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Carlos you're aware Gelof has a 63 wRC+ at the moment right?

The Phillies have been personally responsible for turning a couple of > .500 at the time of play teams into sub .500. Strength of schedule is a thing of course, and it only becomes apparent the longer in the season you go, but as Laika points out, if these teams were worse their % of good teams faced would be much bigger as they’re handing out wins to make them look better. We’re hanging on close to .500 almost entirely on the backs of the White Sox lol.

His fastball sucks but it's the only reason it makes his breaking pitches actually decent. His lack of consistent upper echelon velo is still extremely disappointing to me, he should never be throwing a fastball below 97. If his command was better it wouldn't be as much of an issue, but he's very prone to completely losing his release point and start missing everywhere including the middle of the zone.

I like how Yimi decided to f*** around and bust out an elite changeup to Stowers out of nowhere. "f*** me in particular I guess", he must be thinking after that AB. He rarely ever throws that, never stood a chance.

Not that I’m a proponent for using this to replace journalists, but they might just have to consider verbally spewing all of this stuff into a speech to text tool, and then use ChatGPT or something to summarize it for them, then the editor can just go and see if it gets across the important info.

They haven't stopped putting out the lists, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot by trying to come out with extremely in-depth detailed team lists despite not having nearly the amount of staff required for such an undertaking. So as a result they're in constant catch up mode putting out lists throughout the year. They just released the Marlins today, and are missing 10 teams with half the AL not done. It's a thankless task that they never seem to rectify, nobody cares about an org's bottom 10 35 FV prospects, just put out everyone's top 20 or something and then spend the rest of the season hyping up helium/less heralded guys that could be something.

Almost gotta wonder if his bat is comically small. Like in order to stop drilling the ball into the ground he changed to a lighter bat to give him a few extra mph of bat speed with increased bat control, but now when he demolishes a ball it's just missing some oomph from the decreased bat weight.

Some of the best swings we've seen from Vlad this year these last two ABs. Two outside pitches driven opposite field with authority.

This doesn't disprove the point or anything, but I think it's in bad faith to not include Varsho in this exercise, who was traded for using international guys that were signed by the team (Gurriel and Moreno) in order to get his years of cheap team control. Yes, there is otherwise a serious lack of homegrown talent, but trading said homegrown talent for young controllable players shouldn't go against them.

Would be pretty unheard of for an independent league signing to make the jump straight to the majors. He's almost certainly assigned to one of our levels, as everyone shifts a level up to make up for the MLB pitcher spot (Manoah) being replaced by a minor leaguer who's called up.

Under the hood he's not really significantly different than his other seasons. The hard hit, avg exit velos are all in line with his previous hitting profile and still indicates a dangerous hitter exists in there. The biggest drop offs have been in barrel rate, and more importantly the plate discipline -> K/BB rate. Julio's always been quite the hacker, he's generally been in the 20-30th percentile in chase and whiff rates to go along with K and BB rate, this season it's all the way down to 10-15th percentile. He's swinging at everything and whiffing a bunch, which could be a result of pressing at not seeing the results from hitting the ball hard and getting hits. It's a Bichette profile with a grade or two lower in hit tool and a grade or two above in power. Julio (and Bo similarly) will be fine, but this kind of profile can lead to some pretty bad looking slumps. The luck will even out and the power will carry him to a hot streak to make him look like he made an adjustment when really all he needs is a slight improvement in plate discipline.

IKF is smoking Vladdy and Bo in ISO lol

Honestly I don’t think this is impacting the wear and tear all that much, players like RAJ aren’t treating these games with the same intensity, it’s just additional practice. Unfortunately Acuña is built different, and not in a good way. He clearly had bad knees if this is already such a major issue this early in his career.

Thinking too small. -Trade Bo to the Dodgers for a bunch of MLB-ready stuff +1 -Sign Kim in the offseason to replace Bo +1 -Extend Vlad, Jansen and Kooch -> Trade Vlad for MLB ready pieces, extend Jansen + Kooch, sign Juan Soto for all the moneys to play 1B for the next decade The division will be easy to win.

I think the 3 to 5 includes retaining your challenge on a successful appeal.

I honestly wonder to what extent catcher framing will be diminished if we don't move to full robo-umps but just the appeal system. I bet you a lot of 0-0 strikes that someone like Kirk steals will still remain, but anything like a questionable 3-1 or 2-strike frame jobs will be significantly diminished, and while I don't recall exactly if count is factored into framing value, those are obviously the most important types of pitches that influence catcher framing. Conversely, a catcher that slaps at the ball - exceedingly rare in the modern game - low in the zone or at the borders is still going to be losing strikes even in an appeal system.

Yeah. He basically went from an absolute butcher, doubtful if he'd stick at catcher, to one of the best defensive catchers in baseball post trade. He's regressed somewhat this year, but the Brewers won't be complaining that he's merely below average defensively now (if this is his true talent) when he's also the best hitting catcher in the sport, and a top 10 bat overall.

lol

For f***'s sake. Here we go again.

Welp, it's another nail biter right down the wire against the meat of the O's lineup.

Nice swing from KK who was looking clueless earlier in the game.

If this result stands, this might end up being a masterclass from John Schneider. Controversial calls all over the place but he's put it all on the line to get the win.

95 from Mayza, he might finally be back.

Must have been inconclusive, I would've said Santander was safe but it was hard to tell one way or another. Need to get this last out now.

He's safe, Vlad had no business picking that ball up.