July 27, 201312 yr Good win. I knew alvarez had higher velocity in there and he showed it his last two starts.
July 27, 201312 yr Stanton has a 13.8% BB rate, that is 8th highest in all of Baseball for a minimum of 250 PA in 2013. Is he going to get much to hit when no is protecting him? He's going to press more, expand the zone and just get completely off track. He's said this himself recently, he's been overthinking it. He's still only 23 years old and adapting to a tough situation in a year where he's also had injuries. He's going to improve with some more experience of this situation and as threats (Yelich, LoMo) develop around him. His numbers will come back no matter what our resident experts think about his body language and, like Mrchainsaw said, some of them aren't that bad to begin with. Besides Stanton, I'm not sold on any other player in our lineup. I actually love our top prospects currently in the minors (Moran, Keys, Romero, Barnes, etc..) better than Yelich, Marisnick, Ozuna, Dietrich because they all seem to have good discipline at least while taking a walk and don't have to rely on a goofy BABIP as much to be effective. I'm tired of free swingers on this team. It's time to surround this group with a bunch of OBP guys with a good eye. Coghlan, Gaby and LoMo seem to be pretenders, but I hope our younger prospects don't turn out to be the same pretenders and actually have their plate discipline translate to the majors. You're trolling, right? If so, not a bad job. If not, LOLOL.Nothing I said there that seemed trollish.Yelich has historically walked plenty. Keys, Barnes, and Romero are not top prospects. What does Gaby Sanchez have to do with anything?! Logan Morrison has drawn a bunch of walks this season....
July 27, 201312 yr Yelich by himself is more valuable than Keys/Barnes/Romero combined at this point. A 21 year old who is expected to put up offensive production similar to John Olerud but with the added ability to steal 25+ bases and play plus defense every season is not easy to find in the majors. We always rave about five tool players, and some people are blind to the fact that Yelich is one of the rare, true 5 star that are left in the game.
July 27, 201312 yr Author Then you're thinking too highly - Shawn Green was a 40+ homer guy in his prime. Yelich will never be anywhere close to that. Olerud is a good comp for Yelich - hit over .300 a few times, 20+ homers a few times, drove in a lot of runs, drew a good number of walks. Yelich will be the lead-off version of Olerud. Not sure why you'd think he'd be anything like Shawn Green.
July 27, 201312 yr I hope our younger prospects don't turn out to be the same pretenders and actually have their plate discipline translate to the majors. I'm sure every single team throughout all of baseball history has thought the same thing. They're called prospects for a reason...
July 28, 201312 yr Then you're thinking too highly - Shawn Green was a 40+ homer guy in his prime. Yelich will never be anywhere close to that. Olerud is a good comp for Yelich - hit over .300 a few times, 20+ homers a few times, drove in a lot of runs, drew a good number of walks. Yelich will be the lead-off version of Olerud. Not sure why you'd think he'd be anything like Shawn Green. The comparison was more his body, stance, and swing than his potential. Look at Green's stance and swing... Then watch Yelich. They look almost identical.
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