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  1. max silver
    It could be worse as there's no Heineman and Schneider has been demoted to AAA. Really the only guy I hate seeing in the lineup is Sosa.
  2. max silver
    I'd guess a combination of managing his playing time immediately after coming off of the injured list and being cautious after he was plunked in the helmet with a pitch in last night's game
  3. max silver
    Better go ahead and fire him into the sun.
  4. max silver
    I think with Cook the fact he's incorporating a retooled swing for the first time in game action is a massive factor. He displayed few issues making contact in college as he walked more than he struck out with more of a slap happy approach and it stands to reason that the new swing is likely quite a bit longer in nature comparatively speaking.
  5. max silver
    Age is kind of irrelevant here as Cook didn't start hitting full time until his draft season. He's not a typical hitting prospect who would have 3-4 years of full time hitting in college so he's very inexperienced at the plate relative to his age. I think the club challenged him with a promotion to Dunedin and it's possible he wasn't necessarily ready for this as he wasn't lighting things up in his short stint in rookie ball. I can only guess it was due to there being fewer rookie level teams after contraction by MLB and the club having several recent draftees that they wanted to receive regular center field reps.
  6. max silver
    The article mentioned that he was coming off of shoulder surgery so they didn't want him diving very often and the team wasn't very aggressive on the bases as well.
  7. max silver
    I don't think the iffy early results materially change Cook's bust chances, but I could see how they might be viewed as reducing his chance's of maximizing the ceiling. I believe if Cook can't make the new swing profile work he can always revert to the slap hitting style he employed in college and experience some success. He's likely the fastest player in the minors and I've seen reports that suggest he could capably man center field in the majors right now. It appears as though he basically possessed a Chandler Simpson style offensive toolset at the plate and if worse came to worse there's a good chance he could reach MLB using that kind of approach. There was an interesting article in the Athletic over the winter that outlined the club's approach to Cook's offensive game.
  8. max silver
    The team could certainly use someone to step into the rotation with the Cease IL stint. Hopefully in a few weeks one of Bieber/Bloss or even Scherzer could be good to go but it's shades of last season where the team only had 3 usable starters for an extended period of time.
  9. max silver
    But why? The dude pitched through forearm tightness in the post season to try to help his team win a championship and he's getting closer to making his season return.
  10. max silver
    I'm calling shenanigans. You had a small aside about Cook's draft status but the crux of your post was obviously based on the poor results in an incredibly small sample size. Feel free to explain how any of this paragraph wasn't based on poor results in what essentially amounts to two weeks of plate appearances in a first year pro.
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  12. max silver
    This is a lot more nuanced take than basing bust status on a couple of weeks worth of plate appearances for a first year pro.
  13. max silver
    I kind of hope you are joking as this is needlessly alarmist. Cook is a converted pitcher who only received 284 PA in a single season hitting in the NCAA. Despite the lack of experience with the bat he posted some impressive numbers including a 6.7% strikeout rate. He was more of a slap hitter at that point but despite the fact he just started hitting full time that season he displayed very impressive bat to ball skills on the way to a .905 OPS/131 wRC+. He's a bit of a project but I fully support the effort underway to unlock a little extra base power from his swing. This isn't a player who needs to be "fixed" as he's an elite athlete who can likely slap hit his way to something like an 80 wRC+ bat but there's a lot more potential if the club can unlock more juice. He has all of 52 PA as a professional and it's downright absurd to be musing over whether he's already a bust at this point.
  14. max silver
    I'm not terribly worried about Cook as he's just getting his feet wet as a first year professional and missed the first month of the season due to injury. I recall the goal with Cook was to unlock some impact with the bat and as such there are bound to be some growing pains as he adjusts to a retooled swing.
  15. max silver
    I certainly hope so as the rotation desperately needs another arm.
  16. max silver
    Are you experiencing a psychotic episode? This is just a baseball forum and there's no need to make disagreements so damn personal to this degree. You've always received nearly infinite rope to be a downright beligerant a@@hole at times but even you are eventually going to run out chances.
  17. max silver
    The reports of his progress have generally been positive in nature, but one thing I haven't heard is how the velocity and stuff have been looking so far. He's one of MLB's nastier relievers with a deep arsenal when the arm is fully healthy but it would be ultra disappointing if he comes back as a shadow of his former self post surgery.
  18. max silver
    I think you'd be better served to use .wOBA and xwOBA in your search vs .BA alone to outline the results.
  19. max silver
    I think Miles is closer to Lauer as a long man type.
  20. max silver
    His fastball is easily his worst pitch so I fully support this move.
  21. max silver
    I think as soon as one of Nance or Mantiply is ready to return Yariel will immediately be DFA'd at that point.
  22. max silver
    He's also the worst hitter in MLB when you sort by minimum of 70 PA. It's impossible to overstate how bad he's been with the bat this season and at this age it's entirely possible he's finished as a major league hitter.
  23. max silver
    I think it would be really easy to make a Kirk/Valenzuela tandem work, at least in the first few weeks after Kirk returns. I think the club is going to carefully monitor Kirk's playing time in the beginning and for the first while they could run more of a 1A/1B tandem like back when Jansen was still around. I think Valenzuela has been showing glimpses of being an impact level of player given how elite the overall defensive package is behind the plate, and keeping Heineman in place of Valenzuela would be a massive downgrade to the club even with Kirk's return.
  24. max silver
    I think it's some of both. Vlad's mechanics look off at the plate and he is swinging at pitches he shouldn't be right now but it looks pretty clear that he's dealing with an underlying issue as well that's affecting his swing.
  25. max silver
    I think Vlad is dealing with a hand or wrist issue presently. In recent games his top hand is flying off of the bat on his follow through and I wouldn't be surprised if the chronic wrist issue is causing him grief presently.
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