Lol, you listen to Dana and believe what he says publicly lololol I seriously doubt he cares where the guy stands if he can mash RHP
OMG yes we would There is NO way I would trade guys like that for Lux simply because he stands in the left handed batters box. Lux is about as mid as it gets. He would be a serviceable player for us, but his hot start got people excited around here and since the end of that GREAT April, his OPS is mid 600s If we brought Lux in for Shea, or something like that it would be fine. But hell no to trading any of our few legitimate assets for him Also for those excited about Hummel, it’s been great watching him have some good at bats the past week or so, but there is no legitimate reason to think that all of the sudden he is someone who helps us win a title. Pretty much every player brought to MLB has the ability to have a great 30-40 at bat sample We need to bring in someone who has a strong history of hitting RHP that can play LF/2B
Agree with all this except your write-off of Hummel. Hummel has consistently been an elite hitter in the minors. If you don’t believe small samples have value, you can toss out his poor MLB performances in 2023 and 2024. So really you’re weighing his 200 pa sample from his rookie season in 2022 (where he posted a clearly unlucky .255 BABIP and a healthy walk rate) against his entire minor league career. He’s 50 pa into this season in the majors (where k rate tends to stabilize), and he is posting very solid bb/k #s. There is nothing in his underlying numbers that indicates his 123 wRC+ or .344 wOBA are due to luck. He posts very good plate discipline stats and solid power/exit velocity. His weakness in 2022 in MLB was bad batted ball luck and swinging and missing too much on good pitches; the first thing appears to have normalized and the second is something that wouldn’t be unheard of to improve upon. I’m not saying Hummel is an elite big leaguer all of a sudden. But there’s plenty of evidence that he can be above average and warrant an extended look in LF and in the bottom 1/3 of the lineup. It would not surprise me one bit if Hummel hits better for the remainder of the season than guys like Gavin Lux or Cedric Mullins.
