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Well defensively he does not seem as good as Wieters. Wieters had a better arm. -
He is weighted down too much from carrying the team on his back? Seriously though, I personally think he’s been very good defensively. Eye test anyway. I agree the throws on stolen base attempts have not looked good in some cases. But most of the bad throws have seem rushed. IMO -
Adley Rutschman is having an excellent year, 1.9 rWAR, 1.8 fWAR, on pace for around 5.2 -5.5 WAR, depending which flavor you prefer. That’s very good, but Adley was worth 5+ WAR last year in only 3/4 of a season, despite offensive numbers not as good as this year. So, is Adley playing worse defense this year? Well, statistically, he is. Last year he allowed 23 wild pitches; this year, in less than half the number of games, he’s allowed 18. Statcast had him at 18 blocks above average last year, and 0 this year. Last year, he threw out 31% of runners who tried to steal (25% was league average); this year, he’s at 23% (21% is league average). And, runners are testing him much more often; he’s almost allowed as many steals this year (23) as all last year (25). As to pitch framing, Fangraphs had him at +9.1 last year; he’s at -0.4 this year. Statcast had him at +4 last year and -1 this year. So, what do you make of it? Have you noticed Adley looking worse on defense this year? Honestly, I haven’t, except that he’s bounced quite a few throws to 2B in his rush to get rid of the ball quickly. I can’t say I’ve noticed any slippage in his blocking or framing, but the numbers say otherwise. -
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When he played his first year I thought he could be an Al Kaline type outfielder. -
Don’t know why but I’ve never been a big fan of Givens. Yes he had a few good years for us back in the day when we sucked. He was really our only consistent reliever for a couple years. Yes he’s strikes out a good number of hitters. He has good movement on his pitches but also walks a lot. Not sure he should be thrusted into the setup role behind Cano. I think Baker should be that guy if he doesn’t get over used. -
That really does sound like a sky is falling post.
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What’s surprising is that he seems to be throwing harder compared to last year. I saw him hitting 98. He might be overthrowing which is causing his mechanics to be out of whack.
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