What I've read on him, a 4th to 7th seems way more on point than where someone like Burke who was a significantly better college player went. Why do you think he should be picked where Burke did?
6'1 270lb 1B who has a 115 wRC+ doesn't really feel like a guy who profiles as a late 1st value. For example Blake Burke in his draft year had a 147 wRC+. Sasaki also performed really poorly on the Cape last summer.
Oneil Cruz has owned us in the past while he mostly struggled against the rest of the league, now that he's crushing the rest of the league, can we please start owning him?
Yes not a real insider. They take online speculation and rumors that are realistic and then pretend to actually have inside info. It was pretty widely speculated online last night that Black would be called up today after he was removed from the Nashville lineup before their game started last night.
Don't think there was reason to believe Zerpa would be this bad but also the expectations for him were probably way too high for a guy who has never been anything more than a mediocre middle reliever in his 170+ IP before he got to Milwaukee.
Thank you for being one of the few to acknowledge how good the NL Central has become. It was easily the 2nd best division in baseball last year behind the AL East. I'm tired of the NL Central being looped in with the AL Central as the little brother division when the NL Central has consistently been much better than the AL Central in the recent past and now the NL Central looks more like a powerhouse division filled with young talent all over the division.
@Matthew Trueblood Do you think it's a coincidence that Mitchell is doing the worst he's ever done in his career against pitches in the upper third while also doing the best he has in his career in general? I was talking about this over on BCB but part of me wonders if just accepting he's terrible against pitches up and not trying to reduce whiff or hang against them more could be a net positive if he's doing so much better in the rest of the zone and laying off pitches out of the zone. It makes him a more extreme and polarizing profile but that might be the profile that is best for Mitchell?
4 DRS to 2 DRS favoring Hoerner. 1 baserunning run to 0 favoring Hoerner. That's your gap in WAR despite Turang hitting a bit better. Also Turang missed a couple games due to ankle tendinitis so Hoerner has 13 more PA than him.
Pitching at Charlotte has to be one of the worst places to pitch in pro baseball. No humidor because it's AAA and just laughably small park dimensions.