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good pitchers would throw it out of the zone. duh.

one wonders why any pitcher would throw him a fastball right down the middle. twice in a row. Kremer is gonna get rocked tonight

there u go lenny

"swinging at pitchers out of the zone...that was last year's Lenyn" *4th percentile chase rate* at least he's not Javy...who has collapsed.

point is, people wanted him. me too. but he's not good.

Mayo turning it around. Imagine if we traded Cease for him and Joey Ortiz...might've still been better.

made the GT but forgot to actually turn it on... love the early Teel homer. Kremer is not good right now.

Happy Mexican Independence Day! 🇲🇽 Smith vs Kremer. Cosmo Kremer gave up 14 runs in two starts, then got injured two weeks ago. Opportunity to bounce back.

Better in the long run maybe? I don't totally get it, it seems like a good pitch. They should just let him be himself.

Why is this necessarily a career year? It's pretty much his first full season as a regular. He's 25 and gotten better every year. There are some big holes in his game, he's being especially exposed lately, but who's to say it's insurmountable? He's a BA guy with some actual power. If he could be somehow close to league average in BB/chase, or even like 30th percentile, he's an .800 ops hitter easy. That's a big ask. I'm not sure if there's any precedent for it. Defensively, Fangraphs is still grading him akin to Ozzie Albies, Gleyber Torres, far better than Jackson Holliday, Jonathan India, about 7 times better than Brandon Lowe. Somehow Luke Keaschall has compiled as much negative WAR in half the inning played at second. Brooks Lee has almost twice as much negative WAR in one-third the innings played at second. His bad defense is mega overstated. He's just not as good defensively as Chase. Chase has maybe turned a corner on his hitting but he hasn't proven to be better over the course of a season.

15 Ks on 33 PAs. Sosa 0-4, 4 Ks. The chase is catching up with him. Good one to miss. Thought we were gonna avoid 100 Ls but it seems inevitable at this point.

non-sequitur

Tbh he looked good his last two starts after he came back from the same injury. The velocity is there. His slider looks a little out of wack. He doesn’t throw a cutter anymore. Barely walked anyone (small sample size but IIRC he walked 1 in 5 innings of work when he was previously walking like 1 guy per inning). The injury stuff has always been a concern, but then it also was for Crochet and he’s leading the AL (maybe mlb) in innings pitched. I don’t think his stuff is diminished, he’s just learning new things and maybe didn’t absorb all of it immediately. I’d be more worried about Hagen who’s looking a little relievery if he can’t get his command under control. Least we got Oppor and Murphy out of no where to compensate. Oppor has very good stuff. Murphy is kinda like Thorpe with a better pitch mix (and less elite change up).

our man is apparently 5'4...and a half. I might've thought he was trying to be funny/self-deprecating by putting that in his twitter bio, but I think he actually wants people to know he's not 5'4.

Phillies lady era is over, now we're on "f*** Ken Rosenthal". Never trusted that bowtie.

@southsider2k5 so I went and counted Sosa's September numbers on 2 strike counts for some reason. 23 plate appearances, on base 4 times, 2 singles, 1 double, 1 walk, 13 Ks. .136 BA/.173 OBP/.166SLG. .339 OPS 54% k rate 4% BB rate 7 outs on pitches out of the zone. Some of the 'in the zone' pitches were cuspy. On the edge. It's a wonder why anyone would throw him a pitch in the zone. eye don't lie. now you do some kind of analysis.

better than anticipated for sure. also no season split data on this as far as I can tell to suggest that pitchers just throw him junk now in these situations. you might also expect a trend line from 0-2 to 3-2 as there seems to be with Vargas (just as an example). literally just one time offer something to a discussion that isn't s%*# talk

thanks, peanut gallery. neither is hits when the idea is that he doesn't walk and strikes out...you could just look at the OPS of players on that other list that was posted. or the stats I just posted. Vargas isn't some world beater and if Sosa performed like him, he's much better. This is also not considering the location of pitches. Maybe you could look that up.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=sosale01&year=2025&t=b after 0-2: .525 OPS/38% k rate after 1-2: .541 OPS/46.5% k rate after 2-2: .639 OPS/37.5% k rate compare to Vargas .529 OPS/42% .726 OPS/30.5% .806 OPS/26% if he had any kind of an eye, he's well above .800 OPS on the season

Is that right? Must've been before the scouting report said "throw the ball 10 feet off the plate and he'll swing at it".

it'll be hilarious when the $340mil team misses the playoffs. Of course, if it was the 2012-2021 format, the final WC team would be on pace to win 90ish games.

welp, the Mets lose again but so do the Giants and Nick Kurtz just hit a grand slam vs the Reds. 493 feet, my god. "good lord" is right. longest homer of the season and the rookie already has 2 grand slams. A's have a fun team.

Also, the Sox proposal included additional housing. The Related Idiots just want someone else to pay for it. Part of the reason the Athletics weren't interested in the Howard Terminal site is because they'd have to pay to clean it up.

Environmental remediation would still have to be done... you're awfully aggressive. I might say again: chill out, guy with the star wars username.

"they call him Christmas because he smiles a lot" or could it be because his name is Noel...wtf Schriff