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That wasn't that close Duffy

112 mph on Anderson's HR

Damn Timmy

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 04:20 PM) Be interested in the exit velocity on that Davidson bomb, that was a short, quick swing and he crushed it. 110mph maybe? Gameday says 115 mph

Nice contact by Delmonico there

I love Jose, he just muscled that out of here.

Schwarber already with two poor defensive plays, so much for the weight loss making him a better fielder.

Ian Hamilton has a big year and finishes the season in the White Sox bullpen. Collins fixes the hitch in his swing and puts himself back on the map this season with a great year at the plate.

73-89 feels right

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Mar 28, 2018 -> 02:51 PM) Don’t mean to nitpick I don’t know if you watched the games in ST but he is far and away our best starter and it’s not close. He’s maturing into a real pitcher versus a guy who just tries to overpower people like he did in the past. Moving the batter’s eyes around, locating pitches well, taking a little on/off pitches, sharper breaking stuff, fastball with more life than in recent past. There’s something to be said about confidence and mound presence now and he has it. I was absolutely terrified when he was rumored to be moved for the rental Machado this offseason and we are seeing why. He also dropped his arm slot. That and his increased velocity this spring are the biggest reasons why I'm more bullish on him now than I was at the end of last season.

I'd be for it if we got a good prospect back, but given how the Dodgers operate I doubt they'd be willing to give up someone of that caliber.

I don't think Engel will hit well enough to even be a viable 4th OF, but his defensive capabilities should not be in question. Statcast had him as the 2nd best defender in baseball last year after Buxton. The eye test backs that up as well.

I like Cordell, and I don't know how accurate these minor league batted ball metrics are, but one potential major concern I have when look at his numbers is that Cordell's pop-up rate makes Todd Frazier look like Joey Votto (~30%+ in his last three stops, yeesh).

I know he doesn't really have a market at this point but I have to agree with Eminor that if the AAV falls into the $12 million range I highly doubt he'll go long-term with it. I just don't think there's any chance he'll sign for 4/48 or 5/60.

Have to go Moncada here, mostly due to defense and speed.

The Astros had a historically good offense last year and the Yankees lineup this year could break the homerun record. Neither lineup has a middle of the order left handed bat. I don’t care what hand a guy uses just give me the better player. Same goes for pitchers.

I’m not really that worried about the payroll. For much of the previous decade we were consistently in the top 10 for payroll, and while I don’t think we’ll be a top 5 payroll again like we were in the past a few times, top 10ish should be reasonable, and at the very least we should be top half. The 15th highest payroll last year was $140 million (10th was $163 million), in 2019/2020 a $150 million payroll will probably be below average, and there’s no reason we couldn’t go that high.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 22, 2018 -> 08:07 AM) Yeah, but if he had every day PAs, one would suspect Dyson would be exposed a bit offensively, bringing down the WAR contributed by his offense? Yeah Dyson is completely useless against LHP so he needs to be platooned, which eats up another roster spot. You can’t rely on him to be a full time player so that is reflected in his value. Still a great deal by Arizona though.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 21, 2018 -> 02:38 PM) I don't think 50 PAs is a good sample size. If you increase the cutoff to 300 PA Moustakas is #91

The bullpen actually doesn’t look to be as much of a dumpster fire as I expected. Obviously not a great group, but I don’t think they’ll be a huge liability either.

QUOTE (FloydBannister1983 @ Feb 20, 2018 -> 07:33 AM) Let that be a lesson to you. Having any doubts about Moncada is tantamount to blasphemy. And he's no longer even the crown jewel. Wait till the first time you post "Jimenez's 0-4, 3 strikeout night was less than ideal" or "I'm no expert but I don't think 8 walks from Kopech is to be desired". Whoa Nelly the reaction to that will dwarf the outrage at just mildly expressing your thoughts about Moncada. If you think those statements will elicit outrage here then you must have never visited a game thread.

I'm trying to think of a scenario where Moncada could play poorly enough in Spring Training to deserve losing the job and I can't. Maybe if he never swung the bat? Didn't make contact once? Struck out every PA? And even if he did do that there's no one to replace him at the moment. Yolmer is slotted at 3rd.

Boras gets it done again, even in this market. It’s funny though that the Padres took in Dave Cameron, who put Hosmer as his #1 free agent landmine. I just don’t get it. If a contending team signed Hosmer to this it’d be questionable, but the Padres are likely going to waste two prime years of an average 1B, and this move also forces Myers back to the OF where he can’t stay healthy. Just a puzzling move.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Feb 13, 2018 -> 04:23 PM) Nah, to me his 15-16 looks like the outlier. This year is huge for Machado. If he has an obp in the .310-.330 range again he's not going to get a contract over $200 million xStats has his expected 2017 batting line at .291/.340/.542, and considering his BABIP was 40 points below his career average and his exit velocity was elite I'm inclined to think he was just unlucky last year.

Donaldson will be a bit old but I think he'll age well enough and it's not like the Cubs or Astros didn't have older guys play instrumental roles in their title runs.