The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 957 – Time to Cut Ryan McMahon?

by
July 20, 2021

7/20/21

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon!!

Follow us on Twitter

PATREON

INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS

You Aren't a FanGraphs Member
It looks like you aren't yet a FanGraphs Member (or aren't logged in). We aren't mad, just disappointed.
We get it. You want to read this article. But before we let you get back to it, we'd like to point out a few of the good reasons why you should become a Member.
1. Ad Free viewing! We won't bug you with this ad, or any other.
2. Unlimited articles! Non-Members only get to read 10 free articles a month. Members never get cut off.
3. Dark mode and Classic mode!
4. Custom player page dashboards! Choose the player cards you want, in the order you want them.
5. One-click data exports! Export our projections and leaderboards for your personal projects.
6. Remove the photos on the home page! (Honestly, this doesn't sound so great to us, but some people wanted it, and we like to give our Members what they want.)
7. Even more Steamer projections! We have handedness, percentile, and context neutral projections available for Members only.
8. Get FanGraphs Walk-Off, a customized year end review! Find out exactly how you used FanGraphs this year, and how that compares to other Members. Don't be a victim of FOMO.
9. A weekly mailbag column, exclusively for Members.
10. Help support FanGraphs and our entire staff! Our Members provide us with critical resources to improve the site and deliver new features!
We hope you'll consider a Membership today, for yourself or as a gift! And we realize this has been an awfully long sales pitch, so we've also removed all the other ads in this article. We didn't want to overdo it.

HOLD OR FOLD

—

As usual, don’t hesitate to tweet us or comment below with fantasy questions.

You can show your support to Fangraphs by becoming a member! With a standard $20 membership, you help maintain and improve our database of stats and graphs as well as our staff of 8 full-time employees and over 50 contributors. The premium ad-free membership at $50 year supports site growth and also includes faster load speeds and better site performance. You can also support monthly for just $3.

You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or via the feed. Please rate & review the show in iTunes letting us know what you think!

Approximately 75 minutes of joyous analysis.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS





 

Paul is the Editor of Rotographs and Content Director for OOTP Perfect Team. Follow Paul on Twitter @sporer and on Twitch at sporer.

1 Comment
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
AnonMember since 2025
4 years ago

I have McMahon so this is timely. It’s not just the numbers you cited but the fact that he has returned to being a high-K guy who hits too many GB. He made some changes at the outset of the year and was hitting more FB and by being more aggressive was cutting down on K’s (though to be fair, also on BB). But over that 40-ish game span you cited his K% has been 31.2% and he has gone back to a 1.33 GB/FB with only a 31.0% FB%. And the fact that his LA in that time is a still good 13.5* probably doesn’t help because if he’s hitting more GB the only way to keep that LA up is to hit a lot of really high FB which is really bad. I mean, this kind of reminds of of Hosmer making big changes last year and then reverting back this year to the same guy.

I’m probably holding here with his triple position eligibility but with the Rox heading out on a 10 game road trip starting Friday (LAD, LAA, SDP) and no extended homestands until the end of September, I may have to reconsider.

As for Cruz, I have him also. I have to figure it’s 95+% likely he goes to the Rays, Jays or A’s. I figure the Rays is a slight downgrade and the A’s is not much worse than where he is now while the Jays would be an enormous boost, both in ballpark and lineup, so I’m rooting for the Jays. They have pretty obvious needs on the mound but maybe they lean into the offense and decide to see if they can just outscore teams the rest of the way.

0