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Post by Underwater Johnson on Aug 29, 2024 23:05:55 GMT -5
Wow Rod Beck threw an absolute cookie and the batter didnt miss. That outfielder may have saved Beck's comeback attempt. Rangers need a team barber. Not Rod Beck but the same dude who walked in two runs vs the Sox a couple weeks ago. Can't remember his name (Chafin?) but Will Flemming said he's an awesome soundbite...
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Aug 29, 2024 23:12:45 GMT -5
Giants placed Thairo Estrada, Taylor Rogers, and Tyler Matzek on waivers Estrada is a really slick fielder at 2B. Kind of crowded at the moment to add a guy like that. Is Rogers worse than all of our current RP options? With the state of the bullpen and budget, I don't know how you quibble over $12m for a chance to make a real improvement.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 29, 2024 23:24:25 GMT -5
Giants placed Thairo Estrada, Taylor Rogers, and Tyler Matzek on waivers Estrada is a really slick fielder at 2B. Kind of crowded at the moment to add a guy like that. Is Rogers worse than all of our current RP options? With the state of the bullpen and budget, I don't know how you quibble over $12m for a chance to make a real improvement. If they're willing to spend significant money on a starter and would still be willing to take on a couple of relievers, I'd like to see them sign Rogers. I think he could be a high leverage lefty they could use, although I read that Bob Melvin didnt trust him to pitch late inning high leverage relief. Dont know if that's a Melvin issue or if Rogers was a lot less impressive than he appears to be? I'd also have to see a list of relievers in the free agency market this offseason as well. The 12 million price tag is a bit steep, but if there arent better options, particularly from the left side and they're willing to take on his salary they should do it. I do think he winds up on a team in teal contention this season, though.
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Post by julyanmorley on Aug 29, 2024 23:48:10 GMT -5
Jack Leiter has made the Rangers rotation going for the rest of the season. A bumpy road to the majors but it seems like he might be pretty good now
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Post by cdj on Aug 30, 2024 0:10:56 GMT -5
Jack Leiter has made the Rangers rotation going for the rest of the season. A bumpy road to the majors but it seems like he might be pretty good now His ERA is 12.83 and he’s a -1.1 bWAR in 4 starts. He has 11 K’s and 10 BB/HBP in 13 innings. 3 homers. Am I missing something? He throws hard and gets good extension but the fastball is getting mutilated Kumar Rocker on the other hand looks like a guy who could have gone 1.1
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Post by James Dunne on Aug 30, 2024 7:53:34 GMT -5
Jack Leiter has made the Rangers rotation going for the rest of the season. A bumpy road to the majors but it seems like he might be pretty good now His ERA is 12.83 and he’s a -1.1 bWAR in 4 starts. He has 11 K’s and 10 BB/HBP in 13 innings. 3 homers. Am I missing something? He throws hard and gets good extension but the fastball is getting mutilated I think you might be missing that almost all of those struggles in the majors were in May. He was recalled Wednesday for the first time since 5/14 and was fine (2 runs in 4 innings, 4 K 2 BB). Since 6/18 at Round Rock he's had a 2.70 ERA and 56 K in 36 2/3 innings. And keeping in mind, the PCL isn't an easy place to pitch, though Round Rock doesn't play like those old 1990s PCL bandboxes. No more pitching in Colorado Springs. Anyway, he'd been pushed very aggressively and I think it's just a situation where he's caught back up with the league. It's been a couple decades, but his dad also struggled with his control for years, didn't really put it together until he was in his 30s. 2nd round pick in 1984 who didn't have his first 1.0 WAR season until 1993 and then broke out in a big way in '95. He looks incredible, he's sitting 98 and mixing in that hybrid slurve thing that is like 87 with curveball break. And no qualifiers on the control either - four walks in 31 2/3. Went five innings on Wednesday for the first time while making his Triple-A debut, 44 of 67 pitches for strikes, 15 of them swinging.
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Post by ixnayexxus on Aug 30, 2024 9:46:25 GMT -5
So, Vinnie Pasquantino just broke his thumb and may miss the rest of the year, including the playoffs
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Post by taiwansox on Aug 30, 2024 10:36:42 GMT -5
So, Vinnie Pasquantino just broke his thumb and may miss the rest of the year, including the playoffs Erceg is also injured wonder how severe that is
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Post by asm18 on Aug 30, 2024 10:42:58 GMT -5
Cyborg Elbow DeGrom with Leiter + Kumar might be more talented than what the Rangers had when they actually won the World Series last year, when their staff essentially consisted of Nate, Montgomery, an injured Scherzer, and about .5 reliable bullpen arms
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Post by julyanmorley on Aug 31, 2024 16:56:47 GMT -5
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Post by asm18 on Aug 31, 2024 17:25:31 GMT -5
Yankees fans were salivating over this guy after a hot stretch to start his career - DID YOU KNOW HE’S FROM COHASSET AND GREW UP A YANKEES FAN
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Post by keninten on Sept 1, 2024 13:49:00 GMT -5
Reid Detmers back up. I know a lot of people were interested in him as a buy low guy.
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Post by ixnayexxus on Sept 1, 2024 13:57:30 GMT -5
Sorry, wrong thread
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 1, 2024 16:09:06 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 1, 2024 18:11:07 GMT -5
Yankee fans are quite upest that Jasson Dominguez was not a September call up and so will not take Verdugo's job
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Post by incandenza on Sept 1, 2024 19:04:58 GMT -5
Yankee fans are quite upest that Jasson Dominguez was not a September call up and so will not take Verdugo's job Hmm, what's going on with Dominguez? Having not paid any attention, I was under the impression that he was crushing it in AAA but he only has a 115 wRC+ in 159 PAs. ZiPS and Steamer have low-90s wRC+ projections. He's still young though... do I dare dream of him being not that great?
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 1, 2024 19:56:50 GMT -5
He had a hot first month and then got hurt for a while so he got to live with the glory of a great small sample triple slash all summer. And now he's been mediocre since he came back.
It would be pretty surprising if he was not a long term starter given the success he's had at a young age but there's nothing that says he can't get complacent and fail to become anything more than that
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 1, 2024 20:05:56 GMT -5
Bill James Online @billjamesonline First of all, thanks to Sean Foreman and Baseball Reference for making this little bit of research possible.
The list of the 10 highest-paid players in baseball this year has 11 players, because of a tie. Those 11 players have a total of 22.0 WAR, or 2.0 per player. .... 45% of that is accounted for by Aaron Judge. The other 10 have a total of 12.2 WAR. Only four of them have more than 1.0 WAR--Judge (9.8), Seager (4.7), Correa (3.4) and Gerrit Cole (1.3). The other 7 range from positive 1.0 to negative 0.5.
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Post by asm18 on Sept 1, 2024 20:52:40 GMT -5
He had a hot first month and then got hurt for a while so he got to live with the glory of a great small sample triple slash all summer. And now he's been mediocre since he came back. It would be pretty surprising if he was not a long term starter given the success he's had at a young age but there's nothing that says he can't get complacent and fail to become anything more than that This is a helpful summary - have seen a lot of NY media freak out that he wasn’t promoted, but you figure Brian Cashman isn’t deliberately keeping him in AAA during Soto’s walk year as the Yankees pursue a #1 seed just to buy a few more days of service time. Like with some of our guys, they might legit think he’s not ready yet
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Post by orion09 on Sept 2, 2024 0:13:40 GMT -5
Bill James Online @billjamesonline First of all, thanks to Sean Foreman and Baseball Reference for making this little bit of research possible. The list of the 10 highest-paid players in baseball this year has 11 players, because of a tie. Those 11 players have a total of 22.0 WAR, or 2.0 per player. .... 45% of that is accounted for by Aaron Judge. The other 10 have a total of 12.2 WAR. Only four of them have more than 1.0 WAR--Judge (9.8), Seager (4.7), Correa (3.4) and Gerrit Cole (1.3). The other 7 range from positive 1.0 to negative 0.5. Ohtani would rebalance things a bit, though I guess he “technically” is not one of the 10 highest-paid players with $2M salary vs $68M deferred salary.
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Post by gerry on Sept 2, 2024 1:21:08 GMT -5
Bill James Online @billjamesonline First of all, thanks to Sean Foreman and Baseball Reference for making this little bit of research possible. The list of the 10 highest-paid players in baseball this year has 11 players, because of a tie. Those 11 players have a total of 22.0 WAR, or 2.0 per player. .... 45% of that is accounted for by Aaron Judge. The other 10 have a total of 12.2 WAR. Only four of them have more than 1.0 WAR--Judge (9.8), Seager (4.7), Correa (3.4) and Gerrit Cole (1.3). The other 7 range from positive 1.0 to negative 0.5. Now THAT’s a cautionary tale!
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Post by wvusox on Sept 2, 2024 9:59:58 GMT -5
Bill James Online @billjamesonline First of all, thanks to Sean Foreman and Baseball Reference for making this little bit of research possible. The list of the 10 highest-paid players in baseball this year has 11 players, because of a tie. Those 11 players have a total of 22.0 WAR, or 2.0 per player. .... 45% of that is accounted for by Aaron Judge. The other 10 have a total of 12.2 WAR. Only four of them have more than 1.0 WAR--Judge (9.8), Seager (4.7), Correa (3.4) and Gerrit Cole (1.3). The other 7 range from positive 1.0 to negative 0.5. Did he ever list the other players?
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Post by julyanmorley on Sept 2, 2024 12:23:59 GMT -5
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Post by keninten on Sept 2, 2024 14:58:12 GMT -5
Can we trade Cora for Murphy? He seems what this team needs.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 2, 2024 15:01:17 GMT -5
Iirc they created that pitching lab more than a year ago. red sox have had theirs less than a year. Edit: that lab opened in 2019.
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