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I'm not sure that showing more MiLB power gets to the heart of why Malloy fails in Detroit, which is that he can't barrel up pitches in the K zone against MLB pitchers. I suppose you have to analyze what he is doing in Toledo and determine if he is just getting stronger i.e - hitting the same number of pitches harder (which I would think doesn't help him stick in the majors much at all) vs actually getting his bat on a higher percentage of the strikes he sees - which is more what I think could help his cause. 🤷‍♂️

fair point.

I guess I would argue that Judge being 53 on a prospect list is sort of the POV I'm taking. Judge IS a proven generational talent. Where are the 53 guys ahead of him on the prospect list? I just think we need to respect how much uncertainty remains right up until a guy actually does it in the majors. But It is great to have guys doing so well in the system we can have this kind of debate.

And It's just an irreducible reality that MiLB hitting performance only projects so far. You can tear up A and double A, lose 75 pts off your OPS at AAA, lose another 75 against MLB pitchers and suddenly you are a bench player instead of a potential all-star. Maybe a guy keeps moving up the performance path, maybe he hits the off-ramp on the way. You don't really know until he does it. The example of a couple of very good AAA hitters we already have in the system that haven't been able to make the jump to Detroit on multiple tries is more typical than not.

Poor guy.

You should have let Aaron Judge (1500 MiLB PA) and Mike Trout (1300 MiLB PA) know about that.

any loss by a team behind you or any win of ours both increment (decrement) the number. We both lost but they still now have one less game to make up the difference.

Or do you let him start the inning but pull him before he pitches to India? That's one of the big shifts in the game brought about by the 3 hitter rule and more generally by the increased load on bullpens. Back in the day you'd have two relievers up and ready in the 6th, and in that scenario Jack isn't pitching to India after giving up the 1st hit of the inning. But Hinch doesn't have a RH reliever to burn on just India, Holton was prepping for Isbel, Hinch didn't want Holton against India. And in general everybody is more reluctant to burn up their relievers in the bullpen just being ready if you don't absolutely have to because you are most definitely not going to get a complete game the next day.

I suppose it has to figure into the overall calculus. If you know you have the guy for 'X' years and then will likely lose him, you don't want to bring him up until you are pretty sure he is ready to hit the ground running because you can't get a first year when he may scuffle or only play part time back at the other end when he may be an all-star. I'd say that consideration probably has to trump any of the carrots the league has set out for bringing guys up earlier. So maybe you offer the player a chance to come up earlier if he'll give you back a year or so at the other end.

The geography isn't so relevant to the game play, but it still is to the marketing. Every team wants its geography to guarantee it a nice chuck of captive audience population to sell to - and that's a bigger issue for Baseball because of so much media rights money being local. Indy probably gets a more equal deal on TV money from network basketball rights than it would be able to from local baseball TV rights.

Good luck to him if he does get claimed. He did everything they asked him too, the bat just never got there. Probably be a coach one day.

what's a team mate to do? He ( or Hinch? ) put himself back on it after they made a clean rescue. 🔥🧯🎇

white flag inning

well THAT didn't help

I'd take the opposite view. Probably a bridge too far to have sent Jack back out there this inning at all.. Hinch got a little gready there. OTOH, Jones need to make that out. Holton gave up a ground ball that's an easy out with the IF at normal depth.

Outfield D a day late and dollar short today.

Garcia with the tip makes sure the LF can't get the ball in time to have a play on Dingler. the old line about 'Luck' and 'Good' comes to mind.

and they get Jack off the hook.

little things. Riley didn't take the best route on that ball. If he catches it Jack is out of the inning clean.

I'm waiting to see what will happen when some school eventually wants to sell their team.

He was DFA'd, so he's off the roster. He could be claimed by another team or traded (both seem unlikely). If he clears waivers (quite possible) and I read Ed's spreadsheet correctly he can't refuse assignment, to he could end up back with the Hens or be released.

Also possible the event he is working may have been set up a long time ago - e.g - last year.

team is catching the ball exceptionally well also. McKinstry playing better SS that I thought he could. Fears about Gleyber being a liability at 2B have dissolved, Colt suddenly a solid 3B, Torkelson has pushed himself to +4 R(drs) and leads the league in assists, Javy making Parker's absence sad but not significant.

You can isolate an arbitrary section of a player's game log by any sortable column and the extracted table will give you the split totals. If you go to the Schedule and results page for the team, you can pick out any number of rows and it will give you a new table with just those rows but it doesn't do any stats on the extracted team table.

OTOH, betting on a good outing from Paddock is probably not a wise use of your lunch money.