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  1. Orgfiller
    Josh Walker looking pretty good. Generic career minor leaguer who converted to relief pretty late, lots of Ks and BBs in the minors. The stuff is good from the left side, fastball averaging about 94 with a nasty looking sweeper/slurve pitch, 5 whiffs on the latter on 8 pitches. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/josh-walker/23617/stats?position=P
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    Gausman struggling with control, but the fastball velo looked good, 95.6 mph average in that first inning with 3 whiffs on 12 pitches. Splitter was particularly missing often but the shape looked decent. All pitches faster than last season's average by at least 1.5 mph, the "slider" (cutter?) averaged 86.3. Kirk just hit a bomb to dead CF.
  3. Orgfiller
    To be fair the 2.5 WAR was carried by a .382 BABIP. With that said, Iglesias can play all over the infield well, has good career splits against LHP, and has been a 1+ WAR player for 10 straight seasons who is lauded as a great clubhouse presence. Basically an ideal utility player who can spot start for a few weeks at a time without killing you.
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    Varsho just isn't a good enough hitter to justify dragging on the roster just as a DH and occasional PR. He has a career wRC+ of 98 against RHP, so it's not like you could maximize him in a platoon, and if he's not fully healthy you don't want to run the risk of him getting a setback from running the bases or something silly. Also there just isn't many hitters you would expect him to be better than. All of Bo, Vlad, Springer, Santander, Kirk, Gimenez are better hitters, Wagner projects much better, Loperfido projects fine in a pinch and if Straw is (on the roster and) starting he could be the late-game PH replacement if necessary. Let Varsho get fully healthy, it already looks like he's making great progress and should hopefully be out for not much time in April.
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    Hey @Brock Beauchamp, just dropping this here as I'm not sure if there's any other thread for dropping bugs and performance downgrade or whatnot. The board's been marginally slower to load over the past 12-24 hours for me. It's not a huge deal and everything does eventually load, but it's been noticeable by at least a couple of seconds longer compared to before. This has been true across mobile and desktop. Just wanted to let you know in case this is an issue that other users are facing and you may be unaware of.
  6. Orgfiller
    I think aside from Roden having a higher power grade, which is a big deal, there's more uncertainty with Wagner's position. A bad 2B who already is getting odd looks at 1B and DH is not a great sign. Perhaps this is their way of telling us they think Wagner doesn't really have a position and Roden could handle the OF for a couple of years at least.
  7. Orgfiller
    Unless the reason for him going 3 for 30 is injury, then it actually wouldn't really matter in the slightest if he performed poorly in ST. There's almost no correlation between ST stats and regular season performance. I think fangraphs has done several dives into which ST stats actually matter, and the only ones with any sort of mild predictive power that carry over are K, BB and SB rates. Everything else is pure randomness and given the irregularity of ABs and competition being faced it can almost be ignored entirely.
  8. Orgfiller
    I'm less of an old timer than some on this board, so Dana Eveland is the first player among the crop of articles on this series - all of which I've read - which I actually remember both by name and by watching as a Blue Jay. Kind of impressive he managed to stick around for 10 years, more or less (his actual service time accrued was nearly 5 seasons' worth), he really only had one decent season for those 08 Oakland A's and the rest was a collection of rather poor stops around the league.
  9. Orgfiller
    I think it's kind of fun in how ridiculous and over the top it is. Like it's so ingrained in him to do this celebration that it messes up his confidence if he doesn't do it. As long as he's not injuring himself by jumping 3 feet in the air and landing each time I say you do you. He better not be barking back at anyone that pimps a homer off him or mocks him after getting the best of him though, now that would be lame as hell.
  10. Orgfiller
    The big boy bats are all getting their swings in this game. Varsho with the hardest hit ball of the game thus far at 109.4 mph, and that wasn't even on his HR which Statcast didn't pick up. Encouraging sign that his raw power seems to not have been affected by the shoulder injury.
  11. Orgfiller
    Varsho saw his backups in CF are Myles Straw, Steward Berroa, Jonatan Clase and Joey Loperfido and activated his super regeneration to make it back in time for Opening Day.
  12. Orgfiller
    Minor league deal, wild.
  13. Orgfiller
    The problem with this is there's only so much Votto can teach him if Orelvis doesn't have the hit tool or eye to bring those changes into effect. Orelvis probably has more raw power than Votto, but the latter had an all-time eye and hit tool that's hard to just teach. Orelvis is a more pure slugger so he needs someone that speaks his language on the hitting front.
  14. Orgfiller
    Nothing grinds my gears more in ST than teams in 2025 not having a f***ing camera setup and broadcast booth for televising games.
  15. Orgfiller
    The LOOGYs and other depth relievers trying to make a case for a roster spot are completely gas canning. Jacob Barnes, Dick Lovelady, Fluharty all struggling immensely with control.
  16. Orgfiller
    Prospects of (some) note on the field right now: 1B: Rainer Nunez 3B: Charles McAdoo SS: John Kasevich CF: RJ Schreck All recently into the game so will likely close it out. Roden who started at LF has now been replaced. Edit: Missed Victor Arias at LF. 21 year old with big numbers mostly at A ball with a taste of A+ last season. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/victor-arias/sa3015636/stats?position=OF
  17. Orgfiller
    John Kasevich just ripped a 107 mph bullet up the middle, robbed by Stott. Good to see that nice quality of contact identified in his prospect writeup.
  18. Orgfiller
    IMO it should be relatively simple: Never let a pitcher use the challenge, always make it the catcher For hitters, if an egregious looking call is made you get a chance to use it, nothing you believe is borderline If not egregious, you're only allowed to make the call in a high leverage spot, no wasting challenges in the first inning with no one on base (looking at you, Vlad) Favour 2-strike challenges resulting in a strikeout over any other count Bad hitters may take a chance on a 3 ball count since that might be the best chance they get at getting on base
  19. Orgfiller
    Another 100 mph bullet from Myles Straw, this time for a base hit on a hit-and-run situation. The season is officially saved by Ross' astute last minute addition.
  20. Orgfiller
    Vlad just lost an ABS appeal on an obvious strike. He's definitely the type to burn both of ours by his first AB in the first inning.
  21. Orgfiller
    Myles Straw just hit a 350 foot sac fly at 100 mph off the bat. Our CF woes with Varsho out are resolved. 2021 Straw is back.
  22. Orgfiller
    Then the playoffs won't just be easy to make. They'll be easy to win.
  23. Orgfiller
    Not sure if you did anything different from other times, but this time it pasted seamlessly.
  24. Orgfiller
    I think he's too old and past his prime to realistically warrant a starting/part-time starting gig. Then again, he's still a free agent so maybe you've correctly identified why he remains unsigned this late into the offseason. He just made 1/$2.5M playing for the Pirates, but following a bounceback season of sorts for them I'd probably be willing to go to $4-5M for a one year deal.
  25. Orgfiller
    Grandal is a great option, but I fear his throwing woes are a legitimate reason as to why teams are shying away from him now that the running game is a big aspect once more. He was in the 1st percentile for pop time and CS Above Avg last season, and has been horrendous at this aspect going back to 2022. Really the only aspect you can anticipate him being good at is his framing, as his blocking has varied from playable to downright awful these last few years. Of course, beggars can't be choosers, a switch hitter with enough bat still left to play, over a decade of catching experience and respect from his peers would make for an ideal backup to Kirk, one that can speak Spanish at that. The remaining options in free agency are extremely bleak.
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