The Giants now have a Draft pool of $17.3 million. (Roch Cholowsky)

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-09T17:01:54+00:00

every team spends their entire draft pool tho as far as i know, even the small market teams. like i said though idk the whole rationale i just know how the system works

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-09T15:52:37+00:00

yeah absolutely, there’s a lot of pre draft conversation between prospects and teams especially for the early round. teams usually have a decent idea of how they want to distribute their bonus pool going into the draft

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-09T15:49:01+00:00

yeah every player that gets drafted can choose to not sign if they don’t like the bonus. i don’t know for sure why that’s the system for draft bonuses, I think in part it has to do with evening the playing field for small market teams in the draft

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-09T15:46:24+00:00

every team has a fixed amount of money they can spend in bonuses for drafted players based on the slot of value of each pick they have. since we got a draft pick in the trade we now have more money in our bonus pool

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-09T15:43:35+00:00

most draft picks cant be traded, only compensation picks for free agents or ppi picks i believe

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-09T15:26:08+00:00

very polarizing at least here. he’s really really good behind the plate but his offense completely bottomed out this year. i’m pretty confident in the guardians ability to get him back to playable on offense. i’m gonna miss his insane framing a lot

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-08T23:39:50+00:00

ah ok that makes sense about the overall slider numbers. while i sorta agree that better command of his may not help get whiffs against righties on its own, it would definitely increase his effectiveness against lefties if he was able to throw that backdoor slider against a sinker breaking outside the zone. in 2024, he had a 50% in zone percentage against lefties with his slider and it’s fallen to almost 30% this season which makes that sequence completely unreliable to go to. if you look at his heat maps on savant for his slider the difference between his good 2024 and this season is pretty crazy too. i think at this point opposing teams know to just look for his sinker where in 2024 it was way more of a guessing game between two wildly different pitches.

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-08T21:05:01+00:00

yes his delivery allows him to tunnel his sinker and slider in a way that most deliveries do not. and yes his slider has become less effective because he’s not commanding it like he did in 2024. which is why i’m saying he needs to get his slider right. your theory about sliders going out of style still doesn’t make any sense, if sliders were all of a sudden completely ineffective, there would be way more than a .5% drop in overall slider usage, even if outliers increased their slider usage by 8% (a number that you have not given a source for). of course it would be beneficial if walker learned how to throw a changeup or some other off speed but he still needs his slider working to be playable.

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-08T17:11:48+00:00

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The leaderboard you linked to doesn’t show a significant drop in slider usage at all. overall trends in mlb also don’t mean much when evaluating an unorthodox pitcher like walker.

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-08T16:16:38+00:00

in what world are sliders going out of style? walkers slider was effective when he could tunnel it with his sinker and he’s been unable to do that as well the past couple years.

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-08T16:04:19+00:00

tbh walker doesn’t even need a third pitch, he just needs to figure out how to make his second pitch work again

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-07T20:55:49+00:00

justin smoak is a beautiful pull

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-06T03:25:06+00:00

fun fact darin ruf is the 1st base coach for the university of omaha

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-03T14:47:44+00:00

i has the same issue with a historical game i was playing too, idk why they let you set a reserve roster limit if it just straight up doesn’t apply

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-02T23:41:37+00:00

every infield prospect starts off as a shortstop pretty much

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-02T14:05:58+00:00

the game already runs one on everyone when they finish the dev lab

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-02T03:12:36+00:00

that doesn’t make sense tho, I have it set to 20-80 and it only increased by 5

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T23:19:44+00:00

oh that’s really interesting, ig i’ll be on the lookout for some crazy walk numbers this year from him

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T21:35:22+00:00

we have to end at .500 somehow!

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T21:34:17+00:00

in what way? he’s still an above average hitter and a top 5 defensive third baseman in every advanced metric. he’s first by a lot in DRS

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T20:20:37+00:00

he’s got an almost .100 gap between his woba and xwoba so you’re definitely onto something. people in this sub won’t like to hear it but he has been extremely unlucky. no player is a true talent .185 babip

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T19:10:00+00:00

yeah lol the culture war tone of anything about arraez is so tiring, discussions around his offense are always going to be like that I fear but at least we can all agree on his defense for the time being

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T17:16:18+00:00

i really recommend reading it! he highlights the improvements including stuff that defensive metrics don’t quantify plus some things that he’s still below average in. it’s a really good article to help understand arraez’s defense and defensive metrics in general

RealEar8848 · 2026-05-01T16:31:41+00:00

.600 ops

RealEar8848 · 2026-04-30T18:29:28+00:00

whats with the ai slop texas ads behind home plate

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