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Good night to watch some basketball!

Gotta say for the division in the dumos crowd... As a believer in Taj Bradley and still a believer in Zebby Mathews and Mick Abel, the Twins rotation has a ton of upside.

Hagen Smith can't throw strikes. For me, he's 70/30 a reliever at this point. I'm still a big believer in Schultz, but hopefully his lower body actually is stronger this year because he needs it. McDougal I don't think has the command in the zone to succeed right away in the big leagues. There is no cavalry coming to the rescue in my opinion. And that occurrence would be on the other side of the median outcome.

I obviously don't think one game matters, and I have them around 67 wins for the season, but their bottom 30% pitching outcome is historically bad... and the bottom 30% isn't exactly all that unlikely or impossible.

Just another day and season not finishing watching the game. Some good performances and games throughout the league though. Teel is important to this lineup. They're already mediocre at best and without him it'll be more bad than good. Tough match up today as Mis is tough on anyone. Mune hitting a bomb was a +.

Good time to bump this back. Crochet out there doing crochet things. 6 IP, 3 hits, 8k's. Chase hit a first inning homer but had a world series celebration so we'll give him some bonus points. Montgomery is the most polarizing prospect in MLB. I still say the entire trade comes down to him. You can't just get Teel and utiliedroth for Crochet.

One recorded ball at 108.1 in his minor league career. Feels like his peak EV area (this one was 107.7).

Why don't you try reading the article where Houser said it himself, then go tell him he's wrong and that it was actually the White Sox.

His swing path metrics are incredibly promising and are in the elite category. It's pretty surprising to me. Usually when elite defensive short stops who have big power come into the league and show out, they aren't flying under the radar.

I was going to start a thread, but instead will just say it here and plant the seed. In my life of watching baseball, I've never seen a Rookie do what Colson Montgomery did last year, and be so disrespected/underrated coming into their second year. He is the most underrated player in MLB. Since his debut last year, he was the 7th (top 10 in multiple metrics) most valuable defensive player in all of baseball. He hit the 9th most homers, had the 18th most WAR and the 45th highest wRC+.

I posted about it last year. I was surprised he was cut because his stuff played up in spring even if the results weren't great. I still thought he stunk, so I don't want to pretend I was right there, but i had read about the overhaul after the Sox acquired him.

Imagine thinking it's unique and rare to find Mike Vasil's. This guy should get his Vasoline ready for Getzy.

No one likes deferring to "experts" and justifying ineptitude quite like you. What's incredible is youre always quick to give them credit for success (claiming they turned around Houser's career when in fact, Houser used private coaching in that offseason to make his changes), but always excuse the failures.

The league avg OPS+ for all DH AB's last year was 110. Benetendi was 6% worse than that. What I said was he was better than league average as a hitter, therefore not some black hole in the lineup. Given that DH really isn't an assigned position on most teams, if you look at guys with >100 AB's at the position last year, he would be about 23 out of 61 players. If you remove Shoehei from the sample, Benetendi is basically league average (2% worse).

Doesn't change anything I said. Being 24th of 31 almost further iterates my point.

Cleveland win O/U is 79.5. Twins is 72.5. White Sox are 67.5. Sox to win 70+ games is +200. I like the Cleveland over. Twins have some real nice pitching depth, but i just think they sell off so I'd lean under. I like the Detroit over because the division is bad. But it's more likely the division is beating up on us than the other way around.

I don't think he should be here anymore, but that's because over 3 years he's been worth .6 WAR total. It's time to move on. That said, guy had a 104 OPS+ last year. He was a slightly above league average hitter. People talk about him like he's some black hole in a lineup which isn't really true.

The league also just said Houser was worth 11 million a year for 2 years. To say the league didnt think he was worth anything is nonsense. I'm so tired of the excuses being made for bad returns.

If he's a DH, how would giving those AB's to Mead, who they felt was worth a gamble about 2 baseball months ago, not be a better usage of those ABs than giving them to bene.

Yes, my implication is this front office has no idea how to target talent they can maximize or find undervalued/utilized assets. Maybe there amateur scouting has improved, but their pro scouting is a continued disaster.

We can't see who voted for what and shame them. Booo this man.

How about this; stop trading with the Dodgers and Rays thinking you're going to tap into something with a player that they couldn't. Let's start with an organization like the Rockies and work our way up!

Mead actually showed a bit of power this spring between the WBC and Spring training, and power was always his only ++ tool. I didn't like the trade at the time, but I would have liked to give Mead some run this year to see if he could tap into the power he had pre-injury. edit: Keeping Bene and Hill over Mead is just not serious baseball. I know that Mead isn't an OF'er by trade, but get flexible with your org. Bene and Hill serve zero value or purpose to this org.

Not sure if it's a good thing that some see greatness there, but it's pretty concerning that he is the most polarizing prospect in MLB... and it's not close. Some models having him as under 2 WAR as his peak for a career, while others seem him being a + regular.

I'm surprised at this honestly. How do you not at least give Mead some run after you targeted him just a few baseball months ago? This move really shows the inability to scout and target the right guys for this org. To give up on the guy that quickly is pretty shocking.