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Matos has the power upside, that counts for a lot, but in terms of who goes on the opening day roster my view is seemingly way different than the way the Giants are focusing
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There's a lot of upside. There's a lot of concern. I'm fascinated to see how the profile plays when it's really just the splitter (for now).
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My guess is that it’s some combination of underperforming high expectations last year & the discussion about him working on his fastball velo and it not bouncing back in his Spring outing. For my money, I’ve been backing off the hype a little since 23 and he hasn’t evolved much since that point.
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Yeah, agreed on that last point, it's really difficult to develop secondaries from that arm slot when you're as spin efficient as Harrison is. Manaea had a similar issue. I'd lean towards something similar: lean into a sweeper and then further arsenal expansion
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Worth throwing out there that losing some horizontal movement off the fastball as you're shifting your release point to play more into HAAs is slightly counterintuitive. Maybe he keeps a two-seam shape in his arsenal (probably should).
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The change in release also accompanies an apparent change back to a four-seam shape (it was 91.2 mph 12.4"/12.6" yesterday)
Focus of the offseason appears to have been to increase swing and miss on fastball. Not a bad thing, but without a change to SL it won't move the needle.
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2023: 5.07/2.16 in MLB, 4.95/2.36 at AAA
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And of course I do think Roupp is too good to go back to AAA, but that’s a separate conversation about whether or not the Verlander thing makes any sense
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If the decision is about putting together the best possible 5-man rotation to open the season, you give that spot to Birdsong without a second thought. The conversation can’t be about that, though, because then you’re demoting a former top prospect who was given 24 starts the year prior.
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His slider also looks quite a bit more interesting now
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and several more ticks of velo can't forget that one
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StatCast registers this ball as going 387 feet, so either the Dodgers are lying about their center field distance or the read might not be entirely accurate (which is pretty much par for the Spring Training course)
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