Balta1701

The Royals have had 19 players hit the injury list, the Braves have had 16 (including Albies, Hamels, Soroka, so not small names). The White Sox currently have had 10.

I think from today you can now officially say that MLB management has 0 confidence in the ability of their health and safety protocols to prevent spreading among teams.

If everything works, and Madrigal is starting us off with a .360 OBP, what a crazy lineup this is: Madrigal (On base all the time) Anderson (Best contact hitter) Robert (Best overall hitter) Jimenez (Biggest power) Moncada (Second best hitter in an RBI position and reload the order position) Vaughn (Really good all-around hitter, reloads the lineup again) DH/Abreu Grandal/Other catcher Unknown RF It's too RH dominant, but that's a natural spot for every single one of the ones currently identified. If everyone develops as hoped, in a year or two, we have a DH hitting 7th or 8th!

Who wants to take bets on the largest number of teams any single player will make an appearance for this year? I bet you there will be a player who appears for more than 5 teams.

If this goes past January there's a good chance I'm willing to do pure evil.

Does your employer have any need of a scientist?

I'm substantially annoyed that you don't have Yelich on the list. In 2018-2019, in terms of fWAR, it goes Trout, Betts, Bregman, and Yelich, before a 2 win gap to Rendon, and both Betts and Bregman have been on teams that have "sign stealing issues". Maybe I still vote for Betts, but you put Mr. Trashcan Bang on the list and not Yelich and this annoys me. Furthermore, if you note the fact that Yelich missed some time with an injury, he's been nearly as effective on a per game basis as Betts, and obviously you're not holding injuries against people based on the other names on this list. Yelich is also the #2 offensive performer in baseball over those 2 years, he's dragged down a bit by his defense. Yelich should have Harper's spot in this poll. If I wanted to build a team to win right now and you gave me the choice of Betts Vs. Yelich, it's what, 60-40 Betts but you'd do as much homework as you could to try to avoid second guessing yourself, and then several shots of whiskey would be downed before you made the final decision because that's the only way you'd actually make that call.

They're not really using him anyway, so why not? As of tomorrow he'll have pitched 1 time in a 12 day period. They even went to a AA quality callup in a 0-0 game rather than bring him in last time.

Honestly? No we won't. The cases are spread around the country and the details that would be required to link it directly to that trip aren't going to be available to health departments, particularly if any of them try to do tracing with inter-state travel. No one is going to say "3000 cases were traced to Sturgis" because they won't be able to do that and couldn't legally say that even if they found that. All we'll get is maybe a few thousand new cases nationwide, starting new clusters, with only about 1/2 of them actually recognized, and with testing spread out over 10 days so the total bump is a few hundred per day in a nation where there's 100,000 people getting it a day and roughly 1/2 actually being tested.

It has been said that Rodons shoulder problems might make it difficult for him to have 60+ appearances per year with little rest between. That the shoulder flared up again this year is not a good sign.

Well except for the fact that he was brought back in the first place.

Yay!

Can we get Stl to have 100% clear tests the next 2 days?

One extra batch of tests Thursday/Friday.

Because those players are being paid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, potentially ten million dollars for baseball and substantially more for Patrick Mahomes, to take that risk.

To be fair, I think he's this org's second highest pitching prospect.

For anyone who is interested, here's the Pac-10's medical document updated as of yesterday. https://xs.pac-12.com/2020-08/Pac-12 Covid-19 Return to Play Considerations 08.10.2020.pdf Here's the summary of the cancellation: There are more than 5000 players on the teams of just the power 5 conferences. If you wanted to test every one of them on one day, that would be ~1% of the entire united states's testing capacity, which is apparently declining right now. The NFL players wanted to be tested every day, that's literally impossible for college football.

And checking this year, 1.192 OPS against lefties, .627 against righties for Cabrera. Yeah you make that move with a deep bullpen.

Against Cabrera, a righty? I’m going to bet he has big LR splits at his age.

These sentiments are echoed by David Littlefield, Detroit’s vice president of player development Weaknesses From a raw “stuff” standpoint, nothing about Alexander is better than average. His fastball sits around 89-91 miles per hour, topping out at 93 mph with good sinking movement. He secondary offerings are all average as well. He features a sweeping slider in the low 80s, and a low 80s changeup with sink. For the most part, scouts think that none of it will get much better. The lone exception is FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen, who sees Alexander’s changeup becoming his best pitch, grading it a potential 55 pitch, or slightly above-average. Alexander will be 22 in July and scouts feel he has more or less physically reached the height of development. There probably won’t be much opportunity to add velocity going forward. He has a simple windup that is clean and smooth, allowing for an easy release from a low three-quarters arm slot. In terms of projection, his ceiling is limited to a No. 4 or 5 starter that can eat innings. Due to his advanced command and mature offerings, he could already profile as a middle relief lefty that can take multiple innings. While he won’t blow batters away with nasty strikeout material, getting through six innings with three runs or fewer allowed is a valuable asset to have in your rotation. I think Alexander projects to be a tick better than Kyle Ryan, but doesn’t have the upside of a Matt Boyd due to his lack of velocity. The term “crafty lefty” applies here. There have been plenty of such pitcher that have had good, long careers in Major League Baseball. There is a small chance Alexander gets called up this season, depending on health and how aggressive the Tigers want to be with him. Jacob’s Scouting Report: Fastball: 50 Slider: 50 Changeup: 50 Control: 60 Dude, thanks for replying but you didn't link to the original post so I have no idea where this comes from, and didn't someone just note on another of your posts that you can't excerpt large sections of text from places, particularly without credit, as you're making us host copyright violations?

So is Tyler Alexander anything good?

You know we have a giant thread right, and I can go back and find out if there was one group of protesters you were deeply offended by and another group you couldn't have cared less about, who just happen to differ in one important visual detail?

I would have thought that staying home in the spring and helping the country beat this was perhaps the most important civil thing people could do.