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  1. Ray
    Liriano has had a good spring. He might actually make this team now with the Yates injury.
  2. Ray
    Pat Tabler with the first “Soft Hands” reference of the year, at Rowdy Tellez.
  3. Ray
    Stripling sitting 92-93 mph with his fastball, but his curveball is looking ridiculously good. Also showing a nice changeup. Gotten some nice whiffs on it. Not that it matter, but he should’ve only been charged 2 runs.
  4. Ray
    And he got injured hitting as well. The quicker the universal DH gets implemented, the better.
  5. Ray
    I still have Wander Franco way above any other prospect. It's basically Vlad's hit tool, combined with average defense at shortstop (or above average at 2B), and he's a switch hitter. His hit tool will allow him to tap into a ton of his power, albeit it'll be more doubles power than home run power. Although who knows. I feel more comfortable in guys with elite contact developing into 30 HR hitters than guys with much better power tools. I think his ceiling is someone like Jose Ramirez.
  6. Ray
    He may end up being worth it from a $/WAR perspective according to their internal projections, but I don’t think any team would approach close to that number for him. The Royals probably could’ve had him back for much less.
  7. Ray
    I’ll say that he only deserved to get charged with 4 instead of 7 runs, but yeah, he was getting his tits lit. Anthony Kay looked quite good. He was hitting 97 mph on his fastball by the end of his outing. Still some trouble locating, but I’ve been impressed with him this spring. He’s been mixing his pitches real well.
  8. Ray
    Royals just signed Salvador Perez to a 4 year, $82M extension. That seems like a terrible overpay.
  9. Ray
    Casey Mize has looked bad so far, but wasn’t he quite highly touted? Maybe not Strasburg/Cole levels, but I remember him being pretty consensus 1-1.
  10. Ray
    Absolute seed by Jansen
  11. Ray
    That was a pretty nice play by Cavan and pick by Rowdy.
  12. Ray
    It’s gonna be funny when Matz out WARs Taijuan Walker this season. He had a really good second half of 2019 (3.52 ERA over 17 starts) where he made real changes to his pitch mix. And I doubt his fastball gets hammered like it did last season. I’m reasonably confident that he can give us a full season of around a 4 ERA.
  13. Ray
    Reminds me of this
  14. Ray
    With two of our better hitters in Vlad and Kirk on the bench. It’s gonna be a real fun offense to watch all season assuming everyone is healthy. Good luck to the O’s, Tigers, and Mariners pitching staffs lol.
  15. Ray
    Pretty sure he’s calling every game.
  16. Ray
    I am quite glad we didn't trade Kirk for Kluber in 2019.
  17. Ray
    I think they pull the trigger on moving prospects if the return matches their value, but they also probably place an abnormally high valuation on their own prospects because they have more information on them. Overall though, there's not many prospects they've traded away that I would want back except Kendall Williams, and....maybe Griffin Conine? Edward Olivares? For the most part, they've moved the right guys. JB Woodman was a 2nd round pick traded for Aledmys Diaz who then netted us Thornton. He was out of baseball a couple seasons later. Conner Greene was traded for Randal Grichuk. Grichuk/Diaz aren't great, but they ended up providing us more career WAR than Woodman/Greene were ever going to. And now Grichuk is a pretty valuable depth piece on a contending team.
  18. Ray
    I topped out at around 70 mph during my heyday, but thank you for the compliment.
  19. Ray
    Playing the majority of your games against the Orioles, Tigers, and Pirates will do that. Numbers don't matter, but it's encouraging to see Matz and Ray sit 95-96 mph and throw more strikes than not. Even Roark's stuff looks a little crisper with a slight bump in velocity.
  20. Ray
    David Phelps was a strike away from pitching an immaculate inning lol.
  21. Ray
    Thornton: 4K through 2 hitless innings. Sitting 92-93 mph with his fastball.
  22. Ray
    Statcast was tracking it too. He hit 98 mph on his 73rd pitch according to Statcast, so I don’t know if the stadium gun is juiced.
  23. Ray
    I'll say Top 50 is reasonable. There's just a lot of graduations coming in very short order, and I think Manoah will be on the next wave of guys to hit the list. I count 12-15 of the Top 30 on Pipeline that are either on the cusp of graduating or likely will by midseason. If he dominates AA/AAA, then comes up and dominates as a bullpen arm on September, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.
  24. Ray
    2018: 5.1 BB/9, pretty terrible but hard to say if it's this is the norm going forward 2019: 4.3 BB/9, significant improvement, still below average, but he's probably an effective pitcher if he's around this level 2020: 7.8 BB/9, shortened season, limited ramp up, completely revamped deliver that backfired etc. I guess its' a "trend" if you put significant stock into his 2020, but he also bounced back in 2019 and limited walks. So not sure I'm seeing a trend just yet. I'm seeing a guy who had a down year in 2018, bounced back in 2019, and then a combination of extraneous factors and completely botched remodel just makes me want to throw out his 2020 completely as an outlier. If he posts 2018 walk rates this year, then yeah you could make a case there's a real trend, but it's hard to make a logical inference right now. He's never going to be a guy that posts average to below average BB-rates consistently between seasons, and that's fine if that your expectation of him.
  25. Ray
    Ray sitting 96 and touching 98mph with fastball, has 3 K’s and only 1 walk. Not sure why anyone thought he was trash just because of what he displayed during a shortened season with minimal ramp up. In his preceding 140 starts, he posted a 3.96 ERA. You could argue the same thing about guys like Stripling, Roark, and Matz. Most of them have much longer track records of being at least average pitchers than what they did last season. The rotation isn’t great, but it was never “bad”. It’s probably more closer to average than most people realize, and that’s really all you need with this bullpen and offense.
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