[Kopech called up]

4 minutes ago, flavum said:

I will say, the service time thing isn’t as bad with Kopech. I get it.

Calling up Eloy will legit piss me off unless they have an 8 yr deal signed.

Why is it less bad with Kopech?

[Kopech called up]

This is surprising. I'm not sure why they waited so long. I figured if they were going to start his clock this season then he would have been called up in early July the latest. I wonder if Kopech being openly agitated about being held down had something to do with it. And that is just based on some of his social media posts which were likely toned down compared to his real feelings. Agitation was probably developing into anger. 

[OT: Sale]

13 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Knowing Sale, he got hurt throwing 100 mph against the White Sox...

He's been throwing 99-100 every game since then. That is why he has been putting up such amazing numbers,

[Heyman: Eloy/Kopech may not be promoted this year]

3 hours ago, Brian said:

I'd be shocked if Eloy isn't at least a Sept call up. Is Kopech on an innings limit this year?

I'd be shocked if he is a Sept call up. I wanted him up this year but now it is too late. Calling him up in Sept still wastes a year of control. If they were going to call him up this year it should have been weeks ago, months even. 

[Moncada]

There are flaws to the umpire excuse being used for Moncada. A previous post highlighted a tweet about Moncada's "good eye" because he is in the top percentage of hitters who do not swing at pitches outside the zone. Problem is he is also in the top percentage of hitters who do not swing at pitches inside the zone either. His lack of swinging at pitches outside the zone isn't due to his supposed good eye but due to the fact that he just doesn't swing the bat as often as most hitters whether the ball is in or out of the zone.

This is also the reason why he has the most called 3rd strikeouts with balls outside of the zone. Most of these pitches are very close and people think umpires have something against Moncada because he get called out on so many of these close pitches. The reality is that Moncada has so many close pitches that miss the zone called as strike 3 because other hitters do not take these pitches with 2 strikes. They know they have to protect the plate and cannot take pitches like that. Moncada takes these pitches and not surprisingly get rung up on them many times. If other hitters were taking these close pitches with 2 strikes they would be getting called out as often as Moncada on bad strike 3 calls.