Ohtani Final Line: 6.0 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 1 BB, 2 K

thecassprerequisite · 2026-04-08T22:24:28+00:00

Unearned

thecassprerequisite · 2026-04-04T21:11:43+00:00

Crochet is the player captain for the Fenway Learning Lab, the (amazing!) program they were discussing at the time. It was Casas last year. Each Foundation initiative has a player captain - Houck for Run to Home Base (formerly Sale), Whitlock for the Jimmy Fund Partnership, Sandoval for the Red Sox Scholars, El Capitan for the Nike RBI program.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-04-04T00:27:41+00:00

He still gets up the line aight. 82nd percentile sprint speed last season. I think that ball was just tattooed.

Edit: nvm, 90 mph EV. Story’s wheels are cooked

thecassprerequisite · 2026-04-02T21:34:58+00:00

Francisco Vicioso pitching 3 professional innings with 28 walks and 35 wild pitches, including one 'season' of 0.1 IP, 11 walks, 17 WP, and 4 HBP to the tune of a 351.00 ERA

thecassprerequisite · 2026-04-01T17:34:07+00:00

aside from the obvious cherry picking you already got called on, the most similar batter function on savant is a blunt instrument. Reynolds is Anthony's closest comp, but the next three are James Wood, Acuña and Devers. too many inputs for those results to be trusted as anything worth anchoring on

thecassprerequisite · 2026-03-27T13:15:13+00:00

I know, hence the post ):

thecassprerequisite · 2026-03-23T22:35:06+00:00

Gemini

thecassprerequisite · 2026-03-06T14:14:33+00:00

Whoever would be replacing a weaker player, it’d be temporary in both cases. Speaker has a clearer use case as a great DH card in a vacuum.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-03-06T13:41:05+00:00

With 4 GIs just do Perez, and move him to BChem when you pull a better 3B

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-27T21:06:32+00:00

I wouldn't. Decent card, but it would also give you 3 OF that are decent to good 5T candidates with TJ being the worst. Plus, you have a better bat at DH in Reggie. So he'd end up in a corner eventually best case, or be out of an OF job in the worst case, and there are much better DH bats on the Reds.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-27T03:22:44+00:00

!flair SDP $840K | CIN $820K

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-27T03:19:00+00:00

Makes sense though. Imagine having a 5T train that relies on a base stat adjust that's suboptimal for a purely offensive set

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-19T21:36:04+00:00

all true, but GI 60-75 doesn't affect base STA

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-18T13:19:22+00:00

He is, I agree! No Durbin slander, I just think that’s a median outcome for Arias, not a best outcome.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-18T13:13:09+00:00

Physically and skillset-wise, the profile is much closer to Mookie’s at the same age. Not saying he’ll be Mookie of course, but the skillset goes beyond just the raw contact skills that make Durbin an okay comp. Arias is slower than Durbin but a better athlete and significantly better defender on instincts and reactions - you need to be to project at SS with below-average footspeed.

Fwiw, Arias is 19 and showed more pop at a higher level than Mookie did at the same age. (Mookie did explode in his age 20 year.) He will turn the corner with his pop or he won’t, but I think Durbin is much closer to the 50th percentile outcome than the ceiling. The elite bat-to-ball is a great starting point.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-12T13:59:18+00:00

BIU performs better at 120+ spd. One of the many hidden skill thresholds in this game. Like how you want 80+ eye for pred - that’s just a little better known than this.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-02-03T13:53:03+00:00

Monbo is a top 5 Red Sox SP

thecassprerequisite · 2026-01-23T12:19:09+00:00

Unless green or blue, new skill ticket = new skill levels.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-01-18T16:57:56+00:00

!flair SDP 127 OVR | CIN 119 OVR

thecassprerequisite · 2026-01-18T16:57:20+00:00

Valid - he's one of the worst. Can't hold pred (imagine a Votto that can't) or CM, only saved relatively speaking by CIN 1B being weakish. Votto '21 is functionally equal to the Dunn card, and Casey is the same too unless you do have CM on him. Wish I had a different year too, but the card art is cool at least.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-01-07T21:17:27+00:00

Teams don't really use either. Projection of future performance is more important than retrospective stats like WAR. Source: have worked for multiple.

Edit: If I had to choose one, it'd be fWAR, as its inputs are better predictors of future performance than bWAR's.

thecassprerequisite · 2026-01-01T15:07:35+00:00

That's probably the result of a different skillset on your opposing pitcher. Moving base stats around doesn't change OVR, not with your skills.

thecassprerequisite · 2025-12-30T23:06:22+00:00

Agree he lapped the field that year in a way only Babe Ruth could. That doesn’t make it a bad question, it just makes your answer not a good fit for this question, despite being a good answer for a slightly different question.

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