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Take this how you want it, but Schoop was up here for 1: a lack of better options, and 2: because despite the fact that he was an offensive zero in 2014, his defense was almost good enough to make him a passable regular despite that. It's hard to call him rushed if he's providing positive value. A second point of nuance that I'll bring up is that it might be worth considering minor league park effects. This was pre-Walltimore, and pre-baseball change to the MLB baseball. The park effects in Norfolk were so severe that for hitters, your MLE OPS was almost identical to your actual OPS. So while his Norfolk numbers weren't great, the awful hitting environment there suggested that he might be ready for Major League pitching anyway. (He probably wasn't, but again, lack of better options.) If Holliday ends up being a +10 or +12 runs above average defender over the course of a whole year (and he very well might be, his OAA is already far above average) then you probably live with a .600 OPS from him, especially considering how big of a black hole 2B has been for the past 2 years. But of course he's far below that threshold at this point. I don't think any of this indicates that Holliday was rushed. Machado had worse minor league numbers than Holliday at close to the same age, skipping AAA all together despite only putting an 850ish OPS there, and Machado put up a 1.3 wins in 1/3 season and 5 wins in his first full season.

It was chilly today. It doesn't really warm up in LA until like July. But summer kind of lingers through October.

Sano sure moves well for a defensive tackle.

its 390 to the middle of the power alley. I'm guessing 375-385 to the point Adley hit it.

That hit should be charged to the catcher for dropping 2 foul tips.

Hard to predict that he made a deal with the Devil.

Yeah I think he's out.

That's a line-out if Mateo doesn't steal two bags.

in what world is that a swing? lmfao

75-100 total? Or additional?

I think they'd trade him but only for multiple prospects. Which, to be fair to the Orioles, we could give up and only marginally affect our future because of our prospect backlog. There's always the question of whether that would be worth it. Would you trade, say, Kjerstad and McDermott together for Miller? That's a lot to give up. There aren't a lot of great options though among teams that have great relievers but aren't going to the playoffs. Clase probably makes more sense but the Indians probably aren't giving him up unless they slump horribly. Maybe a reunion with Hunter Harvey? He looks like he's found a pretty good niche in the bullpen over in DC, and he's been unhittable this year.

Even if you're only buying Miller as a reliever this year, there's always the non-zero chance he goes back to being a starter later on. He's got another 5 years of control and he wasn't a bad starter last year in 6 starts. But if he keeps doing this he's basically as valuable as a #2 starter.

Man I wish they weren't playing on a weekday. It's a little too much for me to get out there midweek.

OPS over .850, batted ball data that suggests it's not lucky, not striking out 30% of the time? This is a layman's observation but I've noticed that Holliday has also been hitting it to center or the other way a lot in his minor league highlights, and then when he's in the majors he's been late to everything. If I had to identify something specific to work on, I would likely want him to work on pulling the ball on a line or in the air a little bit more.

I'm giving him to 100 PAs unless he shows us something. Basically double what he has now. When you're this bad I don't think you need a significant sample to have confidence that he's overwhelmed. I felt the same way about Cowser last year and Holliday is far worse right now. If he takes a month in the minors and rights himself he'll come right back up. Stuff happens, he's 20, he'll get over it, and if he doesn't then he probably wasn't likely to ever have sustained MLB success anyway.