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Kinda. Teo is basically the exact type of player the Astros miss on. Low pedigree guy with early contact problems. While he has a fairly balanced...
Whats your bar for calling it a tool/elite tool? Kiermaier and Andruw Jones were generational level defenders, basically 80 grades on defense....
Yuli (and Brantley) still has a chance at the AL batting title.
Surprisingly a huge huge win for the latter. By Fangraphs WAR this morning, the Astros CF's were worth 4.1 fWAR and Kyle Tucker worth 3.9 fWAR....
I'll be the devils advocate on the Yankee's topics. Joey Gallo is equally capable of ripping off 3 weeks of dominance just like he is 3 weeks of...
Dunno how many people are baseball podcast people but the Fangraphs Effectively Wild podcast had a nice blurb on the Astros the other day....
Straw is already at 3.0 fWAR and has hit for a 135 wRC+ with Cleveland. If y'all wanna argue that Meyers can provide equal or better future...
There's been quite a lot of turnover in the FO and scouting department over the years.
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Hunter Brown reminds me a lot of Cristian Javier's development pathway. Great stuff (Brown's is actually better), bit of a walk problem and...
Career lefties' slash line against him: .174/.264/.252. On the other hand, righties are absolutely crushing him: .297/.377/.525 That's pure...
Straw's defense is comfortably above average. He gets most of his value on that side of the ball. His defense plus somewhat below average bat...
No love for the latest Fangraphs Big Board Updates? Jeremy Pena at 51, 50 FV, Medium Risk Korey Lee at 86, 50 FV High Risk Hunter Brown at 105,...
Funny, at one point Odorizzi was turd of the rotation and now he's the only one without question marks.
Agree they definitely go after some high upside, low floor players but it’s pretty evident they’ve also mixed in low-upside high floor guys too....
Mize and Skubal are/were top prospects; Mize in particular was the top overall pick in a draft. The rest of the guys…. can’t explain that.
framber reminded me a lot of Wandy Rodriguez. Wild lefty who needed to calm his **** down. Wandy figured it out for a couple of seasons. Framber...
Huh? 3 of the top 6 hitters are lefties: Brantley, Yordan and Tucker. Beyond that, Toro and Robel are both switch hitters and Castro is another...
Looking at the last few years of Fangraphs top 100 prospects lists, there's not a ton of catchers in the top 30-40, much less top 10. I don't see...
They've shown they're willing to take a weak bat at C as long as the non-bat skills are high. I could see them keeping him down to get regular...
