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  1. ashbury
    Switch hitting is great, if it provides proficiency against lefty and righty pitchers alike. If not, then it's no better than being a platoon bat. But the Cardinals will be expecting full value for him in trade, making him not much of a value. In 2019, his most recent season with any significant playing time in the minors, he was a force from both sides of the plate. As a major leaguer, he's been less than average against right-handed pitchers. That trend has continued in 2023. If he can't step up his production batting as a lefty, then he's just another platoon bat covering the smaller '"half" of the workload. Another "lefty killer" bat like Garlick and a parade of others, albeit with apparently better defense. If we're confident David Popkins can unlock the missing potential, where the mighty Cardinals braintrust has failed, then sure, trade away valuable assets for him. I'm skeptical.
  2. ashbury
    Pretty good for a 44-year old! Welcome back to the organization, old man. (Hint: yet another mistaken link for a player. What is the process that leads to so much of this?)
  3. ashbury
    Just to be contrary, I am not downvoting this post of yours.
  4. ashbury
    Merely grazing the uniform is sufficient for it to be a tag, so the baserunner may not be aware if a legal tag is made. He has other things on his mind in that instant anyway.
  5. ashbury
    Biblical in its beauty.
  6. ashbury
    Julien has his warts when the bat isn't in his hands, but big time props to him for that 2-out slide at home. A beauty!
  7. ashbury
    Must be the trade deadline version of "he's in the best shape of his life" in spring training.
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  9. ashbury
    Good snark has a point. What's yours on this one?
  10. ashbury
    A few guys have pitched complete-game wins this season. if the lead was 3 or less, award them Saves for the ninth, too? A closer would have gotten that if brought in.
  11. ashbury
    To my surprise, MLB addresses this in their glossary, which I now have bookmarked for future reference. I think this is the second time this week something was right there (the discussion of how Jax didn't get the win when he was nominally the pitcher of record when the team took the lead for good) to settle a question. Kudos to them. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/mutual-option Anyway, both sides must agree. Including a mutual option in a long-term contract strikes me as similar to middle-school BFFs who lose track of each other after they go away to college.
  12. ashbury
    Clickbait, trolling. To-may-to, to-mah-to.
  13. ashbury
    Ask your doctor or pharmacist if Julien at second base is right for you.
  14. ashbury
    They seem to like to deploy Nick Gordon in LF, and he'll be back eventually.
  15. ashbury
    "Mr Cron, I have seen home splits. I know home splits. Home splits are my best friends. Mr Cron, these are no home splits."
  16. ashbury
    Yeah, I thought that exception only applied when the starter failed to go 5. But the link you provided is clear. Still, last night's case was at the very borderline of where that exception is intended. The provided link gave a much worse example as the intent. All in all, I think it's fine, as long as it's consistently applied, and it is an edge case anyway. W-L record for relievers is even less reliable as an indicator than it is for starters in the modern game.
  17. ashbury
    He's young, scrappy and hungry. One thing we know for sure, Xander's not throwing away his shot! Bet he never gets tired of the reference.
  18. ashbury
    The fun of BTV is it tries to think like a GM, taking into account remaining contract cost as well as talent. For a variety of reasons it can be way off. But it's an interesting way to start the thought process. BTV would suggest we could snag Goldschmidt for a motley collection headlined by Blaine Enlow and Junior Severino and Yasser Mercedes. What BTV doesn't/can't take into account, with top-end talent, is the "we've got him and you don't" factor. Yeah, Goldie is in his decline phase and has a considerable salary attached to him. So what? "You want him, or not?" say the Cardinals. "No skin off our nose. We still like him., and we're not writing off 2024 The Yankees have been asking about him, though."
  19. ashbury
    SDI is itself a "bringing together" of several independent metrics. This makes it a worse mishmash than OPS, on the other hand it smooths out the outliers. Anyone who doesn't like SDI will dislike its components even more, and for good and consistent reasons. Defense is cursed with smaller samples sizes than the offense, so it's an unsolvable problem. But the eye test is also an unsolvable problem for different reasons. We just have to muddle through, and accept that consensus will be hard to reach. Or, we can, you know, be at each others' throats about it.
  20. ashbury
    Especially considering SDI is nowadays a portion of how Gold Gloves are awarded. I guess the OP's point is that some players have moved up since earlier rankings this year.
  21. ashbury
    Agreed. The article also gave short shrift to Kirilloff's defense at first base. I hadn't had much chance to see his play until recently, but if Eddie Julien is going to play a lot at second base, I want Alex there at first to save him from as many errors as humanly possible. He saved at least two that I noticed in the past few games, one last night, that I didn't see how was possible without wrenching his back or otherwise hurting himself. Goldie's defense isn't his calling card and I doubt those plays would have been made, likewise with our other 1B candidates. Defense at 1B is of course never a deciding factor, but it should not be summarily dismissed either.
  22. ashbury
    Apparently trading for Goldschmidt will make Austin Martin a major league caliber player by October. Lot of other wishful thinking going on in this analysis. I'm not trading away young pitching for a year and a half of Goldschmidt. I'm not trading Kirilloff even-up for Goldschmidt. The former stands to hit as well as the latter, with better fielding, for less money, for a longer stay. Goldie is a proven major league hitter, and then some, but the economics are all against. This deal is a non-starter IMO.
  23. ashbury
    Can include an opt out.
  24. ashbury
    Might as well just give him the guaranteed fourth year, then.
  25. ashbury
    Great to see our team tough it out for a win that certainly could have gone the other way.
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