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  1. I think they can matter but not at face value. Veteran pitchers are going to be tuning their pitches more than trying to get guys out. But young players without a guaranteed spot will at least be trying to showcase their skills and make the team. Stowers' 7 HRs are somewhat relevant in my eyes. That is such an outlier number that I imagine it has to move the needle a bit, especially with two in the last game being against a big league veteran. I don't put much stock in Jackson Holliday's spring training OPS. He got a gift triple, and his one success vs a lefty was against the third fastball in a row from one of said veteran pitchers who was probably just working on his fastball that inning, so I think it's probably a bit inflated. Though for all I know, he got unlucky in the ABs that didn't make the news. I imagine the front office has access to more useful numbers than what we see, taking into account the pitchers they faced, the set of pitches they faced, etc. Those numbers are more likely to be used to make a roster decision.
  2. Do they show splits in Stuff+ between when he first came over and later/in the playoffs? Because he certainly looked like a different pitcher later on. Curious if these metrics saw it that way too.
  3. Okay, I found this: https://www.mlb.com/news/prospect-performance-incentive-ppi-eligible-players So the threshold is that he needs the earn that full year of service time naturally. He doesn't have to be up on opening day but he also can't be down long enough to normally avoid the full year of service time. So if he starts in the minors but Urias gets injured two weeks in and he comes up then, it's still fine.
  4. Is this true? I thought the downside is that if they win ROY then they get the full year of service time regardless of when they're called up. I haven't read anything in articles about that affecting the draft pick, though the later they come up, the less likely they are to win ROY. I'm not entirely convinced he's ready yet in his 22 PA. His numbers look good now, but he got a gift triple yesterday and before the game, his OPS was under .700. I see it as a 50-50 whether he makes the team and it'll become more evident once we have a couple more weeks of results to look at.
  5. Not bad but I don't know if I'm counting that second one.
  6. He had more variance in his velocity than most pitchers. In a high leverage situation he'd air it out at 97, but the median fastball was probably 93. So this is still a couple ticks below but I'm not too worried yet unless this happens again.
  7. Any chance this affects whether MASN becomes available on streaming platforms like Youtube TV? I've been wondering whether MASN's avoidance of streaming services was due to general strategy or part of an existing deal with one of the big providers.
  8. This poll in November asked the odds of Holliday making the OD roster, and the most common answer was "A very slim chance": I take that to mean under 20%. What do you all think now? I'm still putting it at under 50%, though trading for Burnes at least shows that this year is a priority and the team is willing to give up some long-term value for 2024 wins. That said, I don't see it as all-or-nothing, and Holliday is still going to have to show he's definitively better than Urias right now, if we're giving up the extra year. And I see the infielders coming in this week as a sign that we have options for backup 2B if Holliday doesn't blow away the competition. So I don't see the job as Holliday's to lose, just a job he can win if he proves he's the best option beyond a doubt.
  9. I'm a lot less optimistic than a lot of you are about the ownership change affecting this. I think there's likely to be some improvement but not up to league average. The grass isn't always greener... I'll believe the spending when I see it.
  10. I don't think Elias has had a mental shift at all. I think there's been a shift in circumstances causing the front office to start caring more about immediate wins, but I would argue Darell Hernaiz for Cole Irvin was the sign of that.
  11. I'm really surprised No is winning right now. I don't think there's any chance of extending Burnes regardless of ownership, and otherwise the money involved in the deal is within a normal range. I also just don't think Rubinstein has that kind of say this soon.
  12. To circle it all back, the Adam Frazier deal caused Ortiz to stay down most of 2023 for an extra year of team control, giving him extra trade value to get this deal done.
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