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Todays Fangraphs piece on Adley Rutschman. Article delves into % increase of pitches seen in zone and also higher chase%. Speculates that Adley may perhaps be trading OBP for SLG. -
He was swinging and missing at everything though. It wasn’t just the fastball. Westburg seems to indicate that more time in the minors might actually help some guys. He stayed the longest and had the best initial results, other than Gunnar's first September. -
One thing the article doesn't mention is that baseball agreed to use MLB baseballs, which are harder and have a lower seams, in AAA. The season they started using the MLB baseballs (2019) AAA average OPS jumped by like 80 points. Before 2019 you could more reliably project major league performance from AAA stats for hitters, because it was more plausible for AAA pitchers to be able to produce pitches with an MLB level shape. The downside was that for pitchers you had a really high failure rate going from the minors to the majors. For the Orioles in particular, the fact that Norfolk is such a hard place to hit meant that a hitter doing even passably ok meant that he was probably MLB ready. I think that putting them on the same equipment in the high minors makes a lot of sense, and the problems with projecting hitters is almost certainly less than the issues with pitchers having to learn how to pitch with a different baseball. But it's definitely something to keep in mind when looking at minor league hitting stats, especially those from AAA. -
By Bemorewins · Posted
I don't begrudge anyone for whatever side that you take (if you have chosen one). I just hope that the Orioles as an organization have thrown out whatever decision making matrix that led to acquiring Fujinama at last year's deadline. That was an utter and object failure. Our team deserves better than that type of gamble this year. -
By ArtVanDelay · Posted
That commercial is way more than 5 years old. I’d say closer to a decade. And yes the mom is hot. -
By Can_of_corn · Posted
Maybe Fujinami will be available! -
“ the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they gicchi goomie.The lake it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy” yup, him and Johnny Cash
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