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  1. max silver
    It is starting to appear as though Barger is experiencing a breakout season, but I agree it's a bit early to make that determination at this point. I'm very encouraged with how he's slashed the chase rate by 10% prior to last season and subsequently dropped the strikeout rate by 10% as well. We shall see how sustainable these improvements are but it's remarkable that Barger managed to halve his chase rate compared to AAA prior to his callup. With how hard he's been hitting the ball combined with the underlying metrics he is giving himself a very good shot at sustained success at the plate.
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    Yeah Tucker is going to be a awfully tough sign given the offensive improvements he's made the last few seasons. Schwarber would be a nice free agency target although that would force the team to use one of Schwarber/Santander in the field with regularity.
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    I don't think we know what the end of season talent level for this team is just yet. I think it's more complicated than simply extrapolating win/loss record or run differential on May 11. Ultimately I think you are dramatically overestimating the likely future impact of moving mid range prospects out for reinforcements, or bringing back mid range prospects for expiring contracts. I don't think either of these will have a dramatic impact on the team's ability to compete several years down the road.
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    Not necessarily. The team has typically been pretty hesitant to send out premium assets at the trade deadline. I don't think any of the trade deadline deals had any tangible effect of reducing the overall competitiveness in subsequent seasons as it's typically been low end prospects moved out in the deadline deals. The only major deadline deal I can recall with this front office was the Berrios deal, and that brought back a long term asset that improved the team's ability to compete vs hanging onto SWR and Martin.
  5. max silver
    I'm firmly ready to return to talking baseball. The 3 consecutive victories have been much needed as I was all but ready to tune out the team completely, particularly after the typically reliable tandem of Garcia and Hoffman both hit rough patches. I am hopeful that the offense is starting to turn the corner at this point, hopefully the Santander issue isn't something that holds him out for very long as he was finally starting to heat up at the plate.
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    This is a gross oversimplification of the problems at hand. The entire world's economy was largely churning along nicely with the US as the standard bearer until a silver spoon simpleton without even a cursory understanding of basic economics was elected as president. Canada didn't arbitrarily decide to start a trade war against itself so the current issues aren't remotely approaching being completely self inflicted. This is pretty basic stuff but given the doozies you tend to post here I'm not surprised you would fail to grasp the basics.
  7. max silver
    Kirk had a big game as well with 4 hits.
  8. max silver
    Yeah series victories are a must at this point at minimum. The team has managed to hang slightly below the .500 mark despite the extended struggles. The team just hasn't managed to click on all cylinders yet, as the offense consisted of a bunch of slap hitting in the early going while the rotation and leverage relief were top notch. Middle relief was also a big issue in the early going. During the protracted losing streak the offense completely dried up and the pitching staff struggled as a whole. Recently the offense has been picking up but the leverage group really started to suck, most likely due to accumulated fatigue due to overuse.
  9. max silver
    The team badly needed those victories after 3 nut punch losses in a row.
  10. max silver
    I don't know if bringing in Yariel Rodriguez with the bases loaded was really a better alternative though. Ultimately the team desperately needs more arms that can be trusted in leverage situations assuming they are going to be involved in a lot of close games moving forward.
  11. max silver
    I don't know if either of Tate or Walker have earned enough trust to be thrust into setup situations.
  12. max silver
    I think the rotation should be decent as a whole, with the overall pitching depth being the largest issue facing the club at present. With the team lacking a proper 5th starter/long man combination at the moment the starters are being forced to pitch deeper into games when they don't have their best stuff/command on a particular day. Recent Francis and Gausman starts are good indicators of this, where each of them were kept in games when they were obviously struggling in that start and ended up allowing a bushel full of runs when they would have benefited from much earlier pulls. The team will likely have to hope that one of Bloss, Lucas or Lauer can hold the fort until Scherzer is sufficiently built up to provide some innings and/or Manoah is able to return later in the season.
  13. max silver
    That's your prerogative to look at the negative run differential as some sort of indicator if you prefer. I don't think it's particularly relevant given the easily demarcated segments of games where the team was largely playing well and the awful slump where the team was struggling in every phase of the game. Laugh all you want, I conversely think that it's laughable that you would use a negative run differential that is 100% due to a bad 9 games of play as an indicator of what the team's overall record should be and think that it's somehow relevant.
  14. max silver
    Exactly this. The Blue Jays had an excess of catchers and needed a controllable left handed outfielder, and the Dbacks had an excess of controllable left handed outfielders and needed a controllable catcher. It feels like a win/win trade at this point.
  15. max silver
    You are doing exactly the same thing pretending like the extended stretch to start the season where the team was playing very well didn't occur. The club started the season with a 14-8 record with a +6 run differential despite receiving no power output from the top of the lineup. But according to you that stretch should be completely ignored and the week and a half where the entire team slumped is the true indicator of the quality of the club.
  16. max silver
    I think the biggest thing holding back the offense has been the lack of power from the top 3 of the lineup. Prior to the slide where the team was struggling as a whole the bottom of the lineup was largely doing their part getting on base, but the top of the lineup wasn't doing their job particularly well driving in runs, largely due to lack of extra base hits with runners on base.
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    The awful run differential is entirely due to the lousy 9 game stretch where the pitching and hitting simultaneously slumped and the team puked out a 1-8 record. The run differential during this period was -41 runs, which is really unlikely to be indicative of the overall quality of the team over an entire season of play.
  18. max silver
    Yimi has been aging like fine wine to be certain. I fully believe he was a little underappreciated in his first few seasons with the club as he was one of MLB's best all purpose firemen out of the pen. I just hope and pray that his elbow doesn't act up like it did last season as he and Hoffman have made an unbelievable 1-2 punch in leverage situations.
  19. max silver
    Exaggerate much? The team has played 31 games and Springer has appeared in 28 of them. The team has done a very good job keeping him healthy in recent seasons and the baked in time off has to be a big part of why.
  20. max silver
    That batted ball that Varsho easily snagged had a .960 xBA.
  21. max silver
    Yeah it appears as though Bloss has largely righted the ship after the horrendous start to the season. I can only assume the club will wait for him to have more than 2 effective starts before calling him up but the Alek Manoah situation from a few seasons ago shows it's possible to see Bloss in a big league game before that happens.
  22. max silver
    That's a bit of alternative history. You were tarred and feathered for suggesting that the rotation performance had been anything other than fantastic for the first few weeks of the season/turns through the rotation.
  23. max silver
    It's not even 3 bad weeks, it's like a bad 9-10 days as the team had a very solid record before the recent slide.
  24. max silver
    ******** I never said anything of the sort.
  25. max silver
    Wait a minute, on one hand it's too early to panic with regards to the Braves lousy start but then it's perfectly fine to declare the Blue Jays season being over before the calendar turns to May?
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