@TheWARmonger_ Julio Rodriguez got his first 5 star orange dot this year yesterday, but he didn't catch the ball and instead threw out the runner that had been on 1st base at 2nd
How do the defensive metrics account for something like that
@ChrisFiexen And when they wanted to give Santander 100 million, and when they wanted to give Bichette 200 million, and when they wanted to give Tucker 300 million
@Gravel_sense Considering he's still technically the 6th starter, even regression to the mean whether it be his FIP or xERA still makes him maybe the best 6th starter in the league and puts him at average 4th starter
By contract value alone that's a win
Worth noting as well his xFIP is 3.38
@silmf26 Sloan is only half a year older, playing at a higher level of the minors, and has better peripheral numbers
Hernandez is great, he's gonna be great, he's still a tick below Sloan right now
@BizballMaury You're so close to figuring it out
Yeah you can't guarantee your best player is always in the biggest moments
But you fail to realize that because some teams are able to spend significantly more than others, they horde a ton of good players you want for those big moments
@BCB_Sara The fact that you think Scott Boras is doing that out of the goodness of his heart and not because he's greedy and trying to maximize his earnings on his percentage of the contract value
@yankeestothe5@TalkinYanks Baseball Savant. If you go to the game page and click the tab that says "Pitch 3D" there's then dropdowns to sort by pitcher, batter, and matchup
@CLew2620 You seem to think that "this is a decision that could be made" is the same thing as "this is a decision that has been made"
One "journalist" writing a random sentence putting their own opinion and bias in does not equate to factual reporting
@kensnoopyjr Concerningly he's also used the most challenges by anyone this year and of the 9 challenges before today only 3 were considered "reasonable" by the ABS metrics
@crispyrock10 I'm not sure who "they" is, but he didn't start throwing the changeup as a Mariner until last year and he threw a whole 22
He had 6 this year before today when he had 3.
He's always been a fastball-slider guy
Every single year of his career those are by far his 2 most used
@shaneskladany OAA is better than DRS given it uses actual tracking data by the league itself and not eye test which through the very nature of using humans will have human bias included
But again, go off I guess