Is that. McFarland or buck?

That's interesting, because his path is very similar to that of some typical Cards guys who come up and exceed expectations - Matt Carpenter and Allen Craig come to mind.

Cuthbert was a big bonus guy out of Latin America and made some top 100 lists before stalling a little at AA and falling off the prospect map.

I agree that his ability to control the strike zone is a real positive for Cheslor. He does take good ABs, even if his initial walk rate doesn't show it. Pitchers challenged him fairly often, so he put a lot balls in play. If he proves he can do more damage on balls in the zone, that walk rate is going to tick up as pitchers become more careful working to him.

He also hit a little bit of a wall in September which hurt his overall numbers... was a .289/.325/.435 player through the end of August.

I'm optimistic he can be a .280/.320 guy. Question just becomes if he can make the SLG a .450 if he can tick up to a 20-HR pace, that SLG would jump into the .460-.470 range.

I understand preferring Jose Ramirez (who is unlikely to be traded, IMO) or Villar to him (though Villar's approach is pretty awful - he's a better fantasy player than real-life guy), though.

I'd like to see the Royals get Cutty around 350-400 ABs again, with a lot of those coming as a guy who is in the lineup against a lefty starter in place of Moss/Moustakas/Gordon.

Say he gets 250 vs lefties (60-65 games) and 100 against righties (20-25 games)... I would expect a slash something like .305/.343/.455.

That would be a really useful and valuable bench pieces, especially when most of those games are paired with a guy like Moss, who has traditionally raked vs righties.


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That's interesting. I'd gladly make that deal.

I think Dozier's struggles in 14 and 15 at Northwest Arkansas were primarily related to his approach. He made some major changes before last season, and it translated into success. He also was very good in his first go at AAA, with a solid overall line and very nice SLG.

Considering he had never shown the type of pop he did in 2016 before, I can place some credence in the concept of a still-developing player finding the swing change he needed.

If you've followed his minor league history, which i assume you haven't, he's a guy who was drafted with a very mature approach and nice raw power but not a ton of power production.

Before the 14 season, he bulked up a bit and made some major swing changes. It resulted in translating more of his power when he connected but sapping his average and obp skills.

He returned to something closer to his old approach and timing mechanisms last year, and took off. I think it's legit.


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Regardless of what Hunter does for the rest of his minor league career, people (myself included) will always have 2014 stuck in the mind when considering his value. It was THAT bad.

All that is forgotten if he gets to the ML level and produces though.

I'd do Dozier but not Cuthbert.



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Good. Definitely needed.

Still so sad.

Not really, it allowed the Royals to have the money to get Manena.

Trade?

Isn't Hammel still available?



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I wish we can get a good pitcher losing ACE sucks.

What happened here?

Duffy bought it for Ventura's mom.

Dude said he didn't want the money for it so Duffy said he wanted to send him some autographed stuff (by Duffy) on account of it. Respect all around.

Yep - they're hooked for life. A whole generation missed out on that. But my generation got to experience it in the 70s-80s, then got to re-experience it with their kids in 14-15.