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He was waiting for the match-up he'd been anticipating for 3 innings ahead.

Sinker sitting at 95. He doesn't get S&M without 97-98

8th inning..... <g,d&r>

Turn out the lighhhhts......This party's oooover...

too much loud contact off Vest.

Wenceel alligator arms a ball he was there to catch. Lead cut in half

250 is probably more than the overall team BA.

Montero will likely give up another one or two before we ever get to the BP

watching the Angels is like looking in the mirror

So Torkelson took the 2nd pitch for strike one - a little up but over the center of the plate - a ball that he can certainly get in the air for the sac fly, and instead struck on pitches that were all much harder to get to. Riley has had two pure 2025 Riley ABs where he was flailing away no where near the ball. I really hate watching these guys hit.

Well, at least Torkelson was watching the play.

terrible play by Vierling

Well that fizzled quickly. But one is better than none.

Keith and Torkelson both seem to be guys who spend time playing below their talent because their brains are in the way. For Colt, we can probably assume the HR drought is at a point it's messing seriously with his head.

fast healer.

i like defense as much as the next guy, but the league average plays for a SS in 9 innings is 4.5 and probably 90% of those are routine. That’s works out to about a play every two games where a better defender is likely to matter. OTOH, in those two games that player had 7-9 PA, every one of which mattered. That’s an extreme view, but the numbers are what they are.

could be. McK was a little rough at SS when he first arrived but seemed to play pretty well there last season, so that would make sense.

part of the family hails from ex-christian anatolia.

Sample sizes for relievers suck. That said, his walk rate is too high, but his WHIP is still in the ballpark of his career norm because he's giving up fewer hits along with the walks -- so that's a little contradictory. His velo isn't down measurably. The most optimistic reading is the HRs were just bad luck and skew his other numbers and the rest is just SSS noise. The less optimistic reading is the walks are the leading indicator of a degrading arm. Like Chasfh said - we are going to find out one way or the other.

true enough but what else have you got then besides old-school conventional wisdom, the thing from whose errors and prejudices we are trying to inoculate ourselves in the analytics era? If a guy holds his own for 120 PA against LHP and in particular has a reasonable K rate - a number which usually does stabilize pretty fast, where's the strength in the argument against letting that keep playing out? It comes down to someone saying "well I've been managing baseball for X decades and I believe most guys will crash back to earth" But any particular guy is not necessarily "most guys", so if all you have is a general prejudice, as the Dude would say: "Well, that's like..just your opinion man" this also an area where you would think tech should start making a difference. The reason given that LHH have worse platoon splits on average then RHH is that RHH have no choice but to see a lot of RHP. But with Trajekt (et al), a LHH who wants to work at it can practice against good LHP as much as he wants. We'll see if that has any effect across the league over time.

And McKinstry had a reverse platoon split last season. He's only had 8 AB against LHP and is hitless so far. IDK, somtimes it seems the management is slave to statistics until there's one that doesn't meet with their prejudices.

it was a very interesting place - they did a lot of things in ways they had never been done before and haven't been since.

I hope the slot him ahead of Vanasco or Hanifee

you can call it hindsight or you can say that the right choices are the difference between winners and losers. If there is no way to ever inform your choices better, then you might as well have kept Al Avila. It's Harris' job to figure out how to put resources where they produce the most return. No-one expects perfection - but you don't like seeing patterns in failure either.

for me the most valid criticism of Harris is the money spent on non-productive signings that would have been better spent on productive ones. I'm not sure where the disconnect lies between evaluation of draft and minor league prospects and current major league players, but there seems to be one. And it has mostly been on the pitching side (Paddock, Meada, Morton, Verlander is a sad list which I hope that Jansen doesn't add to). Torres earned his money last season. It's one thing to have misses, but a miss like Verlander is an expensive one - those dollars could have been spent on someone who is helping.