chitownsportsfan

Yea but this year he's only -2.2 runs on the bases :-). I have look at his fangraphs page so fucking much this season it's now coming up right away when I start typing "omar" into chrome. Yikes.

JD Martinez is actually the "premier hitter" that every opposing color guy wants to paint Abreu as. He is as good as it gets bat wise and the Sox should have made an attempt to acquire him.

wRC+ wouldn't be adjusted as it's purely an offensive metric: the fWAR would be about 2 for an 800 OPS DH. Maybe 1.5. I'm really not going to lament trading Narvaez. He's having a career year with the bat and is still only going to finish with around 2 fWAR, if that. The real issue, and this has been an issue for about a decade, is that the Sox simply cannot find and produce league average DHs. It's mind boggling. Even when they attempt to address it via FA it fails miserably.

Madrigal hitting in AA and AAA has been such a pleasant development.

Yea it's incredible how he got through his entire career in pro ball and never learned how to catch the baseball. Of course Abreu has the same issue but at least he's not a catcher.

It's hard to fathom how he plays catcher and is still dinged -.8.3 runs from Fangraphs. Actually no, it's not hard to fathom, we all watched him. He catches the ball like he's sitting on a barge going down a river. Ditching him for McCann (even though McCann was brought in as the backup to Castillo) was a good move and worked out great. Kudos to Hahn most of his trades are pretty good. Of course FA has been a nightmare we all are just waiting to see at this point if he can figure it out.

Figured something like this when I read that: and incredibly that's only like the 30th most hard hit ball in MLB this year.

he was a great starter in his prime. helluva guy to have, always loved having him and like noah he was a guy the other team loved to hate and would often times over react to and get off their game.

wow.

MY GOD. Wow. *CRACK*. It's nice having a superstar. Stay healthy Yoyo! I want to see him get to 30 HR this year.

If you want to tack on 15 points of average go ahead, here's the results of one xBABIP calculator I just ran. Another trope that needs to stop is how "horribly unlucky" he's been. I don't know enough about how teams are scouting him to have an opinion on if shifting is hurting him but I can't think it's helping. He's hitting less balls up the middle in general and those usually have higher BABIPS. Furthermore, ZIPS surely has some of system in place for normalizing BABIP, and guess what ZIPS sees rest of the way? A 275 batting average.

I've been saying this all year. He's always been vulnerable to junk away. Now that he's gearing up to pull the pull more often he's especially vulnerable to it. More Ks and more defenders that can position themselves expecting a pulled ball. He's hitting the ball hard but he's not hitting it nearly in the right spots or enough. He is a guy that relies on a high average, not high OBP, to drive his value outside home runs and that part of his game is gone like sands through the hourglass. Father time ya know?

And they all report to Senior VP of JR Operations:

And to think I took you off ignore this year.

pobrecita.

Personally I feel I have a much better grasp on Jose's value to the Sox than Jeff Passan, because you know I'm a Sox fan and not a national beat writer. But hey, if you want to parrot his opinion because it happens to support yours, be my guest. I'll continue to think independently and you'll continue to randomly capitalize words.

I'm surprised you're around after Tony and Kyle ethered you for the billionth time last night. All you do is troll here. You add nothing of value. You don't have any insight or opinions beyond stanning Jose Abreu and beer leaguers like Palka because your neanderthal brain reacts to flying objects faster than it can a spreadsheet.

He's at .4 fWAR. He's had a bad year. It wouldn't be "selling high" it would be foolishly bailing on a 22 year old that you've ID'd as a future cornerstone of your offense. And WTF does trading a guy that was the 3rd overall prospect in baseball in 2018 have to do with Jose fucking Abreu? Why do I waste time responding to idiotic tangents from moronic trolls with room temp IQs?

WSI --->

The one that starts with getting assigned -1.5 fWAR at the start of the season because you're a MLB player that can't field a position.

Yea if it's one thing Jose knows it's pennant races and pressure down the stretch.

You're comparing an elite defender up the middle in his prime at SS/2B to an aging DH. FFS there is a delta of 25 RUNS defensively between the two. That's 2.5 WAR right there. It's why Baez is at 4.3 fWAR and Jose is at .9 fWAR. Defense matters. Playing a position matters. Age matters. OPS+ does not at all encapsulate that. Why the hell anybody would compare the two is beyond me. Cubs infatuation I guess.

I think comparing apples to oranges doesn't work and I personally DGAF about the Cubs.

Can we stop this lazy, tired trope? Here is Jose Abreu's last 1100 PA: He's not a "streaky good hitter" he's a "streaky mediocre hitter". And he can't field. And he's aging. Folks, the 140 wRC+ Jose Abreu left the building a few years ago and he's never, ever coming back. Going more than 1 year on him is insane. He's projected as a 1.5 fWAR player. You don't sign 33 year old DHs coming off two seasons of mediocrity to anything other than a one year deal.

How about we keep Abreu and ditch the "latin whisperer" Rickie. Sounds like a fair deal.