Riggo#44

Law blows. He sucks.

He looked like Patrick Corbin did in 2019. The Slider, splitter than looks like a strike for about 58 ft. and then disappears.

THis is the offseason to spend. Sign Corbin Burnes. Go after Max Fried. Walker Beuler is a free agent. He's a complete moron and a wierdo, but I'd over look that if Alonso was hitting 45 bombs on Half Street. With Wood and Crews likely this year, House likely next year. Ciolek taking a different approach to the draft, lets break out of this scrap heap off-seasons and go get some good players.

Our line is going to be far better this year, I think.

Man I am so sorry I missed this, I am sure it was connected and well sourced:

Harvey's Better: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/huntering-the-most-dangerous-game/

Early metrics too show Ruiz has improved considerably, defensively (SSS caveat attached).

Hang on... Yep...math checks out. He also faced two very good lineups. Big Pitch Mitch has been very impressive!

He was bad last year too though. He’s hitting a ton of soft, ground balls. His metrics are not good. I hope this sparks him

I saw this on Twitter--this is a great call. Well done.

Very definition of a fluke. I’m hoping Morales can push his way up by the end of the year

Gore has a lot of red in his ledger.

It’s only shocking to those who just parrot annoying tropes that are demonstrably untrue. Witt has been incredible. Stott is a second baseman and plays for the Phillies, therefore he sucks and is a degenerate scum bag.

Look what the Yankees gave up to get Soto for just this year: Michael King: 28, swingman, currently leading the majors in walks (5.0 BB/9), good ERA, 5.19 FIP Jhony Brito: 26, 7.00 ERA, 1.778 WHIP. Career 4.72 FIP Randy Vásquez: 25, another good ERA, 4.98 FIP, lots of walks, few strikeouts Drew Thorpe: 23, currently at AA, BA's 58th rated prospect. Older than Abrams, Wood, Hassell. Kyle Higashioka: A big nothing. Compare that to the start Abrams (younger than all of them), Gore (younger than everyone other than Thorpe), Wood (two years younger than Thorpe, vaporizing baseballs at AAA) are having--let alone anything we get from Hassell and Susana. The Padres got a middling return (even though Kiley McDaniel at ESPN was saying the Padres got more than they gave up to us.) That for, what? A year and a half/two years more of Soto? Also, if we have Soto, are we picking 2 and getting Crews or even Langford? What if we're picking 10 last year?

What does that accomplish other than diminish his value and minimizes our return?

Nice win today to get the series win in LA! Harvey and Finnegan looked really good. Irvin was outstanding. And Abrams continues to crush the ball!

He was on my **** list, with Menses, Robles, and Williams. Garcia and Williams are really having a great start. I would LOVE for Garcia to keep this up and lock down second. He has really cut down on the boneheaded plays (still has one here and there, but so do all players). I caught some of Grant and Danny yesterday--they actually said Trevor Williams is a guy who can give you some length and he's been doing well and should be given the ball longer. There is nothing accurate about that statement. He's been doing well because he is not seeing the lineup a third time.

Not really. He was walking at a 5.5% rate, which is 19th percentile. He's good defensively, but he's an automatic out right now (60 OPS+, 58 WRC+). He's in the bottom 20% of most offensive categories per Statcast: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/trey-lipscomb-702358?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

Why? What did he demonstrate to deserve being moved up? He was tapping soft ground balls (85 avg EV, almost 70% ground ball rate). He’s solid defensively but he needs more time in the minors. Big Pitch Mitch!! First pitcher to win his debut since Strasburg, I think. Our Nationals nightmare is over!

Man, smart hires that address incoming problems, not putting out fires. How refreshing. It's been 9-ish months and it's still feels so good.

So we'll be aware of overtime rules and when we can be eliminated?

Takes his playbook to a division rival, to which many are unconcerned, since he doesn't really know what's in it.