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  1. max silver
    Statcast has a blocking leaderboard. According to their methodology Kirk is one of MLB's best blocking catchers since the start of 2022. He leads in blocks above average per game at 0.21. Interestingly enough Jansen shows up in third place in the same metric, so each of these guys are great in this skill.
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    Perhaps part of this could be due to primarily playing a less familiar position in left field.
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    Acceleration is something that I wish Statcast directly measured, as well as directly displaying top overall sprint speeds as well. Average sprint speed is really only showing a small part of the overall picture.
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    I wouldn't necessarily choose Jansen over Kirk, however preferring Jansen is hardly indefensible. Starting from 2021 when Kirk became more of a regular Jansen has actually outproduced Kirk in overall value on a rate basis. Jansen comes in at 3.96 FWAR/550 vs Kirk at 3.17 FWAR/550. Jansen has had a hard time staying on the field, but when on the field he played like a 4.5-5 WAR player in 2022, and sustained this type of production despite having a lot of starts and stops due to making several trips to the injured list. I think it's up in the air what kind of offensive player he eventually settles in as, but I don't think the power surge over the second half of 2021 and entire season in 2022 is some kind of fluke.
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    His sprint speed has been slowly declining since peaking at 28.4 ft/second in 2021. He's down to an average of 27.9 ft/second so far this season. I just have a hard time seeing him continuing to be an elite center field defender if this trend continues.
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    I don't think the bolded is really true. In 2021 Kirk hit 8 homeruns with a .194 ISO in only 189 plate appearances.
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    Kirk has displayed power in MLB already, whereas Moreno hasn't shown any power since a short stint in AA several years ago. Over Moreno's last two seasons in a combined 442 AAA/MLB plate appearances he's produced all of a combined 27 extra base hits (22 2B/5 HR). It's far from a given this is going to improve dramatically over time.
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    That's kind of a weird shot at Bassitt who has pitched really damn well after his first start of the season meltdown. I wouldn't argue that Eovoldi offers ace like upside when he manages to stay healthy and pitch at peak effectiveness, but this hasn't been something he's been able to accomplish for most of his career.
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    I think Kirk has simply been in a bit of a slump timing wise this season. Over his career (including his early season struggles) he's averaged over 44% hard hit rate/90.5 MPH exit velocity, whereas this season these have both dropped precipitously to 34%/85.9 MPH with a corresponding increase in ground balls. Once he hits his stride he's fully set up for a massive surge in production given the great swing decisions and walk rate, as he's kept his head well above water offensively almost solely based on walk rate so far.
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    Oops looks like it's me that missed that point. Still interesting discussion but that certainly removes any concerns over Jays performance in AA. Good catch on your part/poor reading comprehension on my part.
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    Kirk still manages to be an above average offensive contributor despite the lack of power given his elite bat to ball skills and strike zone awareness. Historically he has hit the ball a lot harder than his last half season or thereabouts so hopefully he will start squaring up baseballs more frequently as there is decent raw power hiding in his sizeable frame. I don't think it's a slam dunk that Moreno is going to be better for the next few years given the fact that Moreno doesn't appear to be a great defender yet aside from his throwing skills, both his blocking and receiving/framing appear to need some improvement.
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    Theoretically higher spin rates on 4 seamers would make it harder to make solid contact on pitches up in the zone and increase the likelihood of getting under the baseball. This is certainly an ongoing issue with Orelvis though which is unfortunately only becoming worse over time.
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    Something I don't recall seeing discussed here is how AA is using a pre-tacked baseball this season. This makes it much harder to properly evaluate both hitter and pitcher performance from this league as this baseball has had a noticeable effect increasing spin rates for the pitchers. I wonder if this could be factoring in to Kloffenstein's resurgence and Orelvis Martinez's struggles this season (one could only hope). https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/new-enhanced-grip-baseball-raising-concerns-strikeouts-in-double-a-southern-league/
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    Little reverse jinx going on here, I like it.
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    If Horwitz can at least play a passable outfield I think he could eventually be a potential Biggio replacement. The team still has both of Espinal and Merrifield to cover second base, and Biggio has been given the occasional start at first base which Horwitz could receive instead. Horwitz is on a massive heater with .411/.521/1.110 189 WRC+ over his last few weeks with a matching 19.7% k/bb rate. I think he could potentially provide an offensive spark from the bottom of the lineup to a team that's largely struggled to consistently produce offense from the bottom third.
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    I see next to no chance that the Pirates would have made that deal. They already had a great catching prospect of their own and were also asking for the moon in Reynolds trade talks.
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    I just don't know how many years Varsho will be able to effectively man center field as he appears to be slowly losing speed over time, and he wasn't really a burner to start with. He seems to have great instincts/get great jumps though so at least that part of his game should age a little more gracefully.
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    Yeah Belt looked like he should retire after his first six games, but he's bounced back and been pretty damn good since then. His last 16 games he's produced a 154 WRC+ backed up by pretty decent peripherals/exit velocity, save for his still too high 35.5% k rate.
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    His defense has actually been pretty solid for most of this season, he just chose a rather unfortunate time to airmail a throw to first base.
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    Yeah useless sack of s*** is only on pace for a 7.8 FWAR season. Can't have useless scrubs like that on your team.
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    I'd rather Manoah just continue to work on things at the major league level. Despite the ugly numbers he's mostly kept the team in the games he's started and mostly avoided total blow out games. I have little confidence that White would be able to perform any better than Manoah, and given how many times each member of the rotation has experienced terrible starts I think White would be far better utilized as a proper long man to alleviate some of the stress these poor starts have been placing on the bullpen.
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    Yeah I'm not buying the pitch clock theory either. You can tell right from the first few pitches of the game when Manoah is going to be struggling with his command for the game. If the pitch clock were such an issue Manoah's command would improve with runners on base, as he would gain an extra 5 seconds of time between pitches. His results get markedly worse when he has runners on base vs when the bases are empty, so the extra rest time is seemingly having no effect on improving the quality of his pitches. His numbers second time through the order are actually better off than first time through the order. If he was struggling primarily because his conditioning is not allowing him to repeat his delivery/locate his pitches, you would expect that his fatigue would be accumulating as the game continues and he would perform worse over time.
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    Romero had chronically bad knees which derailed his career. We can only hope something of this sort isn't behind Manoah's struggles.
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    In a rare occurrence I completely agree with Jonn on something. Atkins is on record stating that the Diamondbacks specifically asked for Gurriel to complete the deal. It's really odd that they would have insisted on a defensively challenged streak hitter, but they must have really wanted a right handed hitting outfielder to balance out their left handed complement they already had.
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    The 80 grade stache is what matters most.
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