Look at Ray Ray Run

That's a trick question, since you can't have elite carry without top tier spin rates... but I also don't think you can teach top tier spin (although the Astros have cheated somehow to do it). In one year already, Cease has taken his vertical drop from below average to above average. You saying that carry is more important than velocity is just nonsense though. Max Scherzer would like to have a conversation with you about that comment. Saying that carry is more important than Command; now that is even more batshit crazy. Command is the most important aspect of any fastball and it's not close. I use vertical drop as opposed to carry, but they are the same thing.

What is easier to teach Jack, above average to top tier spin rates or carry?

Harden was awesome? He just couldn't stay healthy. If Rich Harden could stay healthy he would have been a star. And I have no idea what you mean by carry. Cease has above average spin rates that he gets a bit on the side of still. His carry isn't bad, it just isn't exceptional but guess what? You don't need exceptional carry when you throw 99 MPH Jack. I feel like you read Fegans article and just completely misunderstood what was being said.

This Cardinal situation is just embarrassing. The Cardinals would now have to play 55 games in 44 days. It's just a joke. Some teams in the division playing 4-5 less games than others throws off the balance big time.

MLB has already said they won't play 60 games and the playoffs will be decided by win %.

Ta talking to SouthWallace: “Let ‘em sleep, baby,” Anderson said. “Let ‘em sleep. There’s a lot of doubters out there. They’re motivating me like, ‘Who’s gonna be the leadoff guy?’ Nothing against Luis Robert, but, c’mon man. C’mon.” Just kidding wallace.

Don't think St Louis is cancelling anymore games with the season carrying on, so I imagine the Sox luck out and get them first series back.

6ip, 1 ER, 0 bbs, 7 hits 5 k's. I'll take it.

Since baron trade cease back to the cubs he's been rolling.

I mean, he hit it 105mph.

Luis!

Uh I'm gonna give my top pitching prospect more than half a season in the big leagues to figure things out. He's given up 1 ER today. Guy has 5k's 0bb, and would have 4 hits against in 4 innings if his catcher catches the baseball. But yes, let's release or trade him because obviously he's a failure.

Lol its his 18th career start .

Moncada had COVID, showed up 4 days before the season started, and he's played 15 games in the past 15 days. He looks tired and it certainly makes sense. People that were ripping the two off days early just overlooking the grind that this is for a guy who was fatigued.

FTFY

Keuchel called out his teams effort publicly to the media but never called out his teams cheating; in fact, he called out Fiers a little bit. Keuchel is the last guy who should be speaking up.

And never forget; Preller is a crook and baseball somehow allowed him to keep his job and continue on. The guy traded injured players without disclosing proper medicals, and baseball let him keep the players he acquired for his damaged goods and keep his job.

Yeah, people grow from 16 to 21. I'm pretty sure no one that scouted him as a kid thought he was done growing when projecting his future.

So even after people/scouts got to see Tatis play 55 games between Rk and A- ball, only MLB pipeline even thought he was a top 10 prospect in the Padres system. That "changed" man that the Padres had stolen from the Sox and been a vastly different player couldn't crack top 10 Padre lists.

Would you stop saying this. My goodness, you act like you were on the back fields scouting Tatis. He was the same player; he hadn't played in organized professional baseball games and anyone could have signed him. You've exaggerated his growth and his status at the time of the trade. Tatis wasn't ranked on a single prospect publication until 2017 (Where he appeared in one on the bottom of a team list), and he didn't appear on Keith Law's list until 2018 - after he had a 910 OPS as an 18 year old in A ball. The White Sox traded him in 2016. You literally just make up stuff to try and make everything look worse and so obvious.

OK Caufield. 1. He was 6'0 as a 16 year old; saying growing 3 inches is game changing is laughable. 2. This isn't basketball. Also, he grew 2 inches, not the fictitious 3 and 1/2 that you made up: "He grew two inches in his first year to 6-foot-2, got stronger, was playing in the White Sox’s instructional camp at 17, and was just a few weeks ago before making his professional debut in the Arizona Rookie League." You're practically arguing if he was 6'2 he wouldn't have been the 30th ranked prospect. It's nonsense. He hadn't played a game, and every team could have had him just months earlier for a million dollars.

MLB doesn't market anyone; Tatis will be no different. He plays in San Diego where 90% of the country isn't even awake to see him; Mike Trout has been dealing with that his entire career, and Tatis will be no different. Manfred is a moron; he calls out the players not realizing the NBA and NFL market their players, not the other way around.

I was waiting for someone to say this, but this times 100. On almost any other team in baseball, Tatis would not even be in the big leagues yet. The fact that people are calling it the worst trade in baseball is a joke for a couple reasons: 1. Tatis had not played a single game since signing as the 30th best international prospect in baseball for under 1 million dollars - nothing had changed, and every team in baseball missed on Tatis but for the Sox who then in turn swung and missed lol. 2. This guy was traded for money, so please spare all the worst trade in baseball history hyperbole.

Yeah, I think Engel's issue is he gets a ton of value from his glove and Robert plays the more valuable position in CF. Engel loses a little playing right, as he still doesn't have big power and his arm is good but not great for RF. He's still a + on the bases too, but his batted ball profile still isn't great and he has a history of falling into bad habits. I hope he has figured it out because he really is a great athlete, but he's always been kind of robotic as a hitter.