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It Sounds strange but imo robert is not aggressive enough. Long term you want to improve his plate discipline but right now his pitch recognition is what it is and imo robert tries to show false patience here by waiting a little longer to see the ball better and then being late on the FB. Javier baez had that too, the Cubs had one season where the Cubs tried to make him more patient and his chase rate slightly dropped but so did his zone swing. Robert needs to start guessing again and swing before he has fully recognized it. That isnt a great long term strategy but at least he would be all over the FB again even though he would look silly at times.

Probably a financial decision as you have no gate revenue and the safety concept with all the tests, possible quarantine and so on costs a lot. Bad for player dev of course but if it hurts anyone the same way the owners probably feel it is not so bad. They also have that instructional league as a replacement albeit it of course is on a much smaller scale

Hernandez is bad but I think it is also about were you miss. Hernandez is calling outside and also low but not up or in. The indians have missed a lot away while sox missed many in or up too.

The league is adjusting a bit to madrigal and catching some of those high liners into the oppo gap by playing the RF in. Madrigal needs to mix up his batted ball location a bit:).

Angel Hernandez is not good at umpiring:) But robert also looks lost, he chases balls and then takes strikes. At his best he is chasing but he is also all over balls in the zone.

The question is whether that improves the result. Yeah it is more sample size but the goal has to be to replicate the same result that would have happened over a full 162 this year. Would adding results of a different team improve the sample?

Mccann's stats are good but like Engel they are probably looking better due to being put into favorable matchups.

2019 standing after 60 games 1. Bal (+1) 2. Kc (-2) 3. Tor (-2) 4. Det (-3) 5. Mia (-1) 6. Sea (0) 7.SF (-6) 8. Washington (+14) 9. Reds (+3) 10. Mets (+9) 2020 end of season 1. Det 2. Bal 3. Mia 4. Kc 5. TOR 6.sea 7. Pittsburgh 8.SD 9. Col 10. LAL My suggestion would have been to use pythagorean record standing. End of may 2019 (little less than 60 games) 1. Mia (+3) 2. Det (-1) 3. Bal (-1) 4. SFG (-8) 5. Pitt (+2) 6.tor (-1) 7.sea (+1) 8. KC (-4) 9.CHW (+1) 10. Washington (+12) Every method is not really fair but what are you going to do?

Tatis only hit. 194 with a 75 ops+ in September so far.

I agree. The tigers actually overperformed this year, don't think the tigers blame him for their record when they go full tank mode. Maybe they wouldn't have brought him back anyway but I think with his health situation and the added risk of corona he was not willing to take the risk anymore (or his family didn't want him to).

I agree. Preller is great at trading and the international market but his free agent deals haven't been great. Myers and hosmer have hit well this year but have largely been a disappointment over their contract so far. The Machado deal has been looking ok but the under 30 years of a 300m deal should look good and later this could turn bad like the pujols deal. The clevinger deal was fantastic though, Padres trade away low upside but decent floor depth which might get rule 5ed or traded anyway in a year or two and get a stud starter.

I think EE and grandal is more on hahn than on ricky. EE has been sitting some games but you can't really sit him more than like 2 times a week or he would just block a roster spot, you are not carrying a part time DH on the roster, I.e. if you don't want him to play you need to release him or fake a DL stint. By keeping him on the roster hahn basically has decided EE plays at least 4-5 times a week. Grandal also is the most expensive FA in sox history of course Hahn wants him to play. The only decision that is really more on ricky is playing mazara over engel most of the time. Now engel's stats definitely benefit from being protected but he still could be better than mazara at this point albeit steamer and zips don't really agree and project engel about for a 75 wRC+ the rest of the way.

Madrigal hits a lot of 180 footers the other way for hits so they take the chance to take away some of those even of it means he occasionally beats you above the outfielders head.

Really can't blame ricky here. If he would brought in fry in the 8th you can criticize him but when you need a reliever in the 5th you can't use your top 2-3 pen guys because you will need them later. Fry came in with bases empty in the 5th, doesn't get lower leverage than that. If you don't use him here you can never use him.He simply didn't get it done.

6 pitches, no strikes so far

Yeah a DH only makes sense on the roster when he is playing, EE has been sitting quite a bit recently but you can't really sit him more than twice a week or he just blocks a roster spot. You don't carry a bench DH on the roster, I.e if the front office doesn't want him to play they need to DFA him (or fake DL or whatever) to free up his roster spot. Unfortunately as long EE is on the roster he at least has to play 4-5 times a week or you mess up the roster.

Seems to be ok

Hopefully nothing bad. Never try to stretch the last step to the bag that is dangerous, much better to make a short extra step

Service time plays a role but vaughn also never played above high A. Nobody can blame the sox if they keep him down next super 2 deadline. Of course EE is not coming back, he is not as bad as he was this year but definitely not worth the money.

Definitely good that it can happen. Intrasquad stuff is not bad but different than the real game. Longenhagen mentioned this in his chat, he said those camp intrasquads are not great to evaluate hitters because you face the same pitchers over and over again which makes it different.

Madrigal has a good eye but he won't walk a ton since pitchers will challenge him. I don't think he will stay super low either, probably more like 7-8% for his career which is fine.

Both of his pitches have a really good spin rate (2500 each) which is a good thing. Don't know the spin effiency/axis but they spin should help his pitches. He eventually will need his change up but for 2-3 innings 2 pitches are fine.

He doesn't need one but while he has good command his stuff is not super overpowering so I would like an opener taking care of the first 4-5 guys the first time through. Doesn't need that against Detroit and KC but could help against a playoff offense.

Yeah his FIP is well over 5 and his K to BB rate is very bad. He does have stuff but he needs to improve his control a lot. Missing the zone by a bit is ok but he has a lot of pitches that miss by two feet. He needs to work on that in the offseason. I still would want him in a bullpen role for the post season as his stuff could play up in relief.

How about crochet opening for dunning? I think cease has a good future but right now you can't start him with his control issues. Let crochet's power deal with the top of the lineup and then bring in dunning.