Kevin Brown brought up the Samuel Basallo situation and asked Jim Palmer on MASN.
Jim Palmer: “If he’s able to play late in the ballgame, I’m surprised he’s not in there, that’s all. I don’t think this is the time, when you’ve lost four in a row, to teach a lesson.”
Im pro analytics and having as many smart people searching for advantages everywhere but let the players on the field be the ones playing the game which includes thinking
You ever just stop and think about how everything is so fucking stupid? Every day? Oh, ok, cool
Minor league injuries dwarf major league ones, of course, because of the sheer number of minor leaguers. But why do the Yankees, Mets, and Orioles rise to the top no matter how you slide the data? @brittghiroli.bsky.social and I investigated: www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog)
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Minimum 50 swings
Mike Elias sliding into Jaxson Dart’s dm’s to check what his raw exit velo’s look like
Sammy Basallo has a 35% whiff rate on offspeed, but also has 31% perfect contact which leads the team across any pitch group. The only other player in the league I could find with both >30% PC and >35% whiff on a pitch group was Jose Caballero (breaking). No idea what to make of that, but its funny
But I was told Mayo couldn’t play third
Even if Fried never pitched again (exceedingly unlikely), he’s been paid ~32.5 mil per WAR he’s had with the Yanks. These O’s one year deals, using a 1.2 ROS projection for Bassitt on FG (generous), have been paid ~31.4 mil per WAR. And Fried still has 6 more years left to keep playing!
