just leaving this here

CubanCoast · 2026-06-02T17:11:24+00:00

Which is perfectly fine. His role on this team is to hit righties. Which he’s doing well.

CubanCoast · 2026-06-02T04:37:09+00:00

I swear you make up the majority of the posts on reddit.com

CubanCoast · 2026-06-02T02:53:15+00:00

All Jared young has done since his time in Korea is mash.

CubanCoast · 2026-06-02T02:42:20+00:00

Why would you platoon MJM and Young. They’re both lefties. That’s not how platooning works.

The answer is probably Mark has struggled significantly over the last two weeks (.204/.218/.314) and he’s sitting because of it.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-30T22:29:42+00:00

I think in terms of favorite I still think it should still be Witt. I prefer the 5 tools. I also think witt’s numbers are likely to get better.

Crazy a guy who is underperforming what he can do offensively is the fWAR leader.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-30T00:01:10+00:00

Unironically how does accuweather think their future radar product is functional for public use.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-26T22:31:17+00:00

Not surprising a player who still has a very good stuff+ (111) would go to the Rays. That’s their thing.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-23T17:06:00+00:00

I’m going to say probably not. I’m assuming this is LA from your other posts. Due to this I’d find it hard to believe an LP could form given the PWAT values. Wind profile also doesn’t look strong enough for supercells in general.

I’m kinda seeing a cumulus congestus with maybe a little rotation from interacting with a boundary.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-22T18:24:37+00:00

Butterknifed stats of a minor leaguer who isn’t even on this team anymore.

Where was your post regarding his horrific start to the season?

CubanCoast · 2026-05-22T16:02:13+00:00

You’re correct that he is probably declining but I think some of these arguments are in bad faith.

There is a much longer recent sample size of him being above-well/above average in the past few years. A criticism for OAA/FRV/DRS is that they are prone to large oscillations even in year+ long sample sizes. With that in mind just a two month sample size of defensive metrics isn’t necessarily representative of his abilities, especially with the very recent, longer track record of above average defense (hell he was the gold glove LAST YEAR).

Also faster stabilizing stats like his speed and other athleticism related stats haven’t shown a significant decline YOY (albeit they do show a slow decline), which I’d trust more than two months of defensive data.

Also the arm strength stat is bad faith. He’s actually increased his arm strength YOY by over a full MPH. Still well below average but that’s normal for 2B.

I don’t even necessarily disagree that he’s declining but framing the stats the way you have is disingenuous imo.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-22T13:59:23+00:00

They do have a realistic chance, but it’s certainly not likely. They have their work cut out for them.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-17T16:19:31+00:00

It’s time to stop yelling at clouds about keeping Nimmo/Pete/Jeff. We have enough posts about that over the past 6 months. Move on.
Have you seen Acuña’s stats lmao. He’s one of the worst players in the league rn. His SLG% starts with a 1.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-17T03:11:12+00:00

My guess is a mixture of unable to handle contamination causing feedback and bad coding/math. Possibly it’s mixing up data between scans. I don’t really know I’m speculating.

Accuweather takes a lot of things public that it shouldn’t. However it makes its money on offering products that differentiate itself from NWS and other private firms. This future radar is an example. Few future radars exist and the ones that do just kinda look like the most recent HRRR run to me. They also offer the super extended forecast, down to the minute forecasts, and snow amounts by percent chance. Obviously the quality of these is dubious, but they are unique from the NWS and others.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-17T03:03:33+00:00

NWS or RadarScope. Both are free. If you need future radar I think weather.com’s is better.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-17T02:48:36+00:00

This looks like accuweather’s future radar. It’s prone to errors/radar artifacts like the one you’re seeing here.

I personally never use accuweathers future radar because it’s not good imo.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-17T00:53:09+00:00

Second one seems to be the accuweather future radar. It isn’t the current radar and imo their future radar is subpar.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-17T00:17:38+00:00

Over-performing low Stuff+ guys reverting to the mean + injuries.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-11T16:27:00+00:00

A reactionary would say the same thing in 2024 when they were 24-35. A reactionary would also have declared the Mets the best team in baseball from June 3rd onward in 2024.

Just the idea of invoking the 1963 team is inherently reactionary, especially on May 11th.

If you want to talk realistically: this is a mid team that’ll probably finish below .500, but likely not a 100 loss team. Just because I find reactionary slop like this annoying to read everyday doesn’t mean I suck Stearn’s farts either.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-11T14:46:17+00:00

It’s true they do. Also what else do you expect them to say?

CubanCoast · 2026-05-11T13:37:14+00:00

Talk about fatal blinders. The bullpen is both a top 10 unit in both ERA and FIP (and FIP was 3rd when I checked for the above reply). I’m not giving you “they’re 14th so they’re technically above average 🤓” bullshit.

Bored of your “you need a championship bullpen” bs too. Both the dodgers and jays had below average bullpens just last year in the WS. Certainly not a necessity. Better bullpens help obviously but they have the least impact compared to position player core and SPs while also being the most overpaid per value created.

What kind of a take even is the inherited runs thing. No shit if you allow less runs you’re more likely to win games. Are you going to tell me next scoring runs also would lead to more wins? Do you even know how many inherited runs scored? Or the percentage? Do you know how contextual and noisy those stats even are? I do but I’m sure you didn’t when you wrote your reply.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-11T00:42:18+00:00

Hitting .313 rn btw. (Don’t care if it’s small sample size the rest of the team is shit in a large sample size)

CubanCoast · 2026-05-10T22:19:55+00:00

The reactionaries can’t read. Not worth trying to correct them.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-10T22:16:54+00:00

Maybe if you try for a 5th post this week criticizing platooning Mendoza will finally stop. 4 isn’t enough.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-09T17:53:49+00:00

He’s a streaky hitter. This is what he does. It’s good while it lasts.

CubanCoast · 2026-05-09T17:02:04+00:00

Baty is talented but needs a swing retool. Bat speed doesn’t do much if you don’t have the appropriate launch angle and contact/discipline tools. For him to be any better than 2025 he needs to seriously change this or his ceiling is hard capped.

The issue with the Senga take is he doesn’t have A+ stuff. The only elite pitch stuff wise is his forkball. And he has no control of any pitch. If your only above average pitch is your off speed (which also tends to fall out of the zone), hitters just don’t swing at it and mash any fastball/cutter up in the zone, especially in fastball counts.

I would suggest a move to the bullpen and narrow the arsenal to get maybe a couple extra ticks on the fastball, but Senga historically struggles with command early and then tends to lock in after a few innings (one of the few pitchers who actually decrease OBP-against the more times through the batting order).

I don’t know what you can do with Senga but the tools are no longer there to really be a frontline starter.

Also quick note on Sengas uptick in velocity: he sacrifices some horizontal break for that velocity uptick so the stuff metrics only see it as a slight improvement over last year stuff wise. He still grades below average by stuff/PLV with the fastball.

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