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39 minutes ago, Aglets said:

Wow im not sure ive seen so many straw men arguments in such a small number of posts.  Hats off everyone!  Clearly each argument is as valid as it is when taken to its most extreme level of absurdity. 

You know I'm just goofing on people who like to make sweeping judgments based on essentially nothing.  This is the year of "the schedule is really short so those last four pitches are the same as 50 innings in a normal season!"

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Hey, isn't that Major League Baseball's Ryan Mountcastle?  Why yes it is!  "Hi, guys, Ryan Mountcastle here.  If you click HERE I'll let you in on this one weird trick that'll take you from Jonathan S

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It's probably not going to hold up but I find it pretty funny that Mountcastle has walked three times in three games after hearing from some how he will never take a walk. He's now 3-for-9 with two do

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Most of the chances I’ve seen were easy fly balls hit right near him. However unlike Smith he didn’t immediately take 5 steps back then sprint to get under the ball at the end.

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12 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

When drafted they said he had the best bat speed in the class.  I can believe it.

I'll be interested to see at the end of the year where he and Santander rank. 

There's no telling if Mancini will be the same, but imagining those three in the middle of the lineup is pretty fun. Nunez continues to be a bit of an enigma. 

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13 minutes ago, interloper said:

I'll be interested to see at the end of the year where he and Santander rank. 

There's no telling if Mancini will be the same, but imagining those three in the middle of the lineup is pretty fun. Nunez continues to be a bit of an enigma. 

Back in the day, 10, 15, 20+ years ago, you'd call a guy with a .280-.315-.500 line a 5th or 6th place hitter on a good team.  Solid, but lacking OBP skills.  Today that's more like league average OBP.  It's harder to have a sustainable offense when the entire core of the lineup fits that description.  It would be really nice to have a couple guys at the top of the order with a .380 or .400 OBP so there's someone to drive in.

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8 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

 It would be really nice to have a couple guys at the top of the order with a .380 or .400 OBP so there's someone to drive in.

Severino has a .413 OBP, Sisco has a .456 OBP, and Iglesias has a .414 OBP.

Sisco has led off twice, would rather see any of those three over Alberto who just doesn't have the OBP to leadoff (and also doesn't see enough pitches).

Mullins leading off yesterday was particularly baffling. Ensuring your worst hitter gets the most plate appearances is quite dumb.

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3 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Severino has a .413 OBP, Sisco has a .456 OBP, and Iglesias has a .414 OBP.

Sisco has led off twice, would rather see any of those three over Alberto who just doesn't have the OBP to leadoff (and also doesn't see enough pitches).

Mullins leading off yesterday was particularly baffling. Ensuring your worst hitter gets the most plate appearances is quite dumb.

Everyone know if you got a guy with a weak bat that can bunt you bat him #2.

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1 minute ago, MurphDogg said:

Severino has a .413 OBP, Sisco has a .456 OBP, and Iglesias has a .414 OBP.

Sisco has led off twice, would rather see any of those three over Alberto who just doesn't have the OBP to leadoff (and also doesn't see enough pitches).

Mullins leading off yesterday was particularly baffling. Ensuring your worst hitter gets the most plate appearances is quite dumb.

If the three of them in the first sentence have a .340 combined OBP at the end of a somewhat normal season I'd eat my shoe.  But it's nice they're doing well so far.  I'd bat Sisco leadoff, at least against righties, whenever he plays. 

I guess I can bring up the thing that batting order doesn't really matter.  The difference between Mullins leading off and Sisco is very small, as long as you're assuming they'll both be somewhere in the lineup anyway.

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2 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Hey, isn't that Major League Baseball's Ryan Mountcastle?  Why yes it is!  "Hi, guys, Ryan Mountcastle here.  If you click HERE I'll let you in on this one weird trick that'll take you from Jonathan Schoop's plate discipline to Mickey Mantle's in under six weeks!  Guaranteed or your money back!"

Effect not tested by the FDA to treat any illness or condition. For recreational purposes only.  Not for use in California or Oregon.  May cause excessive itching and swelling of the third toe of the left foot.

That's hilarious. He can be the next Tom Emanski! :D

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2 hours ago, Aglets said:

Wow im not sure ive seen so many straw men arguments in such a small number of posts.  Hats off everyone!  Clearly each argument is as valid as it is when taken to its most extreme level of absurdity. 

Huh? You do know most of the posts above were tongue and cheek, right. Can you point the straw man posts? 

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55 minutes ago, interloper said:

Bat speed for days, this kid.

That has been clear since day one, but last year when I watched him a bunch at AAA, it really became apparent how quick he can get the barrel to the ball against upper level pitching. If he takes his game to the next level by becoming a student of the pitchers based off video and statcast tendencies like Mancini does, the sky is the limit for his upside with the bat. This was one of the reason why I discounted his BB-K ratio last year. He really spent most of last year still hitting off pure talent with little to no plan. 

At the major league level he will have all that data to work from and a coaching staff that should help prepare him. If he takes this information and start to have a plan at the plate and understand the tendencies of the pitchers and what they are trying to do to him, he's going to be special.

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12 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Severino has a .413 OBP, Sisco has a .456 OBP, and Iglesias has a .414 OBP.

Sisco has led off twice, would rather see any of those three over Alberto who just doesn't have the OBP to leadoff (and also doesn't see enough pitches).

Mullins leading off yesterday was particularly baffling. Ensuring your worst hitter gets the most plate appearances is quite dumb.

Which is why when he got a leadoff double, it was extra annoying no one could get him in. 

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