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  1. Brownie19
    Bellinger is heating up. Sustaining that K% - just getting some BABIP bad luck so far. Statcast page has a lot more red right now than it did last year. Perhaps he wasn't a mirage. Still too early to tell.
  2. Brownie19
    "like a girl" You're a POS gruber.
  3. Brownie19
    There's a possibility this provides the shot in the arm the offense needs.
  4. Brownie19
    I've been monitoring that. Crazy to see Carroll struggle like this. I do think the Jays should consider something similar with Vlad.
  5. Brownie19
    Why are you here? Same s***** posts, night after night. Just trash.
  6. Brownie19
    To be fair, there is some luck involved with drafting - particularly how strong the top of the draft is some years. Some years you're blessed with a can't miss star like Rutschman and then sometimes you get the 2016 draft, that basically produced nobody (https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/2016_Amateur_Draft). Almost everyone from the top of the 2018 draft is a bust. Are all of those organizations inept? Did the O's have Grayson Rodriquez as the best player available in that draft and were they laughing at the 10 teams ahead of them for not taking him? Seems doubtful. Sucking balls and having lot of top picks and lots of picks overall simply increases the odds that you'll "hit" more often IMO.
  7. Brownie19
    The playoffs are typically a SSS. It's often just who gets hot and/or lucky at the right time. There are veterans who suck balls and rookie who step up almost every year. Evan Carter practically carried the Rangers to a title last year, Jeremy Pena the year before. The fact Moreno was a rookie and hit a few playoff home runs is interesting, but it's no predictor of future success. Jeremy Pena was a good example of this. If the playoffs started on April 12th this year, Varsho would be on his way to becoming a playoff legend. Fans would be jizzing at how "clutch" Varsho is. Playoff success on a small scale is almost meaningless for a player. You need to create a history of playoff success for it to matter and few are able to do that (remember when George Springer was the new Reggie Jackson? Me too - that ended quickly didn't it).
  8. Brownie19
    Moreno hit .238 with a 101 wRC+ and a 29% K rate in the playoffs last year. Let's not pretend he was 2022 Jeremy Pena
  9. Brownie19
    It's also not like Swanson was awful. He gave up a double, yes, but if he got the first 2 out, then gave up the double and then K'd the next batter to finish the inning, nobody would have batted an eye. He did his job last night.
  10. Brownie19
    Crazy he went from like a 12% BB rate in A/A+ last year to having 0 walks in 60 PA's this year.
  11. Brownie19
    Perhaps, but he's now in his age 27 season and has 1.6 career WAR. He's a massive bust as the #1 overall pick.
  12. Brownie19
    I'd like to know how the O's fixed Ryan O'Hearn. This guy made Ryan Goins look like Mike Trout for 4 years and almost 1000 PA's, while accumulating a -2.4 WAR. He had 870 PA's in AAA with a wRC+ <90 in 2017/18 and yet the O's pick him off the scrap heap at age 29 and he's been a beast for them and it looks like he's even gotten better this year? What an incredible story.
  13. Brownie19
    Man - I feel bad for the Tigers. Two #1 picks and they get Mize and Tork, who both seemingly blow and certainly aren't franchise players. They sign Colt Keith, their new top prospect and he's been terrible and of course they have Javy Baez for another 4 years.
  14. Brownie19
    Just a thought, but perhaps you could also take notes? Baseball players are humans. Baseball is hard. Trades can also be hard and it's not uncommon to see even great players struggle their first year on a new team. Varsho battled for this team last year and despite his offensive struggles, still gave us 2.1 WAR - yet fans s*** all over him and the FO. People called it one of the worst trades in franchise history, wanted Varsho released and wanted the FO and the coaching staff to all lose their jobs. People were doing the same thing in 2022 when Berrios had an awful year. Maybe just relax a bit and understand there are a ton of factors that are outside of the players, coaches and FO's control? Perhaps fans can now see why they were willing to give up a guy like Moreno for Varsho? Also - I don't think anyone here believes Varsho is a 150 wRC+, Top 10 offense player. He's just hot. Hopefully he's a 105-115 wRC+ player who is great on the bases and defensively who can give us 3-5 WAR value for the next 3 years.
  15. Brownie19
    Updated. Varsho is 9th in MLB in offensive WAR.
  16. Brownie19
    MLB on FOX (@mlbonfox) • Instagram reel WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 128K likes, 805 comments - mlbonfox on April 20, 2024: "Cam Booser walked away from baseball in 2017 to become a carpenter before making a comeback in 2021 with an independent team. He made his MLB debut Friday at age 31 ❤️". How can you not be romantic about baseball?
  17. Brownie19
    I'm with Masterbather on this one. I think it's highly unlikely Berrios challenges for the Cy Young award this season. At best, we might be looking at 2021 Berrios - hopefully a little step up from that (4-5 WAR season). He's been really good/lucky so far this year and it's not sustainable...but that doesn't mean he won't be a huge contributor for the team and an anchor in the rotation moving forward.
  18. Brownie19
    That's true. Perhaps "inconsistent" would have been a better term. He went from a superstar, to an inconsistent and often injured player after his age 26 season. He had a couple of dead cat bounces. One in 2013 and another in 2016.
  19. Brownie19
    Varsho and Trout are currently tied in WAR (21st overall)
  20. Brownie19
    Your obsession with me is creepy as f*** man.
  21. Brownie19
    Touche. What a dynamic player he was through age 26. Then it all kind of went downhill.
  22. Brownie19
    Good call.
  23. Brownie19
    Is that you Buck? It simply isn't true. Velocity has give MLB so many more quality arms. Go look at the results v. high velo. If a feel for pitching was producing top results, we'd see all kinds of pitchers throwing 89 with 2 seam movement, hitting corners.
  24. Brownie19
    Buck sure is hell bent on pushing the narrative that velocity is bad and a feel for pitching is more important. I mean - I wish that was true, but it's not.
  25. Brownie19
    Yet I'm the insufferable one this board Sale has thrown like 170 innings combined since 2019.
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