Knepper

U.S. Navy veteran, Independent Financial Advisor, baseball coach.

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Calling it now 2020 super bowl champs will be the Tampa Bay buccaneers

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@AidanG_Baseball It looks like he is locating his fastball better, and his splitter is much more consistent. Hopefully he gets some time in the AFL.

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@JackParMa @stephen_diss @Rinedog1 To be fair to baez, he has dropped that k rate, 28% since may 1st. Still not great, but no one would complain about gorman if he got 35 bombs.

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@FormerRedbirds C: Bernal/Crooks
1B: Burley/Herrera (platoon)
2B: JJ
3B: Anyone
SS: Winn
LF: Báez
CF: Church
RF: Walker

I think your giving a chance to Ragsdale and Jesús Báez mid season. Gotta stop with Herrera at catcher, maybe try him at third and first and see how it goes.

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@101espn Pages out, Herrera to full time DH. Bernal crooks combo behind the plate with bernal being the starter.

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@STLSprtsCntrl Need trade value for Pages... if you rot him on the bench his value goes even lower than it already is.

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@BKSportsTalk One that shouldn't cost much besides money is Devin Williams. Hometown kid, prior success in the division, can stabilize the bullpen, and shouldn't hurt prospect capital. Keep Riley in the closer role, use Williams as a fireman like Milwaukee did.

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@SleeperSTL This is why I'd like to see us target Devin Williams. We have the money, we need the bullpen help, and I don't think he's going to cost anything of note prospect wise.

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@STLfan006457 There's a theory that ballpark village affected the wind and air movement in the park causing balls to fly less particularly to left center. Since its been build it's gone from neutral to pitcher friendly.

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@SandyMac718 I'd like to see them deal Pages and bring up Bernal. Move Herrera to DH full time. Deal Nootbarr and May. Bring up Báez. Hopefully return a prospect that looks like the future third baseman. Defense up the middle with pop in the corners.

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@johnrabe @SBrew60657 He's started 11 games... give the kid a month at least.

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@AdamAkbani My problem when trusting Fangraphs scouting of Baez is the say hes an average runner. He had a sprint speed of 29.6 ft/s earlier this year. Victor Scott's 98th percentile sprint speed is 29.7 ft/s. That makes it hard to trust their scouting for me.

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@RayMileur1 The top 4 plus Winn should all be extended imo. All young guys that should be with the team until their early 30s.

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@CardinalsRed96 He's had two good starts in a row, one against a 26-42 team. Before that he had 33 walks in 39 innings. Lets slow down on pushing him into the rotation. He needs at least another good month or 2 before they bring him up.

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@CyLiamDoyle @Rinedog1 May is only 28, Cards could look to extend him. He's only three years older than Mathews.

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@thomasgauvain @thebirdcage1826 You have no idea if he can play third. It's not an unheard of transition, Josh Donaldson did it. I'm not saying he can, but don't act like it's not an experiment that might be worth trying.

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@RayMileur1 Look at his monthly splits too, he's getting better. 37% K rate in April, 29% in May. Lets give him some time, he got better every month last year at AA. 27% K rate in June, 22% in July and 13% in August.

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@STLSprtsCntrl Still a 30% K rate, much better than the 37% last month. Let him stay down until he lowers that K rate a little more.

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@1TrueGabe_ @TheDunkCentral @MarcJSpears Swap last year's picks. Ace and Peterson to Washington, Tre and AJ go to Utah.

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