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Just not being good isn't cause for an IL stint. I'm not suggesting it's hard to find some reason but you can't just say "He can't get minor league guys out" and IL a guy.

Assuming they can make a case that he's injured. Not being good isn't justification for an IL stint.

Some guys don't. He did, last year.

This one would be more appropriate for me.

No one thought Burnes was an option. I think pretty much everyone would have taken the Burns deal over the proposed Cease deals.

Virtually proves my point. I agree that he was the majority choice.

I'm sure you also have folks that can use an escalator but can't stairs.

Yep, it makes following the game on gameday a lot more...fun.

Mateo obviously.

Corbin Carroll went 1-16 that year.

Welp, Adley and Witt Jr went 1 and 2 so I'm guessing the prior 41 combined are going to come out ahead.

I think there may have been some truth to that back in the day, but in today's game the Umps get post game feedback on every call they make. They (with rare exceptions) are not going to deviate from what they think are balls and strikes.

Do you think umps are like, this kids a rookie I'll screw up the metrics I'm graded on to screw with him?

Baseball reference is rWAR, Fangraphs is fWAR. The 162 rate is for the career. If you want to find out his rate for this season, just do the math.

Don't have to. 1- The Fangraphs quote is sufficient. The 45 seconds that took me was enough. 2- You've already decided to change the narrative to "major writer" from "every writer and publication". Once you start moving goalposts it's time to move on. NO ONE was shocked when Jones didn't go first. This wasn't Harper, it wasn't Strasburg it wasn't even Rutschman. You don't deserve more of my time.