Orgfiller
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Touche Grant. Got his ass.
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Travis Bergen is pretty fascinating. He's all fastballs, shades of Sean Doolittle (and to an extent Jake McGee) but clearly not nearly as good.
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If service time manipulation wasn't a thing Wander Franco would probably have been in the majors 2 years ago.
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This doesn't disprove your general point, but both Olerud and Pujols were excellent defensively. A -5 def guy is an excellent defender relative to the rest of 1B, because it takes into account the harsh positional penalty since it's a much easier position to field. Pujols from 2006-2008 is basically as good as you'll ever see in terms of defensive value added at first base.
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If peak Albert Pujols, who was also an elite defender and an above average baserunner wasn't putting up 10 WAR seasons then it's pretty safe to say Vladdy isn't putting up a 12 WAR season lmao. Vladdy's performace isn't sustainable for the fact that he has a >200 wRC+, I'd consider that pretty unsustainable for anyone who isn't 2001-2004 Barry Bonds.
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Springer just hit a bullet and the fielder didn't even have to move. It's been that kind of game.
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You f***ing kidding me with these hits? Matz could not be getting more unlucky.
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That was a changeup down the f***ing middle.
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Even with that last out, which was a beauty from Bo and Vladdy, Matz nearly got unlucky again. Bunch of groundball singles that inning.
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On a rate basis he pretty much is. You can't really claim it as fact because 1) defensive stats have error bars and 2) we don't know if his defense would regress (for better or worse) with more PT. Jansen's framing has rated as average but aside from that he's a top 5 defender in the AL by fangraphs and he's caught 20-40 innings fewer than all the guys above him.
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In the Babe's case he was a pitcher in his early years.
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"Since at least 1901" just means that's as far back as they have reliable box score data, and no one in 1901 did it either.
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Can probably guess he's the youngest ever then since obviously no one was hitting 3 homeruns (at least while outfield fences existed) pre-1901 lol.
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He hasn't pitched that much but Chatwood has been excellent.
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Vlad is ABSURD.
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Did you see Scherzer's numbers coming into this start? He's fine, still very good and far from done.
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If Bengie Molina did it, Kirk can do it too.
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Castro!!! I thought they had no chance turning 2 on Robles.
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The best part of this W-L nonsense is it's coming in a thread where the starting pitcher Ryu dominated the Rays for 3.2 IP but had to be talen out unexpectedly. Okay, maybe he didn't "deserve" to get the win because the bullpen had to pick up the slack. So which one of the relievers who pitched the bulk of the remaining 5.1 IP got the win? Tim Mayza, who got 1 out and gave up two singles the next inning leaving the tying and go-ahead runs on base with nobody out for Tyler Chatwood to clean up the mess, who also didn't get the win.
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So at what point do just stop caring about pitcher's duels? When Jacob deGrom pitches a complete game with 15 strikeouts and no walks is that boring because the ball was hardly put in play? Corbin Burnes who has turned into an elite pitcher dueled with Trevor Rogers, who might also be very good, for 5 innings, they combined for 16 of these 25 strikeouts, and Burnes actually started getting BABIP'd in the 6th inning for a bunch of singles which turned into runs. I can at least understand why people aren't fans of every reliever coming out of the bullpen throwing mid-high 90s with a devastating breaking ball - although these guys all being good is far overstated - but when it's two good young starters going head to head and dominating opposing lineups is that a problem too? The Marlins scored 8 runs!
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And when Jacob deGrom finishes with a 10-9 record or 11-8 or peak Felix Hernandez has a 13-12 or 14-14 record at the end of the season what does that tell you? Were they simply not "winners"?
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Mike Trout is 4-4 lol, and honestly most of it has been on some of the weakest contact he's had in years.
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Elite Orioles closer Cesar Valdez finishes the Yankees. I'm only like half joking when I say that, Valdez has been legitimately incredible since last season. It's basically a RHP version of Tommy Milone, the sinker/changeup combo has been unhittable and he doesn't walk anyone.
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This is so unfair.
