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How did the Pirates get a talent like Severino (still only 18) for Santana? Could the Brewers have asked for Ro Castro to be added without raising any eyebrows within the Pirates org?

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Cheng hit his first altoona bomb!

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College bats raking in A ball, eh? Jebb and Cimillo in Bradenton and Sightler and Brannigan in Greensboro. Let’s hope one or two of them can do the same thing once they reach Altoona.

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Great pics there WTM! Just as you promised!

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Nice games by Bubba and Ortiz. Wither Contreras? Is he pitching any where?

Good to see Josiah S with another multi hit game. Can’t wait to find out if he is for real or just a college senior blowing away inferior competition.

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How do I find out Mitch Jebb’s exit velocity? I am on Baseball Savant and did a search, but got nothing I wouldn’t see on BRef. Tried all of the options…….nothing.

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Through 14 batted ball events, Jebb has an 84 mph EV.

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Not good. Kevin Newmanesque.

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And, a good lead-in to the trade of Newman for Dauri Moreta, who leads all of our relievers in IP, and has a 0.7 fWAR. Newman is now at 0.2 fWAR.

With the Newman trade, the injuries to Oneil Cruz, and Ke'Bryan Hayes, the Pirates have been able to see a lot of Castro, Bae, Marcano, Gonzales, and now, Triolo so far in 2023.

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Also a very small sample size that one or two is really going to tank the overall number.

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Then what is his ev minus those one or two?

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If you take out his worst two it's right at 88 mph, which would be league average

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True, but if you take out the top 2 as well it's probably close to 84mph.

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He really drove that one pitch deep to the oppo field.

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Trick: go to MiLB Gameday/Box, get the game ID, then go to a random mlb game on baseball savant that same day, and delete the game ID and paste the new one. Not all places have it but most in FSL do.

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Don't even have to do all that now. Just go to the game feed tab, and change it from MLB to Low-A, then find the Bradenton game

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Baby step for Jim. Baby steps.

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Okay. Do it and report back. 😎😎😎

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You have to be crazy like me and go game by game and record them and then average them out lol

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Mitch Jebb trying to get me on @OldTakesExposed

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Mitch Jebb has a picture of ur sunburn face and that tweet in his locker driving him to become an absolute hit machine lol

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Lets get some cold takes out here then!

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He should be in High A or Altoona.

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