Balta1701

Ronel Blanco had a .220 BABIP last year and the Astros clearly don’t think he’s a top of the rotation guy despite a really great season, they expect him in the rotation but he didn’t start any of their postseason games for a reason. They are smarter than this, they think he could be decent but they understand he can’t do that again because some of that is luck. There’s a difference between “a pitcher can do this” and “this is blind luck because you pitched against the Marlins, Tigers, and Mariners”.

Anthony Davis played less than 1 full game with the Mavericks. He is out multiple weeks with an adductor strain.

Find me a pitcher who had a .127 BABIP from a low exit velocity over more than a 5 game stretch. Find me pitcher who had a .200 BABIP over a full season last year. if it was .250, you might have a point. But that is TWICE as many hits as he allowed in those games.

I am seeing people using the “stop he’s already dead” meme on bsky and every time I’m screaming “NO PILE IT ON” and we just saw why.

Over those 5 games he had a .127 BABIP. 20 strikeouts, 10 walks in 30.1 innings. So yeah, call it stupid and it reveals more about you than about Thorpe, that's completely unsurvivable in the big leagues.

As of right now, no, I think Drew Thorpe looks like a guy who might, might be able to turn into an OK reliever, and Iriarte can't throw strikes. Thorpe's raw numbers are worse than 47 year old Jamie Moyer. Worse strikeout rate than a 47 year old, more than twice as high of walk rate. Had he not gotten hurt, his numbers on the year would look awful, he was riding a .150 BABIP for that 5 game stretch. His performance was, frankly, awful, and it was covered up by a tiny bit of good luck. He was really, really bad. Like, I can seriously say - I have never been more disappointed by a top 50 prospect. If he's a top 50 prospect, then this is the weakest minor leagues we've seen in my lifetime. Iriarte similarly looked bad. At least his arm looked decent, can't complain about that, but he couldn't throw strikes. They made him look better by holding him at AA. Maybe Thorpe comes back in 2026 from TJS with a much stronger fastball and is a better pitcher? I will say that maybe he could be a Tommy Kahnle type reliever who throws 50% changeups if he picks up a few mph on his fastball out of the bullpen, but the Drew Thorpe we saw last year isn't even a AAA quality starter. As of right now, I see 0 decent big leaguers out of that trade and I think anyone who points to "5 games by Drew Thorpe where his BABIP was .150" didn't pay any attention to the games he pitched. You can't win baseball as a fly ball pitcher getting 3 strikeouts and 3 walks in 6 innings. And that's not even counting the fact that it seems like Thorpe will burn through his first 2 pre-arb seasons rehabbing from TJS. So yeah, I think this fall we are sitting there saying that there is 0 return from those 2 trades. What happens if both Montgomerys struggle this year? One stank last year and one was hurt, I like the gamble but I don't know what he will do as he's never played in the minor leagues. If the entire White Sox's system is 2 catchers and 2 LHPs, this is a 60 win team max until they move to Nashville. And then we'll still hear how the GM has done a fine job and shouldnt' be criticized. Just like now. Almost as if people have reasons to support him beyond their own eyes.

For the Chiefs to win this, it goes down with the Falcons comeback at this point.

Thus far Philly has dominated this game and it hasn’t been close.

Just so it was done, title corrected.

I thought this one was a little less controversial than the first one, but yeah there wasn’t hard head contact there either. At least it’s one both ways.

Bills couldn’t do that play. Sigh.

Blatant Chiefs calls: 1.

Is a bust defined only as a guy who is completely done? In that case, Wilson is a bust yes, and the others in that deal aren’t - yet. But they’re definitely heading in that direction. If a guy drops from being a top 200 prospect to a marginal top 1000 prospect, is it stretching language to say he’s a bust? Or merely “almost there”? Right now, the White Sox seem really likely to have traded away Cease and Fedde and Kopech without literally anything of value in return, while simultaneously losing perhaps 330 games in 3 years. When are we allowed to call that a pattern?

How many current big leaguers do you think ever had a full season at a minor league level where they hit under .180?

Well yeah, a batting average far below the Uecker line would pretty much always indicate a bust.

Um, Oakland?

And the consequence of this is Jerry is going to take his team and leave as soon as someone else will build him a park.

And yet you’re commenting in here?

No, which is why I have zero opinions on his ability to play CF. I can give statements about it his offense based on his statistics, but those don’t extend to minor league defense.

Like I said, can’t allow statements that make the GM look bad.

There is a difference between hoping for the best for a guy in the White Sox’s system and being over the top positive because you cant acknowledge that the GM did a bad job in his trade.

One who went to jail himself and bribed a governor who Trump then pardoned for taking the bribe.

Most of the advance stats say he’s been moderately below average at 3b and inconsistent but about average at 2b.

Tauchman and Slater as a RF platoon isn’t bad, although it’s darn confusing that Getz would trade for a RF, get at least a tiny bit of hope from his defense, and block them. Drury - he’s on a minor league deal. These weak prospects in the system are likely to shuffle up and down a few times, and some of them (Monty) have legit injury worries. It maybe steals some spring training time, but he might even be released by May. Rojas is clearly there as the starting 2b to provide wins and valuable veteran leadership, while also ensuring that Sosa and Meidroth are in other teams soon enough.

There is no way I can watch Reinsdorf threaten to move to Nashville as his main negotiating tactic and agree with “He’s no fool.”