I think there was a thread about this yesterday morning. Not sure what happened to it. I was called an idiot for saying Irvin should stay in the rotation over Means, because he’s the better pitcher of the two right now.
Adley is hitting the ball harder so far this year. His EV and hard hit% have jumped a decent amount.
Still could hit the ball harder (he’s in the 72 percentile) but it’s a big improvement.
Also, for what it’s worth, catch probability applies extra difficulty for catches that are made “going back”. This only applies to catches maxed between 11 o’clock and 1 o’clock from the fielder’s position. Apparently, McKenna’s catch was just outside of these parameters (e.g., between 1 and 2), so it was treated the same as any catch in which the outfielder needs to cover 53 feet in 3.9 seconds. Although it was a makeable catch, I do think the 85% probability is a bit inflated.
Well to be fair to Sears he had to face our offense, Irvin didn’t.
But man I really like what Cole has done, I thought once Means and Bradish came back it would be a pretty easy decision, but Cole is doing his thing. Going to be interesting what they do, not sure they will put Means in the bullpen. But adding Suarez, Perez and Wells to our bullpen and taking out Ramirez, Tate and ? should make it better.
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