Look at Ray Ray Run

DSL padres have 11 runs with 5 hits. Dsl baseball is good stuff

Pretty much guaranteed I would think.

His wRC+ is 140. Leagues matter Jack. He's actually been really unlucky on his way to that 140 too.

Who says that? Modern cuban league after all the defections might be equal to rookie ball and that's being generous

Yeah just remember about Halladay after I posted that. Hoyt maybe? Im not great at pre-1985 stuff.

Black jack, El Estaban Coca.... drawing a blank on #3 Edit: estaban didnt get one, just remembered.

The year he had almost 100 xbh. I dont remember which year that was - his first or second with the sox. 1997 maybe

Albert belle.

Yeah, its amazing that not many even remembers. That's a combination of todd not doing anything else good so it not being memorable, and the sox being so bad that our brains have pretended these years never happened.

Yup. I saw him just hit a homer and it was his 18th of the year. I thought, wow that's low for a powe guy in today's game. Then I looked up his stats with the sox because I thought he hit 38 one year but it was actually 40. And i didnt remember the guy hitting 40 Homer's 4 years ago because the past four years have been that bad. Amazing he hit 40 Homer's and had like a 760 ops.

Nope. This was my thought as well as an FYI.

I come across things pretty frequently that make me say "hmmm, how did I not know that?" Today's trivia is... Who was the last White Sox player to hit 40 Home runs in a season. Dont cheat.

He hasnt played baseball in like 16 months. Baseball is a game of timing. He may suck really bad but we wont have any idea until he gets stateside. Agree with you.

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Putting a ball in play for a hit is more valuable than walking - it's a small advantage but enough to give player A the edge. A walk cannot advance a runner two bases. A walk cannot drive in a run from 2nd or 3rd. A walk cannot generate an error leading to an extra base. We're talking 1 or 2 runs of added value but it matters. That small difference is why A is the answer. That article is not at all arguing that BA doesn't matter Jack. It's just stating that power can cancel out a lack of contact skills.

Good stuff. His AAA wRC is now over 130. He's spent his minor league career being about 130 or better.

Framing is still a pretty conflicted statistic for a multitude of reasons. Mainly because its reliant on someone else doing their job poorly and because umpires do talk and grade themselves and some bias against a good framer can be created. Regardless, there are "things" that show grandal being a very poor defender (I believe the Dodgers felt this way, ftr). Catcher metrics are difficult to gauge.

K-Rates normalize faster than anything else too. While it doesn't mean his previous rate doesn't matter, it does say this adjustment may have a real impact on a k-rate reduction going forward.

No one is signing a 31 year old catcher for 5 years 80 million. Theres a lot of conflicting catcher data that says grandal is a bad defender too.

As a reliever, a third pitch is really risky because if you dont have a feel for it you've just blown the game. You dont have innings to find the feel. For whatever reason the cutter tends to hurt relievers off speed offerings. It's why cutter first relievers dont really mix in off speed stuff nearly at the rate that other relievers do.

Because guys with elite cutters tend to hone in on that pitch after a while.

The Astros whiffed on two number 1 overall picks lol.

It's a makeup game from a monday night game yesterday. People probably have to work.

The paid one here is from over 1 year ago, and it's for software engineers - not analysts.

These jobs pay so much less compared to working the same job in the finance/business world. There's only 60 jobs in the world at the level you'd like to get to (GM or Pres of Baseball Ops), and turnover is so high when you get there, what do you do after?