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  1. Orgfiller
    Longest guarantee to a catcher ever? First ones off the top of my head were Mauer and Posey, but neither of those guys got 10 year deals. $14M AAV seems like nothing for how good Smith is, although this will be his age 29 season and catchers are catchers, so really the Dodgers probably view it as like a 7/140 deal with 3 dead money years towards the end. Wonder if there's any kind of front or back loading going on here so the impact of those last 3-5 years aren't as much on the payroll then, or as much on the present one.
  2. Orgfiller
    Surely you mean the second option makes more sense right? Better compensation, more TV time/exposure that is tracked against the best possible competition, you get to fully control your own future since it's already a pain in the ass to have to DFA someone if a team is afraid of losing an asset.
  3. Orgfiller
    Blue Jays legend Brian Moran! Here's the HR in question: https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/video/arjun-nimmala-s-game-tying-home-run?q=BattingTeamID%20%3D%3D%20%5B141%5D%20AND%20HitResult%20%3D%20%5B%22Home%20Run%22%5D%20Order%20By%20Timestamp%20DESC&cp=MIXED&p=0 Not a moonshot and definitely a s***** pitch, but he got all of that one.
  4. Orgfiller
    Don't think Pearson is getting any swing and miss, but did just get a pickoff at second so there's that.
  5. Orgfiller
    Davis Schneider who is absolutely raking hits a homerun.
  6. Orgfiller
    Seen some whiffs from White on both the fastball and breaking ball(s). Held up pretty well over 3 innings.
  7. Orgfiller
    Absolute comedy of errors by the Rays defense.
  8. Orgfiller
    I mean, he's a bit of a weirdo and a dick at times but certainly not a bad enough personality that I wish this kind of thing to happen to him. I'm happy at the prospect of the Yankees not being able to use his services for a long time this season, but this is a guy well underway to a Hall of Fame career, and is a true ace/workhorse in an era where those types have significantly diminished, which this potential injury could jeopardize. If this happened to him on any other team outside the division I'd be pretty devastated from a baseball point of view.
  9. Orgfiller
    I’m sold. Wes Parsons is our 5th starter/swingman to start the season.
  10. Orgfiller
    He’s too expensive for Cleveland at his projection IMO.
  11. Orgfiller
    Zimmer was a genuinely excellent defender (90th percentile in 2021, the year prior to his acquisition) with elite speed (94th percentile in 2022), so at the very least he had two skills that at the time were sought after given no one else on the roster was as good of an OF defender (we had absolute plugs Gurriel and Teoscar out there) or as fast a runner. Lukes is arguably not even as good of a defender as present day Springer, let alone KK and Varsho, and runs completely average. For comparison's sake, Davis Schneider is as fast as Nathan Lukes, Ernie Clement is 76th percentile sprint speed. If all you want on the bench is a burner to run for Kirk in key spots, then you might as well call up Cam Eden who just swiped 53 bags in AAA only getting caught 4 times. He also can cover CF presumably adequately at the least. If you want another lefty bat that is a legitimate PH option and occasional spot starter, that's what Horwitz, Vogelbach and now Votto are competing for.
  12. Orgfiller
    You always seem to aggressively draw the line at such weird things. Lukes has an alright toolset as a viable 4th outfielder, but he's a lefty (KK, Varsho) who is not that fast (51st percentile sprint speed) and in fact slower than our entire outfield, plays average defense, and doesn't hit that well. It's extremely reasonably if a player as redundant as he would be to this roster doesn't make the team. His best utility on the team barring injuries would be blowout game replacement for the old guys.
  13. Orgfiller
    Stat/metric scouting this game: Davis Schneider hit a line drive out at 107.9 mph. Josh Kasevich showed some pop by hitting a scorching 102.8 mph flyball that went 388 feet. Romano hit 99 a couple of times. Mason Fluharty with 4 swings and misses, he threw 12 pitches, all sliders. Chris Bassitt clocked in at 8 distinct pitches according to Statcast lol. 6 whiffs in 57 pitches for the crafty vetrin, velo still down but he probably has more in the tank to ramp up as we've previously seen. This time last year he was barely cracking 90.
  14. Orgfiller
    Is his stuff actually grading well or is this a meme? I was genuinely surprised to see him hit 96 with a tight slider that apparently he's totally changed the shape of in the offseason. I was fully expecting him to be a junkballer sitting 90-91 and throwing the kitchen sink at hitters.
  15. Orgfiller
    He was so bad in 2022 (-1.1 WAR) that it probably cancelled out the mediocre 2023 as a bounceback and entering his age 32 season as a poor defensive outfielder whom you'll likely be platooning.
  16. Orgfiller
    I actually wonder how good Kasevich's defense is/can be. Fangraphs gave him a future 70 hit tool which like, sure he can put the bat on the ball and not swing and miss, but I see no power potential there at all. It's more of a Willians Astudillo profile with some eye but no ability to barrel up the ball. Everything in Spring he's hit so softly, but I guess to some extent he's probably facing better pitching on average than he has in the minors, as he's only gone as high as A+. He reminds me of a 6'1 David Eckstein but unclear if the defense is anywhere near as good.
  17. Orgfiller
    To be fair, Rosario does project to be replacement level. Now I wouldn't give Gurriel 3/42 (with an opt out lol) either, but there's probably easily an $8-10M difference in valuation there for 2024. Insane that Gurriel got as much as he did though.
  18. Orgfiller
    Wes Parsons overview (all the "relative" data is obviously compared to his one start in 2023): 4-seam averaged 94.7 mph - up 0.6 ticks from last year Slider averaged 88.7 mph - up 2.4 mph, spin way down. Traded added velo for spin? Threw one change with much more spin and less velo than before, testing something? 5 whiffs in 28 pitches against the Phillies' main lineup.
  19. Orgfiller
    TIL Wes Parsons sits 94-96.
  20. Orgfiller
    Barger's swing is so violent, I love it. This isn't a man who's looking to push a groundball the other day.
  21. Orgfiller
    Two innings of work for Mitch White. The stuff looked good on paper, 95.6 mph average on the fastball, 88.4 on the slider, mixed in a few curveballs and sweepers. Only one swing and miss though, and the command on the second inning of work clearly wavered, although the velo maintained.
  22. Orgfiller
    Nasty stuff from TJ Brock but his command has been horrendous, he has no idea where the slider is going and the fastball is also a bit all over the place. Fastball 94-96, mostly in the upper range. Slider tight with sharp (mostly downward) movement at 87-89.
  23. Orgfiller
    Davis Schneider has seen nothing but high heat again this Spring, and so far he's been struggling to catch up. He did adjust a bit last season to hit them, but then the league countered with lots of offspeed to setup the high heat.
  24. Orgfiller
    I don’t think I’ve ever heard Danny Jansen talk for this long before. He’s a wonderful interview.
  25. Orgfiller
    You know BaseballSavant has Spring Training games too right? https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?gamePk=748209 Manoah got 3 whiffs, two on the sinker and one on the slider. His sinker averaged 93.1 (14 thrown, 94.4 max), 4-seam 93.7 (10 thrown, 95.5 max), velo and spin on all of them was up relative to last year (negligibly so in most cases). The slider got absolutely rocked, avg exit velo of 102.5 (3 BIP).
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