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Odd to say so people can use their brain while posting slop from an LLM. Like many things, what it wrote was wrong and a pointless use of resources.

Why do people post this AI slop? Peralta a higher ground ball and k rate than Castillo.

Huh? Pissed about what? Sounds like Smith could have been a headliner if sox threw in some other back end guy. Definitely prefer that to Castillo.

Maybe Getz really is westeddy with cherry picking like this.

AAA is where non prospects who cant make it typically go. AA is the prospect level, therefore looking at the avg age is reasonable.

24 is the average player age in AA.

Ryan get is sneaky good because you'll never have to pay him, he has very limited innings on his arm since he was a position player, and you're acquiring his best years with basically no development left to do.

As odd as it sounds, Smith is probably more of a prospect at time of trade than Tatis. I hate trading guys trending up with limited track records because the outcome bars are so wide. While it's true smith could quickly become a nothing burger, he's also yet to show any inkling of struggle in professional baseball.

He hasn't had a good change up in 4 years. The problem isn't even with giving a castillo a whirl, it's that the Sox got beat up on the value side of this trade.

Do you have data on this? Ive havent seen it. Pitchers, in general, have later peaks than position players now but much of that is tied to debut dates, and the fact that pitchers today aren't hitting the innings levels until their mid to late 20s where as position players are being brought up younger than ever. The aging curve itself appears to be starker for pitchers (avg peak periods are shorter), but pitchers who survive the curve have had more sustained success into their late thirties but these guys are the exception to the rule. I dont see this as some statistically significant difference. And Castillo has every sign of aging in an arm. Walks are up, k's are down, contact rates in and out of the zone are way up, and his former strength (righties) has gotten steadily worse 3 years in a row. This doesnt strike me as a guy avoiding the curve.

Also in power pitchers it's usually command that goes first and then velo.

As fathom hinted at, lefties have been killing him and this is the second year of this trend really getting exposed. This is the 3rd year of the trend in general, as he lost the change up when he moved to Seattle and that was his out pitch to lefties. The trend has been getting worse every year, and this year he's seen 40%+ more lefties than righties.

Yes and they have a 380 woba against him

Hope a former cub, so kind of funny.

I'd bet river ryan joins the rotation there in Detroit almost right away.

This sport is so stupid.

He's struck out 13 guys in July and given up 7 home runs.

This is the most confusing part, if the peralta thing is real. Peralta is better than castillo, and owed like 4 million. Framework of trade was around Wolkow and Smith. Values are no where near similar.

Think some people are looking at the name and not the stuff and results. Castillo was moved out of the rotation at one point this year, and he wasn't happy about it. We did Seattle favor, so just odd we had to give up anything.

It's honestly crazy that 5 of the past 7 years Fedde has had a FIP over 5.15 and he's still around. The pitching leprechaun has blessed him and it's been beautiful to watch.

Yeah I don't care the money, he's just not a guy I think you can give a playoff start to at this point in his career and they got a bunch of those guys already. Also think he's in the process of falling off the cliff.

Seattle had to be ecstatic as they needed to clear room as they have two elite arms knocking and they figured he'd be the hardest one to move.

The problem is luis castillo is the next james shields.

From peralta to castillo is wild. What a downgrade. A change of scenery out of Seattle and that park and pitching org to ours?

How is castillo worth anything at his full contract. Guys got negative value. Just weird. He's washed