Weather seems fine for Saturday to me. The rain is supposed to be in the morning with the afternoon/night being cleared out. Awfully cold and windy but they will still play baseball in that.
Gimenez is an elite defensive middle infielder coming off a 6 fWAR season and only had 4 years of team control left. Frelick isn't getting close to that AAV for a 7 year extension.
Honestly would give the baserunning edge to Wiemer as well. Frelick hasn't been nearly as good as Wiemer stealing bases in the minors.
Wiemer has played 236 games and has 61 SB to 9 CS (87% success rate at .26 steals per game). Frelick has played 154 games and has 36 SB to 10 CS (78% success rate at .23 steals per game).
What players have recently dropped off the board? The only SP among our top 10 options that is injured is Ashby and he has been injured the entire spring.
I will add this. Mexico is definitely the best team that Japan has faced in this tournament and Japan is probably slightly worse than the US team that Mexico beat. This is also, I believe, Sasaki's first time ever pitching stateside. Will be an awesome game. I think Japan should be the favorites, but would not at all be surprised with a Mexico upset.
I asked Eno Sarris (creator of stuff+) about Carlos Rodriguez stuff+ numbers yesterday. His overall stuff+ was 92.5 and his best pitch was the cutter with a 114 stuff+. I loved what I saw from Carlos Rodriguez. The confidence and calm he displayed on the mound pitching against a team with 8 MLB players in the lineup was very noticeable. If he can continue improving the stuff, I definitely think he can be a mid-rotation starter in the MLB.
Completely agree. Especially post Lux injury as well. SS is a huge question mark for them now. I think Padres should definitely be favorites in the West and it would not shock me if the Dodgers missed the playoffs this year.
Miller's arm feels very problematic in a game that seems to be trending towards having more steals. You can improve framing/blocking. Can't really make a guy's arm significantly better through training.
I already think it is too late to trade him. If they wanted to trade him this offseason, it should have been done during the winter meetings or shortly after. Doing it right before the season starts would probably deflate the whole team without enough time to come to terms with it before opening day.
This is not remotely true. A large majority of the fanbase and most of the MLB media have sided with Burnes when it comes to how his arb process was handled. Trading him midseason (barring us being completely out of contention) would be a nightmare scenario when it comes to fan support.
Naquin is a terrible CF. He's playable in RF. 1800 innings in RF in his career with -1 DRS, -1.7 UZR/150, -9 OAA. That's pretty comparable to what Renfroe is in RF.
Assuming health, what is your opening day bullpen that puts Strzelecki in AAA? Also assume we carry 6 SP (Burnes, Woodruff, Freddy, Lauer, Miley, Houser) so you only need 7 RP.
Why are the odds of an injury or "discomfort" leading to an IL stint pretty high for Strzelecki...a guy the Brewers have been talking up all offseason.
I'd consider Strzelecki basically a lock. Brewers have talked about him as high leverage guy pretty much all offseason. Cousins not so much a lock. He has a chance to make the opening day roster, but likely would involve showing some improvement on his command this spring training.