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He had a 44 wRC+ for the Royals this season, it's pretty clear why they let him go.

Okay, so it's an awful trade because Fisher sucks. Tell me about the other guys we traded.

Incoming Fisher hate.

Another excellent pair of innings of work for Font. He's been awesome in that opener role.

Nick Castellanos is a f***ing mess in the outfield.

We're ruining Soroka's ERA and ROY candidacy early lol.

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Yes, because he played so many innings on the turf as a third baseman for us.

Also the reason that other hitters have sometimes better traditional stats and in some cases more appealing triple slash lines than Trout is because the latter plays for the Angels in Anaheim in a division featuring T-Mobile (Safeco) and the Oakland Coliseum. Trout has been the season leader in wRC+ since 2016 and the competition isn't really all that close where you could say they're neck and neck. I don't think there's a reasonable argument for taking anyone other than him #1 either in dynasty or in re-draft. Barring extended injuries he'll still be the best hitter in baseball for 4-5 more years before potential age related decline might start to set in, and with a GOAT talent like he is it's no guarantee his decline will be like that of the average mortal.

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Not all of those situations are created equally. A bases loaded situation when the game is 10-1 in the 7th inning isn't the same as coming up with the bases empty in the 9th inning of a 1-run game. The sample sizes are also not equal throughout. Factoring for leverage, which is what goes into the Clutch score, here's Harper's career averages: Low Leverage - 134 wRC+, 2319 PA Medium Leverage - 145 wRC+, 1737 PA High Leverage - 130 wRC+, 458 PA Career: 138 wRC+ Maybe he's uncannily good at coming up in like 3-run games with a runner on base, but this basically says that his hitting profile isn't much different throughout the different scenarios. And if you go and look at the year by year data, which I'm not gonna lay all out, there's also plenty of variance in each context.

You are such an old man. This is unreadable.

I can't now that I racked up those sweet 4 thanks.

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What's so bad about Spencer Turnbull? ERA- of 88, FIP- of 90 and xFIP- of 102, and he's a rookie who has two very good fastballs.

Thank.

It's probably just how he is, but Dustin May looks miserable playing baseball lol. He looks unbelievably awkward at the plate like many pitchers, along with running and making fielding attempts, and then when he's on the mound he's bouncing around immediately following a pitch. It's pretty funny to watch but also really uncomfortable.

But seriously, can someone please process this pick thing?

Clint Hurdle just switched out his starter Joe Musgrove for a PH because he had runners on 1st and 2nd and no out. Musgrove was only at 82 pitches and he was pitching an excellent game, but fine, that's probably a tactically sound strategy considering the NL is the worst. But then, he makes his PH Adam Frazier, a perfectly average hitter (100 wRC+ in 1450 PAs) bunt the runners over. So he took out a good pitcher who should have been fine to pitch more for a decent hitter only to make him bunt anyway. Clint Hurdle is an idiot and the NL is the f***ing worst.

People are tearing them to shreds in the comments section for their conservative stance on not bumping up guys like Luis Robert, Gavin Lux, Dylan Carlson despite continued elite performance this season at the highest levels of the minors. Meanwhile still no mention of SWR, the youngest pitcher in A+ who has been dominating all year as well.

Very good comp. Scouts will probably argue that Madrigal has a (much) better hit tool, something like a 55 for Fletcher vs. a 70 for Madrigal, better speed as well, and although his defense might be solid Fletcher has elite positional flexibility to the point where it's probably a wash if not being in the latter's favour.

Man Juan Soto was just born to hit, what a f***ing stud. It has to be recognized up though that Orelvis is playing 2/3 of his games at SS thus far.

He's played all of 6 minor league innings at SS so I wouldn't say he is. Prime Pedroia was a monster defensively so I'd put extreme reservations on Madrigal being as good as that, although he'll probably need to be along with adding a bunch of value on the bases if he's going to be a valuable player whose ISO is close to .100. I don't really see the Kinsler comp, he showed way more power in his best seasons as evidenced by a career ISO of .170, and for the most part hasn't been a really high average player. Pedroia is a better comp offensively although again, he'll really need to hit his power ceiling to come close to being that good.

Contrary to popular belief, Ross Atkins doesn't just receive a call from an opposing GM, take a short walk to think it through and then trade away three pieces for one. There's a whole team advising him, running models on the players involved, scouts writing reports, and calls being made all over the place. The Blue Jays front office decided that it was worth moving Sanchez, Biagini and Cal Stevenson for Derek Fisher, just as it was the entire front office that decided it was worth to trade Stroman for Kay and Woods Richardson, Loup for Waguespack, Osuna for Giles, Hector Perez and Paulino, etc. This same front office has built one of the best farm systems in baseball and continue to acquire pieces to bolster that, prioritizing the future and sustained success over short term gains.

Sanchez has all of 59 innings as a reliever, coming back in 2014 and 2015 which is when he was debuting in the MLB, you're making it seem like he's been bouncing between the rotation and the bullpen for years and it's been demonstrated that he immediately always gets better in the latter role. Relievers have good single season performances all the time, and then they turn into pumpkins immediately following that. Sanchez was good as a starting pitcher in 2016 and hasn't touched the bullpen since the 2015 postseason. Back then, when his velocity was at its peak, he still was only striking out ~21% of batters with a non-elite walk rate, both his K% and K-BB% from those seasons would be below the average for an MLB reliever in 2019. He's unlikely to continue his unsustainable .182 BABIP out of the bullpen, and his groundball rate which has gone down as the fastball has gotten worse will also suffer. It's 2019, not 2015 or 2016, we have years of data of Aaron Sanchez being a terrible pitcher. A move to the bullpen won't magically fix him. The Jays essentially sold high on a two start sample where he struck out a good number of batters and then moved him for a guy with decent potential.