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Re: Schwarber, the Cream of LF options!
« Reply #25: January 09, 2021, 12:47:46 PM »
From the MLB Trade Rumors article.

"The fact that Schwarber surpassed even the highest arb projection in landing $10MM from Washington is indicative both of how much interest there must have been in his services, and a sign that the Nats are taking more stock in some of Schwarber’s advanced metrics than his bottom-line 2020 numbers.  A look at Statcast indicates a solid case for a bounce-back performance, as Schwarber still made plenty of hard contact (including a 95th-percentile exit velocity of 92.8 mph).  Between a .219 BABIP and a .302 wOBA that fell well beneath his above-average .330 xwOBA, it can also be argued that Schwarber ran into some bad luck over his sample size of 224 PA."

Stats, Giggity!  https://www.wnff.net/index.php?topic=25370.0

Hopefully the stat geeks are right, because right now this seems like a massive overpay given we've got Bell and probably Zimmerman at first, and it's hard to make the argument that Schwarber is a better option than Stevenson as a corner OF.