Hope he hooked up with Neck and showed him how to lift weights again.
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Hope he hooked up with Neck and showed him how to lift weights again.
Kemp's value will be in his oWAR. If we are thinking of moving him next off season, he will have to have a big year at the plate. What he does in the field will just have to be accepted as 'it is what it is'.. If he OPS's to an .850 range, then we have something that can be moved.
train to reign is the hoodie i guess Ron is wearing?
hood part looks the same
was curious what it was but not a fan of the train to reign slogan on the front for me to buy it for myself
The Talking Chop crew did an interview with Coppy. Most interesting part is the comparison he makes between the Braves' and Cubs' rebuild processes (starts around the 8 minute mark). Paraphrasing here, but he says they didn't feel the longer rebuild time-horizon that the Cubs used was an option for them . . . and that the Cubs had a lot more money at their disposal.
Also, he mentioned that some team offered Maitan around $10m, and he stuck to his word to sign with the Braves for half of that.
https://soundcloud.com/foxsportssout...active-trading
If he doesn't think the Braves have time for a longer rebuild than he should brought in actual MLB players instead of car accident and two 40 something year old pitchers.
The good news is that his range (by UZR standards) was better with the Braves than anything he's done since 2011. Small sample of course but we will see how it plays out over a full season. I do think he will cost the team about 1 win on defense (fangraphs version) when not factoring in the position adjustment.
What we are talking about are 3 completely different things. dWAR is from bref and uses DRS as it's defensive metric. DRS was much more unkind to Kemp than UZR was (which is what fangraphs uses). Also, dWAR includes the positional penalty of playing left which I was leaving out.