Cardinals Have Spoken With Giants About OF Trade

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Re: Cardinals Have Spoken With Giants About OF Trade

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Yes, they need roster spots and they’re running out of time to open them. It’d be great if they could package a couple of guys for a better player but that’s hard to do.

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Re: Cardinals Have Spoken With Giants About OF Trade

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emlazar
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What kind of market is out there for Stephen Piscotty?

Eno Sarris
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I bet there's a decent one among the rebuilders. He's shown the ability to hit for power and the fly ball drop last year was not so precipitous that you can't see it coming back.
maybe sending SP to california to be near his mother to facilitate another trade? we helped leake be closer to his family so maybe thats the new FO mantra.
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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:Is there a way to look at players over the years that have less than 0.05 difference in their BA and OBP and see how they progress?

It seems like players that have less than a 0.05 separation have a much higher likelihood of being a flash in the pan compared to players that have a 0.06+ separation.

That's what worries me the most about DeJong. It looks like he has the bat speed and power to be an everyday MLBer but if he starts chasing pitches and doesn't take walks and pitchers give him less to hit that could be a huge problem.
I saw something interesting the other day on Fangraphs. Eno Sarris was making the case for Stanton. In it, he pointed out that a hitter's in-zone contact remains steady throughout their career, but their out-of-zone contact tends to tank as they age. On the other end, players swing at fewer pitches the older they get (this is a good thing- even though they make less contact outside the zone, they're also chasing less and less).

Basically, guys get worse when they chase the more they age (no clue why that is, FWIW). So free-swingers age worse.

What does this say about DeJong? Well... it's not good. His swing % outside of the zone is 33.6%. Of all hitters with 300 PA's last year, he's in the 73rd percentile (that's not dreadful, but it's bad). Compounding it: his contact % on those pitches was 59.2%, which puts him in the 29th percentile among all hitters (300+ PAs). Again, not dreadful, but it's bad. So that's something to flag about the guy.

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