Duran with a dinger! 1-0.

Duran home run!

Duran with the solo shot for the lead!

Seager with a single RBI! 3-1 FPTR.

That was not well played by Wyatt at all. He stopped running and decided to jump when he could've just ran under the ball

Ugh. That went south quick for deGrom

Wyatt doing his best Nelson Cruz out there lol

Please stop putting Joc in the middle of the order. If you are going to play him, bat his ass 9th

7th would be better. You're 9th place hitter still needs to get on so the top of order can drive them in

Boom from Jansen

NEW GUY!!!

Ag Since 83 said:

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Per Baseball Savant, that was a homer everywhere except for...




Coors Field

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How???

Chris Martin kinda stinks

Getting a little dicey. Let's finish.

Hello, Win Column! FPTR!

2EZ

Nagler said:

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Joc is bad.

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Josh Jung is like "Hold my beer, tubby."

Not that I'm sticking up for Joc, but apparently he's averaging the highest exit velos on the team (when not striking out) at 99mph. Maybe some balls will start falling here soon.

Impressive to be 4-1 without playing a home game yet

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Possibly so, it may be my eternal optimism. But I also can see him getting cut and picked up by LAD and end up hitting .290 and 30 HRs

Best start since 2012 - all on the road against playoff worthy teams

MrCoachEricTaylor said:

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Possibly so, it may be my eternal optimism. But I also can see him getting cut and picked up by LAD and end up hitting .290 and 30 HRs

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A couple of disclaimers up front before I get to my response. First, I'll own that I always thought signing Joc was a mistake and have never liked him or his player profile. Second, I recognize that most of what you just said was hyperbole.

That being said, what you just suggested was that at age 34, he's going to put up the best batting average of his career and his best HR total since 2019, 6 seasons ago. He's overweight, not in great shape - on average, those are not the type of position players who age well, especially factoring in that they tend to fall off after age 32 or so anyway. The exceptions tend to be the truly elite players…I can't remember a mid tier/average player who suddenly turned into a great player in his mid 30s (again, not talking about pitchers here, position players only).

If by some miracle, Joc gets cut and has a great season somewhere else, more power to him. I personally think the odds of that are about as likely as the chances I'm going to bang Sidney Sweeney, but I suppose miracles do happen. But even if that were to occur, that doesn't mean he had that same season if he had remained with the Rangers. Sometimes a change of scenery makes a difference, I have no idea why - it just does.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, on the modern day roster, the Joc Pedersons of the world are a liability, because he can't effectively play a defensive position for any amount of time, can't pitch run because he's slow and fat and can't get you a stolen base, and he's only effective (lolz) against RHP. At least a player like Ozuna can run and play solid defense. Joc is a paperweight at this point. JMO

I get what you're saying, I just feel like that's almost always how things play out when we let a player go for underperforming haha