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Calhoun's bat would help but he can't replace any of the three injured Rangers defensively. Even if Texas calls him up early, his PAs will be limited.
Yep, I read this article earlier in the week after Keith law linked to it at about Pivetta. There's yet another one from The Pitcher List this week. I'm biting hard on the hype here. I actually picked him up as a spec ad before any of these articles after a podcast was talking about him saying he's a guy that both the scouts and the analytics guys believe in.
Sorry man. I know you have shares (and a man crush) our our Willie Calhoun, but that 0.206/0.229/0.324 line in Round Rock, with no real glove, isn't too exciting. Then again, the media here is screaming for him to come up as the season is already a lost cause. I think another month in the minors gets the Rangers another year of control.Sigh
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I was reading that they have to wait until middle of next week to call him up to secure the extra year.pollardsvision said:
I dropped him last year, lol. I thought he retired.
**** has been a turd all year. just dropped him for greg garcia, as i suffer through xander on the DL
I've already dropped most all my Kiki shares. And same with Moran, his BA is decent, but he gets bubkus everywhere else on the linescore. Maybe if the move him up in the batting order...
I don't, but what else is out there? Just getting through DL issues. I've done an excellent job drafting infielders that are on the DL
I didn't end up with him anywhere, but he was a pitch usage tweak away from unlocking some hidden K potential. Did that come to fruition?
I don't really see it but I think the belief is Kolten Wong might be bad and Carpenter may be in decline. Maybe a lot of days their best infield is Carpenter/Martinez, Garcia, DeJong and Gyorko? And Jose Martinez seems to have a couple small injuries to deal with already.
Carpenter is fine. k’s up some but so are walks and he sees more pitches than any other hitter. He has a 91% medium/hard contact rate and has a BABIP below .200. That’s not decline, that’s bad luck.Northern Voice said:
I haven't seen Carpenter since opening week but he seemed limited in the field. His arm wasn't as bad as Donaldson but until that's fixed, his best position is 1B.
I haven't watched him this year. Fangraphs info doesn't show anything drastic. He's throwing his curveball less often, but it seems more effective when he does (9th best CB in MLB at the moment). His contact rates are down, both in and out of the zone. He's throwing the fewest first pitch K's of his career, which is odd, and doesn't seem like a great sign.MAC_32 said:
No one in that Atlanta outfield is preventing Acuna from being called up and played every day. The corpse of Nick Markakis only has a certain ceiling, and Preston Tucker may turn into a pumpkin. Only one stopping Acuna is Acuna.
Unfortunately for O'Neill, it's a reliever being sent down, not an outfielder (Pham) going to the DL, so I don't know that he'll get a ton of chances this time up unless it ends up that Pham does need a few games off.
