Coghlan v. Maybin: Who Stays When Stanton Comes?

[MiamiHomer]

If CC/Maybin suddenly remember how to be productive then there really isn't a reason to push them out for Stanton as much as I want to see him. Obviously, that is a big question mark concerning CC/Maybin but like Lou and others have eluded to the inter-league stretch that is coming up will give a decent sample size if Stanton is called up for that time.

[Jay]

Well I think a lot of us envision Stanton being called up for inter-league play. If Coghlan and Maybin start producing before then do you bother calling him up or if his call up actually lights the fire for those 2 and Stanton produces.
Anyway you look at it, if Stanton, Coghlan, Maybin, Ross, Sanchez and Morrison are all productive, you have 6 players to fill 4 positions and 5 of them are under club control and the sixth is a fan favorite. The only other positions that may need to be filled only Coghlan can be looked at as a realistic option. Nothing against Gaby but I say try and package him for something to help now at the deadline or during the offseason as long as he ends the season on a good note.

[MiamiHomer]

I doubt we see Morrison any time soon since he just came back from another injury.

[Jay]

Morrison has played about 13 games 5 for jupiter 8 for new orleans. In that time has had an OPS of 1.048 in jupiter and .847 in new orleans and a .930 OPS for the season in AAA. Yeah hes 13 games back from an injury and has been an injury risk but he is supposed to play good defense at first and he has shown the ability to hit in the minor so far. I would rather see morrison called up over stanton except outfield is the area of need and Stanton is the more obvious choice to go there.

[lou]

If we assume everyone starts hitting, why can't there be a peaceful coexistence on the roster. If we assume 28 games a month, and we have 28 starts in left field, 28 opposite Cody cf\rf, and 28 opposite cantu 1b/3B. That's 84 starts a month.

Maybin in cf for 21
Gaby at 1b for 21
Stanton in rf for 7, lf for 14
Coghlan at 3B for 7, lf for 14

Cody rf for 21, cf for 7
Cantu at 1b for 7, 3B for 21

That's plenty of ab. They goal should be at least 5 games a week and that's a game over for each of them. I know this organization likes solid starting players, but shifting them to splits and who is hotter would be good for them and the team. And we'd have something useful on the bench. Just saying.

Adding Morrison makes it complicated. We could handle those 4, but not a 5th guy to get sufficient ab. I think Morrison comes on gaby failure. Which could happen but that's all star break not now like Stanton.

[nny]

Maybin's peripherals in May

BB%: 8.1%
K%: 24.4%
BB/K: 0.33
ISO: .171

BB/K still aren't good but they're improvements, you at least want to see north of 0.30, and he showed good power even if the inside the park hr from yesterday does kind of skew the numbers.

more importantly:

BABIP: .231
xBABIP: .311
Line if you assume all those hits were singles: .263/.337/.434/.771

His GB% is way down (45.5%) and FBs way up (40%), so not a surprise in the burst of power and drop in babip (his xBABIP in April, where he had GB% of over 60, was .330 and he had .362 BABIP for the month).

Obviously, small sample size. Obviously, "excepted" "theoretical" ect. But his two problems in May were BB/K (Which were improving numbers) and BABIP (which should normalize). If the power stays (Can't expect this high but you hope around .140-.150 ISO), he should be fine.

Meanwhile, Coghlans peripherals:

BB%: 7.1%
K%: 20.4%
BB/K: 0.38
ISO: .117
BABIP: .296
xBABIP: .329
Adjusted line assuming all singles: .272/.319/.389/.708

His BB/K is moving in the right direction although still far from last years 0.69, and he's at least showing SOME semblance of power and he's had a couple doubles robbed from him, but he's still acting like a slap hitter (His GB% for the month was north of 60%, and his GB% on the year is 12% higher than last year). The main good thing is that he's being more patient again (I wish they had pitchFX by month, but, his Swing% and Outside Swing% are now basically average where as at the end of April they were grotesquely free swinger-ish.

I'd say, in terms of who's likely to be better moving forward this year with the bat, it's Coghlan, but Maybin showed if everything goes right his ceiling is a lot higher.

[nny]

And now that we're in June, CHONE has new Rest of Season projections. And with Zips aswell:

Coghlan-
CHONE: .280/.352/.405/.757
ZiPS: .274/.340/.393/.734

Maybin-
CHONE: .273/.351/.431/.782
ZiPS: .240/.317/.356/.673
(Jesus lol at the difference)

And for shits and giggles (ZiPS only updates for players who've played in the majors)

Stanton-
CHONE: .240/.321/.456/.777

Logan-
CHONE: .268/.345/.415/.760

[Fishfan79]

at this rate think after a few more days will be safe to say coghlan = winner in this fight

[Ramp]

yupppppp

[Bobbob1313]

If Maybin had gotten two doubles like CC had the last two days (weak flyballs plopping next to the foul line), I would have gotten a text from Festa saying that they don't count.

[Omar]

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king.

[Ralph]

or a hermaphrodite

[Ramp]

or be the weird girl with the nice cans and balls

[Bobbob1313]

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king.

I don't think Festa appreciates you talking about him like that.

[emkayseven]

or be the weird girl with the nice cans and balls

or as fip calls that, a prospect