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  1. max silver
    Alcantara is a total reclamation project at this point of time, and I'd want no part of sending a large prospect package out in a deadline deal as it's far from a given that he could even return to being an effective rotation member this season. Unless the Marlins are looking to just get out of his deal and not extract maximum prospect return I doubt that they'll sell him at the deadline as I suspect they'd be receiving pennies on the dollar compared to if they manage to get him back to resembling the more effective past version of himself.
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    That depends on which metric you are looking at. Yankees are 6th by DRS at +33 but down in 20th by OAA at -6.
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    Something something run differential. Michael Kay is likely mainlining Prozac right now and I'm all for it.
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    You were stating a few short months ago that this team had no future whatsoever so your standards are obviously not particularly aligned with reality.
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    What are you even basing this on? Every time Vlad is struggling this type of criticism immediately gets tossed his way. What do you expect the front office to do exactly if you think he's ignoring the coaches, send him to the timeout corner or something?
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    I had a peak at the Statcast box score for Alcanatara's start today and he allowed 10 hard hit balls so it appears as though he was rather fortunate to escape without allowing further damage.
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    Severino's slider has only garnered a 14% whiff rate this season so it's not a great pitch although it's been more effective at generating whiffs in prior seasons. His sweeper is a tad better but still only 21% whiff rate. Perhaps if he spent an offseason in a quality pitching lab he could redesign his pitch mix a bit to unlock a higher ceiling as he's more of an innings eater type at present.
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    I'm lukewarm on Severino. My concern with him is that despite the high end velocity he's morphed into a pitch to contact guy. I thought that this could be due to a poorly optimized pitch mix but he's simply not garnering whiffs with any of his offerings this season.
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    I think the primary reason that Clement has faced so many right handed pitchers during his slump is due to Gimenez being on the shelf with an ankle injury. With Wagner playing quite a bit of third base the only real alternatives on the roster for second base duties are Clement, Schneider and Jimenez. Subbing in Jimenez would largely be shuffling the deck chairs swapping one struggling hitter for another, and it appears as though the club prefers using Schneider primarily in left field at this point.
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    The effective platooning throughout the lineup is one of the key reasons why this has been a top offensive squad since the calendar turned to May. I have zero issues with Barger sitting for a few plate appearances to start a game vs watching him being completely overmatched against tough lefties. This team plays far too many close games with little margin of error and needs to maximize the matchup advantages when it's available to them. Barger is a weapon off of the bench, and the club has shown zero hesitation towards getting him into the game as soon as a right handed matchup is available to them.
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    This is justly needlessly over reactionary. Hoffman is only human, and if you expect that there is a single pitcher in the entire sport that doesn't occasionally allow runs then you are in for a very rude awakening.
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    Schneider has used Hoffman in particular in 4 out of 5 times on 3 separate occasions this season, so it wouldn't surprise me to see Hoffman used in a close game.
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    You are incapable of going a single game without complaining about something. It's kind of astounding that you would actually whine about a manager using his leverage relievers in a very close/meaningful game in the 8th inning. No matter how good things are going with this team you keep finding reasons to go out of your way to whine, because you are literally impossible to please.
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    Little's curveball is arguably MLB's nastiest pitch and he's one of MLB's best leverage relievers. It's downright asinine that you would be complaining about using him in a close game against a division rival. Gausman is probably the team's most important rotation arm, and the extra rest he received prior to this start was likely a massive contributing factor to how effective he was. He's accumulated a lot of mileage on his arm, and after he produced a stellar 7 inning start there was no reason to push him further as the team has a very solid leverage group in their bullpen and only needed to produce 6 outs. Sooner or later you'll be forced to admit that the manager, pitching coach and front office are far more knowledgeable about how to run a pitching staff and manage a game than you are.
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    That one struck me as being particularly egregious. I just couldn't believe that you'd expend that amount of time whining about bringing in one of MLB's nastiest relievers to face a division rival after the starter produced a very solid 7 inning start for the team.
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    Hoffman has a single bad outing in the last 7 weeks or so. The struggles of May appear to be completely behind him at this point.
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    I don't know man, one of the board experts boldly proclaimed that Hoffman can't be the closer in the playoffs so he probably sucks.
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    The Jays broadcast mentioned he was playing through several minor injuries at the moment.
  20. max silver
    I believe that's largely due to Gimenez being on the IL due to injury. The team doesn't really have a left handed infield option to play in Ernie's place at the moment.
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    It's far from a given that Robertson is going to continue being a top reliever. Going strictly from memory guys who signed this late in the past generally haven't performed particularly well. Is Robertson even ready to jump into game action straight away? I had a peek at the announcement from Ken Rosenthal, and with the Phillies being over the 4th luxury tax level their total cost for a few months of Robertson is $12 million. For a 40 year old reliever that won't likely be ready for a few weeks at minimum that's a hard pass for me.
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    Rogers is perfectly willing to spend but $6 million for 15-20 innings of a non elite reliever is positively ludicrous.
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    Varsho is in the lineup for the FCL team at the moment so he could conceivably make it back within the next week or so barring any setbacks.
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    I'd be interested as well to hear how the major league hitting staff impacts the organization as a whole.There obviously wouldn't be time for these coaches to work directly with the minor league players in season, but I do suspect that they would be directly involved in working with these players at the training complex in the offseason.
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    I don't have the same feeling. I think we haven't seen a fully healthy Alek Manoah dating all the way back to the 2022 season. Even if he doesn't ever reach the previous heights as a top of the rotation arm I think he has a very good chance to at least be an effective back of the rotation starter.
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