redoctober2002

It's a shame that this seems to be the direction teams are taking. Baseball is the perfect sport for radio and when you're listening in to a TV broadcast you just miss certain details cause you don't have the visuals.

Pretty sure it's during radio broadcasts when the team is away. Since the radio team doesn't actually travel with the team they have a sound guy just pump sound effects into the broadcast to simulate stadium noise.

It's ridiculous when you think about it, cause you basically have two guys watching TV and then explaining to you what they see on TV. If they're away, I typically just listen to the home town broadcast. This gives the added benefit of getting to know the other team/players a bit better plus some of the teams have some really good radio personalities.

11 not including tonight which is tied for 5th most in the league. White Sox lead with 18.

Is Sano good enough to eat a couple innings tonight?

Adell giveth Adell taketh away.

Atta boy Adell

Lol... New York felt bad and considers this a make up call for the other day.

They will in September. They'll be on pace for a top 5 pick, go on hot streak and end up with the 10-12 range.

Very tight zone apparently.

I would push back a bit on this, because if your continually having setbacks you due to an inability to get healthy you could consider that setback an injury despite it not showing up in the transaction report. Also last year, one of his setbacks was due to his back even though he was rehabbing from shoulder surgery. I would consider that a different injury. Hey, as long as your happy, I'm happy. On a serious note, my point was that having a guy who can pitch 2-3 innings in blowouts whenever needed or make a spot start on demand can be more valuable than a guy who's has showed an inability to stay healthy for any considerable amount of time in a 7 year career. He's not even on their 40 man so it's not like they're that high on them. Also as if to almost prove a point, the Reno Aces just placed him on the 7-day DL. I can't find any details yet but his transaction log on MILB.com shows the move. Page here: https://www.mlb.com/player/chris-rodriguez-669735

Let's wait and see if Rodriguez is still pitching in June or July before we start having any remorse on that. His issue has never been talent, but more of how long his body holds up. I'd rather have a crap pitcher in AAA that can eat innings over one who's going to be good for two months and then be unavailable for like a year and a half.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. It's pretty crazy to think that the most productive year the Angels might get out of Rendon will be the Covid year where he put up 2.2 bWAR.

Jordan Hicks has been good as well in his transition to starting.

It genuinely baffled me seeing people get upset that the Angels managed to control themselves this off season.

So one of the first contracts I looked up was Degrom's and he has a similar clause where if he misses 130 consecutive season days or 186 days in a service period the Rangers have a conditional option in 28. That option year is much more convulated though and is based on other factors like IP during the contract and medical evaluations. It seems like teams are going to be more likely to add these clauses to pitchers that have a history as a sort of insurance policy when there's enough red flags.

Is it? I'd have to go research it but I can't think of too many contracts off the top of my head that had an option like that when the deal was announced.

Was about to post this same thing. I can't think of too many players with injury options in their contracts. I think a big part of it is that the rotation has been a cluster for years now. It's hard to have a good bullpen when you constantly have to bring relievers in early in the game.

Moniak has shown a huge improvement so far. His swing % outside of the zone has dropped about 20 points compared to last year. Adell is pretty much the poster child of what happens when you draft a guy with great tools but don't have the development system to refine those tools to make a great ballplayer. If anything, this is season to really try to refine everything and hope he figures it out with the help of MLB resources and coaching.

According to baseball savant he's leading the league in average exit velocity at 100.6 with the next closest being Bobby Whitt Jr at 97.6.

Exactly. He's only 22 so power will develop naturally. Last year he sprayed the ball over the field pretty equally. That contrasts to this year where he's pulling the ball 60% of the time. Hopefully he's able to recapture what he did last year.

So it's not quite the same splits, but I went to Fangraphs and created a splits leaderboard with the following conditions: Dates: 3-1-2016 to present Inning: 8, 9, or Extras Leverage Index: High, so LI of 2 or greater. Chart for reference of Leverage Indexes Minimum of 50 plate appearances This left a total of 360 qualifying players. Trout ended up ranking 43rd in wRC+ with a value of 144 (44 percent better than average). The top player was Justin Smoak with a wRC+ of 215 followed by Kyle Tucker at 200. Some interesting names and their rankings: Name wRC+ Rank Bryce Harper 183 6 Aaron Judge 166 11 Juan Soto 163 13 Shohei Ohtani 137 55 Mookie Betts 130 72 Kyle Schwarber 17 351 Link for reference.

I question if that's still relevant in the modern game. From what I remember, the data set used to prove this was from 1952-2004. Since then, there has been a much greater emphasis on putting guys who can get on base in those first two spots rather than, fast guy hits leadoff and guy who can bunt bats second. The only team I can think of that batted their best hitter second consistently in recent years were the Yankees and even now they have Judge batting 3rd this year.

I figured if the Angels were going to get shafted by the Stephenson signing it would be due to regression from him not being on the Rays anymore. He had an elbow injury to start the season last year so it wouldn't surprise me if this ends up being kinda nasty.

What was the ump going on about? Tuned in at the tail end of it.