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06-25-2024, 06:51 PM | #252 | |
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Yeah, I’m hoping they can piece together enough relief pitching. They also have some starters that might be able to contribute here in a few months. Is going to be back soon, so maybe you can get rid of that bullpen game once a week. Mike Burrows is ramping up and might be able to give them something later on. He was really well regarded but had TJ. Falter is decent most of the time. Hitting wise you have no prospects. Looking at needing an upgrade at 1b/c/RF/CF on offense. Shoutout to Bryan Reynolds right now. He’s killing it in June. |
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06-26-2024, 01:45 PM | #253 |
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The Pirates' announcers have been going nuts about how hot Bryan Reynolds has been in the month of June and he has been. He has like a 23 game hit streak and has hit in every single game to this point, which is cool. He has a slash of .360/.418/.663 (1.081 OPS) which is fantastic.
I looked up Barry Bonds for comparison and his career OPS is 1.051 and he had six entire seasons that were better than Reynolds' June and his career OPS was 1.051 (and 1.143 in his 15 years with the Giants). His OPS in his 7 years with the Pirates was only .883, which dragged down his career total. And he won two MVPs with Pittsburgh and finished 2nd in another. It is just insane how good Bonds' was and I still think ridiculous that he is not in the Hall of Fame. |
06-26-2024, 02:02 PM | #254 |
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In the past 100 years, Reynolds has the 23rd highest career batting average in June
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06-26-2024, 02:48 PM | #255 | |
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Think what Reynolds might hit if he was the sleazebag that Bonds was. The only HOF that Bonds belongs in is "People Who Should Only Be Mentioned Again When They Do The World A Favor and Fucking Die"
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06-26-2024, 02:52 PM | #256 |
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Lol I knew that was coming
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06-27-2024, 02:47 AM | #257 |
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Looking thru offensive guys who teams might be selling is depressing. The list of (maybe)available 100 OPS+ guys is pathetic. It’s like Brent Rooker, Taylor Ward, Gavin Sheets, Pham?, like I guess Luis Robert and uhhhh. Nobody can hit and it sucks.
In the next 30 or so days there has to be some sort of WC separation in the NL especially. Last edited by stevew : 06-27-2024 at 02:57 AM. |
06-27-2024, 06:49 AM | #258 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Today's MLB looks like when I create a fictional OOTP league and let it change modifiers on its own, then in like 2045 the league is hitting .223 and I'm in the settings adding zeros to everything trying to right the ship.
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07-01-2024, 07:10 AM | #259 |
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Happy Bobby Bonilla day to all who celebrate!
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07-01-2024, 08:16 AM | #260 |
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07-01-2024, 05:27 PM | #261 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Not as well known as Bonilla's payday, but today is also the 16th and final payment of $3.6M the Reds have to make to Ken Griffey Jr.
Nice deal if you can get it.
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07-01-2024, 08:30 PM | #262 |
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That Griffey payment makes him the sixth highest-paid player on the team.
Given the way they've played this year he might be the best OF, too.
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I just saw that the Marlins released Tim Anderson, who just signed a one-year deal for $5M.
I wonder if the Pirates know that they can release one-year rentals halfway through the season when they bring zero to negative value. Looking at you: Rowdy Tellez, Michael A. Taylor, and Yasmani Grandal. It's almost like their management thinks they are playing a sim with an algorithm, where your front office loses reputation if you cut players or something. |
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Tellez threw up a .936 OPS last month but yes for the love of god I’ve seen enough of Taylor and Grandal. But already we’re working on a 5 catcher season so Grandal being available(at present) is worth something. Connor Joe gets away with not getting a hit for months too. Hayes is also back to being an auto out it seems.
I think they should at least try to cut Taylor in the next seven days and bring up either Palacios who is on the 40 man or at least give Matt Gorski a shot. He’s pretty much the only one in AAA who’s doing anything. You might be the only hitter in the whole entire organization that is doing anything right now. |
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Tellez has looked a little better, but I'm not sure I have ever seen a supposed power hitter (4 HR in 215 ABs from our 300 lb 1B!) take so many fastballs right down the middle for called strike threes. If there is a scouting report, I feel like the pitchers must be, "So you are telling me I should just throw a straight fastball down the middle with two strikes and you are reassuring me he will not swing?!" Grandal has been awful - I can't find statistics on catcher's interferences, but I know I have seen him do it at least twice this season in like 40 games. He gives up passed balls and throws out like 20% of SB attempts. I don't know how his WAR isn't negative 10.0. Taylor, I hate the least, but his defense hasn't been great and his hitting is hilarious. He hit 21 homers last year and has 6 extra base hits all this year as a regular. That's before we even get to the younger(ish) guys that still have control: Davis, Suwinski, Hayes, Olivares. It is a mystery how the 4 or 5 legitimate big league hitters that they do have are able to be around ball bats everyday and not just bludgeon some of these guys to death. They do have OOTP legend Seth Beer sitting in AAA right now... |
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All the Pirates talk made me curious about something, so I grabbed the ESPN stats page. I'm not trying to defend nor convict any Pirates, I was simply curious about how many players this season have been arguably even worse than their worst offenders.
582 players listed with a WAR score (since I can't filter out those with too few ABs to even qualify). #580 is Jack Suwinski at -1.8 on 200 ABs Only Benetindi and Maldonado of CWS are both worse with 100 or more ABs From here, I'll start to try to narrow it to something like "players with similar or meaningful ABs" Next lowest Pirate is Grandal at #533, with a -0.5 WAR on 115 ABs There are 5 catchers alone even worse (mostly part-timers) and nearly 50 non-Pirates of all positions even worse Next lowest Pirate is actually Olivares at #503, with a 0.4 WAR on 167 ABs There are 7 right fielders with at least half his ABs even worse Next low Pirate is Alika Williams, #459 with -0.2 on 62 ABs but I'll skip over since that's kinda low appearances Next low Pirate is Henry Davis, #446 with -0.2 on 85 ABs 11 total catchers (including those even worse than Grandal) with similar ABs are lower Next low Pirate is Tellez, #436 with a -0.1 on 198 ABs 13 first basemen with at least 80 ABs are even worse. That feels like a real benchmark, that's close to half the teams giving playing time at the position who are in even worse shape Next low Pirate is Taylor, all the way up at #233 with a 0.4 on 157 ABs There are 12 CFs (not counting Suwinski) with at least 75 ABs even worse. So now I know, and so do you My own conclusion, YMMV, is that there's plenty of suck on the Pirates but there's also plenty of suck in MLB too.
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The Suwinski dropoff is pretty baffling. He was a decent player at 23 and 24. Looks like he's been a bit unlucky this year (.227 BABIP), but even his defense has cratered. I guess there is a much smaller margin for error when you strike out 30% of the time.
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