A lot of people figured he'd have a chance to hit but turning into an elite defensive catcher while hitting his 90th percentile offensive projection is crazy. I mean it happens, scouting is imperfect, but personally just as a baseball fan never figured it would be him, even after a strong rookie season.
The at this point obviously directed PR to try and puff him up on the broadcast is more concerning than his performance. They think the fans are this stupid? Who's the voice of reason here in the fan side of the FO? Someone should tell Getz in the next meeting they are fooling nobody talking about his hard hit rate.
Used to annoy the piss out of me but I was just some DIII scrub not a highly compensated professional. Get him a SAD lamp in his locker and some hand warmers.
Smith against Logan Evans.
Meidroth, Vargas, Thaiss, Robert, Sosa, Palacios, Vaughn, Elko, Rojas. Wild how guys go from top of the order to bottom almost on a coin flip with this team.
I mean, Meidroth had a nice game. Houser and somehow the pen shut them down. Incredible to win a 1-0 game really given the names on the pitching docket.
it's funny how much they are hyping up julio given he's regressed quite a bit in some ways. He was expected to be like a 280/350/500 guy not 250/300/420. His wRC+ has gone from elite to just above average.