2025 Game Thread

[fish16]

matt mervis is on pace for 57 hr's and 114 rbi. i will again say the cubs giving up on him after just over 100 at bats in favor of vidal brujan made no sense.

Also, i have to take back what i said last night. after looking into the minor league profile of cash considerations, i like that pickup for bride. lot's of potential.

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josh naylor has turned himself into a nice little player. it's a shame he accidentally stabbed a teammate and we had to get rid of him for the legendary marlins run of andrew cashner.

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Robby snelling with another great outing in AA last night. He wont be there much longer. 3 starts this year, 16.1 IP, 20 k's, 2 walks, 2.20 ERA and .98 WHIP.

Just read that andrew Salas is the youngest player in A ball or higher at 17.1 years old. 2nd youngest is a brewers prospect who is almost a year older at 17.9. Salas now has an .816 OPS and 8 walks to 6 k's. He's going to be in the next update of the top 100 lists you have to think, and possibly pretty high.

Starlyn Caba from the luzardo trade has 14 walks and 5 hits on the year, which is something. He also had more walks than hits all of last year.


Norby is back today with pauley going down.

[Todd]

I still have reservations about Edwards. Ignoring his lack of power and poor(albeit serviceable) defense, his BABIP is in the 400s(398 last season) and his savant page is mostly blue and he is pretty bad against any non-fastball.

Very odd player.

[fish16]

I still have reservations about Edwards. Ignoring his lack of power and poor(albeit serviceable) defense, his BABIP is in the 400s(398 last season) and his savant page is mostly blue and he is pretty bad against any non-fastball.

Very odd player.

he's had the high BABIP his entire career, throughout the minors as well, because he is fast and has a tremendous eye. You dont need to hit for power to be effective. He doesnt swing at bad pitches often and is in the 75th percentile of speed. His chase rate and whiff rate are always good because of this, and he is a good player overall because of it. he's just a flat out good hitter with a great eye. he's not a good SS though. I'd stick him at 2b and see what happens.

His baseball savant page is not mostly blue, it's just blue in the areas relating to hitting the ball hard. he has low numbers for bat speed, hard hit %, expected slugging, and average exit velocity. as long as you dont try to confuse him for a power hitter, he's a damn good player.

[Todd]

I mean, that's not really true. He's a light hitter even as far as light hitters go, he doesn't even maximize what little power he has, and his BABIP is 50 points higher than what he put up in the minors.

I like him, but he does have some red flags.

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DLC was sent down to AAA by the Braves. In the 60 games he's been gone, he's been the least valuable player in baseball at -1.6 WAR.

[Namaste]

Marlins traded him at the perfect time. Genius.

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Marlins scored 6 runs in the top of the 9th only to lose by 1 run

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Nice extra innings win at the Phillies.

Augustin Ramirez getting called up per Craig Mish

[Nick]

Sanoja should be starting every day.

[fish16]

Sanoja should be starting every day.

agreed. i dont know if he becomes a starting player or just a really nice super utility guy like Berti, but he can play. Get him some more run. He has graded out positively defensively on fangraphs, but he's played all over so not sure where he's best. If he can play CF i'd stick him there every day and see how it works out. Sucks that conine got injured, was looking forward to what his numbers would look like over a large sample.

At this point, the every day lineup needs to include Ramirez (until fortes comes back at least), mervis, Edwards, Stowers, Sanoja, otto lopez, and norby.

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bendix is trying to rebuild the entire team while simultaneously trading every piece other than tanner scott at their lowest value. Jazz, Arraez, Luzardo, Burger, Bride, Bell, Rogers all traded at the bottom of their value, though a few of those guys never really had much value.

If Sandy doesnt pick it up soon, he will be the next one.

[Nick]

agreed. i dont know if he becomes a starting player or just a really nice super utility guy like Berti, but he can play. Get him some more run. He has graded out positively defensively on fangraphs, but he's played all over so not sure where he's best. If he can play CF i'd stick him there every day and see how it works out. Sucks that conine got injured, was looking forward to what his numbers would look like over a large sample.

At this point, the every day lineup needs to include Ramirez (until fortes comes back at least), mervis, Edwards, Stowers, Sanoja, otto lopez, and norby.

I'd do this:

Vs. RHP

1. Edwards SS
2. Sanoja CF
3. Sanchez RF
4. Mervis 1B
5. Norby 3B
6. Stowers LF
7. Ramirez DH
8. Lopez 2B
9. Hicks C

Vs. LHP

1. Edwards SS
2. Sanoja CF
3. Myers RF
4. Norby 3B
5. Wagaman 1B
6. Ramirez C
7. Stowers LF
8. Lopez 2B
9. Ronny Simon DH

Ronny Simon btw, I was unfamiliar with him, but he's actually kinda interesting. Signed as a minor league free agent, was with Tampa previously. Only 25 years old, over 600 ABs in AAA, and an OPS right around .800. Switch-hitter has played primarily at 2B, but a lot of time at SS, 3B, and LF as well. Could be an ideal utility guy down the line.

[fish16]

i will give credit to the current regime, the hitters that are coming up are having significantly more success than the last 7 years. Whether that's because of more talent or better adjustments, i'm used to young guys coming up and being lucky to scrape the .600 OPS mark, and we have multiple guys in the high 700s and low 800s. And many are showing legitimate improvement from previous years, specifically stowers and mervis.