Look at Ray Ray Run

No, you're not giving your opinion. You actually found a way to be critical of him after he hit an inside the park home run lol. Truly amazing honestly. Have a nice weekend.

It was in the air for just under 5 seconds and it was hit 390ish feet. The centerfielder literally broke right away on that video. I'm not sure why I'm carrying on this conversation. Your anti-madrigal act is just tiring. I will never understand what makes a fan ridicule and rip a player who is succeeding and working his ass off: while having a great attitude and overcoming significant limitations to get where he is. Its honestly baffling. You will rip madrigal his entire career regardless of what he achieves. That's safe to say at this point. Fake the injury lol. Good stuff.

If he's playing extremely shallow like that? Yes, I do. Can you please review that guys route and explain to me how someone would be "camped" under that ball playing at that depth. I'd love to hear it. Maybe buxton, hamilton and kiermaier. Theres nothing routine about a ball hit on the line to center, right over a cf'ers head. It is by far the most difficult play to judge and read in the outfield. There is not a close second. Leury breaks in CONSTANTLY on balls hit at him. Trout is a nice but far from great defensive outfielder.

I can't say I've seen dodgers data personally obviously, but I can say the Dodgers considered him to be a bad (not even average) defensive catcher.

I think we're asking for people to not say negative things about the guy after he hits an inside the park homer - negative things that were just wrong to begin with.

I would disagree that he'll "never" hit double digit Homer's. 10 Homer's in the modern game just isn't many. If he does what Altuve did and works on pulling his pitch with authority more often he could easily run into 10 pulled Homer's a year as he matures.

And Andrew Velesquez isn't a natural CF'er (he's a SS) but hes played about 90 games in center in his minor league career and grades well above average.

Lol complete nonsense. Your anti madrigal stuff is nauseating at this point. The CF'er took a slightly rounded path to the ball but he did not break in, nor was he slow to break off the bat. He took a route that wasnt 100% efficient but he has good speed and really had no wasted movement in. On balls hit right at you in center, you will naturally take a rounded route because of the angle the ball is coming at you. Was it a perfect route? No. Was it a route that a lot of centerfielders including big leaguers take to that ball? Absolutely.

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.