1st PA: 449 ft HR 2nd PA: 382 ft HR 3rd PA: 368 ft HR Pretty hard to watch Baez regress this quickly.

Junior Caminero Esmerlyn Valdez Carter Jensen Jackson Merrill James Wood Joshua Baez Bryce Eldridge Joe Mack Henry Bolte Sal Stewart Jac Caglianone Nick Kurtz Carson Benge Cam Smith

It’s important to capitalize on mistakes, but the best hitters in baseball are the ones who can still produce when they make poor swing decisions OOZ wOBAcon leaders min 75 BBE: Aranda, Caminero, Burleson, Ohtani, W Abreu, Machado, Alvarez, Perdomo, Garcia Jr., Guerrero Jr.

Definitely going to miss Nootbaar here. Always a fun player and I always thought he was so close to being a breakout player

With Emerson Hancock coming up in Cardinals trade rumors, I wanted to resurface this article by @bymichaelrosen Talks about how the Mariners bypassed Hancock’s natural motor preferences to cut off his pronation bias early on in his release. Fascinating blogs.fangraphs.com/emerson-…

In his first inning of the season, LHP Brandon Clarke threw a sinker at 103.1 mph with 18” of armside run, which has never been done by a lefty in the MLB in the Statcast era He was acquired by the Cardinals in the Sonny Gray trade

Adjusting these stats for pitch location would probably be a better way of doing this, but 300-500 swings per half season should be enough to blur any noise

Every MLB player with > 3 fWAR who isn’t an all star: JJ Wetherholt

Riley O’Brien’s last two pitches of his save were both 101.1 MPH His previous career high’s in MiLB and MLB respectively were 100.8 and 100.5 (which was 3 days ago) He is something else. Cardinals got him for basically nothing in 2023.

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The pitch that JJ Wetherholt hit out yesterday had a plate side of -1.07 ft, which is nearly 5 inches from the edge of the strike zone. He hit it 425 feet. He’s the first LHH to go 425+ on a pitch at least a foot from the center of the plate since… Nolan Gorman in July of 2023