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4 run swing on defense so far. Against the Orioles.

plays like that are why his defensive WAR never matches his sprint speed. His arm is putrid.

WTF are you fucking doing? Have some god damn common sense. Nobody is GOING ANYWHERE.

adam engel should be cut after the game.

meanwhile they get that shit to fall in. baseball is fucking maddening at times.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME

Nova's stuff so far this year has been solid.

Lazer show and really unlucky for Castillo, TA and Yonder, MERCY.

Jesus how did he fucking catch that.

Jose seeing the ball better thank goodness.

I think Jose needs a little more pine tar on his helmet.

unlucky for TA.

Yoan is the man.

Probably baseball given that he's already got his pension locked up and has made about a 1 million before taxes. Really he should thank his lucky stars the White Sox org exists. He'll be in Japan in a few years probably if he wants to continue in pro ball.

yea but in golf there are two huge differences: 1) player initiates swing when he's ready via waggle 2) ball isn't moving I'd say that while both are complicated, a golf swing is easier to replicate in ideal conditions (not saying 12 on Sunday at Augusta with the wind and a 2 shot lead and Brooks and Tiger breathing down your neck...) than a baseball swing. Engel had his swing "fixed" for a couple weeks in spring training of '18 but under pressure reverted back to the same awful mechanics. As noted, he almost literally has no coil. He lunges at the ball instead of turning on it and his head moves quite a bit which leads to contact issues as well as a power drain.

wow. with a bullet.

lol I'm hand writing a letter as we speak.

True, but tell the dude to turn his back when he's about to get hit.

Every single player that has gotten to MLB has worked incredibly hard to get there. Sure some guys work harder than others, but it's also about working smart and raw talent, clearly. Engel just does not have the natural hip turn or batter's eye needed to function as a MLB quality hitter. That's not really something you can improve. If you could, everybody would be Mike Trout.

He has a swing that literally would make most DIII coaches cringe. I've never seen a MLB player with less power that has such an awful long swing and bat path. They've surely worked with him to try and get looser and more upright but as everybody noted it's not easy. That's the swing he'll always have. He's a decent 4th OF, nothing more nothing less.

he keeps getting hit with pitches and jamming his hand into the base sliding head first. speaks to how incredibly raw he still is. In the US at least a few hours of spring practice are devoted to one "don't slide head first except into home" and how to turn your back to the pitch when you're about to get hit. Harder to get into those habits at his level than HS and college.

As someone noted (sorry forgot who) they should get creative and try some of these guys as an opener.

Man, we have an all-world name team. Steele Walker? Gunnar Troutwine?

You're supposed to be the good cop!

Nice to see the struggling guys get going. Team is fun bad at the moment.