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We picked him up for $3 in the XFL. Not the first coward/a$$hole/bum that I've owned....and undoubtedly won't be the last.
Need a page for Andres Gimenez ... BP's #1 Mets' prospect for 2019.
I think he's going to be an opportunity for anyone willing to have a coward / a$$hole / bum on their roster ... because there will be some owners who will not forget his beaning of Acuna ...
What metric is this?
The D-Backs acquired Luke Weaver in the Goldschmidt deal b/c Shelby Miller was not available.
And off to the Cards, for two MLBers who could be labeled "post-hype prospects" ... Luke Weaver and Carson Kelly.
Owed $14 mil this year ... probably worth $25 mil. So the Cards will not only get an underpriced year of a perennial MVP candidate ... but also most likely a 1st round pick in 2020.
NL Central is going to be brutal next year.
19 games at 3B! So close, and yet so far . . . I think $13 is a pretty accurate price.
Ranked ninth in the AL in slugging against RHP (.519).
Jose Ramirez was fourth (.586). Everyone else in the top 10 bats right.
Moving from Philly to Seattle, along with another trip around the sun, isn't going to help him turn back into a 30+ HR hitter again. And if he falls below 20...?
Going from Ahmed-Marte behind him, to Trea Turner-Kendrick, is not going to be kind to Corbin. Last year a .202 BA on ground balls ... compared to .242 the year before.
Hard to imagine there's a universe where his D is a positive, but perhaps because his failures -- when he has them -- are so obvious, we recall them so clearly. When he has passed balls, they're REAL passed balls, and his effort to block them sometimes looks like OBJ chasing an onside kick.
We had him last year at $25, and felt fine about it, with the results you see above. At $20? We might go to the well again.
Sanchez not only fails to make the 2018 Trailers in the Bill James Handbook (Chirinos thread), he's deemed a positive when wearing a catcher's mask by both Fangraphs (Def 5.9) and Baseball-Reference (dWAR 0.5).
I don't know anyone who watched a lot of Yankee games who agrees.
According to the New York papers, the Yankees are at least tempted to trade Sanchez for Realmuto. I wonder if Brian Cashman, as he mulls this over, looks at the 3-year trailers in the Bill James Handbook?
Hundely, Nick -39
Realmuto, J.T. -25
Butera, Drew -24
Lucroy, Jonathan -22
Narvaez, Omar -21
Rupp, Cameron -20
It's easy to see that his offense slipped. Most of the defensive metrics say his defense also slipped but remained a positive (B-R dWAR 0.3, Fangraphs Def 3.3).
Not so with John Dewan's Defensive Runs Saves. He goes from +2 in 2017 to -11 last year. Only five catchers (Hundley, Garver, Narvaez, Ellis and Lucroy) were worse.
In the end, though, doesn't it still depend on what the scouts tell you? If you're a GM, don't you talk to someone who has carefully watched Chirinos play this year before you acquire him?
He stays in State, moving to the Astros on a one-year deal. No salary disclosed. I had such high hopes for Garrett Stubbs, sigh....
It took a while, but Kelly finally gets his first comment. He has signed on with Arizona, a two year $5.5 million deal with team options on 2021 and 2022. Until Taijuan Walker returns, he'll likely have a spot in the DBacks rotation. Here's his KBO stats.
Nick Senzel (elbow) said he's expected to be ready to swing a bat by the end of December.
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New No. 1 prospect on the Mets.