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  1. NYCTK
    Brock Stewart on the IL? I'm shocked!
  2. NYCTK
    What has Martin done to earn the chance to settle into 2B? Unless I'm misunderstanding and you mean that even in the minors to settle into the position and see if he can become a good defender there. Honestly, his best case scenario seems to be a 250/330/350 hitter with average 2B defense. He has zero upside. He's a significantly worse Luis Guillorme. I want to see Julien, Lee, or Eeles beat him out.
  3. NYCTK
    Plus, plenty of people are able to disguise their real personality or their ugliness under a persona. We were all of us convinced Puckett was a really good dude. And we were all proven to be wrong. Impossible to know, so fruitless to speculate.
  4. NYCTK
    This is the thing that keeps getting me. People here keep repeating this idea that he's still learning the position. As if he's brand new to baseball and never set foot in the outfield in his life. You either are instinctually good at certain things or you aren't. You can't LEARN to get better jumps on balls after a certain point. Another 200 innings in CF isn't gonna cause something to click. Jackson Merrill had never played the OF as a professional before last Spring Training, and because he's a great ballplayer with great instincts and Baseball IQ, he was almost immediately a great defender out there. Austin Martin is not Jackson Merrill. Sad thing, he's probably not even Payton Eeles. Only reason he's on the 40 man roster is because he was a 1st round draft pick and was the return of a higher profile trade.
  5. NYCTK
    Lol. Jfc. If this is a serious opinion and not just a manager talking to reporters, Rocco should be fired immediately. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say it's just a manager hyping up one of his players. But Austin Martin has amongst the worst instincts in the OF I've ever seen. Is Rocco seriously dumb enough just to be tricked by just athleticism?
  6. NYCTK
    I just don't buy into a focus on "situational" hitting at all. The 125 milliseconds these players have to react should be instinct from their 10-30 years of swinging the bat. Plus, the Twins DID shorten their swing and focus more on contact in 2 strike situations, if this graph is to be believed.
  7. NYCTK
    Santana, Farmer, Solano, Taylor. Focus on the positives!
  8. NYCTK
    Don't forget my boy Bader, gonna carry this team for stretches. 82-80 - Call your bookie.
  9. NYCTK
    As has been said regarding baseball since at least 1888 - Hope Springs Eternal. No room for negativity until May 1st. That being said... ...jk.
  10. NYCTK
    You know who the "best" team was in situational hitting with the tying run on-base or at the plate with two strikes? The White Sox. Focusing on "situational hitting" doesn't really do anything. I expect zero actual changes in outcomes even if their "philosophy" has changed.
  11. NYCTK
    Only thing that would get me a bit excited is seeing hit something like .342/.468/.526 in with a sub 25% K rate in Spring Training. Just like he did last Spring Training...
  12. NYCTK
    You're assuming the Pohalds have any real business acumen and/or long-term thinking/planning just because they're rich and "successful". The reason they allegedly are looking to sell the team is because all their other businesses are struggling. Look at their estimated net worth versus the value of the Twins and then look at that ratio towards the end of Carl's life. Carl was a ruthless POS, which is why he was "successful" in business. There's nothing to suggest his nepo baby failsons have any real business acumen other than the fact that they have an important job that was handed to them.
  13. NYCTK
    They didn't even sell out their playoff games in 23 and attendance then fell. I have to agree that the fan base is shriveling and the Pohlad's are largely the reason. They could win 90 games this year and wouldn't sell out their playoff games until they get to the ALCS.
  14. NYCTK
    A billionaire worried about their wealth when the billionaire president that's using the world's richest billionaire to cut money for the poor to propose tax cuts for billionaires, well, they might be an idiot. But as we all know, plenty of billionaires are.
  15. NYCTK
    You forgot the humor part of satire.
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    Or maybe #34.
  18. NYCTK
    That's one good metric. OAA is another, but the one that I find so fascinating, probably since it's so easily understood, is outfield jump from Statcast. Thank you to which ever TD author wrote about that metric recently. Of the 180 OF last year that met a certain minimum, Wallner covered more ground than only 2 other outfielders. And that is consistent with 2023, where he was 177th out of 181. He must be a bit better at the catch point than some of those comparable outfielders, because he's not as quite bad as Yordan Alvarez or Kyle Schwarber. But he's definitely not covering much ground out there. Feet covered in 3 seconds: Bader, Harrison 35.8 Buxton, Byron 35.8 Castro, Willi 35.1 Kepler, Max 33.3 Margot, Manuel 33.2 Martin, Austin 32.3 Larnach, Trevor 31.7 Kirilloff, Alex 31.4 Wallner, Matt 29.2
  19. NYCTK
    The assumed starting defense is really looking spotty. Let's not forget Buxton has lost a few steps and is now merely a good CF, bookended by an atrocious Wallner and a barely adequate Larnach.
  20. NYCTK
    Helps that Kepler played good defense. If either Larnach or Wallner contributed defensively, they'd get a lot more play against LHP too. Plus, Larnach hasn't hit LHP since 2019. Wallner should get a chance, but Larnach? Literally couldn't give less of a ****. No. The shopped for a backup CF for when Buxton is injured half the season, that just so happens to bat right handed.
  21. NYCTK
    Him playing SS is a bit of a stretch, but I'd say better than Castro and just based on his performance last season, a bit better than Lee. His hitting was absolutely a fluke and returned to normal in the end of the season and postseason. But he's still a very valuable middle infielder with good hands and a very high baseball IQ, not to mention the single best clubhouse guy in all of baseball last season. He was allegedly looking for a two year deal, but wasn't able to find one. Just this weekend he used the Boras journalist to print a story to all but beg to come back to the Mets. Don't think that's happening unless he's willing to settle for a split contract. He's an immensely likable player so I hope he finds something soon.
  22. NYCTK
    It's not Bader's fault that Buxton is going to go down for half the season. Unless it is, but that would make for a really good 30 for 30 documentary.
  23. NYCTK
    That'll happen when your starting CF perpetually misses half the season and the second best outfielder forgot how to approach a major league at bat and struck out in half his PAs to start the year. Harrison Bader will likely play 100+ games, and have 350-400 PAs. None of that changes the fact that he's almost certainly starting the season as the 4th OF.
  24. NYCTK
    Just because you guys don't understand how much a major league 4th OF works, doesn't mean Bader isn't a 4th OF. The Yankees 4th OF, with probably the best OF in all of baseball last year, still played 69 games in the OF.
  25. NYCTK
    He's clearly talking defensively.
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