Balta1701

At the very least put Pollock in LF.

With guys like Yoan, there’s no good that happens by moving him. Either he gets better with a different coaching staff next year, or he gets closer to done with his contract. No one is giving anything of value with his current performance.

Contract extensions all around.

I know it’s tough to say “we can’t afford to keep splitting series like this on the road” since it’s baseball and any team can win any day, but dammit at some point this team can’t just tread water. There’s only so many games left.

Needs more double plays.

So I see this offense looks similar to the last couple nights.

Somehow his exit velocity has actually gone down since the last time I looked, now in the bottom 26% of the big leagues. His line drive rate is the lowest of his career. His expected batting average based on his contact profile right now is .208, almost right in line with his actual average. His BABIP is low compared to his career value because his contact is so weak. For a guy making this weak of contact a .263 BABIP is not shocking or unreasonable.

Its a 3 game suspension the offday doesn’t count.

Which teammate? He was listed in Canseco’s second book where he named people based on hearsay to cash in more on his first book but I didn’t recall a teammate.

See everyone you’re missing the math. He’s in fact dividing the 2011 Adam Dunn by the New York Times. If we take the limit as the value of the times goes to 0, the value of the left hand side goes to infinity regardless of the value of Adam Dunn’s 2011 season, making the greater than expression true.

Grandal would have to be bought out Keuchel style based on his current performance. You will save no money by moving him.

The Rangers have thrown 3 lefties against the White Sox today and I have no idea how these are the results.

I could still see Hahn being fired to keep LaRussa

That was a pretty darn good shift.

12 more years.

Lucky no one got hurt there, did no one call that one?

He does have progeny right? And they’ll inherit a bunch.

4 Rangers hits this inning, 2 infield ones. They’re playing the White Sox’s game.

That’s what 3 hits he’s given up by being not Engel tonight?

Grandal now 0 for his last 20.

In terms of WAR, he also had that totally unexplained and flat out awful couple of weeks in April where he was an error machine. He had 7 errors in 7 days in April, had another 2 Error game in May, and since coming off the IL on June 20th he has 3 errors. I have no real idea what was going on in April, but I do think it wasn't just him as Abreu and several other people around the infield were utter messes at the same time.

Under the statcast numbers, it stands out how low his launch angle currently is. All numbers in degrees: 2019: 8.7 2020: 6.7 2021: 4.3 2022: 3.6 He's making solid contact, his K-rate is actually notably down from last year, his exit velocity is slightly down from last year but identical to what it was in 2019 and in-between 2020 and 2021. He's just hitting the ball straight into the ground. He's getting on top of the ball at a career high 40.7% clip, and getting under the ball at a career low 10.7% clip. He's hitting the ball to the opposite field a career high 30.7% of the time.

Putting the word "cease" into a game thread on days when Cease is not pitching is somewhat confusing.

Bah, big difference between someone who is 18 and someone who is 24 for a team selling players off. Most rebuilding teams will be after the ceiling of the 18 year old rather than the closer to MLB, older, lower ceiling guy. They prefer the small chance of a true breakout from the younger guy. (Notably, the one team I can think of that does not do this is Oakland).