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Post by jimoh on Mar 21, 2024 18:32:55 GMT -5
Nice, but risky, catch in LCF by Duran. Tough on the left shin/knee:
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Post by jimoh on Mar 21, 2024 13:11:21 GMT -5
I would not at all be upset with a sort of 1A and 1B scenario similar to what the Sox have now with Anthony and Mayer. If so, it'd be a heck of a development for the Sox and the farm. Cespedes bat does sound really impressive for an 18 year old with some extra projection left on their body. I could see a season or 2, 3 or 4 years down the road where the lineup is all home grown. Odds are against it, but at least you can reasonably imagine it anyways. Anthony LF Grissom 2B Devers DH Casas 1B Cespedes 3B Mayer SS Bleis RF Rafaela CF Teel C Put in Yorke in 2b and you have nine home-grown players, rather than eight plus a guy acquired in trade in Grissom.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 21, 2024 6:10:44 GMT -5
Rafito?
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Post by jimoh on Mar 20, 2024 16:40:49 GMT -5
There are places where you can read about what Curt Schilling is like. No reason for this site to be one of them.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 20, 2024 8:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by jimoh on Mar 20, 2024 6:03:06 GMT -5
After 200 times of misspelling Ceddanne I promise I will eventually get it I've found it hard. I have to tell myself, "two double consonants in the first name, none in the last."
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Post by jimoh on Mar 19, 2024 9:20:01 GMT -5
As someone who places value on analytics, I always hated that argument from people; many have deemed it nigh impossible that certain hitters are just better at finding holes and seeing opportunities that arise. Is this true? It doesn’t feel true to me. In my experience the widely accepted truth is that some players will always run higher BABIPs. Especially for Rod Carew. He was the closest to being able to hit the ball wherever he wanted, like a tennis player.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 18, 2024 20:17:34 GMT -5
Tweet with phone vids of both at-bats, I think:
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Post by jimoh on Mar 18, 2024 18:53:09 GMT -5
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Post by jimoh on Mar 18, 2024 8:43:13 GMT -5
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Post by jimoh on Mar 15, 2024 8:10:36 GMT -5
a few key points/ positive for those of us without sub? Thanks. From a good long piece: Most players take classes "from 4 to 7 p.m. five days a week". Player have diff. education levels and language skills depending on where they are from. "instructions are given in Spanish, but English baseball terms are used so that players become familiar with words for when they move to upper-level affiliates in the U.S." “We know building a better human, a more educated human, it’s going to help him when he gets to the States to understand what coaches are telling him and he’ll be able to assimilate into that much more quickly,” Romero said.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 13, 2024 15:37:38 GMT -5
I am starting to think that Abreu start the season in Worcester and Rafaela making the team out of spring training. I hope he starts to hit soon because all these strikouts and empty at bats are concerning. So if Yoshida is the DH, Refsnyder is injured, and Abreu needs more time in Worcester, the outfield is Duran/Rafaela/O'Neill. And the fourth OFer is...? Yoshida is not a disaster in LF. But they might grab a waiver wire RHH of. A toe with a small break should heal up well.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 11, 2024 21:33:07 GMT -5
Watching UNC play Pittsburgh on a beautiful sunny day. Not many prospects or scouts (one old guy with a gun who just took a long break). CF Vance Honeycutt who will be gone before we pick is 2-3 with a long double to RCF and a K. Having a better offensive year than his sophomore season, but still the hit tool might lag behind the other 4. Runs very much like a deer. ... Will he be gone by then, though? He is the biggest enigma in the draft, in my eyes. Obvious tools but hasn't shown that he's figured out the contact issues at all. he’s been somewhat better this year than last, hitting about 333 with an OPS over 1 and 26% K rate. Speed, defense, power and arm. He’s like a 6’3” 205 Ceddanne Rafaela. Someone will take the gamble.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2024 13:35:40 GMT -5
Watching UNC play Pittsburgh on a beautiful sunny day. Not many prospects or scouts (one old guy with a gun who just took a long break). CF Vance Honeycutt who will be gone before we pick is 2-3 with a long double to RCF and a K. Having a better offensive year than his sophomore season, but still the hit tool might lag behind the other 4. Runs very much like a deer.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 10, 2024 10:10:20 GMT -5
Dalbec has struck out in 10 of his last 17 at-bats in spring training so far (h/t Red Sox Stats). In Triple A Worcester last year, he had a 34% strikeout rate. I realize his 2021 numbers were partly a result of an incredibly hot August to mid-September - but how do you go from 25 bombs and a 106 wRC+ at age 26 to possibly unplayable in such a short timeframe? It’s hard to trust him right now against any pitcher that’s not like a soft tossing lefty. Dalbec's career numbers include two hot streaks, one for "all" of 2020 (95 PA of .263 .359 .600 .959) and one in 2021 (about 90 PA of .329 .411 .785 1.196--you can look at slightly different numbers of PA too) after which he coouldn't hit at all the rest off 2021 (.095 .095 .381 .476 in 21PA) and in the postseason (0-12 with 5 Ks). In 2023 in mlb he struck out 11 times in 22 PA (50%) vs LEFT HANDED PITCHERS. He turns 29 in June.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 1, 2024 5:58:47 GMT -5
Mlbtraderumors: Evan Longoria? Part of a long list of possible 26th men, mostly from Cotillo who does not mention Longoria. Would he accept the limited $ and appearances at 1b, 3b, and rhh dh?
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Post by jimoh on Feb 28, 2024 11:02:22 GMT -5
I know it's been said that Rafaela only makes the team if he is the starting CF, but would be also be the backup SS? Pablo Reyes, today's 5'8" first baseman, must be the favorite to be the backup SS, but if Rafaela is the backup SS (the emergency backup SS, since Story will want to play as much as possible), they can have the LHH Valdez and (if you believe in him ) Dalbec as the backup infielders. Lots of moving parts.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 28, 2024 8:54:33 GMT -5
Today's 1b is 5' 8" Pablo Reyes, nine inches shorter than Tristan Casas.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 27, 2024 20:39:10 GMT -5
Mlbtraderumors chat “Montgomery prediction? 2:10 Please? Steve Adams 2:12 I think he'll end up in Boston ultimately, probably at a lesser guarantee than many expected entering the offseason. The MLBTR staff made new predictions for the top remaining FAs yesterday and sent them out to our Front Office subscribers. I went five years and $120MM in Boston for Monty, with a similar opt-out/club option setup to the one Trevor Story has. So after year two or three, Montgomery can opt out but the Sox can void it by tacking on another year at $25MM or so.” www.jotcast.com/chat/chat-with-mlbtrs-steve-adams-2-27-24-17731.html
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Post by jimoh on Feb 27, 2024 16:46:18 GMT -5
Purchased from Tyler Chicken: BSOHL
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Post by jimoh on Feb 27, 2024 14:30:43 GMT -5
Nice first at-bat of Rafaela. Second at bat: fouls off a pitch in the zone, then whiffs on two pitches well out of the zone.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 27, 2024 13:13:31 GMT -5
A reminder that statcast is available for today's game ( link). thanks! Top Exit Velocity MPH Ceddanne Rafaela 99.9
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Post by jimoh on Feb 26, 2024 8:42:56 GMT -5
Interesting to hear Giolito say yesterday that watching and talking to Kutter Crawford was helpful to him in getting back the deceptiveness in his motion, the way he hides the ball.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 26, 2024 8:04:57 GMT -5
That Montgomery “could be part of the staff rotation” is a very weird statement, the kind of thing you’d expect a bot to say.
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Post by jimoh on Feb 24, 2024 13:17:24 GMT -5
Rafaela came up a little "short"
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