Eloy Jimenez out for 6 months...Santander?????//

[DrinkinWithFermi]

16 hours ago, webbrick2010 said:

LOL, DJ Stewart having any value to any ML team

Stewart is a former first round pick with a 107 OPS+, 12.6% walk rate, and .209 ISO in 301 career PAs, and he has posted some pretty tantalizing analytics, which recently led mlb.com to include him on their list of 5 breakout candidates for 2021.

https://www.mlb.com/news/breakout-hitters-for-2021-to-watch

Will he ever be a star? Maybe, maybe not, but heading into his age 27 season with fairly solid bottom line offensive production and some legitimately elite analytics to his credit thus far in his career, declaring him a complete bust at this juncture just makes you look silly.

[Just Regular]

I did notice in his half-inning interview on last night's broadcast, in the section describing Outfield as the strength of the team to Garceau/Roberts, Elias did use a little extra time describing Stewart's patience/power skill set.    I've been mostly Glass Half Empty on the inability to hit fastballs part, but hope I badly underestimated him.

[DrinkinWithFermi]

9 minutes ago, OrioleDog said:

I've been mostly Glass Half Empty on the inability to hit fastballs part, but hope I badly underestimated him.

Look at it this way- in spite of that, he's still been about 7% better than league average so far in his career, so even modest improvement in that area should theoretically only cause that number to go up.

[InsideCoroner]

18 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

HAHA so funny the idea that someone that put up .7 rWAR in 88 at bats last season could be useful.

I’m surprised you haven’t made more liberal use of the ‘ignore user’ function. 

[SteveA]

12 hours ago, LA2 said:

We'd lose all our fans in the UK.

Do they get MASN?

[SteveA]

2 hours ago, InsideCoroner said:

I’m surprised you haven’t made more liberal use of the ‘ignore user’ function. 

Why would someone who enjoys arguing eliminate potential people to argue with?

[HowAboutThat]

4 hours ago, DrinkinWithFermi said:

Stewart is a former first round pick with a 107 OPS+, 12.6% walk rate, and .209 ISO in 301 career PAs, and he has posted some pretty tantalizing analytics, which recently led mlb.com to include him on their list of 5 breakout candidates for 2021.

https://www.mlb.com/news/breakout-hitters-for-2021-to-watch

Will he ever be a star? Maybe, maybe not, but heading into his age 27 season with fairly solid bottom line offensive production and some legitimately elite analytics to his credit thus far in his career, declaring him a complete bust at this juncture just makes you look silly.

I certainly take your point about Stewart’s stats and pedigree, but at the moment it is highly doubtful that he has any trade value. If he does I would certainly advocate trading him.

Also, chats about players often ignore their flaws in favor of focusing on their virtues. Stewart can certainly play the outfield but he’s already considered a DH, which limits his value further.

Edited March 26, 2021 by Philip

[interloper]

He's not in the lineup again tonight. If I had to guess - just making sure he's fresh for the season with his injury history. 

Not a fan of Hays being in the lineup tonight. Not one bit. 

EDIT: That's 3 straight for Santander actually. Hmm.

[NCRaven]

58 minutes ago, interloper said:

Not a fan of Hays being in the lineup tonight. Not one bit. 

Why?

[Just Regular]

If anything White Sox happens, I hope it is Kopech or Crochet more so than Jared Kelley of the High School Class of 2020.   The reporters need to at least get a "non-physical injury" something out of Hyde after the triple absence if Elias wants some kind of smokescreen.

[interloper]

37 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

Why?

Guy was running all over the field yesterday, double, triple, two full-go throws from RF. There's no reason to play him back-to-back the rest of spring.

[Moose Milligan]

44 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

Why?

[NCRaven]

48 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I think that's the look you get for asking "What?"

[Can_of_corn]

5 hours ago, InsideCoroner said:

I’m surprised you haven’t made more liberal use of the ‘ignore user’ function. 

He skirts just under my cutoff.

[interloper]

5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

He skirts just under my cutoff.

Whatever happened to that one guy who really got under everyone's skin with the don't let your kids drink soda thing... lol