I hope Jordan Walker doesn’t continue to get the Jo Adell paint job

The thumbnail scared me can’t lie

East Coast Biased lists. ALL STAR Heliot Ramos not even an honorable mention is a joke. Worse than ranking players who cannot catch a baseball above Patrick Bailey and Matt Chapman.

Best one I saw was it’s basically Jamarr Chase for Mike Evans and a 2nd Rounder

Brandon Nimmo’s season was basically a tale of two halves, as his contact quality degraded significantly in the second half, likely connected to the plantar fasciitis. He rebounded somewhat in the postseason, despite being in obvious pain, which seems like a good sign. He was top 25 in fWAR among position players just before the All-Star Break, but he was below replacement after that. Through July 11, he had a .377 xwOBA (.354 actual) and .274 xBA (.254 actual), with a 92.7mph avgEV, 50.6% hard hit rate, and a 12.9% barrel rate. From July 12 on, his xwOBA plummeted nearly 100 points to .278 (.263 actual), and his xBA dropped to .206 (.188 actual), with a 90.9mph avgEV, 43.2 HH%, and dreadful 4.4% barrel rate. His BABIP also plummeted from .304 to .222. Weirdly, 7 of his 15 stolen bases came during this period. His K rate remained steady, and he still hit the ball fairly hard, but his ground ball rate increased, and the quality of his line drives and fly balls sharply decreased (lower EV, less optimal launch angles). He made significantly better contact in the postseason, resulting in an improved .344 xwOBA, but I suspect the obvious pain in his feet was still keeping him from fully getting into his legs, as his fly balls were of the high and lazy variety, though he hit line drives with authority.

Arozarena top 20 ?? lolol

Muncy over basically 6-10

The fair at south Florida fair grounds was just there Monday, wish I went Sunday to see you

Parker m is better player.

For the bet Jack: Has to wear Just Baseball merch on the pod for a week/month straight Peter: Has to tweet that he was wrong about Jazz Chisholm's antics and something nice about Chisholm

On PCA, the defense absolutely WAS unbelievable.

I'm biased, but I can't put Riley and Devers over Machado going into the 2025 season. Also, really found the political history discussion at the end interesting.

Serious question guys would you trade Kirby for westberg

What about Cruz in Pittsburgh?

Still think Mike Harris is better than Julio

No love for skubal in the top 5?

PATRICK BAILEYYYYYY

Idk I think it’s a bit early to put PCA in these convos. His defense is impeccable but he hasn’t proven anything in the MLB. If this is strictly based on potential then I can see it but I think this should be where he’s ranked if he swings the bat better this upcoming year!

PCA at 10, Edman at 8 would have easily made sense. Docking Edman for the ability to move around and play another premium position with a proven track record of hitting in the playoffs makes zero sense. Jack really confuses me lol.

Punishment ideas: 1. Whoever finishes with the worst record in the league this year, the loser has to bet that same team to win 80+ games the next season (2026) 2. Loser has to buy the lowest qualified hitter using WRC+ or OPS+ for the 2025 seasons authentic jersey and hang it in their background for the offseason

Merrill had 1323.1 innings in CF. Carroll had 672 CF / 645 RF. Carroll had a 107 wRC+ and Merrill had a 130 wRC+. Logic, there is none.

For the bet: If Peter loses, he has to put up a Boston Red Sox flag behind him for a year. If Jack loses, he can only argue with expected stats to back him up for a whole show

Moron plus 😂

so happy as a Rays fan to have less Walls at-bats wooooooo

Loser has to take a HBP by a Walker fastball

loser of bet has to get face tattoo of cody bellinger on thigh

As a Mariner fan, Peter, your take is absolutely accurate. There is no reason to talk about them in any FA context moving forward so long as this ownership group is still in power. They have no interest in winning.

MH2 over Julio is crazy to me, go ahead and pull up the stathead versus page for those two guys and tell me with a straight face you wouldn't rather have Julio.

Parker meadows will have an 8 war this year

Don't care if it's disrespectful to Mike Trout. When you can't even average 70 games a year over a 5 year stretch then he shouldn't even qualify to be apart of the top 10 centerfielder's. You're most important ability is you're availability and he is almost never available!! Trout needs to become a DH

Parker meadows honorable mention…

Gotta ask guys…where is Parker meadows?

Got a lil confused on the CF rankings because is Judge not a CF and Carroll a RF?

I know he played a few more games in center but Carroll looks to be a right fielder going forward.

Wondering why Carroll is a CF when Jarren Duran is not, considering Duran played 105 games in CF last year and Carroll played 81. Im guessing you're projecting Duran to play more LF assuming that Rafaela is the everyday CF?

Loser DoorDashes coffee to the winner for a week

Great stuff guys. Thank!

I’d rather have the 2 teams in Texas over a lot of the top teams

Loser of the bet has to buy the winner a jersey (can be DH gate if you're not trying to drop $200 on this bet) of the winner's player. So Peter would buy Jack a Yankees Bellinger jersey, or Jack would buy Peter a Parker Meadows jersey.

Tarik Skubal could definitely still be a top 5 pitcher by 2030

As a Cardinals guy, placing Chizzholm over Turang is ABSURD.

I’m a Cubs fan and I still hope they get Bregman. If they offer him a deal where he can opt out after this year and say “see, I’m worth 200M” might be why they’re still being considered for him.

If yinz ever want some presidential facts for the last word hit me up

what does peter vision put vientos’ nuts+ at?🧐

Josh Jung will be top 5 by August

wouldn’t have done it after the first time, I would trust the goat

I’m way more pessimistic than my fellow Mets fans about Mark Vientos. Not only does he have high chase and whiff rates, as Aram noted, but his zone contact rate is pretty atrocious (and he has absolutely no speed to help boost his BABIP). He also had insane HR-to-flyball luck last year, with a HR/FB over 30% that ranked third in MLB (min. 450 PA) behind Judge and Ohtani. I say “luck,” because while the quality of his fly balls was very good, it wasn’t nearly Judge/Ohtani-level good, and he had 6 more HRs than expected (4th-most). In general, he vastly outperformed his expected stats-which, like his projections, were nearly identical to Alonso’s, only with way more Ks-and from July 1 through the postseason, he struck out exactly one-third of the time.

Gowdy???! Pronounced GAW-dy

Devers is far overrated

‪Loved the ep one thing I’d say about devers 2024 he had an ops around 1.000 up until midway when his shoulder started really hampering the swing. Tried to play through when it looked like the Sox might’ve had a chance at the playoffs . End numbers were a lot worse than his play most of the year