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With Gausman scuffling relative to his standards today, I think Swanson's stuff might have actually played up this time. The fastball is a bit slower and maybe their swings are a little quick from trying to time 96-98, and the splitter is similarly nasty, if his command was any better he would've just presented a weird challenge in adjustment. Maybe that's what there is to it with them always going to Swanson after Gausman, they're so similar but at a different look and velo that perhaps it just messes with hitter's timing. Or the ace just gets us into good winning positions and Swanson is our second best reliever who usually comes in during these spots anyway.

I think Brownie is being flippant. Seems like he's gone full doomer to match the energy around the board these days, not sure if he's legitimately gone off the deep end yet.

Lyle Overbay.

It’s now 21% better actually.

Jason Heyward is really giving credence to the “it’s incredibly hard” quote from Ron Washington about playing first base. My god he looks like a little leaguer over there.

Who else is Whit to you?

This is his whole career though. Gausman prior to 2020 was an average starter, from then onwards he's among the elites. I would guess his numbers are much better since.

The elite starters usually tend to. Now obviously Bassitt isn't one of those guys, but that consistency really is quite remarkable from him. Also explains how he's able to get into the 7th inning so often, he can really mix it up.

He only has 75 PAs. Some prospect publications will use PA/IP thresholds to determine when a guy has graduated, others will use MLB's own active roster time (like O'Hoppe will have) for rookie eligibility to determine this.

Well, to a certain extent it is him. Of his 87 hits, 70 are singles and 1 homerun, so he's scored himself twice. He also 19 walks to go along with it. So you take a guy who almost always is on first, and is a slow + bad baserunner, and you're not going to score a lot of runs. Look at Kirk and Belt, high OBP guys but incredibly slow/brutal baserunners. 17 and 13 runs scored respectively. Kiermaier has scored 26 times, Merrifield 28. Those are guys without a lot of power, but they're aggressive runners who get themselves extra bases with their speed through hustle or base stealing.

80 pitches through 8.

Bassitt is incredibly efficient. Consistently gets us through the 7th, 72 pitches through 7 right now lol. Guy’s a workhorse.

Who f***ing cares if he has two pitches. So does Gausman and he's unhittable. Manoah was fine when he was averaging 94 with a good sinker and a filthy slider. It's not a lack of development from what was already working, it's a regression of all of his stuff.

Because he never needed it lol. He was a 4 WAR pitcher whose biggest flaw is he hit a few too many hitters. His stuff or mechanics got worse, it's not like the league caught up with his stuff. He just simply got worse, Manoah straight out of college was a significantly better pitcher than the one we've seen this year.

Varsho neither walks as little as Grichuk nor does he whiff as often. Swings less at balls and makes more contact on them when he does, more contact overall/less whiffs. I actually think Varsho has a pretty decent eye, it's not often he's whiffing at garbage outside the zone, he just has current holes in certain areas of the zone so I think he's been pressing which has lead to not optimal swing decisions at times. This is unlike Grichuk who just kind of swings at everything, there was never a breaking ball low and away that he didn't love. They both have good power with some swing and miss, that's really the extent of the comp.

That was a pathetic effort from Pham. From 1st and 3rd to a run and RISP.

Man I don't know why you're being so combative about this. Here are your own words: So your whole argument was that Harper was overhyped and never met his expectations. My argument is that can't be true, given that he's well on track for a HOF career with multiple MVPs. If he was overhyped then by definition he's been a disappointment relative to expectations right? Trout didn't live up to expectations, he exceeded them. Unless you think it's fair to expect all-time great performance from a prospect as they're coming up. I think merely settling for average HOF means they did pretty well for the expectations set on them.

Yeah of course there's the debate from when they were both coming up as prospects and Harper's 2015 season when it was fair to compare them. What I'm arguing is it's unfair to label Harper's career as a disappointment simply because he didn't become Trout. Harper of course had generational prospect hype and was extremely highly touted, but he's also won 2 MVPs, reached the ASG 7x, 2 silver sluggers (surprisingly much fewer than I was anticipating), and has a career wRC+ of 141. He made it, he was worth the hype. His ceiling was best player in baseball (or at least best player in the NL), heights he reached in 2015 and 2021, but his more realistic career outlook became feared hitter who didn't quite have everything to be consistently in talks for best player in the game. Any career where a prospect was highly touted and they're on track to be a Hall of Famer is successfully meeting the hype. Unless you're LeBron James whose expectations were inner circle HOF'er and he exceeded those. Baseball prospects are too volatile to have those kinds of expectations, so Harper properly met his. Harper needs about 15 WAR in 10 years to be considered a relative lock for the Hall, I don't think he really even needs multiple monster 5 WAR seasons in that span to get it done, those will just give him a much stronger argument to be inducted early. As long as he keeps trending in his current path and doesn't decline heavily earlier than anticipated, he'll get in.

Would you look at that, he is back out.

I feel like with the way he was airing it out to Brian Anderson last inning there's no way. He knew he was done by pumping it up like that.

16 swings and misses, hardest pitch of the afternoon clocking in at 99.3 mph on his 100th pitch, his last of the start. Just your typical Kevin Gausman performance.

Another absolute hanger that should've gone 450 feet. I'm sorry but these high arching warning track flyouts don't do it for me.

He hit 3 singles two nights ago...let's not say he's fixed until he has a couple of 430+ foot shots, or at the very least some barreled line drives to the warning track. Vlad has too many tools to not be performing as a fearsome power hitter. Bichette just hit a homerun to straight CF. It's not just about pulling the ball, it's about hitting it with complete authority as he's more than capable of.

Harper is 30 years old...right now he obviously wouldn't be either of those things, but he's easily trending as a HOF, likely a first ballot. Big difference between an inner circle guy like Trout who is one of the best players of all time, and Harper who is a more "decent" Hall of Famer whom everyone will remember for years to come. Mookie Betts is another guy who should cruise into the Hall barring catastrophe, and he's only 8 WAR ahead of Harper at the same age, 30 WAR behind Trout. It's unfair to compare anyone to him.