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He's still young, but i have to wonder if he's going to get labeled as a AAAA hitter. Crushes AAA pitching, but can't adjust to the majors. The Angels have to believe in him - they let Upton go to give him the full-time opportunity.
Today's Swattie being me...
SWAT 4/16
Today’s Swattie is thinking letting Vest go last week was a mistake. Five teams really wanted a hitter on the Oakland A’s, a team that could really use a hitter. Four teams bid furiously for a pitcher who was drafted in the 11th round last year and is not on any prospect list.
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Yeah, I checked his AAA stats the other day, as I still own him. He's killing it; I have no idea when they'll bring him back.
Moreover:
13 K in 31 AB before DL ... 10 K in 55 AB since.
Four scoreless, hitless, walkless IP against the Fish yesterday for the save. Fanned eight. When he came into the game to start the sixth, the score was 5-3. Me, I'd give him four holds to go with the save.
In 39 of his innings, Carrasco has given up 9 runs. In the other 2 ... 8 ER.
Were it not for those two one-inning disasters, his ERA would be 2.07.
I think of Ben Grieve, who seemed to have so much talent (and at 23 and 24 showed much more of it than Grisham did) who began washing out at 25. Both take lots of walks, does that lead to a lack of swing attack? The strikeouts say yes, as the does the Top 10 rank in called strikes. But the company there isn't bad at all.
| # | Name | Team | O-Swing% | Z-Swing% | Swing% | O-Contact% | Z-Contact% | Contact% | Zone% | F-Strike% | SwStr% | CStr% | CSW% |
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| 1 | Daniel Vogelbach | PIT | 20.9% | 47.2% | 32.4% | 67.2% | 91.1% | 82.4% | 43.6% | 51.3% | 5.7% | 27.1% | 32.8% |
| 2 | Pavin Smith | ARI | 23.8% | 53.3% | 35.8% | 56.5% | 84.4% | 73.4% | 40.8% | 58.8% | 9.5% | 24.7% | 34.2% |
| 3 | Steven Kwan | CLE | 25.3% | 52.5% | 37.1% | 92.4% | 96.2% | 94.7% | 43.4% | 57.9% | 2.0% | 24.3% | 26.2% |
| 4 | Jake Cronenworth | SDP | 23.6% | 54.9% | 37.5% | 68.3% | 94.0% | 85.0% | 44.2% | 61.5% | 5.6% | 24.1% | 29.7% |
| 5 | Garrett Cooper | MIA | 28.9% | 59.1% | 41.6% | 67.9% | 87.5% | 79.6% | 42.0% | 65.0% | 8.5% | 23.6% | 32.1% |
| 6 | Seiya Suzuki | CHC | 22.7% | 58.6% | 38.5% | 65.2% | 84.3% | 78.0% | 44.0% | 61.7% | 8.5% | 23.6% | 32.0% |
| 7 | Myles Straw | CLE | 20.4% | 61.5% | 39.1% | 75.8% | 92.2% | 87.5% | 45.5% | 64.1% | 4.9% | 23.4% | 28.3% |
| 8 | Darin Ruf | SFG | 25.6% | 59.1% | 39.9% | 64.6% | 81.6% | 75.3% | 42.7% | 61.4% | 9.8% | 23.2% | 33.0% |
| 9 | Max Muncy | LAD | 20.9% | 51.1% | 33.2% | 57.4% | 88.6% | 76.9% | 40.7% | 59.4% | 7.7% | 22.6% | 30.3% |
| 10 | Trent Grisham | SDP | 21.7% | 59.2% | 37.0% | 71.2% | 78.3% | 75.8% | 40.9% | 56.8% | 8.9% | 21.8% | 30.7% |
| 11 | Paul Goldschmidt | STL | 33.6% | 56.0% | 42.9% | 67.8% | 84.9% | 77.0% | 41.4% | 69.9% | 9.8% | 21.5% | 31.4% |
| 12 | Robbie Grossman | DET | 21.2% | 62.4% | 38.0% | 60.3% | 82.6% | 75.2% | 40.8% | 62.5% | 9.4% | 21.4% | 30.8% |
| 13 | Ha-seong Kim | SDP | 27.3% | 57.9% | 41.3% | 72.1% | 90.1% | 83.6% | 45.6% | 59.6% | 6.8% | 21.2% | 27.9% |
| 14 | Kyle Schwarber | PHI | 24.9% | 59.1% | 38.9% | 60.2% | 80.4% | 72.8% | 41.0% | 56.3% | 10.6% | 20.9% | 31.5% |
| 15 | Yasmani Grandal | CHW | 21.6% | 57.5% | 37.4% | 65.5% | 87.7% | 80.6% | 44.1% | 57.4% | 7.3% | 20.4% | 27.7 |
If Odubel is going down he's going down swinging. This is funny video.
Homered off Pujols yesterday after he had been inserted as the pitcher for the Giants, making him the 2nd pitcher to homer this season.
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Not his BA, that's for sure ... nor his ISO ... walk rate is good ... OK, that's all obvious, and not what you're asking ... for that, I dunno ... I'll ask around and post back if/when I get anything meaningful ...
11 of 12 PCL teams bid for his services.
The exception? Kent, who's in first. Dark powers are at work.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/15/mets-getting-first-taste-of-hardship-after-hot-2022-start/
There were 38,476 people inside Citi Field on a picture-perfect afternoon and they knew — they just knew — how this was going to end. The Mets had entered the bottom of the ninth down 8-5 to the Mariners. It was now 8-7. There was one out. The tying and winning runs were in scoring position.
The rancor inside the yard reflects a new perspective for Mets fans, who so often look for black cats and dark clouds, even on a day as brilliantly sunny as this. The 2022 Mets had done this before, after all. They play all 27 outs. Of course they were going to pull this out.
They didn’t pull it out. Diego Castillo and his ERA north of 9 struck out Starling Marte. Then after Seattle manager opted to walk Francisco Lindor to load the bases, Castillo threw six sliders through the shadows at Pete Alonso. No. 6 was ball four and would have tied the game but Alonso broke his wrists with a half swing.
Mighty Polar Bear had struck out.
He tossed a career-high eight innings — one start after setting the mark with 7 ¹/₃ innings — and made Chicago look nearly as hapless as the Rangers in his last outing, when he took a no-hitter into the eighth.
“I told him that was good, even for him,’’ Aaron Boone said after the Yankees beat the White Sox for the third time in four games. “It was another special outing. He was in complete control.”
Rotoworld:
05.15: Rowan Wick gave up a hit in the bottom of the ninth Sunday against the
If you pitch for the A's, you are going to get a lot of these.
Rotoworld:
05.15: Frankie Montas yielded two runs over six innings Sunday as the
Rotoworld:
05.15: Chad Pinder went 2-for-2 with a walk Sunday in a loss to the
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Way too passive at the plate. Envisions himself as a leadoff hitter who must see a lot of pitches, however, in doing that seems to almost always let a first pitch fastball get by for a called strike and then further gets into a pitcher's count by fouling off the next one or two balls. Other teams know his pattern and take advantage of it. That is why Melvin has "temporarily" removed him from the leadoff spot, trying to force him to be more aggressive early in the count. He likes the OBP stat but that takes away from the SA and BA; when he is aggressive, like that one stretch last year before he got hurt again, he is much more of a contributor to the offense.