Look at Ray Ray Run

Missing as much time as he has in his career hurts a lot when it comes to consistency. Especially when you're as secondary heavy as he is. Reps are really the only cure for this. If he puts in 200 innings this year his consistency should really improve. People, imo, should be incredibly optimistic when it comes to rodon. If he stays healthy (this is his #1 concern) he still has an elite ceiling. His evolution this year is beautiful to watch. He should always have been secondary heavy. His fastball can be below league average and he can still be a star as his slider continues to evolve. Look no further than Corey Kluber for evidence supporting this. Carlos slider is good enough for this. It's an 80 pitch. The fact he can change both plane and velocity with consistency with it is very promising. Its 3 pitches at this point.

Ron, you are my favorite poster. Glad to have you chime in here. Have a great Sunday, buddy!

Do you ever post without attacking people? Lighten up their Francis. I don't need your approval on what words to use in a post, pal. The next post you make that isnt attacking a post or poster will be your first. Edit: two posts in a week, both attacking me but not actually contributing to the thread. Good stuff. Glad to have you around.

Pal, yoan wasnt going to hit 450. 0-5s and 0-4s are just a part of the game. Move on to the next day and continue with what he's been doing. He'll be fine. If gio went 0-5 after a couple good games with an approach that was working he'd change hit batting stance. Theres nothing the league can do to adjust from you swinging at more strikes and less balls. That's just someone learning to use his good eye to his benefit.

Delmon Youngs problem was mental. I'm not sure I understand the Young comment - he was the #1 prospect in baseball for two years. His career was certainly a bust but is it because of some bath path they didnt know about before? Seems unlikely

Moncada has made the main adjustment he needed to make. He is more aggressive early in the count but hes swinging at more strikes and less balls than last year by a lot. Theres no new adjustment the league can make to that. Dont project your negativity on yoan just because Lucas blows. I've said it 100 times but when you change mechanics all the time, it becomes so difficult to repeat them and remain with them. After a couple more starts like yesterday Lucas will think he needs to tweak something again when in reality he just needs to stick with something.

This guy.

The umpire gives a pitcher who hadn't thrown a strike in 10 pitches the benefit of the doubt on a pitch 4 inches inside. Unbelievable.

A 4 FIP with 8k per 9 is much better and fine as well. The final third of his season he got significantly better.

He said he got considerably better and you say nope, then proceed to cite his year long stat instead or his improvement.

August he had a 4 FIP, and September he had a 2.74 FIP in about 65 total innings. He was very good down the stretch. Hes k rate also jumped up to 8 and then 9.55 the final two months. He never looked that good in Washington and it was following a change. He needs to find that again.

Yes, his 5 ERA while walking more per nine, and giving up more than a hit an inning looked much better than last year - especially the last two months, in which he was very good. No chance. It's been two starts this year. Relax.

Why didnt he bring the bullpen in later!!!!

Maybe he wants him to learn to pitch through a rough outing and with his worst stuff? Who knows.

Lol my goodness.

But but.... I was told that navarez had been fixed by the brilliant analytic team of the mariners??

Ok. The culture of users definitely went underground - used to be much more open - but people aren't dumb. Agree to disagree but I can say that pretty confidently. Obviously an estimation though.

No way on 50% in MLB anymore. Pre-2004ish it was 50%+ I'd say. But that's speculation. Post 2004ish, college wasn't even close to 50% and college had just as big of a problem prior. I'd say college was less than 20%, and minor league baseball wasn't anything like it was prior either. You're probably looking at around 10% today.

Not gonna entertain this much more, but there's the body of an obvious steroid user. Looks like every baseball bro teammate I ever had who actually lifted.

This is nonsense. If you work out youd know? Lol The internet is a great place. Been in baseball gyms with thin juicers and bulky naturals. This isnt 1993 pal. There are roids that would keep you thin but chiseled and incredibly strong.. allows you to keep speed. Trout has been taking a shit all over baseball since he was 14 years old. He was a stocky fast high school super star. Football build. Never missed a beat in the minors. No body transformations.

Yeah, and while bonds was a top 5 player ever without the juice I'm also not going to give him full credit for how he ended his career.

Bonds was great at the start but he did not start his career as well as Trout.

Well he doesn't have a higher ceiling than Mike Trout.. because, like, Mike trout has possibly had the best start to a career in baseball history.

Robert k's. Demote him.

His most likely outcome is a guy who went 40/40 twice? And his high outcome is the best player in the past 50 years? Yeesh, setting that bar high boys.