CrazyTrain
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I know hindsight is 20/20, but man could we use a dependable innings eater like Julio.
Still dumbfounded that we didn’t pick up that option.
GDT 28/7/2020: Brave New Post-Folty World Leaves Everything Faulty
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I know hindsight is 20/20, but man could we use a dependable innings eater like Julio.
Still dumbfounded that we didn’t pick up that option.
Freshmaker
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Not what I had in mind
Freshmaker
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Yeah not a bad deal at all at that rate. A bit surprised myself, though I didn’t see Hamels missing most of the season
CrazyTrain
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Hamels is just part of the problem, but everything that could’ve gone wrong has so far gone wrong.
Just made little sense to go into the season with so many gambles in the rotation. Horrible risk management for a team coming off a division championship expecting to compete.
CrazyTrain
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Ozzie finally caught up to a poorly located mid 90s fastball.
Freshmaker
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Ozzie swings or check swings at a bunch of pitches in the dirt, so they call for a FB 2-2. Thank you!
Hence tonight's sombrero.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
Matzek and Daniel Bard are two pretty good stories for 2020. Big-time comebacks when it appeared they were through because of the yips.
striker42
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Freddie Freeman has never struck me as a hitter who would age gracefully. He relies on top notch bat speed and bat speed generally starts failing when a player hits 30. Uggla and Andruw both started steep declines at 30. The various arm and wrist ailments Freddie's endured won't help.
While I don't think he's as bad as he's shown so far (I think the slow start is from Covid and not really being ready for the season), I wouldn't be surprised if he's ready to take a big step back.
While I don't think he's as bad as he's shown so far (I think the slow start is from Covid and not really being ready for the season), I wouldn't be surprised if he's ready to take a big step back.
I could see that, and share the concern. But considering his considerable increased power since initially breaking in, I also think there's a chance he could be one of those players who offsets lost BA with more power increases.
That said, I'd be really hesitant to extend him after this contract.
He's a 1B. Why would you expect him to age gracefully when they rarely do?
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
A lot of this remains to be seen—he's always been a much better pure hitter than either Uggla or Jones, for instance—but his impending turn into his thirties is nonetheless a good reason to not go crazy with extension talks quite yet.
In the meantime, I'm not only taking Freeman's performance so far with a fleur-de-sel—due to his actually fighting off CoViD—but treating all players' first week or two with healthy suspicion, given the rushed Spring Training 2.0 and general unprecedented weirdness of the MiniSeason. Sure, there are some good and bad signs that seem to carry a little more portentous weight—Swanson's hitting the ball hard in nearly every PA, on the good side; Foltynewicz bottoming-out velocity, on the bad—but I'm not stressing over Acuña's slow first five games, or Wright's big third-inning hiccup today, et cetera.
WaitingFor2017
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I agree. Yet, there were people on Twitter getting upset with AA that he hasn't extended Freeman by 5 years yet. With Freeman, if you extend him, please only go 2 years.
striker42
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I wouldn't consider an extension before the all star break next year.
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Juiced balls last year and now slippery balls this year.