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  1. I think you're underestimating how much power the top 3 can produce, and how badly we've been missing it. Santander still projects for 30 HR RoS and that's with him scuffling badly to begin the year. Bo, despite his relative lack of power, has a .526 xSLG compared to his true .390 SLG mark, he's been underperforming his expected stats pretty significantly, particularly in the power department. His Statcast page looks great. Vlad's in the same boat, almost exactly matching Bo's xSLG - SLG discrepancy, his xWOBA would make him a top 5 hitter.
  2. Yesavage's delivery really invokes Mike Fiers to me: https://www.mlb.com/video/fiers-bassitt-blanks-the-rangers?q=Mike Fiers&cp=CMS_FIRST&qt=FREETEXT&p=1 (bonus random RP appearance from Chris Bassitt pumping 97) Now image Mike Fiers but he sits 94-95. We should see Yesavage climb the minor league ladder quickly, he's too advanced for this level. Same is true for Khal Stephen.
  3. All jokes aside from the "must-win" trope, this is a game we gotta put on the books. Blanco has been struggling out of the gate, and this is a much different lineup than the one that faced him in Houston last season. As long as Bassitt continues his good stretch of pitching this is one that has to go our way.
  4. Good AB by Roden, would’ve been nice to see him rewarded on that opposite field swing. Alas, Brown is too good and he took a close pitch.
  5. 98 from Gausman for the K is fantastic to see.
  6. Springer looks incredible at the plate.
  7. The A's are promoting Nick Kurtz, the number 4 pick from last year's draft and a consensus top ~25-50 prospect. The interesting part is that as 1B only guy, this presents a weird positional logjam for them with Tyler Soderstrom starting off the year as a top 10 hitter in the league. Kurtz is 1B/DH only. Soderstrom is a former catcher who's rarely played there the last couple of seasons, and had been 1B only this year. Brent Rooker is Yordan Alvarez esque as a top of the order offensive force who ideally should not see the field as a defender, but now likely will? Shea Langeliers has generally graded as a rather poor if not awful defensive catcher with big pop. JJ Bleday and Lawrence Butler have emerged as legit outfielders, the latter being a player that they're committed to building around. The A's are going to have a pretty weird defense, but that lineup is going to rake.
  8. Lucas optioned, Josh Walker recalled.
  9. Is this your thing where you become insufferable for a week to prove a point about the other insufferable posters? The Jays just went 3-3 the last week, and one of those games could have easily gone their way with some more timely hitting. Let's not add to the pile of annoying posters that come with the gloom and doom as the team sits firmly in second place in the ALE.
  10. I think he's done. Injuries did a number on him, the stuff backed up, and the command went completely out the window. If even the Cleveland pitching factory is giving up on him there's little chance left for him save for toiling around the minors for a bit and rebuilding himself from scratch. Not even sure he gets claimed on waivers. The Stuff+ models grades his Location+ as 58 which is like, unfathomably bad. He must be hanging every pitch or missing badly nowhere near the zone.
  11. Handling the pressure is why Gausman is being paid the big bucks. He can and should be able to give us a good start here when we need it.
  12. Lucas has now given us the full Jekyll and Hyde performance with two excellent starts followed by two awful ones. His next one will be crucial for him to determine if he can stick. The one silver lining in this Saturday start is the strikeouts were still there. If he blows up again I could see Jake Bloss getting the call with Lucas being optioned.
  13. There's not much depth in the 40-man remaining due to the injuries. The last 40-man pitchers we have in AAA are Bloss, Macko (injured) and Josh Walker who doesn't provide much length. Schultz is likely sticking around until one of the injured RPs come back.
  14. Welcome to the board, Leo!
  15. This seemed inevitable. Little defensive utility, not fast, and it seemed like the same issues at the plate persisted. If he can't catch up to the fastball and he can't hit lefties there's no room for him on the roster.
  16. This is all valid and all, but with Kirk on base things get a bit more dicey. Will he even make it to third on the tag attempt? Will he score by staying put on second on a single into the outfield? Will he score on a wild pitch to the backstop if he had successfully tagged? With Kirk the best outcome is likely just the safe option in just about any scenario I think.
  17. Yeah just straight up a bad call. I don't think our own video people would have enough time to determine if it's worth burning a challenge here, and given that Jomboy probably spent a decent amount of time on it, seems unlikely it even gets overturned. I understand our own coaching staff being quick to blame Vlad given that the challenge room said it wasn't worth replaying, and his previous history on the basepaths. Just straight up umpire malpractice. Sucks for Vlad who made a rare smart baserunning decision.
  18. Little has been outstanding, a great find by the FO. My only fear with him is his stuff is so good that he can't really control it at times. There's been a few instances where the sink is too hard and drops below the zone, luckily the stuff is good enough to still induce swings on those pitches. But could be a case where he runs into trouble if players force him into the strikezone.
  19. Not to mention Kirk for making the most out of Bill Miller's strikezone. Sean Murphy, his Braves counterpart, was not getting the same calls.
  20. Chris Bassitt leads the league in pitching fWAR and trails Hunter Greene in bWAR by 0.1, essentially negligible.
  21. So according to Dan, that's a franchise record in combined Ks by the pitching staff over a 9 IP game with 19.
  22. That was basically identical to Kirk's swing but slightly better positioned.
  23. I've been told we should be extremely excited about our pitching staff dominating the best lineup in baseball.
  24. Roden's groundout came at 107 mph off the bat. His EVs are starting to creep up tremendously.
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