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By Rbiggs2525 · Posted
I picture Scherzer as purely a salary dump for Texas. They are up against it in terms of Luxury tax. I also see Scherzer as a start to start pitcher in terms of durability. Not willing to give up more than a AAAA guy and a lottery ticket prospect. -
Meh. Is it riskier to invest 1) in a phase 1 or phase 2 pharmaceutical or 2) when as the FDA is meeting for final approval? -
I think of an elite athlete as something different entirely. And I think that’s Frobby’s point. I think of an elite athlete as someone that can easily & efficiently use their body to achieve an end goal. Being able to manipulate their body and other implements to accomplish a specific task. Be able to repeat that skill and adapt easily to changes in the environment. Someone that has incredible balance, space awareness, timing, and hand eye coordination. Someone who would thrive when thrown in any athletic environment they are put in. To me it has nothing to do with speed, strength, or ability to jump. However, someone that is fast, jumps high, and is strong and who also can control their body et al would be the 1% elite elite. IE. Gunnar (if you’ve seen him play other sports, he does it easily). If I had to guess Mateo probably can’t shoot a basketball and would be a terrible ping pong player. Just a guess watching him hit. Not arguing or saying you are wrong, just how I define it. -
Who underrates Rooker? He's been mentioned in a bunch of trades. It's hard to underrate a guy averaging 141 OPS+ and an .849 OPS over the only two full seasons he's played. Oh, and the 30 HRs a year. -
I don't think he's going to be a star, but I think he will be a good player. I wouldn't trade him now because I like his ability to play CF. I would, however, not object to trading him in the right deal. I don't think Crochet is that deal. -
This trade idea makes absolutely no sense unless you have the White Sox throw in Robert as well (and he won't be a throw-in, we'd have to up our package for him.) Cowser's essentially been a full time starter and despite his bad May and mediocre June he's been an above average player for us overall. The only way I'd consider giving up Cowser here is if they throw in Robert. We'd probably have to package Cowser with someone better - instead of Norby we'd be looking at giving up Kjerstad or someone like that - if we wanted the WS to throw in Robert. On top of that, Crochet is going to be of limited help this year. We could save him for the playoffs, but that carries its own risks as well. It's ok to look to the future, but we need to be maximizing the 2024 team's chance to win in the playoffs. Trading a starting outfielder who's been well above average to date doesn't really do that. Even if you assume the June version is more like his true talent level offensively, he's still likely to produce 1 to 1.5 WAR for the rest of the season just on the strength of his defense. I'm not sure we get that from a limited Crochet + Cowser's backfill. -
The timing matters here. In the offseason we didn't know Cowser would become what he has defensively now, including being able to more than adequately handle CF. Nor did we know Mullins was going to crater offensively to the extent he has. If you do this trade now, you are creating a hole in CF while only arguably upgrading the pitching for the rest of the season given Crochet's innings limitations.
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