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14 minutes ago, interloper said:

I actually lobbied to trade Mountcastle back in the DD days because I felt similar and also he was blocked by a freshly signed Davis and Machado at 3B. Things have changed since and I'm not sure I would trade him in the midst of this particular rebuild, but the reasons you mentioned are why he's still in AAA. He's still young at 22, also, so the fact that he's OPsing over .800 at 22 in AAA is definitely noteworthy. He still has more upside, I think.

That said, I agree that 9 walks to 71 Ks in 278 AB is kind of abysmal. 

Mountcastle seems like another Yuli Gurriel to me. A guy with pitiful plate discipline but can hit for enough power and average to stick at 1B. 

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2 minutes ago, vatech1994 said:

I will be the first to admit that it is difficult to read body language on that video, but I’m still typing that I don’t really dig Mr. Mountcastle’s body language in that video.  I read it as “to cool for school”.  I have thought the same a few times on the spring training video I’ve seen of him.  It could be totally off.  It may just be that he has a bit of a nonchalant way of carrying himself.

Anyone that actually knows, is he known to be a hard worker, good teammate, good attitude guy?

Compared to some of the folks I've seen wearing orange and black over the years a too cool for school attitude is just fine by me.

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19 hours ago, Frobby said:

His arm looked plenty good for LF to me, especially after watching Dwight Smith throw past the cutoff man twice tonight in completely futile efforts to prevent a runner from scoring, each time allowing another runner to take an extra base.   

I thought that was a good throw, but the challenging throw for a LFer is from the gap to the plate. 

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