Roto Riteup April 23, 2017
Rich Hill as a reliever?
Dave Roberts said a bullpen role could happen for Rich Hill. The blister magnet once again landed on the D.L. with that middle finger-recurring issue. He will begin a rehab assignment soon.
This changes up the starting rotation should this occur with Julio Urias being put in the starting rotation. So that could be fun.
The 20-year-old is kind of serving as a placeholder at the moment and after a solid 1.93 ERA and 15 strikeouts in 14 innings with Triple-A Omaha, he could get the start against the Giants Wednesday.
On the Agenda
- News and Notes
- Car Mar
- Maeda
News and Notes
–Troy Tulowitzki landed on the 10-day D.L. because he (along with everyone else in Major League Baseball it seems) has a hamstring injury. Ryan Goins replaced him Saturday night in the lineup. Goins hits a lot of groundballs, but seems to possess a lot of power. If you need a filler spot especially in the daily game, I don’t hate rostering him depending on the matchup.
–Howie Kendrick is expected to miss 2-3 weeks with an oblique strain.
–George Springer is also the recipient of a hamstring injury. He left Saturday’s game with some discomfort. He’s day-to-day, but who knows with those hamstrings.
Car Mar
Carlos Martinez has been riding the struggle bus lately. He’s 0-3 with a 4.76 ERA and recently said he was worried.
“I’m not really sure what’s going on,” he said to Derrick Goold of the St. Louis-Post Dispatch. “I’m just trying to find my rhythm and get the mechanics down right. It’s just trying to locate that fastball.” His zone percentage dropped quite a bit from last season.
I still think he’s worth holding on to, however. He is carrying a 12.31 K/9 rate and even with an increase in his flyball/home run ratio, once he gains control, he can be unstoppable.
Maeda
Kenta Maeda’s next start could be delayed so he can “work on his pitching mechanics.”
He’s allowing a lot of runs this season and can’t seem to find his groove. That’s showing in his 8.05 ERA and even though the hard contact rate off of him has lessened, something is obviously not working.
Fantasy owners should really keep him on a short leash or avoid him altogether in his next start.
“Goins hits a lot of groundballs, but seems to possess a lot of power. If you need a filler spot especially in the daily game, I don’t hate rostering him depending on the matchup.”
*Insert gif located at the top of this Riteup here*
I have really tried to avoid commenting on the quality of these lately but this is just a baffling statement and makes me wonder what purpose these Roto Riteups are supposed to serve. Not only is the information contained in many of these recent Riteups mostly useless, it is increasingly just plain wrong.
Ryan Goins has zero power and even less fantasy value. Unless you happen to play in an AL-only, defense-only league with a player pool limited to players named Ryan… then go for it.
As a Jays fan who has had to watch Ryan Goins take the field all to often in the past 4 years I have to concur with TXHusker25. Id even go so far to say that the player pool has to be limited not just to “Ryan’s” but to “Ryan Gs”.
I was going to write something similar about the Goins comment, but thank you for saving me the trouble.
After 956 MLB plate appearances, Ryan Goins sports a career .102 ISO.
I will add that terming Urias as a “placeholder” looks an awful lot like the language utilized in Rotoworld’s Urias blurb dated April 22nd. One would hope this is merely an unfortunate coincidence.
This has to be addressed by the author. There is literally nothing in Ryan Goins’ major or minor league history, from either a stats or scouting point of view, that would suggest he has a lot of power.
“…[Ryan Goins] seems to possess a lot of power…” just feels like trolling at this point.
Guess who just hit a homer.
I love that Goins just went deep. That’s too good.
I know everyone else has jumped on the Goins thing but…. COME ON!!!!
Goins only showed a tiny bit of anything with the bat for a brief stretch in 2015 after Travis went down with his shoulder for the first time. Goins has a bench job in the Majors because his glove plays all over, and that’s it! Darwin Barney has been starting over him. DARWIN BARNEY!
Literally the last Ryan Goins-specific article on Fangraphs is about how he was finding success by NOT SWINGING THE BAT! (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/ryan-goins-is-the-new-reason-well-never-understand-baseball/)
DO NOT USE RYAN GOINS IN DFS OR ANY FANTASY FORMAT!
And OF COURSE Carlos Martinez is “worth holding onto”. I literally cannot think of any format where you would cut Carlos Martinez in April.
Rich Hill as a reliever makes complete sense! He’s done it before! There’s evidence that he can go a few innings before the blisters kick in so why not?
If anything, this is a kind of small upside thing for daily lineup leagues who can use him like lots of smart owners are using Devenski; the sneaky starter who’s actually relieving and giving great ratios.
Seriously. This is just insane. What is going on?
What’s going on is that this particular writer pens useless to detrimental drivel that is escaping any editor’s watchful eye, thereby diluting the overall quality of an otherwise outstanding website.
Correct. There is some good content in the RRs usually, it’s just this author, who in the last week or so has said Ryan Goins “seems to possess a lot of power” when he has a career 5.8 % HR/FB in ~1,000 ABs and yet of Marcus Semien “His power hasn’t increased yet, but he’s not known for hitting for that characteristic. He has however tackled some specialty pitches this season.” Goings has 11 HRs in his career, Semien had 27 last year.
YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE THINGS UP. You get your own opinions, but you don’t get your own facts.
Somebody at FGs has to step in.
Hey man watch the insults….
…to Darwin Barney. Hes a solid backup!
If you all think these riteups are bad, you should read the hit piece she wrote on Rob Manfred “ruining baseball”
I’ve been skipping these articles altogether by clicking on the comments link.
Ruh roh, Shaggy.
Please send this writer back to AAA
Yo these articles suck
I think she is more of an on air interviewer talent that a stats writer. We all have our strengths.
Not to pile it on, but I couldn’t agree more about the quality of the Roto Riteups under this author. They used to be a decent source of useful daily news tidbits that people might have missed. Now they’re horrible, bloggy, under-researched posts that more often than not are straight up wrong. Can we get somebody else to take over these? On a website with so much amazing, well-researched content these stand out like a sore thumb.
The Buzzfeed-ification of Fangraphs had begun!
You all are goings to feel pretty stupid when he unleashes the new power stroke he’s been working on!
Triple A Omaha is a Royals affiliate not Dodgers. Is there any research occurring before these writeups happen??
I can’t believe I missed that one. I must have been overwhelmed with all the other errors that my brain just didn’t process that one. Are we being punk’d? Is this some sort of test to see who can spot all the errors, like one of those pictures where you have to find what is different from the original?
I fear there may be a bit of a gender thing going on here with comments about the author. That said, I do think that the unique quality of Fangraphs is its reliance on statistics. If you’re going to say that goins has power, better have stats to back it up.
I don’t read these daily write ups for opinion. This years write ups have had a very different feel than year’s past.
Not sure if I’m the typical Fangraphs reader but i pay all of 0 attention to who the author of an article is unless it happens to be exceptionally written in which case i’ll go back to the top to find out who wrote it and make a mental note (Jeff Sullivan you have alot of mental notes).
Unless you can logically argue that the FanGraphs readership is picking out Kleinschmidt’s many factual inaccuracies because of her “gender,” please do not “fear” such a bias, or share such a “fear” as a passive aggressive means of accusing others of sexism.
I am a proud feminist. This obnoxious paranoia of bias, based on junk science, is a festering sore in our society. We’d all do better to be less biased; presume less of others.
Thank you.
These riteups are objectively bad. I guarantee these would be receiving the same exact criticisms regardless of the author’s gender.
My Roto Riteup:
For deeper leagues, outfield prospect Jorge Bonifacio offers upside on a Royals team desperate to score runs. Bonifacio was once a highly touted prospect whose shine rubbed off after a few middling season in the minors, but last season, his power surged, and this year, his plate discipline took off, and if he can sustain those tools, look out — he was always known as someone who could barrel the ball with good contact skills.
Bonifacio is a good short-term play and should get most starts in right field until Jorge Soler returns, and even if that only means a week or two of at-bats, Bonifacio is also a smart long-term play too: If the Royals hobble into the summer, they could look to trade away contracts.
In Houston, Yuli Gurriel is showing signs the past 10 days of adjusting to MLB after a rocky ride to end 2016 and to start this season. Gurriel was long considered the best player in Cuban ball, and while at age 32, his best days are likely behind him, his slow start for the Astros have left him un-rostered in many fantasy leagues, Yuli has gone 16 for 32 in his last ten games, including 3-5 today. While some fantasy players worried Yuli might lose playing time should former mega-pospect AJ Reed club the ball like he had in the Spring, Reed has struggled in AAA. Gurriel qualifies in most leagues at both 3B, where he played 21 games last year, and 1B, where he has played 16 so far this season.
Cam Bedrosian has been snake-bit again, this time in a place that really hurts. The talented fireballer for the Angels was lights-out the the summer of 2016 before being sidelined for surgery to remove a blood clot in his right armpit. While Angels skipper Mike Scioscia declared the dreaded “closer-by-committee” to start the season, Cam was the only one to show up for the dance. That was until Bedrock suffered a groin pull. He’s been placed on the 10-day DL. If it’s a grade 1 groin sprain, full recovery time for a first-timer is typically one to four weeks. While he’s out, look for vulture saves in LA at your peril.
I was a Fangraphs Member last year, but I didn’t renew my subscription after reading some of the early Roto Riteups by this author in Spring Training. They have to do better than this. I’ve read this column every morning in-season for about 3 or 4 years now, and it’s really sad to see these recent pieces on a website that is supposed to be heavy on analytics. The low quality really stands out compared to everything else on the site, which is still great. I know that the economics of running a baseball website are extremely challenging, but they have to find a better writer than this one.
Hilarious that this article overall is great but the only thing anyone can comment about is the SAME thing. I think the first 5 people voiced their opinions which all happen to be the SAME. If you don’t want Goins, don’t take him and get a grip.
What do you think is great about this article?
I’m genuinely curious to know.
Haha “Getting a grip” always helps. I wrote here for one season and the comments tend to just turn into readers enjoying their own jokes at the writer’s expense.
The writer does this for a living for a reason. You don’t agree about Goins, that’s fine. Some good information here, mixed with considered opinion.
I read comments on both Fangraphs and Rotographs articles because I’ll often find a useful perspective.
I completely disagree that these threads tend to turn into jokes; unless, of course, the content leads to jokes being made.
Goins HR BASEBALL