Jake Meyers hit his 3rd HR tonight. He also made a really good defensive play breaking on a ball and throwing a guy out at 3rd. He is really on my radar. There’s no way he keeps up this level of hitting, but even just a 850 ops over 200 pa should put him as a guy they’d rather have on the big league roster than McCormick. He is pretty easily a superior defensive CF to Straw.
That’s the question. Right now he projects as a pretty crummy hitter, something around a 75 wRC+ or .220/.280/.340 line, which isn’t good enough to unseat Straw, although I would still prefer that with Meyers stellar defense over McCormick, and itd be roughly about as good as Kevin Kiermeier has been since 2018. But if he has taken a big step up with his power and contact profile, then he maybe becomes a league average hitter, which makes him about as good as Kiermeier was from 2014-2017; that’s a star level player.
Yes, I mentioned that comp a few pages back. Marisnick would be a 90th percentile outcome for him. And I would much rather have Marisnick as the everyday CF than Straw right now.
Yes, but how do we know that Jake would be on the DL if all the other situations around him were different? Does the bobrek baseball butterfly effect not apply here?
I'm not suggesting that at all. I wish they had signed Jake as well. It just seems to follow that he gets off to great starts and then something happens.
Back of the envelope, that’s probably costing them ~$400,000 total over the course of the season. Money well spent imho. So silly that the minor league compensation issue still isn’t resolved. Pay these guys a living wage so that you can maximize their ability to focus on developing.
It's honestly always been patently absurd to me to me as well. In modern sports, teams spare no expense to gain every advantage they can. Dieticians, High Speed Cameras, Sleep Doctors, yet they have been willing to let prospects live like Burger king employees. It's always reeked of making sure they know their place as free labor, not based in anything productive.
Everyone in the system who I've liked has turned out to be not great, so here's hoping. It's nice that this system appears to have more than one catcher who can be a factor on offense every now and then. Nerio apparently had a decent reputation as a hitter when he was an amateur.
