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OT: Raise the Jolly Roger: Congrats to the Houston Cheaters on their win

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NewAgeOutlaw said:
The announcers want to compare Hayes to Arenado in the field but that is a ball a gold glove caliber 3rd baseman needs to field cleanly.
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He's still well above average, but this year has definitely showed me he's not yet on Arenado's level.

De Jong with a huge K of Trea Turner and then gets the older Turner to foul out. Pitching really finding ways out of tough spots against the best team in baseball. I can't ignore those positives as far as development goes. These games are big for the youngsters.
 
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I saw a chart the other day of all the teams in the league organized by hard contact surrendered against for their pitchers and the Pirates were shockingly high.

I think the organization down the road has a little potential if a few of these young guys develop and Cherrington makes some wise moves going forward.
 
The play from Hayes earlier took a weird hop, which has been true for some of the other defensive scuffles that I've seen. It's easy to hyper-fixate on one play or the other, but after a season's worth of games, he is a franchise type player who contributes star defense.

That sequence was a case in point. The ability to both get to the ball, smoothly make the difficult pick with his hands, and then fire a perfect strike is alone something most players aren't going to do every time, but to then be able to make the tag play is something else.
 
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Hayes isn't a franchise player yet but he 100% will be if he can learn to turn on the inside pitches to keep pitchers honest on trying to jam him inside.

Even if he never devlopes a bit more in-game power, his defense is worth the value of his contract. The offense really is all icing on the cake.
 
DJ Spinoza said:
The play from Hayes earlier took a weird hop, which has been true for some of the other defensive scuffles that I've seen. It's easy to hyper-fixate on one play or the other, but after a season's worth of games, he is a franchise type player who contributes star defense.

That sequence was a case in point. The ability to both get to the ball, smoothly make the difficult pick with his hands, and then fire a perfect strike is alone something most players aren't going to do every time, but to then be able to make the tag play is something else.
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Oh, without a doubt, I certainly put him into the upper echelon of defensive players. That play was indeed evidence of his star ability.

Just needs to be consistently elite to take the gavel from Nolan though.

This was indeed picture perfection as far as defensive baseball goes.

 
Kevin Young looks great, fwiw.

And he'd have an outside shot of being the best healthy 1B on the Pirates if he were to come out of retirement.
 
I've been wildly impressed with Chavis this year. He's hitting great and fielding great, regardless of where you play him. It feels almost like a waste to put him at 1st base, but he's a downright terrific defensive player at 1st.

Holy shit what a stupid send on the Dodgers there. Even with Reynolds not having the best arm, why would you send him there?
 
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