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I don’t think this matters. I think you get value where you can. The Rays have been willing trade partners in the past when it was clear they weren’t contending. Right now they are 4 games out of the last slot but have like 5 teams above them. Can they get it? Sure but it’s not that likely and in the past they’ve been realistic in their down type seasons. -
I think Norby is going to be a very good MLB offensive player. I’m ok trading him but not for 1/2 season rental types.
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By Billy F-Face3 · Posted
Yeah I think they need to staggar the lefties in the rotation order. R-R-L-R-L like that. -
By Billy F-Face3 · Posted
Trading Mayo Kjerstad and Povich for one guy to become a relief pitcher is nuts. -
By Billy F-Face3 · Posted
We don't need starting pitchers. We need Relief Pitchers. We don't need average Relief Pitchers, we need consistent high leverage/high K Relief Pitchers. -
By Billy F-Face3 · Posted
If you feel comfortable putting Aiken and Baker (or even Tate) in during an elimination series, that's your prerogative. But I do not. Too inconsistent, which is the same reason why Mike Baumann pitched himself off the active roster. when spot was needed for returning starters off the IL. Currently Coulombe is on IL so we can't even count on one of our best. Cano has regressed from last season. We've also witnessed last season how Webb broke down from over use and was ineffective in the playoff series against Texas. Perez goes in streaks of either really good or concernedly bad (he loses his command). Akin's problem is he leaves the ball over the heart of the plate and he doesn't have good enough stuff to get away with it. They're meatballs. We might get some good times from Baker now that he's up, but I would only expect a month or 2 at best from him before he returns to old habits. And Suarez is a starter who wants to be a starter. Who knows if he will go back to the bullpen? He'll have to go deeper into games if he wants to stay in the rotation, otherwise, I think he should be in the bullpen. But that's not what he is right now in this moment. He's a starter with a ERA in the 1s. -
It's pretty hard to say definitively that the bolded is true. It might be, but there's also the loss in ability you have to account for. 30 year olds are slower than 26 year olds too. Maybe their game knowledge and practice have made it so they can overcome the meager loss in bat speed/athleticism over that time span. But the picture is a bit muddy. I also don't think the aging issue is limited to people in their mid-late 30s. Bat speed peaks at like 24 or 25 based on the data we have right now on it, and after 31 starts falling off fairly fast. Obviously this is population data and individuals are likely to see different curves. But outside of the stars that have a lot of ability to lose, it's becoming pretty clear that once you hit your early 30s it's pretty hard to maintain your skills without all the "help" that is extensively tested for. I think that even for early-30s players teams are much more willing to drop them over giving them expensive market-rate deals, especially since they can abuse young talent so readily.
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