Jeff Passan on X – Cubs calling up Pete Crow-Armstrong
September 11, 2023
Wish him the best but damn I wish we still had him
9 comments
I always picture a crow with buff arms
I’ll be interested how he performs in the majors. Defense looks amazing, but lots of red flags offensively
– 30% k rate
– 43% gb rate
– 42% pill rate
– 105 WRC+ with a .368 BABIP
– really struggles with fastballs up in the zone
– really high chase rate
It’s interesting too the differences between how fangraphs and pipeline rate his offense.
It should be mentioned that these are his July ratings for both
Pipeline recognizes the issue above and then pretty much says “if he fixes those issues he’ll be a 55 grade hit tool and a 50 grade power tool”.
Meanwhile fangraphs factors those issues in and is basically like “we aren’t raising him above a 40 hit tool or a 45 power tool until we see him fix those issues”.
For reference the grades line up like this:
– 40 hit tool = .240 AVG
– 55 hit tool = .270 AVG
– 45 power = 15-17 HRs
– 50 power = 18-20 HRs
I will say I have been critical the last couple of years on pipelines hit took ratings because they tend to put the absolute ceilings instead of the probable outcomes. But I don’t know if I have seen a gap this much from fangraphs to pipeline.
Pretty sure Cohen pushed the FO to make the move for Baez… and it turned out to be arguably the worst move made by the FO in the last decade.
It’s wild how people complained about Diaz/Cano forever when that deal probably doesn’t even crack the top 5 worst made over that time frame.
JD for Ruf, Holderman for Vogelbach, and PCA for Baez were all terrible.
Depending on who you ask, Endy Rodriguez for a Lucchessi was also bad.
An underrated bad move that I never see mentioned is trading Josh Winchowski for Khalil Lee.
Hopefully the Mets have learned their lesson in regards to trading controllable talent for one dimensional players and/or rentals. I’m glad the future is bright, it makes this trade sting just a little less.
Firmly believe that he is Kevin Kiermaier 2.0. His glove will be absolutely incredible, and a massive asset to any team. I don’t believe in his offense, and I never have.
He’s gonna go 4-5 with 3 HRs the first time he faces us, isn’t he
I wish him well…. and I don’t ever want to know how he does.
Him and Kelenic are the guys I wish we still had. I despised the Baez trade.
Weird move to me – he started off strong in AAA but has struggled since. I believe in the bat more so than others but still feel he needs another half season at AAA to refine his approach. I know it’s not the popular move to keep a guy everyone hears about in AAA for a while but I feel he’d benefit from the Mauricio treatment (aka go slow)
The Mets rightfully dumped him for having two last names. There has never been a great baseball player with two last names.
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I always picture a crow with buff arms
I’ll be interested how he performs in the majors. Defense looks amazing, but lots of red flags offensively
– 30% k rate
– 43% gb rate
– 42% pill rate
– 105 WRC+ with a .368 BABIP
– really struggles with fastballs up in the zone
– really high chase rate
It’s interesting too the differences between how fangraphs and pipeline rate his offense.
It should be mentioned that these are his July ratings for both
Pipeline recognizes the issue above and then pretty much says “if he fixes those issues he’ll be a 55 grade hit tool and a 50 grade power tool”.
Meanwhile fangraphs factors those issues in and is basically like “we aren’t raising him above a 40 hit tool or a 45 power tool until we see him fix those issues”.
For reference the grades line up like this:
– 40 hit tool = .240 AVG
– 55 hit tool = .270 AVG
– 45 power = 15-17 HRs
– 50 power = 18-20 HRs
I will say I have been critical the last couple of years on pipelines hit took ratings because they tend to put the absolute ceilings instead of the probable outcomes. But I don’t know if I have seen a gap this much from fangraphs to pipeline.
Pretty sure Cohen pushed the FO to make the move for Baez… and it turned out to be arguably the worst move made by the FO in the last decade.
It’s wild how people complained about Diaz/Cano forever when that deal probably doesn’t even crack the top 5 worst made over that time frame.
JD for Ruf, Holderman for Vogelbach, and PCA for Baez were all terrible.
Depending on who you ask, Endy Rodriguez for a Lucchessi was also bad.
An underrated bad move that I never see mentioned is trading Josh Winchowski for Khalil Lee.
Hopefully the Mets have learned their lesson in regards to trading controllable talent for one dimensional players and/or rentals. I’m glad the future is bright, it makes this trade sting just a little less.
Firmly believe that he is Kevin Kiermaier 2.0. His glove will be absolutely incredible, and a massive asset to any team. I don’t believe in his offense, and I never have.
He’s gonna go 4-5 with 3 HRs the first time he faces us, isn’t he
I wish him well…. and I don’t ever want to know how he does.
Him and Kelenic are the guys I wish we still had. I despised the Baez trade.
Weird move to me – he started off strong in AAA but has struggled since. I believe in the bat more so than others but still feel he needs another half season at AAA to refine his approach. I know it’s not the popular move to keep a guy everyone hears about in AAA for a while but I feel he’d benefit from the Mauricio treatment (aka go slow)
The Mets rightfully dumped him for having two last names. There has never been a great baseball player with two last names.