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Post by grandsalami on Sept 3, 2022 19:52:34 GMT -5
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Post by semsox on Sept 3, 2022 20:04:13 GMT -5
Nooooo. Was planning on attending the WooSox game tomorrow, and was just telling my father-in-law how I'm glad Casas is still playing for them
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 3, 2022 20:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by cdj on Sept 3, 2022 20:34:54 GMT -5
god bless
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 3, 2022 20:36:17 GMT -5
Good for Casas. He's clearly the best 1B in the organization right now. Red Sox could have stolen a year of service time and chose not to.
Can we lock him up for 9 years now?
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Post by sittingstill on Sept 3, 2022 20:52:51 GMT -5
Nooooo. Was planning on attending the WooSox game tomorrow, and was just telling my father-in-law how I'm glad Casas is still playing for them In almost any other situation I'd go to Fenway, but I need to get Mata, so I'll be in Worcester. Hope he has a great game and I can catch him later in the month. |
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Post by Jason on Sept 3, 2022 21:04:11 GMT -5
Worrying about preserving Cordero's option seems a little disingenuous. He'd be one of the first guys I DFA in the off-season to make room for FA and/or Rule 5 additions.
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Post by xdmo on Sept 3, 2022 21:25:35 GMT -5
Buys the Sox a month before they need to get rid of Brasier and Familia. Cora probably likes to have these 2 presence arms available to the team, because performance wise, they don't deserve to be there. |
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Post by alexcorahomevideo on Sept 3, 2022 21:58:50 GMT -5
Thank god.
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Post by manfred on Sept 3, 2022 22:59:31 GMT -5
Oh man… Bello today, Casas tomorrow. What is this strange feeling? Like a little dizziness in the head, a bit of a flutter in the heart… oh! It is *interest*!
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 3, 2022 23:09:19 GMT -5
Worrying about preserving Cordero's option seems a little disingenuous. He'd be one of the first guys I DFA in the off-season to make room for FA and/or Rule 5 additions. Not sure that anyone is being disingenuous? At any rate, it's a completely legitimate reason to weigh in favor of optioning Dalbec rather than Franchy. |
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Post by cdj on Sept 3, 2022 23:50:23 GMT -5
Worrying about preserving Cordero's option seems a little disingenuous. He'd be one of the first guys I DFA in the off-season to make room for FA and/or Rule 5 additions. Wrong, stop talking about your 2023 backup OF king like that |
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Sept 4, 2022 12:22:44 GMT -5
Worrying about preserving Cordero's option seems a little disingenuous. He'd be one of the first guys I DFA in the off-season to make room for FA and/or Rule 5 additions. Wrong, stop talking about your 2023 backup OF king like that If Franchy is the backup OF king in 2023, I hope they have 3 good outfielders who can play 162 games each  |
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Post by wOBA Fett on Sept 4, 2022 12:29:48 GMT -5
Glad it happened, but has anything changed recently with regards to what the front office needing to see prior to calling him up?
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Post by Jason on Sept 4, 2022 12:48:05 GMT -5
Worrying about preserving Cordero's option seems a little disingenuous. He'd be one of the first guys I DFA in the off-season to make room for FA and/or Rule 5 additions. Not sure that anyone is being disingenuous? At any rate, it's a completely legitimate reason to weigh in favor of optioning Dalbec rather than Franchy. Probably a poor word choice on my part, sorry. I just don't see Cordero being in (or at least, should) their plans for next year, so persevering an option shouldn't be an issue for them. In the grand scheme, I get why they did it, but if its for a guy you're inevitably going to dump in a couple months it doesn't help you. Again, maybe they see him as a part of next year's team though. |
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 4, 2022 17:00:44 GMT -5
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Post by incandenza on Sept 4, 2022 22:05:11 GMT -5
Oh this dude is cool.
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Post by bigmarty58 on Sept 5, 2022 9:08:17 GMT -5
The kid looked good in the field and in the box given that he admitted to being nervous playing in his first MLB game. After a long season it sure was good watching a young player who has the talent come up play well and experience this special day. Triston looks like he could pad up and play tight end for the pats, he is a big dude!
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Post by zoot on Sept 5, 2022 10:10:39 GMT -5
As long as he's lying on it and not smoking it. |
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Post by incandenza on Sept 5, 2022 10:27:54 GMT -5
As long as he's lying on it and not smoking it. Either way |
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Post by sittingstill on Sept 5, 2022 19:54:22 GMT -5
I'm just glad he's not sunning Gabe Kapler style in the outfield.
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Post by incandenza on Sept 23, 2022 15:58:29 GMT -5
Hasn't he? He's got 3 home runs in 49 PAs and a 14% walk rate. And I only spotted him a .231 BABIP to get that above average line. That would be bad BABIP luck, even if his "natural" BABIP is on the low side; what he's actually had is off the scale. I'd put it this way: if he can maintain a 14% walk rate and hit 35 homers a year I feel confident that he will stick as a starting first baseman. ADD: This made me curious... Of all qualified hitters this season, only three have a BABIP below .231. The very lowest is .215, and that belongs to... Anthony Rizzo. Who overall is hitting .224/.337/.490, good for a 135 wRC+. That's kinda nuts. ADD2: Casas had a BABIP of exactly .323 both at AA in 2021 and AAA in 2022. He is also a noted line drive machine. Add that history into the strike zone management and flashes of power we've already seen at the major league level and I am more encouraged than not by his early performance.
(Also moved this to a more relevant thread.)
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Post by ericmvan on Sept 25, 2022 13:33:04 GMT -5
Hitting is hard.
Casas is 5 months younger than Pedroia at the same point in his career. You may recall that Pedey was just BA's #77 prospect, versus Casas's #19 (#16 at MLB).
.122 / .173 / .204 (-12 wRC+) -- Pedey in his first 18 G / 53 PA.
.079 / .205 / .236 (24 wRC+) -- Casas in his first 13 G / 45 PA
.500 / .571 / .667 (227 wRC+) -- Pedey is next 14 PA (5 G)
.375 / .653 / 1.125 (339 wRC+) -- Casas in his subsequent 14 PA (3 G)
.179 / .258 / .321 (45 wRC+) -- Pedey the rest of the way. It was apparently during this stretch that Keith Law scouted him and pegged his ceiling as a utility guy, because he "lacked the bat speed to hit major-league pitching."
.275 / .356 / .435 (102 wRC+) -- Pedey combining the last two stretches, 13 G / 45 PA. If he plays every day, Casas's post-breakout stretch will be 14 G.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 25, 2022 15:50:12 GMT -5
......... 14 plate appearances?
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Post by ericmvan on Sept 26, 2022 0:06:13 GMT -5
......... 14 plate appearances? It's what happened. The whole overall picture of Pedroia struggling mightily in his MLB debut but then righting himself by being league-average the rest of the way was actually 3 games he started and two he came off the bench, where he went bonkers, before returning to struggling nearly as bad. I hadn't realized that, and it explains Law's famous dis, which appeared after the 14 killer PA (where he looked good) had made us all say, "this guy will be fine."
Total coincidence that Casas had 14 PA hot when I looked into the comp.
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