Just realized Buxton has a K% over 50. Holy ****

eric thames is god

Guy wants my Salazar for Moncada in a 12 player keeper league. I am so lost. Is this anywhere near equal value?

No way.

Salazar has significant injury risk, and trying to sell high on him isn't a bad idea, but you should get a lot more than a prospect who isn't even in the majors yet. Salazar is a lock for 200 K's if he gets 180+ innings.

Moncada will likely have little impact this year, and while he might be good several years down the road,

just look at how Buxton's doing now

Moncada's far from a sure thing, and Buxton's tools were sold to us as a sure thing

certainly appears that way

Mitch Moreland flying under the radar. Leads the majors in XBH (10 with 8 doubles) but somehow only has 2 RBI. Hits in a premium spot in one of the best lineups in baseball. Expect the RBIs to shoot way up if he keeps racking up XBHs.

Spent a lot of time figuring out how to plug my RBI leak and this is what I dug up.

Welcome to my bench Greg Bird you mother****er

Been following Moreland since the sox signed him and he is definitely locked the **** in (60% hard hit before today)

Paxton... Straight shredding

haniger tho

Haniger is old news

All aboard the Motter train

I'm a genius

I'm really torn on paxton

Obviously I believe he's for real, but if he were a bigger name he'd be a tremendous sell high at a .150 BABIP or whatever it is. He might still be

saturday news: erryone dead

You sucked anyway Semien! Motter Pop gonna carry my team out of last in RBI

yeah lots of banged up guys already

A trade I'm thinking about...

I give up:

JD Martinez (keeper-eligible)
Matt Carpenter
Jose Peraza (keeper-eligible)

for

Paul Goldschmidt
Brandon Crawford (keeper-eligible)
Joaquin Benoit (keeper-eligible)

Keeper-eligible players can be kept for free forever.

I have an abundance of steals which is why I'm trying to package SB for a high-OPS guy.

On one hand, I'm getting Goldschmidt, who's the best player in the deal. I just really like Carpenter's flexibility, I have him at MI now where he's over-qualified.

What do y'all think?

thames homers again

Reds killer

pomeranz doing extremely pomeranz things

thames the god

suarez the god

hanger the god

This is gonna be the last time I bring this up, I promise. I made a post containing this concern on Kluber in the mock draft thread (the actual post goes into more detail, but this was the gist of it).

So far this year his velocity is now at 90.5 according to fangraphs compared to 92.1 last year. His FB% is 42.9% compared to 36.3% last year. Hard hit % is 50% compared to 27.6% last year.

The HR/9 is at 2.45.

Meanwhile, his K rate and BB rate are relatively in line with normal. 8.84 compared to 9.5 and 2.95 to 2.39 respectively.


It's a small sample size yes, but the hypothesis was that a trend in velocity was proving to be problematic for his gb% and hard hit% which combined with a slight dip in k% due to it was potentially problematic for someone being drafted in round 2/early 3. And so far his velocity is down, his gb% is down, and his hard hit % is up resulting in a fip of 5.50.

I don't expect the HR rate to be that high of course and the hard hit % will drop some too. Again, I don't expect him to be this bad. But if you can get value equal to where you drafted him still by someone I think you should do it.


Again, I promise this will be the last I bring it up. Definitely don't want to be the one that's always harping on the same thing. I just get a ton of help from this thread and when I think I have something I want to help out too.

polishing off a week hitting under 200

fun stuff

April velocity is usually a tick or two below mid-summer velocity as starters build up arm strength for the season

I've noticed Jim. I've avoided Kluber this year.