Another trade deadline plan.

[D-train]

Young sucked in April and then snapped out of it but WHY can't a single one of these guys rake like Alvin Davis did.

[Seattle or Bust]

Apparently we missed the part where I said that he'd be a pure platoon in right cause he's one of the better hitters in the league against lefties...

I think the most glaring needs are now 3B, 2B, Reliever...





I present to you the Baseball Savant pages of Cole Young and Ben Williamson.

Yikes.

What do those bars represent, percentiles?

It's where they fall among hitters in the league. So essentially they are in the bottom 30% if not bottom 10% of most contact metrics.

[Seattle or Bust]

Young sucked in April and then snapped out of it but WHY can't a single one of these guys rake like Alvin Davis did.

You don't even need them to "rake."

Just have a .700ish OPS... but they can't even do that.

Young's 23% K rate and just 4.5% BB rate is very, very alarming for a guy who makes his $$ on equal K:BB splits with little power.

He was walking about about a 14% rate and striking out at a 13% rate in Tacoma...

[Vogelbomb]

Young sucked in April and then snapped out of it but WHY can't a single one of these guys rake like Alvin Davis did.

You don't even need them to "rake."

Just have a .700ish OPS... but they can't even do that.

Young's 23% K rate and just 4.5% BB rate is very, very alarming for a guy who makes his $$ on equal K:BB splits with little power.

He was walking about about a 14% rate and striking out at a 13% rate in Tacoma...

he's been getting jobbed by the big league umps. Lots of bad to iffy K calls

[Vogelbomb]

Young sucked in April and then snapped out of it but WHY can't a single one of these guys rake like Alvin Davis did.

Young is 21. Davis was 23 when he debuted.

[Vogelbomb]

Young sucked in April and then snapped out of it but WHY can't a single one of these guys rake like Alvin Davis did.

And I know it's vogue to rip on M's prospects, but Jac Caglianone, a stud for the Royals at 22, former 6th overall, is at .165/.211/.271 over his first 90 PAs since being called up.

I mean so MLB isn't easy. I like what I've seen from Young so far despite being given little opportunity in the 9 hole and getting jobbed by umps

[Donn Beach]

It's pretty unusual for a rookie to rake on their initial call up isn't it, Elly De La Cruz did didn't he

[Vogelbomb]

Boston's rookie Kristian Campbell is also having a rough start to his MLB career. He just 23. Hitting .223/.319/.345 with an 87 OPS+

[Seattle or Bust]

Young sucked in April and then snapped out of it but WHY can't a single one of these guys rake like Alvin Davis did.

And I know it's vogue to rip on M's prospects, but Jac Caglianone, a stud for the Royals at 22, former 6th overall, is at .165/.211/.271 over his first 90 PAs since being called up.

I mean so MLB isn't easy. I like what I've seen from Young so far despite being given little opportunity in the 9 hole and getting jobbed by umps

The Royals were also really dumb to call him up. He had 229 minor league AB's... Young has 1473.

I'm not saying Young will never be a good ball player. But he shouldn't be on this team at the moment.

[desbcoach]

Randy!!