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Pal, you are fascinating. This happens over and over: Team does something. people say this makes no sense for all these reasons, and they show how obvious it is. Those things happen exactly as was said, and people flame it. You: "it happens, it's not like anyone can predict or see that coming. That's just how it works. Rinse and repeat.

Where WE gets lost is that process is imperative for a team trying to succeed on the fringes. The process you display is indicative of the success you'll achieve. Bad process means bad outcomes for a team on the margins with tight budgets. I shame bad process. It doesn't always cost tens of millions, or show itself like a glaring bad free agent signing, but bad process has a way of compiling and greatly inhibiting teams that can't spend their way out of it.

Yeah, it added no value but it cost money. Penny pinching teams should never throw money away, however small it is.

Edit: I was late to the party

Acuna making the error with Getz in the booth is chef's kiss.

Interesting. I tackled this here a few days ago but focused more on whiff% because I think that has a higher failure correlation than simply strikeout%. You can strike out a lot without swinging and missing a lot by simply working counts more than an aggressive hitter. Guys can have + hit tools and high strike out rates. His zone command being elite helps him a lot, but whiffing in the zone a lot and succeeding for extended periods of time is much less common.

This is ridiculous.

Japanese culture has US similarities but big also differences. I dont think maximizing every possible dollar matters as much in Asian cultures. Doesn't mean its not important, but other things matter more.

Sewald stinks. I want these people to stand too.

Third worst run differential in baseball. They right where they belong, but they actually have 4 big league starters this year, 5 when Teel is back. Pereira could maybe make six!

No one has proved me wrong more than Davis the past two years.

Swinging at the right pitches. Hitting them very hard. Not wasting at bats or even pitches. Skeptical it's permanent, but what he's shown so far is way way better than last year.

Defense and baserunning gonna make that almost impossible at a 100 wRC+, but the guy is a league avg hitter and those guys aren't awful.

Maybe the most unlucky hitter in baseball this year.

The year will end and he'll have a 100 wRC+. Its what the baseball gods intend.

Love when a homer makes a bunt look even dumber.

Sewald is a bum. Good start to this year but he stinks.

Bunting to get to the 9th hitter jfc

Guy is so good. He hasn't even learned how to pitch yet; change eye levels, work in and out etc. Still throws a lot of bad pitches with two strikes.

These DBack announcers love Alek.

Yeah, was just funny to think what was going through his head.

Lol why the heck did Vargas take his foot off the bag.

His body type makes the comp game hard (Not a lot of 6'3 shortstops out there), but I love non-similar body type comps. They're usually more accurate from an outcome perspective, but the look-the-part requirement always throws people off. Baseball still trying to get over comparing latin guys only to other latin guys in scouting and etc. I think Colson makes things look so easy that fans don't realize how great he's been defensively.

Said it this year when it was happening. He's got a big and very fast swing. When his timing is off even a little, he's going to look much worse than guys with handsy/more controlled swings who slump. When he locks in though, look out.

Defensively, he reminds me a lot of JJ Hardy, but with a little better range and a little lighter arm. Super smooth, and makes all the plays look easier than they are. Offensively, he's his own guy - unique to his position. He reminds me a little of a young Bellinger with the violence and path of his swing, with a little less unwinding/corking. He's got a lot more power than Seager, but Seagers hit tool is much better. If I had to pick a short stop, the guy most similar to him, in my opinion, plays today for the Orioles. Him and Gunnar are a lot a like, difference being Gunnar has already dropped an 8 WAR season in his career.