2 exceptions. Kirk and KK should be in over Clement and Biggio, but then we'd have a real defensive problem trying to get Vogelbach and Jansen/Kirk at the DH spot. If you really wanted to shoehorn them all in there and say f*** the defense...you'd move Vlad to third, IKF to the OF, Schneider at 2b, Vogelbach to 1st and DH Jansen.
  20. John_Havok
    Mainly trying to say that the reason you crater snt a loss of batspeed when you're still roughly league average. I highly doubt he was anywhere near where Vlad currently is even at his best. IF we assume that he's lost even 1 mph on average batspeed that would be a factor, but it wouldn't explain the crater. Like you said it's likely a change in approach needed. He's late on virtually every fastball, that doesn't happen with league average bat speed, that happens when your approach/timing is bad.
  21. John_Havok
    His batspeed is just slightly below major league average and still 75th percentile speed.
  22. John_Havok
    Being in shape means jack s*** when you don't want to hit fastballs
  23. John_Havok
    On a team that's struggling for offense, you play Jansen behind the plate as often as you can and take the defense first catcher as the backup, where he should be. Jansen is also good defensively. Not as good as Kirk, but when he's a plus D, plus bat, he plays over plus plus D, minus minus bat.
  24. John_Havok
    Seems odd to me to play a guy more when he's brutal with the bat and has been for quite a while now. Even when he was playing regularly when Jansen was down..the bat stunk. Kirk is probably better than his line indicates right now, but I don't think hes as good as he showed in 2022 either.
  25. John_Havok
    It's a safe choice, not outstanding or risk taking, but it's also not just some simple 3 letters like so many other teams. Predictable to include the leaf but overall, I give it a plus.
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