Mears also had zero track record of success in MLB. It was all stuff/underlying metrics that made Mears valuable while Megill has multiple seasons of success.
@Brock Beauchamp These are the players listed who didn't get any votes last time - Jorge Quintana, Christopher Acosta, Tanner Gillis, Matthew Wood, and Yerlin Rodriguez. Don't know if you want to remove them or not.
Man I wonder when the last time both of our DSL teams were below .500 at the same time.
Very slow starts for our three biggest bonuses of the IFA class. Fenelon is leading the way with a .506 OPS, Antunez is at a .451 OPS, and Acosta still has yet to get his first pro hit starting the year 0-25 with a .074 OPS.
Man the Wisconsin and Carolina pitching staffs are looking extremely thin right now. Carolina has 13 healthy pitchers. Wisconsin has 12 healthy pitchers.
It seems Tanner Gillis might be dealing with something considering he didn’t start last week and he’s not listed as one of the starters for this week for Wisconsin.
It's been said a few times but there's no space for Burke in AA until one of Wilken, Adames, Boeve get promoted to AAA unless they want Adams to get reps in LF.
Boeve drew a walk after the Adams HBP and while Montgomery made a pitching change Adams was pinch ran for. Looks to have hopefully avoided a major injury.
Yeah you just don't understand what they are saying. Nobody is saying "oh wow that's unlucky it was caught" on a lineout right at an infielder. They are saying it's unlucky that the ball was hit right at the infielder. Perfect example is the Ortiz lineout to Tatis that you made a fuss about earlier in the thread. Nobody was saying that's unlucky that Tatis caught it. They were saying it was unlucky for Ortiz to put a really nice swing on the ball and have it end up in an OF glove.
I'd like to see him get moved up to Biloxi soon to see how the bat looks there. He can play pretty well both SS and CF and has above average power. Definitely a guy you'd like to keep in the org if he can go to AA this year and keep the K-rate under 30% and still flash the power/glove combo.
Just say you don't understand what the numbers mean. xBA is just measuring is EV and LA (sprint speed on topped batted balls). It does not factor in what direction you hit the ball. It does not factor in where the defense is positioned. It doesn't factor in backspin/top spin.
Just because you don't know what it means and are trying to interpret it as hit probability doesn't mean it's useless.
Man I hope Travis Smith is okay and the short hook was planned today. I know he was pitching on 4 days rest so maybe it was intentionally short but 31 pitches in 3 innings and getting pulled with the state of the Mudcats pitching staff doesn't feel very intentional.