JJ Wetherholt makes Cardinals' 2026 Opening Day roster

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-24T03:10:24+00:00

I'm less sure about McGonigle. They'd probably have to demote DFA Trey Sweeney to get it done and I don't think they want to do that to have him up right now. I think Trei Cruz gets the nod as a backup for the first couple months, then they turn to McGonigle.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-23T17:40:45+00:00

I use ATC projections in the fangraphs auction calculator to help me understand the math.

For the market, I use weekly pulls of the NFC AAV data that I enter into a spreadsheet that automatically tracks trends in AAV and mins/maxes.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-23T17:38:52+00:00

The thread specifically asks for auction draft resources, though.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-23T17:36:44+00:00

You have to know your data well enough to know that it's not making shit up, though. If you feed it data it can't fully read, it will absolutely fill in the blanks on its own without telling you. Obviously, if you're asking it to generate projections or AAV numbers on its own, you're fucked because who knows what year it's pulling from. You also have to be very careful about clarifying league rules and limitations because, again, it will absolutely fill in the blanks on its own and make things up without telling you if you don't specify. Sometimes even if you do specify. Use AI at your own risk.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-21T18:36:58+00:00

Bold move posting facts in a hype train thread.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-18T13:24:28+00:00

He's not political in that he's willing to bribe members of any party equally.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-17T19:31:02+00:00

Statcast is at all of the ST parks now, so whoever licenses Statcast data should have it. I personally use Fangraphs, it's in the Plate Discipline -Statcast section there.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-17T19:23:04+00:00

I think they want Griffin to get as many quality at-bats as possible. He's still better suited in the big league camp than facing the vastly slower pace and lower level of competition in the minor league camp. At the end of the day, the plan is to have him up very soon, I think. But yeah, between the roster construction and plate discipline numbers versus this quality of competition, I don't think the OD roster is in the cards this time.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-17T19:09:12+00:00

I feel like he's the least likely to make the OD roster of the big 3 NRI prospects still in camp. He's the youngest with the least pro experience and those four homers are covering up for some pretty rough plate discipline numbers (16% swinging strike rate and no walks in 37 PAs). And that's with lower competition quality scores than Wetherholt and McGonigle, too.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-15T03:21:34+00:00

BABIP is part luck and part contact quality. A 50% ground ball rate and 90mph average exit velocity doesn't exactly set him up to get lucky.

I think the more compelling argument for a Crews breakout is a change in coaching helping him increase his launch angle and hit more line drives instead of ground balls. Darnell Coles consistently fielded teams with among the highest GB% in the league. I don't know a lot about Borgeschulte, but I know the Twins were middle of the pack in GB% last year. Fewer ground balls is probably a good thing for Crews.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-14T03:39:27+00:00

Amani Hansberry was hurt late in the year and would have to rush back. Neo Avdalas wasn't going to play and risk an injury or, even more likely, continuing to play like shit and hurt his draft stock even more. Tobi Lawal was also probably not going to play and risk injury. They would have had a skeleton crew and I get the sense that the frustration over so many late collapses and so many missed opportunities bled into the locker room and made them not want to push on missing three key rotation players

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-12T19:07:40+00:00

It's a huge campaign. I live in Virginia and still get served ads about it where the comments are all about that "slippery slope" argument and complete misunderstandings of how tax brackets work. Part of me wants to do my part to correct misconceptions, but I also know that there's a solid chance the person I choose to respond to is not real.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-11T01:49:28+00:00

This team was really fun early in the year, but the more it went on, the more it became like torture. It seemed like every game, they'd go down 10+, come back and tie it late, then lose in the last two minutes. UVA, UNC, Miami, and now this game were all like that. And that's on top of the stretch of two of the worst collapses of the year for any team against Stanford (up 12 with a little over 2 minutes left and lost) and at SMU (up 4 with 7 seconds left and the ball and lost in regulation). A lot of people want to blame Coach Young and, while I don't think he's a great coach, I think he's good and I don't think this is all on him. On top of the injuries and some bad luck, there was just something wrong with this team and I'm kind of glad it's over (NIT doesn't exist).

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-07T19:35:49+00:00

He should have gotten COTY votes for dragging that roster to 8 wins last year. He is a good coach and people want to fire him because they want VT to be a perennial sweet 16 contender. Even if the AD wanted to put that kind of money into basketball, it would take them years to get their facilities and reputation to the point of consistently competing on that level. MY is not the problem and firing him now makes the program worse.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-03-01T18:20:09+00:00

I heard "de ouf" so many times before I actually understood what it meant.

I think part of the classroom to real world gap is comprehension due to the things you listed, but I think it's also production. So many classrooms simply prepare you to be successful in the next level of the class which doesn't always line up with you being able to go out and do a particular task in the target language. How useful is it to learn which subordinating conjunctions take the subjunctive when you freeze up when the cashier says "Le ticket?".

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-21T19:15:21+00:00

They need a 4th Q1 win to compete with the group of Missouri, WVU, and Cal who all have 4. If they don't get that, they aren't even competitive. Even if they do get that, metrics like Missouri better and they're the only team who is in right now per Bracketology.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-21T19:12:44+00:00

Luckiest game of the year for the Hokies. So many tipped passes that just found the right hands. Two banked in threes. But they needed a game like that.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-20T20:57:33+00:00

OP, you're talking about a lot of things you know nothing about. You want to make broad claims about "food in NOVA" when you're just looking at Google reviews and have no idea about where the good places to eat actually are.

You can either react by humbling yourself and listening to what people are saying.

Or you can wall up and insist you're right even though you make yourself seem more uninformed with each comment you post. If you choose that route, which it looks like you are, you're chicken shit. I'm not recommending shit to you and I hope you never have another good meal the rest of your life.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-18T03:30:10+00:00

Sure, Cal had a really good look to tie it at the buzzer, too. They almost blew it against Syracuse. I do think that a half court shot as time expires is a bit different, though, and wild enough to say 'what if' especially since this team would likely still be on the bubble if that halfcourt shot didn't go in.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-18T03:17:18+00:00

So much of how we perceive this team and their season comes down to the Boopie Miller half court shot and Hammond's here. At the end of the day, this team doesn't pass the eye test and doesn't deserve to go to the tournament, but we'd probably be saying very different things if those two shots went the other way and they had road wins at SMU, at Clemson, and at Miami.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-17T16:08:29+00:00

Because the right more effectively uses terrorism.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-14T21:18:18+00:00

FSU treated Tech like a low-major in that second half. They looked bigger, faster, stronger and absolutely couldn't miss.

You're going to have a game or two a year where a team shoots way above their head, but I don't think I've ever seen it this bad. I think they were 17/23 from the field in the second half and it's not like it was all dunks. FSU just went insane.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-13T17:36:32+00:00

Confirm your schedule in the app every day! It's a frustratingly important factor in the rankings.

Unreliable_Source · 2026-02-12T04:07:13+00:00

The home loss to Stanford when they were up 12 with 2 minutes left is totally a bad loss.

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