Look at Ray Ray Run

Disastrous.

This cracks me up. Grady must be crushing his couch play!

Idk, everyone is talking about windows... but who knows how long those are open for. This team has so little pitching I'm seeing a Orioles type situation where they need to figure out which position players are expendable and maximize them.

Lorenzen and Houser wouldnt make any sense to me. Those guys stink.

Not sure what this means, the hit tools barometer has always been expected batting average. It's not a direct 1-1 because some guys can have elite bat to ball but such a low power grade that they can't get to it (same for elite power getting more out of a subpar hit tool) but in general that's the evaluation scale.

Go colombia!

I just think Lackey is clearly the better prospect. I don't think roch is a bad prospect obviously. The guy I graded is an above average regular but far from a star. Which is how I view roch. He just had a stagnate season (id argue a slightly regressive one). That is legit terrifying in my opinion.

Only saw the 9th. This team is awesome, love this for Jacob.

No such thing as running up the score in professional sports.

Thats actually not at all how the math works in these cases. For one, the mark you cite is a random snapshot of June that is the lowest number in 50+ years. Offense is historically lower early on in the year than it is later. Prospect grades are normalized which allows you to compare players across periods. You would adjust expected outcomes to the environment once a player reaches thay point, but the general premise of being a 240-250 hitter as a 45 is a reasonable benchmark. League average in general is down about 10 points 10 year period over 10 year perood, but that doesn't mean it'll be down 10 points in Roch time. The below is 12 years old but its one of the baselines I built my scales. FanGraphs BaseballScouting Explained: The 20-80 Scouting ScaleScouting Explained: Introduction, Hitting Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 Pt 4 Pt 5 Pt 6 When I started here just last month, I promised I would write a comprehensive series of articles explaining every part of the 20

Not sure i agree with this at all. A 40 mlb hit is a 240ish hitter. I guess if you want to move it down 10 points because of the league shift towards lower averages I could buy that. Has grade inflation infiltrated the world of prospects too now?!?

What is crazy about thinking roch is a 240-250 big league hitter?

Still can't believe this thread title hasnt been updated to include Sam.

Pal, roch has no where near elite bat to ball skills and he absolutely doesnt have 4+ tools. Roch Is a 40 run, 40 hit, 50 power, 65 field, 60 arm for me. The guy just hit 320 in the big 10. It's just not very impressive for a 1-1.

Are these the same scouts that told us Mune struggles with top velocity? Absolutely not team Roch. Roch struggled with velocity and fastballs inside. You adapt to what you see most often as a hitter, so once you see velocity you'll adjust. I'm surprised to see so many back on the Roch train. I don't get it at all. Going to be a huge mistake the Org makes.

West eddy told me these games don't count.

Wyatt Langford has a 1.7 WAR in 40 games this year with a 128 wRC+. Not entirely sure what about that means stay away. That's nearly a 7 war pace as a 24 year old.

5 lefties in the lineup. Less curve balls sandlin.

Update time: An Update trending in the Sox favor two times in a row. Nice! Garrett's injury seems more serious than they thought, so he's out quite a bit longer. He's at 6.1 WAR since the trade. Meidroth - 2.7 WAR Montgomery - .3 WAR Teel - 1.9 WAR Total WAR: 4.9 I still think this trade comes down to Montgomery. Teel is going to be a starting catcher in the big leagues, and probably a pretty good one. Meidroth is a utility guy in the long run. If Montgomery can be an average to + MLB outfielder, this trade works out for both teams assuming Garrett comes back healthy.

Checking in again one month after last! If Meidroth wasn't stealing Ant's position he'd likely be near league leading WAR for a rookie. Guy may still pull it out as he continues to get better and better! Grant still lagging behind Davis Martin quite a bit, and he hasn't been as otherworldly lately killing this one for me!! Mune injury saved him from this fate! Rather he be healthy and mashing balls and the K record! Mead has a 122 wRC+ and Vargas has a 129 wRC+. Vargas also has better expected numbers. Crazy how good Mead has looked though! Loser!

I don't know what is wrong with all these people that want to turn Antonacci into a platoon player, but they should get checked out professionally.

No.

Royals with 6 lefties in the lineup tomorrow now, waiting for one of them Sandlin curveballs he loves throwing to them so much.

I came up with a nickname for Ant two days ago. Backpack... because he carries the team.

I'd consider this, but lean towards trading anyone but Bonemer. Love Max Meyer though. Im a bit skeptical of the durability though and, for this year, those year end innings are going to be in very unfamiliar territory for him.