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If Tim Anderson changed nothing about his defense but for the mental lapses and errors he'd be a top 10 defensive SS. The physical errors will always happen - the mental ones simply can't continue at this rate.

The next day a left fielders arm is the make or break from winning and losing will be the first in baseball history. It is already a historically weak defensive position and a LF'ers arm may mean less than anything else on a baseball field defensively. Manny Ramirez and Carlos Lee spent a decade ++ in LF - I'm pretty sure Eloy playing left with a very good defensive CF'er like Robert will mean very little. You're overreacting. Bad fielders have been in LF since the invention of the game and Eloy is far from the worst of the bunch.

His footwork on throws is his biggest problem and the strength of his arm has allowed him to survive it. He is almost better throwing off balance than he is in rhythm.

Soto is a very different hitter than Eloy. Saying a player has been disappointing because he wasn't as good as arguably one of the 3 greatest performances by a 20 year old in MLb history is reaching imo.

He's on pace to hit 38 Homers over 160 games. The average isn't there yet and his k-rate has spiked but he's missed time. He could have been better but I think his future is rather clear and in no way did his ceiling or expectations take a step back this year based on his performance imo. That's why I would say his season has been fine and showed what we wanted it to show. He's 22 years old. He had just turned 22 when the season started.

Cease and Eloy are fine - theyve showed flashes and their tools have been on display. Lopez for sure - he is far too inconsistent and just flat out bad at times for how long he's been around.

“You very rarely see that kind of talent,” says former All-Star shortstop Omar Vizquel, who played 24 years in the majors and was the center fielder’s manager this season with the Class AA Birmingham Barons. “I remember seeing Ken Griffey Jr. in the beginning – we broke into the big leagues together in the same year – and Ken had that same kind of glow. He can do it all. He can beat you with a home run, with a stolen base, turn it into a different gear to make a play in the field. When you look at Robert, you see a player like that.”

Luis Robert It's pretty good company on the list of past winners: Acuna, Snell, Bregman, Vlad, Kris Bryant, and Xander.

Ok.

Why? It doesn't mean much so hot worth discussing too much.

The difference between mendick and collins is probably near zero; the likelihood of Collins getting up again with he sox only having a 1 run lead is far greater than the chance that mendicks "speed" scores where collins doesn't.

I'm honestly amazed that just happened. Just when you think you've seen it all, ricky gets you again.

I hate this comparison... have teams ever paid a guy more than he was guaranteed because he performed better than paid? No. And one more time, it is not within the rules as defined. They are skirting it on a the fact that readiness is subjective. In regards of that part of the CBA, they are not acting within good faith.

The Cubs wouldn't do it now that they're competing. Astros and Braves aren't "wealthy."

With the way the baseball off season goes nowadays, they'd have to push it back to March 1st to protect against a bad off season.

After the season renewals aren't really unique, but it's a weird season to transition to that now. Given how stagnated pricing has been for about a decade, I cant complain there.

Amazing that Josh finds himself as a "voice of reason and reality" when he misrepresents numbers holistically by adding "second half." Implying that some large chunk of the season was a big struggle and not the 11 games he's been in a slump that all baseball players experience.

The ball helps the smaller, less powerful, player much more than it helps the big hitters too.

No. OPS+ has nothing to do with valuing one more than the other. wOBA does.

This has nothing to do with it. The league, in general, has a higher OPS this year than it did in 2016 so when it normalizes, Jose is less better than league average than he was in 2016.

Wealthy organizations don't exploit service time as often. If teams are competing their bring up their best players.

League wide offense is way up from 2016.

Everything about you makes so much more sense now, haha; the IT part.

That's $22/hr over 40 hour weeks I believe. Much better than the minimum wage.

The minimum salary is somewhere around 47k I think.