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Franchy Cordero, the enigma
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Post by manfred on Jun 15, 2021 20:54:18 GMT -5
How about 129 games and 379 ABs? .222/.285/.393? That actually seems pretty reasonable to me. Earlier in the season you'd referenced Renfroe's last 100+ games or so to make a similar point... True. I guess that invalidates all past performance as a measure.
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Jun 15, 2021 21:43:06 GMT -5
now .406
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Post by sportshubby on Jun 15, 2021 21:51:22 GMT -5
It seems that there is little in-between on this forum regarding Franchy. That said, I think that is where I am at on him. I don't believe that he is going to turn into a regular all star, but I also belive he is better than what 90ish at bats over 50 games says he is. I think if he gets another shot to play, and play almost everyday, that he COULD outplay some of his teammates not batting 2-5. I don't know if he gets that shot, but he is easier to add than say Duran as Franchy is on the 40 already. How about 129 games and 379 ABs? .222/.285/.393? That actually seems pretty reasonable to me. Just trying to present some reason for optimism. I don't know that the 129 games were in any significant run, I think there were injuries or poor play that broke that up as well. Sorry, not able to look it up at rhe moment. But assuming that he was acquired by the Sox as a change of scenery, we think we can fix him kind of deal, the focus is maybe more on what he has done in this org. Anyways, like him or not, we should all be rooting for him to get back to the bigs and do something valuable. If for no other reason than to recoup value in trade.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jun 15, 2021 22:34:47 GMT -5
A perfect OBP day - 3 doubles and two walks in five at-bats: 1.000 OBP, 2.000 SLG.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 16, 2021 0:23:07 GMT -5
Earlier in the season you'd referenced Renfroe's last 100+ games or so to make a similar point... True. I guess that invalidates all past performance as a measure. I think the point is that you're overly willing to cling onto any scrap of "evidence" that supports your original claim so you don't have to let your opinions change for fear of being wrong. Which, no offense, you're not sporting the best hit rate right now. I'm not saying Franchy is all of a sudden an All-Star but you keep beating the same dead horses rather than taking in new information and letting it change your perspective. That's me trying to put it as constructively as possible, but honestly it's extremely frustrating because it feels like you hijack threads with the same repetitive stuff every day.
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Post by ericmvan on Jun 16, 2021 3:31:09 GMT -5
There's a general statistical principle involved here that many people, including many pro sportswriters, don't get.
Trot Nixon was hitting .245 / .324 / .359 at the All-Star break his rookie season. He looked to most people like a huge disappointment. And they were pleasantly shocked when he hit .296 / .389 / .587 after the break. To this day you'll see references to how he struggled for a full half-year. I've never read another version of what happened.
Trot had gone 1/6 in a 2-game series against the Yankees on May 18 and 19 to drop his season line to .212 / .227 / .329, in 95 PA. At that point the media pretty much had him labeled a bust. When was he going to start hitting?
I wanted to hurl epithets and objects. Because Trot at that point had hit .313 / .382 / .458 in 58 PA starting April 28th. He had started the season going 3/37 with 2 BB and a homer. And after that he was essentially fine. After that he was the top prospect we'd been dreaming on. At every point in the season starting in early May you would get a dramatically better projection for the rest of his season if you simply tossed out the first 39 PA.
But starting 3 for 37 puts you in such a deep statistical hole that your overall batting line will not look good even after more than two months of consistent good hitting. At the time Trot was universally considered to have struggled through his entire first half, he had actually hit .284 / .367 / .406 in his last 181 PA. He added power in the second half to an already very solid performance.
Someone is not "struggling" just because he has a lousy batting line for the season. Over the last week there have still been calls to send Dalbec down ... when he's now .318 / .375 / .727 in his last 6 games (24 PA).
So yes, what Franchy has done since early May, when he started smoking the ball, can be more predictive than his career line. It happens with some frequency.
Here's a nice little example.
.251 /.300 / .387 in 975 PA.
Change of scenery. New team acquired him because they think he's a different player.
.200 / .256 / .286 in his first 39 PA.
.417 / .500 / 1.000 in his next 14.
What do you expect going forward? Yes, manfred, I'm asking you. You've got to mock the notion that the 14 PA could be more informative than the preceding 1,014, correct? Especially since his first 39 PA with the new club were worse than before. You're heaping scorn, right? It's an extra 1,000 PA! Any shmoe can get hot for 14.
(Yes, those numbers were not planned!)
You'd have to be delusional to think the 14 PA told you anything about this mediocrity, right?
I think you know the answer.
3,986 PA. .302 / .369 / .568.
No, it's not a perfect comp. But Franchy hits the ball harder.
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Post by jimoh on Jun 16, 2021 5:14:47 GMT -5
There's a general statistical principle involved here that many people, including many pro sportswriters, don't get.
Trot Nixon was hitting .245 / .324 / .359 at the All-Star break his rookie season. He looked to most people like a huge disappointment. And they were pleasantly shocked when he hit .296 / .389 / .587 after the break. To this day you'll see references to how he struggled for a full half-year. I've never read another version of what happened.
Trot had gone 1/6 in a 2-game series against the Yankees on May 18 and 19 to drop his season line to .212 / .227 / .329, in 95 PA. At that point the media pretty much had him labeled a bust. When was he going to start hitting? [..] Cool story. It must have been so hard for you being the only smart person following the Red Sox. But I just don't remember it that way at all. Herald: Baseball - Nixon's the one for improvement May 17, 1999 | Boston Herald (MA) Author/Byline: STEVE BUCKLEY | Section: Sports TORONTO - On April 18, Trot Nixon went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts in a 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Devils Rays at Fenway Park. By the end of the day, the fans were hooting on Nixon, whose average had plummeted to .080. The fans' nasty message was simple and to the point: Some first-round draft pick this kid turned out to be. Not to worry, came words of assurance from Red Sox manager Jimy Williams after the game. "He's going to be fine," said Williams that day. "He's going to look back on this in a couple of months and laugh." Well, we're at roughly the halfway point of Williams' prediction. Is Trot Nixon laughing? "I'm not laughing," Nixon said yesterday, after the Sox dropped a painful 9-6 decision to the Toronto Blue Jays at SkyDome. "At the same time, I'm feeling a whole lot better about myself than I did a month ago." While it would be a stretch to suggest that Nixon has solved all his problems, at least now he has a clue. He had two hits against the Blue Jays yesterday, with an RBI single in the fifth inning and a double to left in the seventh. And with little fanfare, Nixon has an eight-game hitting streak going, during which he is 11-for-30, a .367 clip. Nixon's overall average is .221, and, no, that's not something his folks are hanging on the refrigerator door for company to see. But it's a lot better than .080. "He's played well," said Williams. "He's been doing a lot of work with (hitting coach) Jimmy Rice, and it's starting to pay off for him. He's been putting in the effort, I'll tell you that." If Williams' praise of Nixon was a tad measured, consider that he was asked his opinion of the kid only minutes after Kip Gross had served up a three-run, ninth-inning bomb to the Blue Jays' Carlos Delgado. On a better day, Williams might have recited poetry about Nixon; on this day, "He's played well," was good enough. "I'm feeling more relaxed when I'm in the batter's box," Nixon said. "I've been working to cut down all that movement when I'm hitting. Before, I was shifting my legs a lot and moving my hands up and down." He has a good teacher in Rice, who in his day was that rare power hitter who had good mechanics. But there's more to hitting than the actual swing, and Nixon is also working on another aspect of his game: His head. Nixon, remember, started the season believing that every game was the seventh game of the World Series. He's still something of a panic sandwich every time he approaches the dish, but he's getting better at controlling his emotions. Let's just say that these days he approaches every game as though it's the game of the World Series. "I'm starting to realize that my first at-bat in a game shouldn't affect every other at-bat I have in a game," he said. "If I don't get a hit in my first at-bat, I'm usually going to have three or four other chances to do something. If I keep thinking that way, I'll put less pressure on myself." It worked yesterday. After going down swinging in his first at-bat against Toronto starter Kelvim Escobar, Nixon had hits in his next two at-bats.
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Post by jimoh on Jun 16, 2021 5:16:53 GMT -5
Herald sept 1999 BASEBALL - Wait finally pays off for Nixon
September 16, 1999 | Boston Herald (MA) Author/Byline: TONY MASSAROTTI | Section: SPT 497 Words Read News Document ReadSpeaker webReader: Read News Document
Focus CLEVELAND - ... Trot Nixon is finally in the big leagues, and he has been showing signs lately that he may be for real.
... Nixon opened the season 2-for-33, but has hit .307 since.
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Post by jimoh on Jun 16, 2021 5:19:26 GMT -5
Herald July 26 "Nixon has been seeing the ball better for quite some time, though he has not been consistent at the plate until recently. Still, after batting just .105 in the month of April - Nixon was actually batting .061 at one point after opening the season 2-for-33 - he is hitting an eye-opening .321 since the calendar turned to May."
Basically, Eric, we all saw what you are claiming only you saw.
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Post by tyler3 on Jun 16, 2021 9:09:01 GMT -5
I guess my question is, do you ever give the guy another chance? If so, wouldn’t now be the time to do it?
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 16, 2021 9:24:26 GMT -5
I guess my question is, do you ever give the guy another chance? If so, wouldnât now be the time to do it? At this point, if they're going to do it, is should be at Kiké Hernandez's expense. They should bring up Franchy and platoon him with Hernandez with Verdugo playing CF when Franchy is in LF and Verdugo shifting to LF when Hernandez plays CF. If they're going to do it, they should do it soon because it's just a matter of time before Duran should get the call. He should eventually be the CF, at least against righties. It's kind of tricky to fit Franchy in, because the biggest factor is that Renfroe was expected to be a platoon bat, but instead has continued to play well enough to be a regular, even against righties. So you have Verdugo and now surprisingly Renfroe who should be every day players in the outfield and only one spot for two LH batters in Cordero and Duran. My guess is that unless there's an injury we don't see Franchy and that they'll go as is until July and bring up Duran. And we'll probably only see Franchy when rosters expand or if there's an injury. Which is too bad. Cordero was terrible with the Sox, but as always he does just enough to make you see if he can reach his ceiling. The bigger surprise to me is the continued good playing and hanging in against righties by Renfroe. That's what's really hurting Franchy's chances at this point.
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Post by voiceofreason on Jun 16, 2021 9:50:38 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind seeing the Sox give Franchy another chance right now. Put him in left and Verdugo in center, Kiki needs to go back to being a utility player.
Who has the bigger upside to contributing at the plate this year? Franchy or Kiki, some can argue either way but I see what Kiki is and always has been. Franchy on the other hand is hitting 406 493 797 1290 and offers at least a chance of more punch in a lineup that could use it.
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Post by retiredvendor on Jun 16, 2021 12:04:50 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind seeing the Sox give Franchy another chance right now. Put him in left and Verdugo in center, Kiki needs to go back to being a utility player. Who has the bigger upside to contributing at the plate this year? Franchy or Kiki, some can argue either way but I see what Kiki is and always has been. Franchy on the other hand is hitting 406 493 797 1290 and offers at least a chance of more punch in a lineup that could use it. Given his general lack of at bats across the last few years, I’d actually prefer that he stays in AAA for awhile. It’d be great to see Franchy get some sustained success before he comes back. If and when he returns, he’s not likely an everyday guy, so I would rather he builds a lot of momentum in Worcester before he gets back here to more sporadic opportunities.
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Jun 16, 2021 12:32:50 GMT -5
True. I guess that invalidates all past performance as a measure. I think the point is that you're overly willing to cling onto any scrap of "evidence" that supports your original claim so you don't have to let your opinions change for fear of being wrong. Which, no offense, you're not sporting the best hit rate right now. I'm not saying Franchy is all of a sudden an All-Star but you keep beating the same dead horses rather than taking in new information and letting it change your perspective. That's me trying to put it as constructively as possible, but honestly it's extremely frustrating because it feels like you hijack threads with the same repetitive stuff every day. In all fairness he's using his career line that includes this year's numbers. So he's certainly taking in new information.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 16, 2021 12:37:45 GMT -5
Herald July 26 "Nixon has been seeing the ball better for quite some time, though he has not been consistent at the plate until recently. Still, after batting just .105 in the month of April - Nixon was actually batting .061 at one point after opening the season 2-for-33 - he is hitting an eye-opening .321 since the calendar turned to May." Basically, Eric, we all saw what you are claiming only you saw. Jimoh, you seem to be fighting your ongoing battle against ericmvan's know-it-allness, but it seems misplaced to me here. The fact that people corrected their views after the fact doesn't disprove eric's point about perceptions before the all star break, so your last two quotes are beside the point. And your first quote includes this paragraph: ...which, if anything, confirms that Nixon was still widely seen as struggling as of May 17. On top of which eric said this is a statistical point "that many people, including many pro sportswriters, don't get," not that no one gets it, so quotes of individual sportswriters who do get it don't disprove the claim.
The point here isn't just academic; it's exactly the issue I and others pointed out in that Josh Taylor thread - people really do tend to be slow to adjust to performance when perceptions are skewed by early season stats. And it's directly germane to the Franchy discussion because if you knew nothing about where Franchy was playing or the overall narrative about his performance you'd look at his stats, and you would indeed see that he appeared to flip a switch and go from being completely lost to being a Murderer of Baseballs - and that that switched flipped on May 15th, over a week before he was sent down to Worcester. And in his very last game with Boston he hit a Very Notable Dinger. Not after he went down to AAA - when he was still in Boston.
There's plenty of room to argue about whether that's just a SSS thing, but it's an important chunk of data in considering the question of how eager we ought to be to give Franchy a second chance in Boston. In my opinion, it's very much in the team's interest to give him that chance, and given Santana's struggles, the sooner the better.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 16, 2021 12:46:42 GMT -5
I guess my question is, do you ever give the guy another chance? If so, wouldnât now be the time to do it? At this point, if they're going to do it, is should be at Kiké Hernandez's expense. They should bring up Franchy and platoon him with Hernandez with Verdugo playing CF when Franchy is in LF and Verdugo shifting to LF when Hernandez plays CF. If they're going to do it, they should do it soon because it's just a matter of time before Duran should get the call. He should eventually be the CF, at least against righties. It's kind of tricky to fit Franchy in, because the biggest factor is that Renfroe was expected to be a platoon bat, but instead has continued to play well enough to be a regular, even against righties.I dunno, Renfroe still seems like a platoon bat to me. He has a .642 OPS and 70 wRC+ against righties this season, and .708/85 for his career.
But I also have no problem with Franchy taking ABs away from Marwin or Arroyo (at least until Franchy proves again that he's still hopeless), and Santana seems like he might need the Triple-A tune-up more than Franchy at this point.
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Post by voiceofreason on Jun 16, 2021 13:46:37 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind seeing the Sox give Franchy another chance right now. Put him in left and Verdugo in center, Kiki needs to go back to being a utility player. Who has the bigger upside to contributing at the plate this year? Franchy or Kiki, some can argue either way but I see what Kiki is and always has been. Franchy on the other hand is hitting 406 493 797 1290 and offers at least a chance of more punch in a lineup that could use it. Given his general lack of at bats across the last few years, I’d actually prefer that he stays in AAA for awhile. It’d be great to see Franchy get some sustained success before he comes back. If and when he returns, he’s not likely an everyday guy, so I would rather he builds a lot of momentum in Worcester before he gets back here to more sporadic opportunities. A little more time in AAA isn't a bad idea but when he is brought up he should be able to get plenty of at bats. Between making Kiki a utility player and subbing for Renfroe against tough right handed pitching that should be close to starting. In the last 15 games Kiki has been on base 12 times and is batting 155 with an OBP of 207, that is a terrible SSS but he has been bad all season so it isn't a matter of Franchy needing more time as it is the Sox need to get Kiki out of the lineup. I am usually the last guy to be critical of a player but Kiki is making JBJ look like a SS winner at this point. Cora has been way too loyal with him and he is a blackhole that needs fixing.
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Post by cdj on Jun 16, 2021 13:53:49 GMT -5
Kikè has not been horrible all year and he absolutely does not make the guy hitting significantly worse than him look like a silver slugger
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Post by manfred on Jun 16, 2021 13:56:14 GMT -5
At this point, if they're going to do it, is should be at Kiké Hernandez's expense. They should bring up Franchy and platoon him with Hernandez with Verdugo playing CF when Franchy is in LF and Verdugo shifting to LF when Hernandez plays CF. If they're going to do it, they should do it soon because it's just a matter of time before Duran should get the call. He should eventually be the CF, at least against righties. It's kind of tricky to fit Franchy in, because the biggest factor is that Renfroe was expected to be a platoon bat, but instead has continued to play well enough to be a regular, even against righties.I dunno, Renfroe still seems like a platoon bat to me. He has a .642 OPS and 70 wRC+ against righties this season, and .708/85 for his career.
But I also have no problem with Franchy taking ABs away from Marwin or Arroyo (at least until Franchy proves again that he's still hopeless), and Santana seems like he might need the Triple-A tune-up more than Franchy at this point.
Danny Santana is a good reason to be a bit suspicious of the AAA numbers. Yes, he only played 8 games, but he was .433/.471/.833 — which has not translated to success in Boston. The gap between the two levels appears to be massive. This doesn’t mean guys can’t make the transition, but it is a concern. It is also why I am not mad about Duran taking more time. I’d rather wait and have him definitely be ready than have him rush and flop.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 16, 2021 13:57:10 GMT -5
At this point, if they're going to do it, is should be at Kiké Hernandez's expense. They should bring up Franchy and platoon him with Hernandez with Verdugo playing CF when Franchy is in LF and Verdugo shifting to LF when Hernandez plays CF. If they're going to do it, they should do it soon because it's just a matter of time before Duran should get the call. He should eventually be the CF, at least against righties. It's kind of tricky to fit Franchy in, because the biggest factor is that Renfroe was expected to be a platoon bat, but instead has continued to play well enough to be a regular, even against righties.I dunno, Renfroe still seems like a platoon bat to me. He has a .642 OPS and 70 wRC+ against righties this season, and .708/85 for his career. But I also have no problem with Franchy taking ABs away from Marwin or Arroyo (at least until Franchy proves again that he's still hopeless), and Santana seems like he might need the Triple-A tune-up more than Franchy at this point.
You could well be correct. It could be my imagination but it seems outside of the big 4, only Renfroe has been consistently contributing to the offense and I know the Sox aren't facing lefties each day, so I was under the assumption that Renfroe has been handling righties well enough. Maybe the numbers you cited have been rising against righties or maybe he's just murdering lefties and I haven't noticed his deficiencies against righties. Either way, he has been pretty damn good defensively each day. I think we can agree that Duran is close to forcing the issue and I can agree that Franchy is earning another look. That said, I'm not as confident that his tears carries over to the majors. Yeah, he had that bomb against Philly but he's done that before. He's hit mammoth HRs before. That said, I think he should get another look, especially now that I look at the trade package in its entirety and come to the conclusion that Franchy is more than a throw-in lottery ticket. The issue (a good issue) is that it's tough to get two LH outfield only ABs into the mix (too bad one of these guys can't play 1b). While I have some reservations about Franchy's performance translating to Boston, I think his chance of reaching a ceiling as opposed to being what he has always been is greater than Kiké Hernandez amounting to anything other than a guy who can handle lefties well. Cora has to 1) get Kiké the hell out of the leadoff spot against righties and 2) stop playing him against righties. Either Duran or Franchy can make that so. Unfortunately Danny Santana has failed to do so. So if it's both guys then they not only have to relegate Kiké to the short end of a platoon, but they would have to do similar with Renfroe because if they don't one of these lefties is going to spend too much time on the bench and at this point both Duran and Franchy need regular ABs, particularly against righties. While they're at it, maybe they can finally limit Marwin Gonzalez ABs because every time I look I see his name in the lineup and wish I didn't Kiké and Marwin and even Santana are good bench options, but playing as much as they do, they are badly overexposed.
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Post by voiceofreason on Jun 16, 2021 14:22:31 GMT -5
Kikè has not been horrible all year and he absolutely does not make the guy hitting significantly worse than him look like a silver slugger , not even close and sure this year it is a matter of them both being terrible. But how is a slash line of 224 279 650 not considered horrible?Should he really be in the lineup every night with his slash line? I don't think so.
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Post by cdj on Jun 16, 2021 14:28:28 GMT -5
Kikè has not been horrible all year and he absolutely does not make the guy hitting significantly worse than him look like a silver slugger , not even close and sure this year it is a matter of them both being terrible. But how is a slash line of 224 279 650 not considered horrible?Should he really be in the lineup every night with his slash line? I don't think so. You said he’s been bad all season. He was OPSing near .770 less than a month ago after having an unlucky stretch to start the year. It’s been a terrible stretch lately. It doesn’t make what you said true though And also that slash line is way better than what JBJ is putting up. Kikè is still close to about 1 WAR. JBJ is close to -0.5
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Post by incandenza on Jun 16, 2021 14:38:51 GMT -5
I dunno, Renfroe still seems like a platoon bat to me. He has a .642 OPS and 70 wRC+ against righties this season, and .708/85 for his career.
But I also have no problem with Franchy taking ABs away from Marwin or Arroyo (at least until Franchy proves again that he's still hopeless), and Santana seems like he might need the Triple-A tune-up more than Franchy at this point.
Danny Santana is a good reason to be a bit suspicious of the AAA numbers. Yes, he only played 8 games, but he was .433/.471/.833 — which has not translated to success in Boston. The gap between the two levels appears to be massive. This doesn’t mean guys can’t make the transition, but it is a concern. It is also why I am not mad about Duran taking more time. I’d rather wait and have him definitely be ready than have him rush and flop. Funnily enough, Santana also flipped a switch - in his case, from great to awful - but for him it came a week after he arrived in Boston. Remember his great start? He had an OPS of 1.139 in his first 5 games.
He's been awful since... well, since 5/27, the day Franchy was sent to Worcester. (Is there some sort of law of conservation of atrocious outfielders for this team? There Must Always Be One?)
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Post by jimoh on Jun 16, 2021 14:43:37 GMT -5
Herald July 26 "Nixon has been seeing the ball better for quite some time, though he has not been consistent at the plate until recently. Still, after batting just .105 in the month of April - Nixon was actually batting .061 at one point after opening the season 2-for-33 - he is hitting an eye-opening .321 since the calendar turned to May." Basically, Eric, we all saw what you are claiming only you saw. Jimoh, you seem to be fighting your ongoing battle against ericmvan's know-it-allness, but it seems misplaced to me here. The fact that people corrected their views after the fact doesn't disprove eric's point about perceptions before the all star break, so your last two quotes are beside the point. And your first quote includes this paragraph: ...which, if anything, confirms that Nixon was still widely seen as struggling as of May 17. On top of which eric said this is a statistical point "that many people, including many pro sportswriters, don't get," not that no one gets it, so quotes of individual sportswriters who do get it don't disprove the claim.
The point here isn't just academic; it's exactly the issue I and others pointed out in that Josh Taylor thread - people really do tend to be slow to adjust to performance when perceptions are skewed by early season stats. And it's directly germane to the Franchy discussion because if you knew nothing about where Franchy was playing or the overall narrative about his performance you'd look at his stats, and you would indeed see that he appeared to flip a switch and go from being completely lost to being a Murderer of Baseballs - and that that switched flipped on May 15th, over a week before he was sent down to Worcester. And in his very last game with Boston he hit a Very Notable Dinger. Not after he went down to AAA - when he was still in Boston.
There's plenty of room to argue about whether that's just a SSS thing, but it's an important chunk of data in considering the question of how eager we ought to be to give Franchy a second chance in Boston. In my opinion, it's very much in the team's interest to give him that chance, and given Santana's struggles, the sooner the better.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 16, 2021 14:43:40 GMT -5
Should he really be in the lineup every night with his slash line? I don't think so. You said heâs been bad all season. He was OPSing near .770 less than a month ago after having an unlucky stretch to start the year. Itâs been a terrible stretch lately. It doesnât make what you said true though And also that slash line is way better than what JBJ is putting up. Kikè is still close to about 1 WAR. JBJ is close to -0.5 The thing is that Kiké Hernandez is what he is. Yes he was hitting well early when he had his last hot streak. It made his overall numbers look good, but then he slumped because his numbers were simply too good for what he has historically done. Kind of how Perez has gotten whacked around because he's not a guy who's going to have an ERA in the low 3s. He's going to be in the mid 4s when all is said and one. Likewise when all is said and done Hernandez will be about 90 OPS+ which will be made up of good numbers against southpaws and bad numbers against righties. And yes, JBJ has been horrendous this season. I was quite fine with moving on from him. Wished the Sox could have cashed him in last August, but maybe the return just wasn't worth it. I'll always wonder about that.
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