Jose Abreu

I can't wait for Anderson to not qualify for the batting title because of the few games where Mendick started over him rather than "Sanchy"

They have a lot of talented outfielders. JD Davis, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Tim Tebow (sorry I had to) and they seem to like Juan Lagares in CF. Even if they don't keep Lagares in CF and they move McNeil to 3B, that's still 4 starting caliber players for 3 spots, so trading an OF is possible.

Who would say no to Stiever and Steele Walker for Nimmo (controlled through the 2022 season)? I know their GM makes some weird trades so it's hard for me to gauge value here

For his rookie season or his career? For his career, then yeah, that would be disappointing, but predicting a .775 OPS from him prior to this season for 2019 would not have been unreasonable at all.

I suppose. If Robert has a 101 wRC+ next season and plays CF as well as we think he can, he's probably a 3 WAR player already. I wonder if that would also be considered disappointing since his offense wouldn't be as impressive

Eloy has a 101 wRC+ in his rookie year. It's hard for me to frame that as a negative

I get thinking that we won't pay up for Cole or Rendon, because I agree, but there's absolutely no chance that Nick Castellanos is "pricing himself out" for the Sox unless you think teams are gonna look at a hot 2 months and fork over $150 million+ for someone who's basically a DH

I'm assuming he means Cease, Lopez, and maybe Jimenez, but I would definitely disagree on Jimenez and would push back on the other two as well.

By not throwing to the left, obviously!

Jimenez

Thanks. That makes more sense because from what I remember, those are sites that weight errors more than they weight range relative to Fangraphs. I tend to agree with Fangraphs on that one, and their assessment of Yoan as the #3 defensive 3B in baseball is so different than the one you're mentioning that it really highlights the difference in formulas

It's certainly possible, but when you're talking about a 26 y/o SS who has been playing baseball for only ~10 years, I will almost always take the more optimistic angle with respect to development, especially on defense since he has the physical tools to replicate his 2018 performance Does Castellanos as a RF qualify as a quality hitter to you? Because I think he's gonna be one of our big additions.

Not that it really matters, but what I would've liked to see is: -Castillo DFA -Collins and Mercedes up -Abreu 1B 80% of the time, DH 20% of the time -McCann C 65% of the time, bench 35% of the time (roughly the same as now) -Collins C 35% of the time, 1B 20% of the time, DH 20% of the time, bench 25% of the time -Mercedes DH 60% of the time, PH for Collins (DH/1B) vs LHP late in games This is a long-winded way of saying that there was indeed a way to get Abreu daily PAs, McCann the same amount of reps that he normally gets, Collins appearances 75% of the time, and Mercedes enough ABs where he isn't just sitting around

Yes, and he is worse than 2018, but what I'm arguing is that his 2018 defense is more indicative of how his next few years at SS will be than his 2019 defense

To clarify, I agree that his main problem this year is routine plays. My comment about players getting dinged for errors as a result of their range was a general statement about my thoughts on the stat

Which site says that?

To Peterson and Thompson, no, especially after the reports this week that there's a divide between the Washington FO/coaching staff about whether Peterson should have even been retained. I think Guice is gonna be an 18+ touch per week guy this year, if healthy, and unless their coaching staff is just playing mind games, all their talk lately makes it seem like they're all in on him. The Eagles defense is very good but I think Guice will get enough touches to make him a good starting option. My opponent is starting him at RB2 too and I think it's a good move.

He's among leaders in errors so I figured that would be a turn off for people. Fangraphs has him as the #3 3B defensively though, obviously behind Chapman and Arenado. I tend to think that's accurate, maybe Machado at #3 instead, but Moncada is in that tier.

This year, his problems are definitely more on the routine plays. His range stats were really good prior to this season though, so I guess I'm assuming that they'll revert to the norm next year

I guess I feel the same way about the whole defense this year. I don't think Jimenez is unplayable in LF, I don't think Anderson is a horrible defensive SS, I don't think Engel is that great in CF, and I think Moncada is elite defensively at 3B. Apparently all 4 of those are unpopular opinions.

The problem is also that so much of this is semantics based. I'd rather have a SS with 25 errors and the best range in baseball than one with 5 errors and no range, for instance. And the bold doesn't apply when an error is charged to a player on a ball that he only got to due to his range. Errors actually put better defensive infielders at a disadvantage for that reason.

My argument is that errors as a statistic are meaningless, mostly because they are completely subjective. Tim was one of the better defensive shortstops in baseball in 2018.

It is extremely weird how Matt Skole, AJ Reed, and other AAAA players with worse stats than Collins come up and instantly bat cleanup, but Collins bats 9th. But there's absolutely no rhyme or reason to Renteria's decision making anyway.

Guice. I think Sanders is gonna get the majority of touches in Philly, and Washington seems hell bent on making Guice their feature back

Yeah I'm really looking forward to Castillo/Skole/Palka getting reps over Collins and Yolmer playing over Mendick