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07-22-2020, 06:26 PM | #931 | |
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07-22-2020, 07:01 PM | #932 |
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Truth is most hot prospects don't turn out to be stars. A fair amount turn out to be complete duds. I have a feeling Matheny is going to get a lot of blame for what is just natural in baseball--a good amount of average players and washouts.
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07-22-2020, 07:18 PM | #933 |
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Throwing from low 3/4 should normally give you a little run on your four-seamer. Singer already has good four-and-two seam fastballs and attacks both side of the plate well with them. Good control, working towards command (this is what Lynn does really well, which is actually a really good comparison I hadn’t thought about). His slurve is plus some nights and above average most of the rest of the time.
The changeup is just a weird thing. He SHOULD be able to throw a badass circle change from that arm angle. That was my arm angle and I had no problem with that. It was my best pitch. I’d also think he should be able to find a tighter, harder slider that he can use to backfoot lefties. If he can work the fastball to both sides with good movement (current skill) and also throw a few variations of his breaker, may not need the change for more than a show-me pitch. Even with the current mix I think his floor is a solid back-end guy. Kowar was the best of the bunch in the Texas league, which this Summer Training session is perhaps obscuring. His change gets 70 grades, just wish he could find a breaker. I think the key for KC is that there is good SP prospect depth behind Singer/Kowar/Lynch/Bubic/Lacy. In addition to them, you’ve got guys like Yefri Del Rosario, Yohanse Morel, Austin Cox, Zach Haake, Jonathan Bowlan (another Lynn-like profile), Alec Marsh, Carlos Hernandez. Odds of getting 3 quality starters out of that are much better than if you had 4 key guys you were pinning hopes on.
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07-22-2020, 07:56 PM | #934 | |
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07-22-2020, 08:05 PM | #935 | |
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You have to have a burgler's constitution every time you throw it and complete confidence in it. And you have to have pretty damn incredible depth with it or it gets telegraphed a bit and hitters can sit on it too easily (has to start too high to be a strike or too low to keep from getting obliterated). I was a bad hitter so I always looked at it and thought 'man, that should be an impossible pitch to hit...." But good hitters? Not so much - a lot of pitchers try to throw it an ultimately it's gotta be a 70+ slider or it's gotta be a complementary pitch that catches them off guard. Sounds like he has a quasi-curve. Maybe if he could incorporate the both of them to keep lefties off balance he might be able to use the slider off the curve to keep hitters from cheating on it or get them diving at it. I used Lynn as a comp because he was a guy who I ultimately just accepted for who he is. I stopped waiting for him to develop a pitch to truly neutralize them and instead hoped he'd simply attack them to minimize damage. And in so doing I recognized "y'know what? This will work. He won't win a CY, but he'll be damn valuable even if he always has some lefty issues" This may be a situation where the guy just has a wart. And if he can play to his strengths, that could easily be good enough. Trying to bury sliders at their back feet? Man, that sure seems like a surgery that's likely to kill the patient...
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07-23-2020, 08:21 AM | #936 | |
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Re: his slider, he throws kind of a slurve now. It's a more looping breaking ball. If he could tighten that up AND throw both variations it nudges his profile up. You do really have to have that tight, darting slider to get lefties out down and in, for sure. If he doesn't really fix it, I still think he can be successful with his current mix, just makes it harder to hit a #3 ceiling. I think it's pretty likely he's a solid back end guy who can give you 5 or 6 innings consistently. And that's fine/useful. Lynch, Lacy, and Kowar are the "high upside" guys in this farm and most likely to give you a 1 or 2 starter. Quote:
He does have a pretty good 3-pitch mix when healthy... plus FB and above AV breaking ball and change... and pretty good command. So I think they'll use him as SP depth before deciding he's a bullpen-only guy. He's really only a year behind the track a college draftee would be on (A at 21, lost big parts of last year at 22 and finished at same level, 23 this year).
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07-23-2020, 09:35 AM | #938 | |
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A 'typical' rotation can do the job. If one of your potential aces turns into a true 200 inning, 140+ ERA+ kind of 'hand the ball in game 1' guys, you're fine if you have a solid #2 and even a handful of #4 guys behind them. If you have 3 dudes w/ genuine ace potential - yeah, maybe one of 'em hits. Cardinals thought they had that with Reyes, Flaherty and Weaver - one of 'em turned into that guy, one of 'em is probably going to wash out and the other fell somewhere in the middle. That's pretty standard. So if you have a handful of depth guys behind them that can develop and eventually give you 7 quality arms going into any given season who can start games and give you a roughly league average performance? That's good enough. Rotation depth is just overlooked a lot of the time. Having a couple spare guys you can trust to throw you 6 quality innings is probably more important than having a guy develop into a '#2 starter' instead of a back of the rotation guy. It's a looooooong season and if you can go out there day after day after day without effectively giving away an L (especially in July/August when attrition has invariably set in), you're ahead of most squads.
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07-23-2020, 09:36 AM | #939 |
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How on Earth did the Bluejays think they'd be able to play in Toronto this year?
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I think the MLB should have done some type of bubble thing for the minor league teams.
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I mean - I would've ultimately assumed Toronto to have a handful of rational actors in it somewhere. I mean hell, they're holding one of the 'hockey bubbles' in Toronto. It's clear that Toronto is happy with how things are progressing or they'd have never allowed that. And hockey is an indoor, contact sport that's far more likely to yield spread, IMO. Toronto's actions here make little sense and lack internal consistency.
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07-23-2020, 10:18 AM | #944 |
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Most minor league teams are not even profitable. Taking on a bubble is even more costly and for players some of which make much less than I do.
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