Baseball Gal

Your irrational Abreu bashing lol I think it started out as your actual opinion and then you just turned it into schtick after lots of evidence to the contrary.

Lol.

Y'all think Fletcher should start in Charlotte? He's been terrible.

I see another 0-3 with a K for Fletcher. Does he look as lost at the plate as his ST stats indicate?

I heard that the gun at Padres camp has been 4-5 mph slow.

Keith Law said that Giolito had a 70 change in 2019-20

Well if he's as deceptive with it as peak Giolito was that will be next to impossible. and hopefully they can work with him to gain a bit of velo. I was relieved to hear that the Padres gun was broken.

To answer another poster, I absolutely will be the female Ron on Thorpe. If he's actually good I will post threads bashing him as schtick because I just loathe soft tossing RHP on principle I think Hendricks sucks even though he's solid.

God no eww.

Think Shuster is a lock for the rotation with 2 spots open?

I think they're gonna be around as bad as the A's were last year. Maybe even historically bad

How often are they going to have a lead in the late innings though? Gonna be pretty rare.

I wish I could go back and capture the 2019 season again where we thought that Moncada, Eloy and Giolito finally broke out and Cease and Robert were still to come. It's crazy how things went sideways after that.

Oops, my bad. 1/3 this week.

Edit: was incorrect

Yeah I thought they'd give him at least until Memorial day as a starter.

True, but no 3-5 year deals like Keuchel and Benintendi

Yeah honestly, I'd rather them just go super cheap than waste money on the Benintendis and Keuchels of baseball.

Nah I just fucked up. I didn't look at fangraphs I looked at MLB pipeline and even them had it at 60, I was very wrong. I thought it said 55 but I must have been looking at the wrong tool, my bad.

Everywhere I've seen Thorpe does not have plus command. The highest grade I've seen on his command is 55.

I spaced on Kyle Hendricks, but yes, that's what you hope Thorpe becomes. He is such a unicorn in the modern game though.

I distinctly remember Santana sitting 93-94 at his best and topping out at 95 Also, 93.1 mph average in 2007 is very different than in 2024

Nailed it. Kyle Hendricks is the guy. I spaced on him. Didn't he have a great sinker though?