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RealRegicidal

Spring Training Stand-outs Megathread

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Baseball is back and a smile hasn’t left my face! After the 2020 season was cut short due to the pandemic, the excitement for this full season is through the roof.

If you’re like me, you are thinking about baseball and fantasy baseball constantly. I try my best to watch as many Spring Training games that I can, however, I’m not able to watch ALL of them.

Although Spring Training shouldn’t hold too much weight due to various and obvious reasons, it can still be a great indicator of many different variables for the upcoming season. Things such as; Where someone is batting in the order, a new position that someone is playing, Pitcher’s velocity or new pitches in their arsenal, etc.

If a player has a stand-out performance or if there’s something interesting that’s worth noting (good or bad) about a player - leave that information here! It can help people that may not be able to watch a lot of Spring Training or even know where to look for that information. It’ll be one big thread to compile helpful information from this spring for the upcoming fantasy season!

Posted Mar 1, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

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Brewcreworldseries14 team, H2H points dynasty, 30 man prospect roster•

Corbin burnes was sitting 97-98 with his sinker after averaging 96 last year, probably nothing big but worth keeping note of

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MDKurl•

Here’s a thread of all the lineups and my notes so far on just spring training lineups

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10b01DR4kQPRWBczhjz37Eoteya_7SJCiSuYAnFlfuhU/edit

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RealRegicidalOP10 Team (4 Keepers) - H2H - R HR RBI SB OBP W SV K ERA WHIP•

Absolutely amazing and helpful tool for line-up information. Great work! Hopefully this can get upvoted enough to be the top comment in this thread so that people can easily refer back to it.

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MDKurl•

Thanks. I post daily on here (starting yesterday) working on getting it up here again but can only post link once so I’m figuring out something

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E-Tr1d3nt•

Well done. CJ Abrams getting work at 2B for the Padres. There was a discussion in that sub not to long ago about him being traded because he is blocked by Tatis - many seemed resigned to that solution (trade). Odd. Especially considering reports that SDP has him taking reps out there and this continues to confirm that.

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RealRegicidalOP10 Team (4 Keepers) - H2H - R HR RBI SB OBP W SV K ERA WHIP•

For my first stand-out performance (after two days), Rowdy Tellez is 3/4 with two doubles and a single. All of his hits have been above 100 MPH in exit velocity. His biggest question will be playing time with a crowded Blue Jays infield but if he is the every day DH, he might do some big damage in that line-up.

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txsock•

Lewis Brinson HR already in the books. Solidifying his ST HOF first ballot status.

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GiveEmHellMattyYour favorite Mods favorite Mod•

That dudes overall spring training career stats are insane. We were just talking about it in Mod Chat yesterday.

Edit: from yesterday “His spring training numbers are hilarious. Prior to today, he'd played in 90 spring training games with a .316/.356/.607 slash and 39 home run / 12 stolen base per 650 plate appearances”

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RealRegicidalOP10 Team (4 Keepers) - H2H - R HR RBI SB OBP W SV K ERA WHIP•

I saw that lmao. His Spring Training stats are ridiculous but when he steps into an MLB batters box he goes “nope!”.

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Robearito•

I know ST in general is largely meaningless, but it's not completely meaningless. But I wonder if this year it might really be completely meaningless. They're not using the new baseballs in spring training but plan on rolling them out once the season starts. I think that makes it especially foolhardy to look at anything other than playing time or maybe lineup spot to carry over into the regular season. Incredibly idiotic decision by MLB, yet again.

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RealRegicidalOP10 Team (4 Keepers) - H2H - R HR RBI SB OBP W SV K ERA WHIP•

That’s definitely true, it’s a stupid decision to not let players get adjusted to the ball changes before the season. Seems idiotic to me too. Still though, if a player is barreling up the ball or a pitcher has increased velocity or a new pitch - it’s helpful information. Regardless of ball changes - that stuff sticks.

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Robearito•

But it might not. A pitch can change a lot based off the feel and movement of a baseball. And a softer baseball is going to theoretically limit the exit velocity of batted ball events. Some players will probably adjust pretty quickly. Others might struggle for awhile. This could have drastic changes of the value of both hitters and pitchers.

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