Fredi Gonzalez Rant Thread.

Garmel said:
I checked the lineup and noticed that La Stella is being benched again for Gosselin yet BJ stays in the lineup. I swear I want this stupid SOB of a manager gone. I'm sick of this ****.
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I just saw it too... unless he is DEFINETLY hurt, then Fredi needs to go. Moves like this alone are just stupid. He's a young guy who needs to know the manager in confident in him.. Plus, BJ is awful.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
I just saw it too... unless he is DEFINETLY hurt, then Fredi needs to go. Moves like this alone are just stupid. He's a young guy who needs to know the manager in confident in him.. Plus, BJ is awful.
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Yeah, unless TLS is hurt and cannot play, then the Braves need to fire Fredi for benching our 5th best hitter. If anyone needs to be benched in the infield it would be Johnson.

I really don't care. **** Fredi.
 
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La Stella says he is healthy. So you can erase "mystery ailment" from your list of reasons he is not playing again today.

It's kind of sad that the only reason Fredi is doing this Gosselin BS is because he doesn't want to have to fill out a lineup with 3 lefties at the top of the order. I guess we'll go the rest of the season with TLS and Simmons alternating off days so an inferior player can get a ton of important ab's just so because of the irrational fear that maybe MAYBE the other team will bring in a LHP late in a close game. Someone please defend Fredi's stupidity. I could use the laugh.
 
I like the Gosselin/La Stella platoon.

I know La Stella has reverse splits so far in the majors. But that is one of those misleading small sample things. Over his career he has conventional splits.

Here are Gosselin's and La Stella's AAA splits this year:

Gosselin 1.018 against lefties and .783 against righties

La Stella .649 OPS against lefties and .791 OPS against righties

The other thing to keep in mind is Gosselin is the superior defender.
 
The problem is that TLS is an everyday player Gosselin isn't. TLS is a guy who could anchor 2B for us for 3-4 seasons. Gosselin won't.

Gosselin is a bench player. TLS is an everyday player.
 
zitothebrave said:
The problem is that TLS is an everyday player Gosselin isn't. TLS is a guy who could anchor 2B for us for 3-4 seasons. Gosselin won't.

Gosselin is a bench player. TLS is an everyday player.
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I think ultimately La Stella is more likely to be an everyday major league second baseman. But it isn't a settled issue.

In 2014, La Stella has an OPS of .701 in the majors and Gosselin is at .760. In AAA, La Stella was at .743 and Gosselin at .886.

Plus Gosselin is the better defender.
 
nsacpi said:
I think ultimately La Stella is more likely to be an everyday major league second baseman. But it isn't a settled issue.

In 2014, La Stella has an OPS of .701 in the majors and Gosselin is at .760. In AAA, La Stella was at .743 and Gosselin at .886.

Plus Gosselin is the better defender.
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That's an incredibly limited and ignorant scope to take.

Gosselin in the upper minors regularly K'd around 15% and walked around 5% of the time. Gosselin's AAA numbers were due to a .400 BABIP A number he basically never even sniffed since rookie ball. In 2013 he had a slash of .266/.308/.324

This year in the majors Gosselin's value is you guessed it, tied into BABIP. This year his slash is .320/.320/.440. If he had his roughly .300 BABIP his slash would be you lop off 40 points from his average and 80 points off his OPS.
 
zitothebrave said:
That's an incredibly limited and ignorant scope to take.

Gosselin in the upper minors regularly K'd around 15% and walked around 5% of the time. Gosselin's AAA numbers were due to a .400 BABIP A number he basically never even sniffed since rookie ball. In 2013 he had a slash of .266/.308/.324

This year in the majors Gosselin's value is you guessed it, tied into BABIP. This year his slash is .320/.320/.440. If he had his roughly .300 BABIP his slash would be you lop off 40 points from his average and 80 points off his OPS.
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There is a chance Gosselin has improved as a hitter. In his small major league sample this year he has a line drive percentage of 25%. That kind of line drive percentage would allow him to sustain a fairly high BABIP. I think it remains to be seen what kind of hitter Gosselin ultimately turns out to be. As I noted earlier, La Stella probably has a better chance of making it as a regular at second in the major leagues. But I don't think it is an open and shut case.
 
That's a virtually worthless sample though. He has like 20 balls put into play. If he has 5 liners for the next 5 balls in play then his LD% drops to 20, and could keep on dropping. I wish minor league spilts still existed that could have painted a more accurate picture of Gosselin but I'd guess a .300ish career BABIP would pin him around 18-20%.

When I see someone who in the minors Ks around 15% and walks around 5% that likely means he walks lower than that in the majros and Ks more than that. Given his career iso in the minors of .101. That's no acceptable.

Sure he could perhaps improve in the majors. Some players have. But I wouldn't bet it.
 
I wish we had data on Gosselin's minor league line drive percentage too. His ISO did rise to .143 in AAA this year from .069 in AA last year. So that is at least a hint he is making stronger contact.
 
That's still a pretty small sample when compared to his career 2177 PA. As you pointed out last year around .07, year before around .98 year before around .13 year before around 1. and rookie year around .1

Basically he's had a season like his AAA this year, then reverted to norm. Would hardly call it a hint of "making stronger contract" but rather, statistical noise that happens.
 
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