Vavra is slashing .300/.533/.500 through 3 games for Bowie. Career OBP is .408. It’s nice to have a guy with some serious on-base skills in the organization.
Tony La Russa is a dinosaur that has no business managing a Major League Baseball team in 2021. One of the worst managerial hires in recent memory. It doesn’t surprise me that he’s already running his starters into the ground.
This was a dominant performance:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX200707070.shtml
And this:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA201805240.shtml
A solid performance but I wouldn’t say dominant. I imagine there were quite a few hard hit balls that just happened to go right to fielders. And a SwStr% of 7.7 is terrible.
Elite: 16% or higher
Good: 14%
Average: 12%
Poor: 10%
Awful: 8% or lower
I don’t think anyone could argue that Means has been better than Bieber this year. And that’s not a knock on Means, obviously he’s been excellent. But Bieber is otherworldly.
The fact that he’s ahead of Cole and Bieber just shows how bad rWAR is for pitchers. Means is really good but not on the same planet as those guys. fWAR is much better for pitchers.