Author Topic: Extend Rendon (Read 112977 times)

Kevrock · « **Reply #350 on:** March 25, 2019, 07:31:54 pm »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on March 25, 2019, 05:48:11 am

I always did like you.

OK, before anyone implodes, we kid about the grin. But it's true that Rendon has no charisma. He's just not that exciting to watch. I didn't say he wasn't worth every penny that he will get, but if I miss his AB while getting a beer it won't kill me.

This is a bad take

bluestreak · « **Reply #351 on:** March 25, 2019, 07:38:15 pm »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on March 25, 2019, 05:48:11 am

I always did like you.

OK, before anyone implodes, we kid about the grin. But it's true that Rendon has no charisma. He's just not that exciting to watch. I didn't say he wasn't worth every penny that he will get, but if I miss his AB while getting a beer it won't kill me.

Getting on base a lot isn’t ‘exciting’

GburgNatsFan · « **Reply #352 on:** March 26, 2019, 10:15:25 am »

Hard line drive doubles are not exciting.

Quote from: Baseball is Life on March 25, 2019, 05:48:11 am

I always did like you.

OK, before anyone implodes, we kid about the grin. But it's true that Rendon has no charisma. He's just not that exciting to watch. I didn't say he wasn't worth every penny that he will get, but if I miss his AB while getting a beer it won't kill me.

Duke of Earl · « **Reply #353 on:** March 26, 2019, 10:24:27 am »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on March 25, 2019, 05:48:11 am

But it's true that Rendon has no charisma.

Charisma is in the eye of the beholder. He has plenty of charisma for me. You probably thought Harper had charisma. I didn't.

imref · « **Reply #354 on:** March 26, 2019, 12:02:35 pm »

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Jon Heyman
@JonHeyman
Nats, Anthony Rendon are not close on an extension after talks. Possible talks continue into season but nothing happening before Opening Day.

Must be the charisma issue.

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #355 on:** March 26, 2019, 12:10:34 pm »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on March 25, 2019, 05:48:11 am

I always did like you.

OK, before anyone implodes, we kid about the grin. But it's true that Rendon has no charisma. He's just not that exciting to watch. I didn't say he wasn't worth every penny that he will get, but if I miss his AB while getting a beer it won't kill me.

You’re such a schlemiel.

Count Walewski · « **Reply #356 on:** March 26, 2019, 12:57:14 pm »

I find it really charismatic that Rendon gets a lot of hits and that hitting appears to come really easy to him.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #357 on:** March 26, 2019, 01:36:48 pm »

Quote from: Count Walewski on March 26, 2019, 12:57:14 pm

I find it really charismatic that Rendon gets a lot of hits and that hitting appears to come really easy to him.

yes, but that ignores his glove work. Arguably, the best glove in the NL at his position for the past 3 years, Arenado's rep be damned.

varoadking · « **Reply #358 on:** March 26, 2019, 01:45:50 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 26, 2019, 01:36:48 pm

yes, but that ignores his glove work. Arguably, the best glove in the NL at his position for the past 3 years, Arenado's rep be damned.

Agreed...I'll take Ant'ny over Arenado any and every day of the week...

Nick the Pig · « **Reply #359 on:** March 26, 2019, 07:25:33 pm »

Quote from: Baseball is Life on March 25, 2019, 05:48:11 am

it's true that Rendon has no charisma. He's just not that exciting to watch.

You must view baseball differently than the rest of us then...

The dude hits and plays defense Enjoys doing both, and always does it with a smile.

I bet that the Nats will roll out the red carpet for him to extended him, as opposed to the hot dogging cancer Harper.

Optics · « **Reply #360 on:** March 27, 2019, 11:50:34 am »

Rendon will resign. I'm guessing sometime in June ish, out of the blue the way Strasburg's was.

GburgNatsFan · « **Reply #361 on:** March 27, 2019, 12:48:34 pm »

No red carpet so far. I anticipate that this will turn into a crap show and piss the fan base off royally.

Hope I'm wrong.

Quote from: Nick the Pig on March 26, 2019, 07:25:33 pm

You must view baseball differently than the rest of us then...

The dude hits and plays defense Enjoys doing both, and always does it with a smile.

I bet that the Nats will roll out the red carpet for him to extended him, as opposed to the hot dogging cancer Harper.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #362 on:** March 27, 2019, 03:29:21 pm »

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/anthony-rendon-and-alex-bregman-are-the-same-and-also-different/

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Rendon was in the 10th percentile of 0-0 swingers in 2017. In 2018, he moved up to the 45th percentile, raising his swing rate by 9%. Here’s the most obvious way to think about it: In 2017, if you threw Rendon a first-pitch fastball in the strike zone, he swung 27.5% of the time. More than two thirds of the time, that’s a free strike. In 2018, he swung 45.5% of the time, a tremendous increase. That was bad news for the pitchers facing Rendon — his wOBA was a comical .534 when he put the ball in play on these swings, with six doubles, a triple, and three home runs in 35 results. This targeted aggression was definitely part of Rendon’s plan for 2018, and it worked to perfection. Pitchers fed Rendon first-pitch hittable fastballs, and he feasted.

For the most part, this was a brilliant adjustment. The main downside of swinging more on the first pitch is more 0-1 counts, and Rendon is the exact kind of player to minimize that downside. He’s reached an 0-1 count 1675 times in his career and compiled a 94 wRC+ in those plate appearances. If that sounds uninspiring, well, MLB as a whole has put up a 65 wRC+ after 0-1 over that time frame. Rendon’s phenomenal contact rate keeps him alive in pitcher’s counts, and he took advantage of that fact in 2018 to look for more pitches to hit early in the count.

How did Rendon’s decision to swing more on the first pitch pan out? Well, his wRC+ fell from a career-high 141 to … 140. His strikeout rate increased from a career-low 13.6% all the way to … 13.7%. His xwOBA actually rose, from .378 to .388. All of these numbers, by the way, vastly outstripped his projections. ZiPS had Rendon striking out 16.1% of the time on the way to a 119 wRC+, while Steamer pegged his K% at 16.3% and his wRC+ around 121. In short, Rendon beat the regression bug, and he did it by evolving. In 2019, Rendon projects to have a 127 wRC+ and a 15.2% strikeout rate. Can he make another adjustment to keep defying gravity? Only time will tell.

Slateman · « **Reply #363 on:** April 02, 2019, 02:50:57 pm »

Everyone getting an extension except Tony

Duke of Earl · « **Reply #364 on:** April 02, 2019, 02:56:40 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 27, 2019, 03:29:21 pm

The main downside of swinging more on the first pitch is more 0-1 counts

And the main downside of taking the first pitch is more 0-1 counts.

Air Desmond · « **Reply #365 on:** April 07, 2019, 12:13:59 am »

It’s disrespectful that Rendon hasn’t been locked up. PAY THE MAN

The model of consistency.

Kevrock · « **Reply #366 on:** April 07, 2019, 09:51:33 am »

Probably not happening unless he takes a discount. Harper was the model for handling extensions, not some choice of Rendon over Harper.

Slateman · « **Reply #367 on:** April 07, 2019, 04:00:01 pm »

We'll just replace him with the guy in Double A

DCFan · « **Reply #368 on:** April 07, 2019, 04:02:00 pm »

Quote from: Slateman on April 07, 2019, 04:00:01 pm

We'll just replace him with the guy in Double A

imref · « **Reply #369 on:** April 07, 2019, 04:30:27 pm »

Quote from: Slateman on April 07, 2019, 04:00:01 pm

We'll just replace him with the guy in Double A

Only if they blow up the team.

varoadking · « **Reply #370 on:** April 07, 2019, 07:30:26 pm »

They're gonna freak around and lose this guy...aren't they?

Nick the Pig · « **Reply #371 on:** April 07, 2019, 07:37:16 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on April 07, 2019, 07:30:26 pm

They're gonna freak around and lose this guy...aren't they?

My gut is telling me that Tony wants to go home to Texas...

I don't think he'll sell out the Nats like Harper did though.

Slateman · « **Reply #372 on:** April 07, 2019, 07:37:37 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on April 07, 2019, 07:30:26 pm

They're gonna freak around and lose this guy...aren't they?

If by freak around you mean try and defer half the contract until the end of Barron Trump's presidency, yes

Nick the Pig · « **Reply #373 on:** April 07, 2019, 07:40:18 pm »

Quote from: Slateman on April 07, 2019, 07:37:37 pm

If by freak around you mean try and defer half the contract until the end of Barron Trump's presidency, yes

Don't you mean Tiffany Trump's Presidency ?

Air Desmond · « **Reply #374 on:** April 07, 2019, 08:09:49 pm »

Don’t know what the Nats are waiting for. His price is only going to go up. Really reflects poorly on the front office. Show some loyalty to your best player.