OT: Pirates Talk: That Skenes guy is okay at teh baseball

[DJ Spinoza]

That's true, but we're also talking about a 27-year old. Maybe he has a Max Muncy type career arc, but his upside is probably more like 3 or 4 solid years. His upside will especially be in his dirt cheap years, since he doesn't have much of a carrying tool, but in fairness to him he could carve out a floor path with consistent OBP if he's able to maintain the solid power year over year (a nicer way to say he's basically worthless if he starts hitting 12ish HRs a year max).

 

[ImporterExporter]

The only way this team wins anything of note is by literally pulling off this.



"This guy's here is DEAD"

Also, the amount of times I've said "Giiiivvvvee eeeeummmm the hearterrrrrrr" at games and in general life is too many to count haha.

 

[Empoleon8771]

That's true, but we're also talking about a 27-year old. Maybe he has a Max Muncy type career arc, but his upside is probably more like 3 or 4 solid years. His upside will especially be in his dirt cheap years, since he doesn't have much of a carrying tool, but in fairness to him he could carve out a floor path with consistent OBP if he's able to maintain the solid power year over year (a nicer way to say he's basically worthless if he starts hitting 12ish HRs a year max).

Yeah my point wasn't to say you were wrong, but it makes sense for why Horwitz had much more value than Naylor. That said, I think there's a legit argument that they should have traded less for Naylor even though he would almost definitely be a pure rental.



Looks like Cleveland replaced Naylor with Santana.

 

[BusinessGoose]

What does it feel like to sign free agents? Lol