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Melton was the Astros top prospect. He moved into the Rays top 4 according to Pipeline (Rays have a much better system than the Astros) and...
I'm not going to make a list, but I'll say that the one guy I'm considerably higher on than consensus is Ethan Frey. If you exclude prospects who...
Yeah, I don't think Paredes is a viable 2nd basemen due to his poor lateral movement. On a recent Chandler Rome podcast (maybe the one before the...
I jumped off that train last night seeing his velo down 2.2 MPH. It was down 4-5 MPH his last inning of work.
They would take on his contract because the Astros would include surplus value in the form of prospects. There are also other factors at play as...
Only if you suck. The real problem is Houston signed a 34 year old 1B/DH only player whose K rate increased 5% the previous season. He further...
I admit that trading Walker would be a large hurdle, but it was a thought exercise of how I'd approach acquiring Correa specifically. To me, if...
The Correa rumors are obviously a longshot, but if these talks were happening I'd insist on Christian Walker going the other way to help offset...
How about Ramon Laureano? He's having a career year with a 140 wRC+ and the underlying metrics back it up. He has a higher wxOBA than anyone on...
Very happy with the Neyens pick. He's the kind of high upside bat that could be a Roman Anthony or Jac Caglianone type prospect in 2-3 years.
Baseball America recently did a podcast on sleeper prospects which mentioned both Bryce Mayer and Kevin Alvarez. Geoff Pontes said Kevin Alvarez...
This lineup is nowhere near 2017. The 2017 team had a 121 wRC+ which is third highest of any team since 1980. The only two higher teams (excluding...
Bregman's first full season of minor league ball was 2016. He was the ranked first overall by some outlets before his call up that year.
Rockies players home/road splits are meaningless and have zero predictive value. Rockies hitters perform worse on the road than any other team...
Bregman to 2nd and Altuve to LF would make the most sense. Paredes has no business in the outfield. He is slow-footed and has the body of a 53...
I really like this pick. Despite being known as a speedster he had some of the highest exit velos at the draft combine this year....
Basically if you wanted to predict how Yainer's (or any player's) platoon splits would look next year, merely using the average RHB split...
It actually takes 3,000-4,000 PA for a hitter's actual platoon splits to better predict their future performance than generic platoon splits.
[MEDIA] Chris Clegg talking about Luis Baez and his statcast numbers last year in the DSL. He notes that Baez's 90th percentile exit velo was...
Here's an interview with Kris Gross. The interview starts 7:30. He's quite high on Tredwell (not surprising as he's the scouting director). He...
