2023 Game Thread

[fish16]

Gurriel sucks and the bottom is going to drop out unless the of course amazing contact rates he has produced so far just pepper a high BABIP single spray everywhere. That's a hard bet. - https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savan...-r-hitting-mlb

Notice the immense difference expected slugging here for a comparable contact hitter. Night and day. - https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savan...-r-hitting-mlb

This is an enjoy some hits while it lasts analysis for him. It is nice they are getting lucky and he is "hot" bridging well to the injured guys, but that's it.

Now do dlc’s savant page that shows all he brings to the table is hard contact. He has awful k%, bb%, and chase rate and is a terrible fielder, which is why the huge breakout you constantly tout won’t ever happen. None of his advanced stats or batted ball numbers have changed from last year. This isn’t a breakout. He will be back around that same .750 ops level by the end of the year

[Namaste]

My obsession is currently hibernating because I had a bad death in my family and haven’t watched a game in weeks dickhead. He is what he is. A solid hitting maybe 3rd outfielder who brings nothing else to the table. I hope he keeps it up. But likely he finishes around where he always does, around the .750 mark with great hit streaks. He brings nothing else to the table, so when that bat isn’t hot, he’s useless. It’s why every projection system still has him at around 1.5 war for the entire year despite being a really solid hitter to date due to the recent hot streak. If he was more consistent or brought more to the table it would be more playable. He’s been great lately though with the bat which is awesome

Sincerely sorry for your loss. Surely you’re aware I had no way of knowing that.

[rmc523]

One could easily argue that Alcantara, Cabrera, Luzardo, and Rogers have all seen their value dip this season. Garrett has shown some upside but he's not going to fetch a blue chipper in return at this point. Cappe has taken a huge dive in the last month. The system is so weak that we picked up a no name, middle age CF to hold down the fort. (I do like Davis, by the way).

The best idea I can come up with is to deal Soler while he's hot to the offense starved Yankees for SS prospect Oswald Peraza, who is smoking in AAA. Such a deal would require some promising pitching too, a Braxton Garrett at the least.

Despite Alcantara's rough start, I still see a window to trade him to Baltimore for a couple major improvements to the everyday lineup.

WTH isn't X Edwards starting every day somewhere on the field? If you are going to sit him for the likes of Wendle, Hampson, and Segura, he might as well be back in Jacksonville. (On that note, the team must have been very unhappy with Edwards play in CF, because he figures to hit just as well as Davis.)

We didn’t have a CF before the last two off seasons, so not sure if your point here is that valid lol

[Todd]

I am sorry for your loss

[Namaste]

DLC highest Sweet Spot % in all of MLB this season per the Bally’s Statcast

[Namaste]

Of course DLC has GIDP twice today after the love fest

[Namaste]

Nice walk to the 9th hitter, JT

[Namaste]

WHEW!!!!! BROOOOOOOM IT

[Nick]

Time to make a move to improve the team.

[Lee Stone]

Well, Jesus Sanchez homered at AAA in his first at bat tonite. He's due back to the Marlins on Tuesday I believe.

[lou]

Trade thought. Was reading through some trade proposals on that site. The most interesting thing I saw was a straight-up Peraza for Luzardo deal with Yanks. Each side of the deal had an equal number of likes/dislikes, which is very rare!

6 years of Peraza for 3+ years of Luzardo is an interesting trade idea for sure, but I feel the Marlins would need a second good player for the whole he is MLB proven. Luzardo is around a 4 WAR his last 200 innings. Peraza turning into a 4 WAR guy would be pretty amazing. Luzardo is very good and I think we'd all agree, he hasn't quite put it all together yet. For me I'd need more. Especially because Luzardo is a good buyout candidate on a deal cheaper than what Pablo got, so a team could get more value out of him.

[Namaste]

If one of Eder/Sixto were MLB ready, I could do Luzardo for Peraza + a lottery ticket.

[Nick]

Anybody heard anything more on Eder? So frustrating he hasn’t been on the field.

[Lee Stone]

I've read that it will be the end of June before he's throwing bullpens.

[Nick]

I've read that it will be the end of June before he's throwing bullpens.

I guess maybe the one silver lining with that is that when Eury will be wearing down at the end of the year Eder should be fresh and ready to take over.