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He's been at 95 or 96...so it's pretty clear he's throwing two different fastballs. So then it simply comes down to spin rate, location and short vs. long arm action/perception of how fast the ball is getting in on the hitter. Still can't get any consistency with that slider...just doesn't throw it enough for it to be more than an average or slightly below average pitch. It's the curve that really should be his 3rd weapon. CLE at MIN delayed. Can't do anything but help the White Sox, no matter what happens. Would prefer to see the Twins lose, though.

Robert back into one of his patented funks. He'll come out of it, but he can't give away so many at-bats if he wants to be an elite, impact hitter.

This prediction isn't going to age well.

Tigers youngest big league roster at 27 years, 25 days...Reyes, Jones, Castro and Candelario have flashed their talent this year, but they're still at least 2-3 hitters away.

If he's only at 92-93 MPH, he's Carson Fulmer...has he always thrown at that 3/4's arm slot? Another issue is Mize is trying to throw five different pitches at over 15% rate, that's a lot to not make mistakes with them. Three would be ideal, or four.

Sure, 15 MPH differential is huge, when most pitchers are at 8-12 if they're fortunate.

Robert just glides out there....so reminiscent of Devon White. Andruw Jones is another...but he just looks so much more graceful. Like you can tell he's controlling his speed at 85% unless he REALLY needs to go get a ball in the alley or back to the fence.

E-Sock instead of Isaac...? 43 pitches now, he's going to be lucky to get through 5 unless he has a couple of really quick innings, DP balls, etc. 17 straight scoreless innings at Guaranteed Rate for Giolito. Make that 18 thanks to our Gold Glover CFer.

YES YES YES. When he does it for five consecutive years, then we can talk. Glavine and Buehrle weren't bad, either.

That would be fine if we could be more confident in our overused 7th and 8th inning relievers...who we didn't add to at the trade deadline. Really counting on Cishek somehow straightening himself off and Marshall/Cordero/Detwiler not folding with Bummer out.

11 swings and misses already in the 2nd inning.

The only question is how many pitches Renteria lets him go to break his career high strikeout game at this point...

Classic shift inning. Imagines Greg775, sitting at home, imagining some of those balls are going through...but not so much.

Think the Cubs would like to have Candelario back about right now? Also, rooting hard for Mike Cameron's son Daz to be able to stick in the big leagues. 0/9 so far.

Slowed down his body/arm action a bit on that first change-up to Reyes. You wonder why hitters don't sit on that one pitch, when he's throwing it 36% of the time, but that only works if you can get ahead in the count. Starting off dominant with those 96 MPH high riding fastballs, 2 batters, 2 k's, swinging outside of the zone...looks like White Sox typical at-bats the last decade, actually.

https://theathletic.com/2057659/2020/09/11/bowden-an-early-ranking-of-the-top-15-free-agents-this-offseason/?source=dailyemail Bauer has continually said publicly that he’s not interested in signing a multi-year contract and only wants to sign one-year deals for the rest of his career. We’ll see if he holds to his word as he’s certain to get several multi-year offers. If he does sign a one-year contract, it will be among the highest paid in the game on an average annual value basis. He’s had a terrific year with his spin rate spiking across the board and some career-best numbers. However, in his nine-year career, his ERA has been under 4 only three times including this year and under 3 just twice. So if he does sign long term, don’t expect those numbers to come close to a one-year pact. He’s the best starter in this class because of his platform year and teams will be lining up, especially if he keeps his word on only wanting a one-year contract.

https://theathletic.com/2054996/2020/09/09/five-baseball-things-the-red-hot-al-central-the-yankees-struggle-and-more/?source=dailyemail

https://theathletic.com/2049832/2020/09/08/could-eloy-jimenez-and-luis-robert-join-the-300-home-run-club-how-about-500/

He's at 0.6 fWAR pretty sure, I had just removed him from my last post because it would have constituted 15 names, and NOBODY in their right mind gets excited about the likes of Duvall or Cole Kalhoun, right? Statistically, he's barely a match for Canha and Robbie Grossman. Eloy and Harper are just ahead, at 1.0 fWAR numbers so far on the year.

Wil Myers and Conforto are at 1.8 and 1.7, respectively. I've already beaten the Myers thing to death, SD would like to cut his salary after this year...but they're certainly not desperate to move him now since his OPS is almost 1.000 again. Poor Adam Eaton's at -0.3. Kole Calhoun at 0.6. Adam Duvall? Nah. Gallo's not an easy get from the Rangers, but they might be open to moving him, you never know. Ozuna's really had a good bounceback year. Castellanos, despite starting white hot, is back to his usual below 1.0 territory. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=rf&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2020&month=0&season1=2020&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2020-01-01&enddate=2020-12-31 Springer's 19th overall (expanding the field from just RFers), tied with Mark Canha and Robbie Grossman, an interesting trio there. Starling Marte and Nimmo, pretty darned familiar names in discussions the last couple of years. And still a bit leery about Michael Brantley at this point in his career...depends on limiting years/price, obviously. Would love to hear what Keuchel has to say about Mr. Springer behind closed doors. Altuve's obviously even more of a concern, if you look at his dramatic falloff statistically. 14 names. Overall rating in terms of name dropping on a historical basis, B-/C+.

I mean I completely missed game due to teaching, and just opened the box score. To me, this was a better way to lose than our established closer collapsing against the Pirates, who have actually been playing better recently. Josh Bell and their RoY candidate LFer have been garbage for the majority of this season, fwiw.

On the plus side, it wasn't Colome that blew it? Who ever would have expected Marshall and Detwiler to be high leverage relievers? Cordero? Otoh, stretching McRae out will be the late season equivalent of rostering Drew Anderson at some point soon...

More details to come as available...5 IP, just 49 pitches, 2.19 ERA.