Colton Cowser 2023

[Frobby]

53 minutes ago, brucewayne said:

This is how I feel with Frazier. This guy is the most clutch guy on the team and people are haters. 

I root for the guy whenever he plays, and he’s had many key moments for this team.  I don’t need to rag on him to also root for Westburg. 

[DirtyBird]

23 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Probably can’t hold back his excitement when Frazier gets a 68MpH hit though first and second but he can’t wait to bash a guy who has a an OpS over 1000 since going back to AAA.

Truly pathetic.

Cowser cut his K’s in half last night.

0-4, 2K

[DirtyBird]

23 hours ago, glenn__davis said:

Haha, I knew you wouldn't be able to resist posting that one!

Who do you dislike more, Gunnar or Cowser?

Are we only supposed to post web gems and dongs here? 

[glenn__davis]

7 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Are we only supposed to post web gems and dongs here? 

Nope, you can post whatever you want.  I was actually going to post it myself but as soon as I saw a new post from you I figured you had beaten me to it haha.

You're like DocJJ except you limit your negative posts to young players only.  But I've been around these parts long enough to recognize schtick when I see it.

[DirtyBird]

6 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

Nope, you can post whatever you want.  I was actually going to post it myself but as soon as I saw a new post from you I figured you had beaten me to it haha.

You're like DocJJ except you limit your negative posts to young players only.  But I've been around these parts long enough to recognize schtick when I see it.

So, you were going to post it?

[glenn__davis]

9 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

So, you were going to post it?

It was why I came to thread in the 1st place but alas, you beat me to it.

Do you think people here only post sunshine and rainbows about prospects?   There are plenty of posts detailing slumps that hitters go into or bad games from prospects.  

[Tony-OH]

There was a poster who said Cowser will become another Ryan McKenna at the major league level. Here was my response in that thread.

I'd be shocked if Cowser turns into a McKenna at the major league level. Even while he was terrible at the major league level, he has a well above average walk rate and his hard hit percentage of 42.5% is well over the MLB average of 36.2%. His arm strength is at 92 percentile and he has above average speed. 

Defensively, this play, which statcast said should be caught 85% of the time hurt his OAA or he probably would have been a 0 OAA guy. When I look at his jump components his reaction time of -1.2 ft/sec is what stands out and a lot of that could be him adjusting to seeing balls out of the upper decks. I will bet those numbers will improve. He did make this nice 3-star catch.

Now, I have no idea whether you are going off gut feel or maybe just your own eye test from watching baseball for so long (which is fine), but I'd be willing to bet Cowser is going to end up a much better major league player than McKenna. 

Despite his struggles, he put up a .302 XWOBA (.315 MLB avg). Ryan McKenna is a career .274 XWOBA guy including a .277 this year. Cowser under perfomed his XWOBA by .080 points while McKenna has exceeded his XWOBA by .031 points making Cowser very unlucky and McKenna somewhat lucky this year.