Thanks for the update, looks like a kid who could move fast. Has the D in the OF/1B and the bat looked good last year in the DSL as a 17 year old - impressed with the number of Walks higher than the number of K's - should be a part of the stats to which the Pirates should pay closer attention - and especially a kid with power from the left side.
If you’re someone like me who dislikes that most hitters have become low average, high strikeout hitters who are selling out for power, the success of young guys like Jacob Wilson and Chandler Simpson, as well as the prolonged success of players like Luis Arraez and Brendan Donovan, gives me hope that the pendulum is swinging back the other way.
I say all of that to say that I’m cautiously optimistic about Mitch Jebb.
Maybe I'm just a debbie downer here because i love these dudes too, but it seems to me more than anything they're just proving the exception to the rule.
If it takes like 80-grade skill to make it with that profile then those dudes were always gonna make it in any environment and that ain't Jebb.
League-wide K-rate is down .4% from this time last year and there's one more qualified hitter under 10% K-rate.
Pirates have now lost twice as many games as they won. Season is over and the race for the worst record in baseball begins. Another year of hope is gone and Shelton and Cherry should be fired along with the new hitting coach. Almost a half century of failure. High draft choice failures. International free agent signings failures. Developmental failures. Why doesn't MLB try to force out this ownership and try to give the fans some hope and something, someone to root for.
Because there is no “MLB”. There are just the owners of the 29 other franchises. And if you have a competing franchise who never wins but still stays afloat financially, well that’s the best case scenario for them.
Garrett McMillan promoted to Altoona. Curve also get Sean Sullivan back from rehab.
Hunter Furtado promoted to Greensboro
Apparently replaced by Alexis Torres.
Yep. Torres looked pretty good on Saturday.
Any word on who Barco is replacing in the Indy rotation? Could it please be Chandler. Give us Pirates fans a reason to get excited.
Could just be Carson Fulmer lol
Florentino just hit his first dinger of the season.
Thanks for the update, looks like a kid who could move fast. Has the D in the OF/1B and the bat looked good last year in the DSL as a 17 year old - impressed with the number of Walks higher than the number of K's - should be a part of the stats to which the Pirates should pay closer attention - and especially a kid with power from the left side.
Then Jonathan Rivero goes deep. He could turn into a guy to watch.
Hit the ball really hard yesterday.
Of course they’d both go deep on the road
Well, things went way downhill after the HRs
I just saw lol. Fun while it lasted
If you’re someone like me who dislikes that most hitters have become low average, high strikeout hitters who are selling out for power, the success of young guys like Jacob Wilson and Chandler Simpson, as well as the prolonged success of players like Luis Arraez and Brendan Donovan, gives me hope that the pendulum is swinging back the other way.
I say all of that to say that I’m cautiously optimistic about Mitch Jebb.
Maybe I'm just a debbie downer here because i love these dudes too, but it seems to me more than anything they're just proving the exception to the rule.
If it takes like 80-grade skill to make it with that profile then those dudes were always gonna make it in any environment and that ain't Jebb.
League-wide K-rate is down .4% from this time last year and there's one more qualified hitter under 10% K-rate.
I think what's more depressing for me is that you're not even seeing a rise in batting average with improved league-wide contact.
Less k's AND less offense would suck even more, IMO, than what we have now.
Pirates have now lost twice as many games as they won. Season is over and the race for the worst record in baseball begins. Another year of hope is gone and Shelton and Cherry should be fired along with the new hitting coach. Almost a half century of failure. High draft choice failures. International free agent signings failures. Developmental failures. Why doesn't MLB try to force out this ownership and try to give the fans some hope and something, someone to root for.
Because there is no “MLB”. There are just the owners of the 29 other franchises. And if you have a competing franchise who never wins but still stays afloat financially, well that’s the best case scenario for them.
Is the best outcome for Jebb something like Chandler Simpson but 30-40 bags instead of 100?
Brett Butler with less bunting ability
Would love a Brett Butler!
That would seem like a fair comparison as far as profile.