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@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@MiLBMariners That grunt.... it can't be

Robbie?

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@MiLBMariners Kids on the slide gonna need hard hats with the way Laz is swinging it

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@tagates99 27 year old "prospect" ahead of the 20 year old stud who threw 6 perfect innings in a league that's 4.5 years older than him

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@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

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@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@paultmcmillan He did, in 2023 against Houston 454 at T-Mobile Park

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@AnnoyedSoxFan Me when I don't know defense exists

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@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

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@TheWARmonger_ Why catch ball like A when B look cooler

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@MHWthee3rd Mariners offense is 8th in wRC+

10 seconds is all it takes and you people can't even be bothered to do that much research

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@BaseballWRLD_ They have an elite tier defensive 3rd baseman on their roster and give him regular playing time just not at 3rd base

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@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

[Seattle Sports Fan @SeattleSporting]

@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

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@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