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Trading "Jay Harry" is not a desperation move. If they truly cared about optics of the deadline they'd have swung bigger than a guy who might not be playing baseball in a year or two. They were done with the Staumont experiment and paid nothing to get a guy with a changeup after striking out on all the lefty relievers. We know it's a nothingburger trade, they do too. "Eh, why not" isn't desperation.
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Desperation would be sending out a top prospect for a rental. This move is too low wattage to qualify as "desperate" to me. This move tells me they didn't really give a hoot about the optics of not moving anything at the deadline.
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I learned last night that I would make for a bad pitching coach. After the 2 fastballs up to Merrill with the bases loaded, I thought a changeup tunneled off that fastball location would be a great pitch to either get a strikeout or a weak groundball. Unfortunately Merrill was thinking the same thing! The Twins made a lot of hard outs last night, and just didn't sequence any big hits together. Was pretty disappointed with Willi's at bats with runners on - were it not for Martin's smart decision to run out of the basepath the Twins would have came up empty and one of the fastest players on the team would have had two GIDP. As others have said, I thought Zebby actually pitched pretty well. Limited the Padres to mostly weak contact, but didn't get the chases or whiffs he needed to put them away efficiently. Not so bad for a rookie who was pitching in Cedar Rapids a few months ago. To be honest, I thought this scorecard would have been a lot worse for Zebby.
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My biggest concern is how much contact he'll make at the major league level. Hard to argue with much of anything he's done on the field so far, but that leap is never easy and the strikeouts & whiff rates are a decently sized red flag.
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You are accusing "many others" of something you apparently cannot prove and have no interest of proving. Good enough for me to know not to trust your baseless accusations.
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I've said this before, you seeing one person on an anonymous forum doesn't make it anything more than a fringe opinion. This is a false narrative ("many people are saying") that you clearly fabricated for some reason. I'll let you think about why you felt the need to do so. It's always "I predicted this years ago when everyone else was saying the opposite" with you. The burden of proof is on you when you claim ridiculous things.
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Hate the catcher in the basepath rule for precisely this reason, but I wouldn't be that mad about it today
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Butt clenching advance there
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Yeah I thought that was way gone
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This one's on Rocco
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What's the script, here?
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This is 80% on Alcala throwing junk and giving up 4 runs in like 6 real time minutes.
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"Throwing" isn't warmed up. Wasn't the entire discussion just about how quickly all this happened?
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for which guy that didn't have any time to warmup?
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3rd best reliever blows up in a historically bad fashion, blame Rocco!!
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Alex Kirilloff was done producing on April 13th. He finished April with a .562 OPS after that doubleheader, followed that up with a .613 in May and then .364 before being shutdown in June. Unfortunately he's just never really put it together for more than a month or two at a time.
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Why do you insist on creating false narratives so that you can pat yourself on the back? This narrative is so beaten dead at this point. Just stop.
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After his great couple of months since making a mechanical adjustment to his swing, he's been well worth his contract. He's been a huge boon to the pitching staff all season, has remained one of the very best defensive catchers in the game (by any metric you care to look up), and with an .836 OPS since June (vs Jeffers' .602) he's provided a substantial lift to the lineup as well. Coming up on that $10 million figure by WAR evaluation, as well.
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Really nice outing from Festa, bullpen is starting to pull their weight in the 2nd half. Pretty good team!
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Normally I'd say something like "If it's cheap, who cares throw some money at him and see if he's got anything left". But of course now that the pennies are being pinched more severely, that's probably not true any more. Every dollar has to count, now.
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2 months isn't short term in baseball such that it is unusable. He made a mechanical change and has seen stark improvement in every conceivable stat. Ignoring that is foolish.
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Those guys don't hit like Correa or Lindor, they hit much better than Correa and Lindor - which is precisely the point being made. No 1B with an .800 OPS is getting paid close to 30 mil a year. Rhys Hoskins got 2/$34.
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It would really be nice if y'all read what was written and put words in my comments. I don't want him in the leadoff spot. Is that clear enough? What I am saying is that referring to stats from April & May, or the rest of his career, when you can see with your eyes how well he's performed recently is a silly way to evaluate the current lineup. Would you have said that Joey Gallo should have been leading off in late May when he had the highest OBP of any qualified batter on the team? For some reason I doubt it.... Vazquez has been hitting very well for 2 months now. Sorry if that fact offends you.
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There's no way you're trying to compare a 2 month sample size to a 1 day sample size, right? I'm not defending batting him leadoff, but it's silly to use his full season stats when he changed his swing mechanics in June and has a respectable OBP in a large enough sample size to conclude that he's been much better lately. I don't think it's that crazy to say his production from the last 2 months is far more relevant than his stat line from April & May when considering changing his position in the lineup today.
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It comes from what MLB calls their prospect rankings. https://www.mlb.com/pipeline
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