I think it would be close, and I think that’s a pretty good way to fill out the roster. Conforto is the last OF available with a good chance to be an impact player and produce a 4 win season.
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I think it would be close, and I think that’s a pretty good way to fill out the roster. Conforto is the last OF available with a good chance to be an impact player and produce a 4 win season.
Are there stats that exist which show shift adjustments hits removed?
I'm sure there are teams that have identified which players will receive the biggest bump in performance as the next undervalued skill in contract negotiations. Maybe Freeman is one of those guys.
I'm sure there are teams that have identified which players will receive the biggest bump in performance as the next undervalued skill in contract negotiations. Maybe Freeman is one of those guys.
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
I know FF records a ton of outs from the softball outfielder hanging in short RF.
Yankees beat writer: Before the lockout the Yankees were not close on a Matt Olson trade because the considered they ask way too high. They are not willing to trade SS prospect Anthony Volpe.
Hopefully that was just Oakland starting out negotiations with an insane ask, because if they're requiring someone like Volpe in a deal, I don't think we can even put a competitive package together that makes any sense from AA's stand point.
Hopefully that was just Oakland starting out negotiations with an insane ask, because if they're requiring someone like Volpe in a deal, I don't think we can even put a competitive package together that makes any sense from AA's stand point.
Someone posted the following on Twitter. I am assuming that it's from an interview on ESPN or something, because there is nothing on his twitter saying this:
Buster Olney: Rival executives have speculated that the Braves GM intends to be hyper-aggressive and he can be a guy to jump on Matt Olson. The price for Matt Olson is going to be high in prospects"
Buster Olney: Rival executives have speculated that the Braves GM intends to be hyper-aggressive and he can be a guy to jump on Matt Olson. The price for Matt Olson is going to be high in prospects"
A week from Sunday - time changes tomorrow night though.
msstate7
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Ahhh, I thought they said this Sunday, which seemed soon
Bad use of resources IMO. You're not getting anything of value for Ozuna at this point, and it's likely going to take similar money to sign Soler - might as well ride Ozuna's deal out since you can cut him loose a season early with his option year at the end.
bravesfanMatt
Steve Harvey'd
there was a lot of tongue and check in my comment. probably not obvious though.
Mad Dog Murph
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It is this Sunday. The reporting date is Sunday with the first games on the 17th
Surprised so many want him.
DirkPiggler
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He fits the bill of a guy from the region who probably wants to check that box of playing for his childhood favorite team, and who might sign for a little less to do it now that he's already secured generational wealth.
He asked for the official first day of spring on the ACTUAL calendar - not the baseball calendar.
We need another 1.5-2 win pitcher (or better) who is likely to throw 160 innings or more.
That's Greinke.
Mad Dog Murph
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Huh. When he said “training NOT the season smart asses” meant he was asking when ST started not the season of spring. But I readily admit I don’t speak Mississippian
The problem with the Hamels and Smyly deals were that AA was somehow trying to add a #4 with upside for more. To get that, he rolled the dice on a guy with injury concerns and/or mysterious bumps in measurables, and it bit him.
So...stop doing that. The Braves need a guy who is almost guaranteed to come in and provide innings with a 4.0-4.5 ERA. That guy needs to pitch until the rotation settles down. He does not need to start a play off game, so stop assuming risk in an attempt to get a guy who could potentially start a playoff game.
Get a guy who can reliably gobble up innings starting on the 4th game of the season, and Greinke is probably that guy. Rodon...no...that's exactly the risk AA should be avoiding.
In 2021 Freeman:
Pulled 108 grounders for 15 hits, or a BABIP of .139 (hitting into the shift is bad, no duh).
Hit 18 grounders the other way for 9 hits, or a BABIP of .500 (hitting away from the shift is good, no duh).
MLB overall had a BABIP of .241 on grounders in 2021.
Applying that .241 BABIP to his 108 pulled grounders yields 26 hits, which is 8 more than in 2021.
We also have to apply that .241 BABIP to his 18 oppo grounders resulting in 5 fewer hits.
This is a net gain of about 3 additional singles over his 2021 numbers. So....not a big deal, and why I greatly dislike the idea of banning the shift. Players should be adjusting, and the game changing organically...or not changing organically.
This article does a good job explaining why banning the shift won't do what folks think it will do: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/what-banning-the-shift-does-and-does-not-accomplish/
But people are stupid, so they will ban the shift anyways.