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5/6 Gameday Thread: One Is the Loneliest Number
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Post by iakovos11 on May 6, 2019 8:08:28 GMT -5
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radiohix
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Post by radiohix on May 6, 2019 18:33:47 GMT -5
Good to see Howlett back in the lineup
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Post by Addam603 on May 6, 2019 18:46:30 GMT -5
Casas hit a ball that cleared the railroad tracks behind right field. Foul, but he demolished it.
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Post by radiohix on May 6, 2019 20:29:39 GMT -5
Casas hit a ball that cleared the railroad tracks behind right field. Foul, but he demolished it. He did some catch up later by keeping it fair this time and his OPS is nearing.800, cut his Ks too. Pretty good. |
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Post by James Dunne on May 6, 2019 21:30:22 GMT -5
In his last three appearances, Yoan Aybar has 1 1/3 innings, 0 H, 3 ER, 3 K and 7 walks.
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Post by telson13 on May 7, 2019 0:22:39 GMT -5
Casas hit a ball that cleared the railroad tracks behind right field. Foul, but he demolished it. He did some catch up later by keeping it fair this time and his OPS is nearing.800, cut his Ks too. Pretty good. The 30% K rate is unnerving, but the near 10% walk rate encouraging. 19 in the SAL and holding his own, improving lately...I’ll take it. Raw power is incredible, so if the hit tool pans out and he can find a defensive home (3b looks unlikely but...waste of arm or not...1b might be ideal and he could be quite good), he’s a *guy*. Not tobe greedy or anything because I’m ecstatic about Duran, but I’d really like some good news from the system given the MLB situation. |
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Post by telson13 on May 7, 2019 0:24:33 GMT -5
Btw, Greenville’s team BA of .226 and ERA of 4.31 are...suboptimal. Poor Cole Brannen. I’m about ready to hop of that bandwagon.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on May 7, 2019 5:55:23 GMT -5
At .242/.319/.485/.803 Casas' Isop is higher than his BA.
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Post by James Dunne on May 7, 2019 6:11:47 GMT -5
At .242/.319/.485/.803 Casas' Isop is higher than his BA. That's pretty good company! There were seven qualified MLB players who did that in 2018: Mike Trout Khris Davis Joey Gallo Jose Ramirez Trevor Story Matt Carpenter Rhys Hoskins Trout doing it while also hitting .312 is pretty Bondsian. |
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Post by soxfan511 on May 7, 2019 8:18:46 GMT -5
At .242/.319/.485/.803 Casas' Isop is higher than his BA. That's pretty good company! There were seven qualified MLB players who did that in 2018: Mike Trout Khris Davis Joey Gallo Jose Ramirez Trevor Story Matt Carpenter Rhys Hoskins Trout doing it while also hitting .312 is pretty Bondsian. Sorry what is ISOP? |
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Post by James Dunne on May 7, 2019 8:23:10 GMT -5
Isolated Power (also known as Isolated slugging). SLG-AVG, meant to show how much of a players' slugging % is coming from extra-base hits. If a player has a higher Iso than batting average, that means he is averaging over two bases per base hit. Sometimes it's because they have an all-or-nothing swing that launches the ball when it barrels but also results in very few singles (Gallo, Rob Deer), and sometimes it's because a player is just straight-up outstanding (Trout, Bonds). More often it's somewhere in between.
EDIT: Casas's Iso is actually the exact same as his batting average: he has 24 hits and 48 total bases (.24242... rounds to .242, where as .48484 rounds to .485).
Casas and Ockimey (.280, with a .220 batting average) are the only two players in the system with an Iso over .200. Much more surprising is that Rusney Castillo, at .194, is next.
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Post by radiohix on May 7, 2019 9:14:12 GMT -5
In his last 7 games he struck out 4 times in 28 PAs, that's 14.28% and during that span he hit 3 dingers and 3 doubles!
He coocking.
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Post by telson13 on May 7, 2019 12:03:06 GMT -5
Isolated Power (also known as Isolated slugging). SLG-AVG, meant to show how much of a players' slugging % is coming from extra-base hits. If a player has a higher Iso than batting average, that means he is averaging over two bases per base hit. Sometimes it's because they have an all-or-nothing swing that launches the ball when it barrels but also results in very few singles (Gallo, Rob Deer), and sometimes it's because a player is just straight-up outstanding (Trout, Bonds). More often it's somewhere in between. EDIT: Casas's Iso is actually the exact same as his batting average: he has 24 hits and 48 total bases (.24242... rounds to .242, where as .48484 rounds to .485). Casas and Ockimey (.280, with a .220 batting average) are the only two players in the system with an Iso over .200. Much more surprising is that Rusney Castillo, at .194, is next. I still don’t understand why nobody’s called about Rusney. Maybe the price is a *little* steep AAV-wise this year, but if as others have said, he’s under team control when the contract is up...idk, doesn’t that seem like a bargain? He’s still quick and he’s at least avg in CF, certainly looked plus in LF. I’d think he’s a solid bet for 1.5-2 WAR if he’s in CF. And if he’s back to league minimum he’d make a great 4th OF. Edit: his IsoD is op to 0.060, with an acceptable walk rate just under 7%, and his K rate is just under 8%! That’s over 100 PA so those should be stable for the most part. True all-fields and he’s much less grounder-prime than earlier in his career. Somebody give that man a job! |
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Post by jimed14 on May 7, 2019 12:47:18 GMT -5
Isolated Power (also known as Isolated slugging). SLG-AVG, meant to show how much of a players' slugging % is coming from extra-base hits. If a player has a higher Iso than batting average, that means he is averaging over two bases per base hit. Sometimes it's because they have an all-or-nothing swing that launches the ball when it barrels but also results in very few singles (Gallo, Rob Deer), and sometimes it's because a player is just straight-up outstanding (Trout, Bonds). More often it's somewhere in between. EDIT: Casas's Iso is actually the exact same as his batting average: he has 24 hits and 48 total bases (.24242... rounds to .242, where as .48484 rounds to .485). Casas and Ockimey (.280, with a .220 batting average) are the only two players in the system with an Iso over .200. Much more surprising is that Rusney Castillo, at .194, is next. I still don’t understand why nobody’s called about Rusney. Maybe the price is a *little* steep AAV-wise this year, but if as others have said, he’s under team control when the contract is up...idk, doesn’t that seem like a bargain? He’s still quick and he’s at least avg in CF, certainly looked plus in LF. I’d think he’s a solid bet for 1.5-2 WAR if he’s in CF. And if he’s back to league minimum he’d make a great 4th OF. Edit: his IsoD is op to 0.060, with an acceptable walk rate just under 7%, and his K rate is just under 8%! That’s over 100 PA so those should be stable for the most part. True all-fields and he’s much less grounder-prime than earlier in his career. Somebody give that man a job! The Red Sox cannot kick in any salary or else it would be added to their cap. No teams in the league are going to willingly pay a single player more than market rate for any reason. |
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Post by James Dunne on May 7, 2019 13:55:44 GMT -5
Without going down the Castillo rabbit-hole again, I'm reminded of the time Andy Abad hit .295/.393/.477 for Pawtucket from 1997 to 1999 and didn't get a call up, Rule 5'd, traded for cash, nothing. It's really hard to overstate how dumb MLB front offices were pre-Moneyball.
You could almost say they had Abad sense of how to evaluate talent.
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Post by telson13 on May 7, 2019 21:26:40 GMT -5
I still don’t understand why nobody’s called about Rusney. Maybe the price is a *little* steep AAV-wise this year, but if as others have said, he’s under team control when the contract is up...idk, doesn’t that seem like a bargain? He’s still quick and he’s at least avg in CF, certainly looked plus in LF. I’d think he’s a solid bet for 1.5-2 WAR if he’s in CF. And if he’s back to league minimum he’d make a great 4th OF. Edit: his IsoD is op to 0.060, with an acceptable walk rate just under 7%, and his K rate is just under 8%! That’s over 100 PA so those should be stable for the most part. True all-fields and he’s much less grounder-prime than earlier in his career. Somebody give that man a job! The Red Sox cannot kick in any salary or else it would be added to their cap. No teams in the league are going to willingly pay a single player more than market rate for any reason. But if he’s under team control at league minimum after, isn’t that worth it? It’s a front-loaded but probably 2-3 WAR excess deal, at the least. At $12M for one year it’s about twice market for a good 4th OF, but with the additional years of control it’s prob well worth it, especially since his trade value would jump up at league minimum. |
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Post by philsbosoxfan on May 7, 2019 23:23:19 GMT -5
The Red Sox cannot kick in any salary or else it would be added to their cap. No teams in the league are going to willingly pay a single player more than market rate for any reason. But if he’s under team control at league minimum after, isn’t that worth it? It’s a front-loaded but probably 2-3 WAR excess deal, at the least. At $12M for one year it’s about twice market for a good 4th OF, but with the additional years of control it’s prob well worth it, especially since his trade value would jump up at league minimum. It would also jump for the Red Sox and isn't costing the tax line. They would essentially be getting nothing for a potential valuable future asset. |
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