Interesting way to look at this since the OP is touting his unbelievable ability to project the future. Say we took the players Seattle took...
Are you really better off moving Lewis to a corner (he certainly never would displace Pache), and getting Joe Rizzo in the 2nd round than coming away with Anderson, Wentz, and Muller???
Would guess it all boils down to whether you think Lewis winds up being a better player than Waters in the long run AND whether you could trade Waters for a pair of better pitching prospects than Anderson and Muller - you wouldn't keep all 3 of those OFs with Acuna on the roster.
I personally preferred Lewis at the time (in part because he was a small-school hero that ate my alma mater alive), but certainly don't see the need to crow about anything just yet - we've all seen what happened once Pitchers got the book on Riley, and given the inevitable move to the universal DH along with the potential opportunity to use Openers and/or piggyback the big-time arms we've stockpiled it's pretty hard to say I'd rather have Lewis by himself given the state of our system.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
JohnAdcox (09-21-2020)
JohnAdcox (08-03-2020)
Well, that took a strange turn.
JohnAdcox (08-03-2020)
A 7 game sample is completely meaningless in every way. It's like...25-30 PAs max?
https://library.fangraphs.com/princi...0more%20stable.
“Stabilization” Points for Offense Statistics:
60 PA: Strikeout rate
120 PA: Walk rate
240 PA: HBP rate
290 PA: Single rate
1610 PA: XBH rate
170 PA: HR rate
910 AB: AVG
460 PA: OBP
320 AB: SLG
160 AB: ISO
80 BIP: GB rate
80 BIP: FB rate
600 BIP: LD rate
50 FBs: HR per FB
820 BIP: BABIP
I suppose you could get a rough idea of raw power after 30 PAs based on max exit velocity, but that's pretty much all I can think of.
Freshmaker (07-31-2020), Garmel (07-31-2020), JohnAdcox (08-03-2020), jpx7 (07-31-2020), salmagundy (07-31-2020)
As a side note, that 820 BIP value for BABIP is a real bugger. By the time most players get that many balls in play, their underlying skill set will have likely changed due to age.
jpx7 (07-31-2020)
Lewis ain't nuthin'. Rio Ruiz has 3 HRs. Lewis only has 2.
jpx7 (07-31-2020)
JohnAdcox (08-05-2020)
Okay, which one of you is "Jake Mailhot?"
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kyle-lewis-is-proving-it/
Perfect timing for a bump.
Through 7 games Lewis had 0.6 fWAR
Anderson is at 0.8 fWAR right now
SJ24 wrong yet again. Who knew.
jpx7 (09-21-2020)
Oof. Internet is forever. So are dummies.
Coppy
of course, Lewis is still having a fantastic season.
still rocking a high BABIP, but 13.8% BB-rate with a 28% k-rate is quite nice.
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