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OK, so he may not be a 130 wRC+ player vs righties, otherwise he would be one of the best LF in the AL with his defense. But 28% k rate doesn't make me that squeemish. Yoan was 37% from his weakest side last year. The good news was Engel was doing stuff like making more contact in the zone and chasing less. I don't think Engel will be a plus hitter from the right side but I do think he's offensively miles ahead of where he was 2 years ago, really ever since the second half of 2019. So he was a 60 wRC+ guy in 2019 from the Right side. Last year he put up doubel that. Is it in the middle at 90 wRC+? That would make him very playable if he really is close to this above average hitter from the left side.

I was surprised how little (any?) spring training PT he got. Marco Hernandez has been playing a ton, as Williams. So, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he wants out for a better opportunity.

Engel hit RHP better than LHP last year, obviously it was just 60 PAs.

More like Jonathan woo-boy

That could be true I can't get through anymore since i'm tied to an appt. But I always did 4 zip codes, 60504 for Aurora and its radius, 60302 for oak park/city radius, 60004 for north of city, 60422 for south of city. It's not really worth constantly pinging it but morning/lunch/evening and you eventually will get an appt. If you don't have time for that sign up for cook county which does a big 15k sign-up at noon every few days. That you'll definitely want 20-30 minutes cleared off since it's a frustrating system, but if you are there right at noon it's a pretty decent shot.

or Lance.

there are appointments available in walgreens right now

I kinda like luca tresh but he's also a little swingymissy.

honestly over 20% is pretty brutal, especially without any linear improvement.

Jobe is 10 ?

Because leury would essentially be the backup to so many positions.

maybe its more that our DH is now our true LF to start the season until Engel gets back, but man they are asking a ton from leury.

Not bad depth. Man gotta be weird/tough for guys like this. Where do you even put your home base? Live in a hotel near the airport?

Super interesting. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/covid-vaccine-sites-478233

I feel like there hasn't been a college pitcher who has disappointed this year. What a crop.

And also even though I had an appt I wanted to see what the new release of cook county appts was like yesterday. Huge improvement - they site added a queue so you could see where you were in line and how many people were ahead of you for how many open spots. Would have saved me a lot of time last week, and prevented me from refreshing when it seemed like the page had died.

And I feel like this happened last year when it was really just about him making the Schaumburg group or 3 group fo traveling players? But if he did make it, what a cool story. Reminds me a bit of our own Astudillo, just this longtime minor league guy who bounced around, did some things extraordinarily well but didn't look or fit the part of the whole job. That's cool. Baseball is cool.Here's to Yermin hitting the 35 day mark and getting the mlb pension.

New York isn't a bad destination for him, either. There isn't a ton of places for them to spend money this offseason, and maybe thibs turns lonzo into ben simmons lite.

Cowards a free agent so maybe just FA chatter

Well for one this was before that cba went into effect.

This was also my takeaway as well. It sucks but every team misses out on guys. This class was pretty close to the cap, though it sounds like this would fit in. Had they though, it would have compromised getting Robert. And would have been rough just getting penalties for 50-100k. Edit: not saying Soto wasn’t worth that, but it wasn’t a guarantee at time. But this makes me more confident on cespedes/colas hitting in some capacity

It really hurts not having practice time really with such a huge mid season shakeup.

Not uh, living up to what I was looking forward to tonight.

More like hector no mas