April 18, 20197 yr 9 minutes ago, JuliusO1274 said: How is defensive WAR calculated? I decided to look up Moncada's WAR numbers and noticed virtually every player on the team(including Moncada) are rated negatively in defensive WAR on Baseball Reference. The only 2 positive defensive WAR players are Engel and Sanchez. How the hell does Yolmer have a positive defensive WAR right now? Believe they use UZR which takes forever (some say years) to give a useable sample. The number you're seeing on the page next to moncada is his average of runs saved (or not) relative to the league I believe and then position adjusted to come up with WAR (could be wrong, it was hard to find just now). So Yolmer, even tho he's a lousy 2B so far, he gets more credit than say a RF who's just average.
April 24, 20196 yr 2 minutes ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: 23.7 K% thru 97 plate appearances this season He's going to strike at a 20+% clip. If he hits .290 with 30 bombs and a .825+ OPS who cares? Edited April 24, 20196 yr by Jack Parkman
April 24, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, Jack Parkman said: He's going to strike at a 20+% clip. If he hits .290 with 30 bombs and a .825+ OPS who cares? I think the poster was getting at this being a good thing
April 24, 20196 yr 2 minutes ago, mqr said: I think the poster was getting at this being a good thing Of course. 23.7% is a HUGE improvement from 33.4% last season.
April 24, 20196 yr 8 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said: Will cross 1000 career PAs tonight At exactly 4.0 fWAR. Not awful. He's "on pace" for about 7 this year.
April 24, 20196 yr I really hoped he could just get it down to 28% this year, to be sub 25% at this point is so fantastic.
April 24, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, Jack Parkman said: He's going to strike at a 20+% clip. If he hits .290 with 30 bombs and a .825+ OPS who cares? 1) He's saying it positively and 2) I think we all better hope for the OPS to be much higher than .825 Edited April 24, 20196 yr by soxfan49
April 24, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, bmags said: I really hoped he could just get it down to 28% this year, to be sub 25% at this point is so fantastic. We've finally found what it takes for Hahn to evaluate talent properly. All we gotta do is trade for the consensus #1 prospect in baseball a few more times and we're golden.
April 24, 20196 yr Just now, chitownsportsfan said: We've finally found what it takes for Hahn to evaluate talent properly. All we gotta do is trade for the consensus #1 prospect in baseball a few more times and we're golden. Thankfully we may have another one of those in a couple months.
April 25, 20196 yr 5 hours ago, chitownsportsfan said: We've finally found what it takes for Hahn to evaluate talent properly. All we gotta do is trade for the consensus #1 prospect in baseball a few more times and we're golden. Problem is he already gave up one of those for the broken down corpse of a formerly good starting pitcher.
April 25, 20196 yr 12 hours ago, Harper2Sox said: Problem is he already gave up one of those for the broken down corpse of a formerly good starting pitcher. How many times a day do you think you bring this up?
April 25, 20196 yr 13 hours ago, Harper2Sox said: Problem is he already gave up one of those for the broken down corpse of a formerly good starting pitcher. We get it that the trade makes you mad. We all know. Time to move past it and stop dragging down conversation
May 6, 20196 yr 4/27 with 11 Ks over the last 7 games and no xbh He needs a day off. He hasn't had one all year.
May 6, 20196 yr I'm not overly concerned, as mini slumps are part of the game, even for fantastic hitters. However, this needs to not get out of control.
May 7, 20196 yr 24.7 K%, 134 wRC+. Season now 20% complete. Slumping a bit of late but if he did this across a full season he’s a 4 WAR player.
May 8, 20196 yr 13 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said: Yoan's BABIP is only 7 points higher than his career average. Really good sign. Yeah I've been saying this to those expecting major regression. James McCann and his ~.450 BABIP will regress, for example, but Moncada's contact profile indicates that he can maintain an elite, .340-.350 BABIP like Judge/Trout/Baez do. .290/.345/.515, Moncada's current line, is probably not far off from where he'll end the year assuming he doesn't endure an extremely prolonged slump or hot streak.
May 8, 20196 yr Also, since 8/17/18- in 312 PA / 282 AB, .284/.346/.461/.807 19 2b, 2 3b, 9 HR with a 29% K rate That's basically half a season of really good data...
May 8, 20196 yr I wanted to see his krate get to at least 28% so if he can make it 25% legitimately I don't see why he can't reach all of the potential people saw in him.
May 8, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, bmags said: I wanted to see his krate get to at least 28% so if he can make it 25% legitimately I don't see why he can't reach all of the potential people saw in him. He's not walking as much as people would like, but I think he has to be more aggressive to cut down on Ks. Either cut down on the Ks, or take more walks. Pick your poison.
May 10, 20196 yr Moncada: Last 15: .241/.297/.362 with 19/4 K/BB Last 30: .250/.300/.425 with 38/8 K/BB All numbers are from whitesox.com I'm starting to get a little concerned that his numbers this year are incredibly inflated by the hot streak he was on in the first week of the season. Maybe he isn't as good this year as we thought he was. Edited May 10, 20196 yr by Jack Parkman
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