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We now have a reasonably-sized big league sample with which to help us answer the question of whether Hayes will be merely very good, or will hit for enough in-game power to have a Scott Rolen-ish career. The data does some pushing and pulling. In about a month, Hayes hit a whopping .376/.442/.682, ranked fourth among all hitters with a 195 wRC+, and led all NL rookies with 1.7 WAR even though he only played in 24 games. And Hayes was hitting the ball hard. His big league average exit velocity (just shy of 93 mph) and HardHit% (55%) were both above what he posted in the 2019 minors (91 mph, 48%) when he only hit 10 homers over a 100 games. But his .450 BABIP is unsustainable and, per Statcast, his xwOBA (.356) came in well below his actual wOBA (.464), indicating that he was also the beneficiary of some luck. There’s no accounting for how big league pitching might expose a weakness and begin to adjust to Hayes, even if it’s just to limit his power output rather than get him o
MLB Trade Rumors: Pittsburgh Pirates Outfielder Unfazed By Exit Speculations
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Adam Frazier of the Pittsburgh Pirates is fully aware that MLB trade rumors have been buzzing with him part of unofficial conversations.
He admits that he has heard about them, but the 29-year-old prefers to focus on more important matters.
Frazier’s perseverance seems to have paid off with the Pirates rewarding him by naming him as the team’s starting second baseman for the coming MLB season.
The announcement was made by Kevin Gorman of TribLive.com.
For the past week, MLB Pipeline has been dissecting our 2021 Top 100 Prospects list in various ways. In addition to looking at the players with the best tools and the best-represented teams on the list, we also offered a team-by-team preview of the prospects who fans might see join
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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons | Ke’Bryan Hayes, pictured in 2018, is an integral part of the Pirates’ plans for the future.
Luke Henne | Staff Writer
Jan. 28, 2021
In just over a year on the job, Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington’s flurry of transactions have made it clear that the franchise is headed in one direction: Rebuild mode.
While the notion of rebuilding has become far too commonplace among Pirates fans, it is a direction in which Cherington and his bosses have deemed to be necessary.
Following a 2019 season in which the Pirates endured a 6-25 stretch from mid-July to mid-August and ultimately played to an ugly 69-93 record (leading to the departure of long-time manager Clint Hurdle and general manager Neal Huntington), Cherington was tasked with changing the team’s identity from one that endured annual mediocrity to one that would be atrocious for a few years but could restock i
2020 Arizona Diamondbacks Reviews #3: Starling Marte
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Rating: 7.55
Age: 32
2020 Stats With Arizona: 33 games, .311/.384/.443, 2 HR, 8 2B, 1 3B, 14 RBI, 23 R, 121 OPS+, 1 bWAR,
2021 Status: Miami Marlins exercised $12.5 million team option
2020 Review
It was supposed to be a Marte Party, or so we were told. The Arizona Diamondbacks acquired Starling Marte from the Pittsburgh Pirates just before the start of Spring Training on January 27th, 2020. Mike Hazen paid a fairly hefty price in trading 2019 first round draft pick pitcher Brennan Malone, along with Liover Peguero, and international bonus money. In acquiring the former two time Gold Glove outfielder, the team was able to move Ketel Marte (no relation) back to second base full time.