Look at Ray Ray Run

If you look at their hands in an at-bat. Watch on a pitch their fooled on. Tim can change his hand path seperate of his body and he gets his wrists turned over when hes fooled so he can generate some power and not just he stuck underneath or pulling off (popping it up or weakly grounding). Engel is always in between, and his hands move so little through his swing path. Stiff wrists.

Adam engel has no bat to ball skills. Never has. The reason why I never worried about tim anderson (incredible hands and wrists) is the exact reason I think adam Engel has no chance (horrible hands and stiff wrists).

Hand eye coordination is at the very center of athleticism for me - jmo. Hitting is pure and absolute hand eye coordination.

Rutherford has been on another planet for about 6 weeks now. What a tear hes been on.

I can't for the life of me see how someone could argue its "too early to call up Robert" while finishing their thought saying bring up Engel. Its amazing to me that people have concluded that Cordell is awful and should be demoted after 2 months of production as good as Adam Engels best 2 months in his big league career. Cordell likely sucks, but it is really odd to me how people want to say send cordell down and give up on him because he hasnt hit after like 167 big league at bats career but they want to bring up Engel who hasnt hit in 800 big league at bats.

Lol some of you love pain and misery. Adam engels problem isnt his batting stance.

When quality pitches get tee'd because the balls are juiced and the parks are small it makes you lose faith in your stuff and self as a pitcher. I dont think that'll happen with cease fully but it hurts development and stunts it at that level so he may as well finish it here. He's going to experience the same stuff here but the outcomes will be more realistic to what he actually has to adjust to.

because the run scoring environment in AAA right now is atrocious.

No, I said if you start Robert's clock today you have him until his 29 season pretty much. He'll be 22 during this season. They would have him until he was 29. 22 could be as valuable as 29 to robert and this team.

You thinking 30 is more prime than 23 is a hot take for sure.

If hes ready hes ready. Pushing back Robert to have him for his age 30 season is likely pointless. Peak years are getting younger and younger. Skole sucks, no doubt but palka hasnt earned another chance. Palka is 27 and skole is 29. Not much difference in reality. I was a defense first baseball player - an outfielder at that. What palka does out there is offensive.

He very clearly has + power. His exit velocities are high and he hits the ball hard when he hits it. But the power tool is worthless without anything else to support it.

I find his outfield defense to literally unacceptable. Pair that with the rest of his shortcomings and he has no place here. If he worked counts and walked with his power then fine. But hes bad at that too. Robert deserves to be called up before Palka. Matt Skole deserves a shot before Palka again. Mendick deserves a spot. Anyone but Palka. People bash Cordell and Tilson - at least Cordell has two good tools and one average tool.

Like who?

His plate discipline numbers are horrid and his stint in AAA doesnt change that. He has no position - he is very literally one of the worst defensive players I've ever seen. He doesnt have a good hit tool. Hes not fast. His arm is dreadful. He has one tool. One tool players dont belong in the big leagues.

Palka is awful. Amazing how many sox fans still think he is worthy of a mlb roster spot

One of the nicest men I have ever had the pleasure of spending time around. Billy was the FIL of my old man's best friend growing up - RIP as Jerry died before Billy at a young age. Billy was also my old man's little league coach. Billy played in a day when you had an offseason job. Billy was always upbeat and positive and overall a pleasure to be around. He was robbed of the HOF - he was better than Whitey he just played for some of the worst offenses in MLB history.

He's fat albers from a few years back where he went two months without allowing a base runner and then was released a month later because he's actually bad and couldnt get anyone out without luck.

Lopez needs to find more consistent swings and misses. His out pitches and swing and miss pitches are so inconsistent.

Bummer is a + MLB reliever now. Marshall is trash.

Huh? Can you explain to me why A is better than B?

Relievers with 40 elite innings of production and 200 of shit do not have a lot of value regardless of their current WAR and etc. If you think Tommy Kahnle, with one half of MLB success, is more valuable than a career performer out of the bullpen I think youd be mistaken but I could be wrong and the yankees could have believed in the new kahnle.

I'm not sure what you mean... Inside Edge, Chetu, driveline, and Trumedia. Are some data driven tools that are more intuitive, educational and better predictors when applied correctly. Obviously a lot of those tools require data driven backgrounds to apply it, which is why Keith is publically available and respected. There are many more beyond what I listed but that proprietary information/software is available to you at a cost and is certainly better and more reliable (when applied properly) than Keith Law. Obviously most people dont have the education or background to use/apply those tools which is fine. Adding: SMT as my buddy swears by them but I have never seen or used the software.

Robertson was good but he wasn't worth a penny more than his salary so it's not as if he had surplus value that warranted a good prospect. Kahnle had been good for like 8 months and he was a reliever with control issues. Frazier was similar to robertson but even worse because he was worth a little less than his production. People really exaggerate the value of Kahnle and the guys in that deal.

Law is probably making a lot of money at ESPN; he would need a top tier position at an MLB team to not take a step back in salary. I respect Law, but I think you give him far too much credit. What has he originated from a talent evaluation standpoint?