[Petriello] Two years ago, Tim Anderson was an All-Star; today DFA’d by one of the weakest lineups in MLB. It’s not hard to see why — striking out more, hitting less hard, running slower, fielding worse, all bad things. But I’m having a hard time remembering a trend like this, so quickly.
July 2, 2024
[Petriello] Two years ago, Tim Anderson was an All-Star; today DFA’d by one of the weakest lineups in MLB. It’s not hard to see why — striking out more, hitting less hard, running slower, fielding worse, all bad things. But I’m having a hard time remembering a trend like this, so quickly.
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Tim Anderson; 2022 MLB All-Star, 2023 World Baseball Classic runner-up playing for Team USA, to being DFA’d by the Marlins at the span of just 2 years.
I feel like even when he was at the top of his game, challenging for batting titles and stuff, it was widely understood that his profile was on a knifes edge and could collapse at any moment. This is basically that.
Jeff McNeil has fallen off pretty bad since 2 years ago when he won the batting title.
It mostly tells me that high average guys with low power and do not walk a lot, regress hard. Which tells me Luis Arraez could be next.
It’s easy to chalk it up to him not hitting the ball hard anymore, and striking out more, and leave it at that.
But *why* is he striking out and not hitting it hard? Wtf happened? Did Jose concuss him?
That Ramirez KO gave him whatever funky concussion Rizzo had last year
Usually a guy has to put on a Mariners uniform before his bat declines this rapidly
Jose Ramirez punched the baseball right out of him.
I feel like he’s one of the greatest examples of why advanced metrics are important. Not that he was bad during his prime, but as other people noted, he didn’t seem long for MLB stardom. Looking at this guy as purely a batting champ and all star makes this look shocking, looking at a guy who had shaky advanced stats makes it a bit more understandable.
TA DFA’d the day the White Sox come to town seems like more than a coincidence.
couldnt of happened to a better person
Jose Abreu
Remember when he called himself today’s Jackie Robinson? Then just fell off a cliff
What getting punched in the face does for a mf
perhaps his performance was always on a knife’s edge but i have to imagine that playing for two of the worst teams in baseball isn’t doing him any good. seems like some players have a really hard time performing at their best when their organization is in the dumps.
Dude has CTE from getting knocked the phuck out
Jose Abreu’s fall off was worse within the same span. When comparing their respective 2022 and 20224 season, the drop off in each stat is alarming for both but markedly worse for Abreu.
Tim Anderson Stat Differences from 2022 to 2024: -79 OPS+, -.087BA, -.102OBP, -.169SLG
Jose Abreu Stat Differences from 2022 to 2024: -131 OPS+ (not a typo), -.180BA, -.211OBP, -.251SLG
We just talked about Chris Davis yesterday, same boat in such a rapid decline
If you look at season splits more granularity its a much smoother transition. He’s been bad since the all star game in 22
Jose Ramirez knocked the baseball out of him.
“DFA’d by one of the weakest lineups in MLB” makes it sound like the other guys in the lineup collectively voted him out
Jose Ramirez ruined him.
On the pitching side, we unfortunately have Patrick Corbin. I am grateful that he held it together to be invaluable to the Nats in the 2019 World Series. Since then, he has fallen off cliffs more often than Wile E Coyote.
Knocking up Tik Tok’ers while being married with kids wasn’t a good career move for TA. The drop off since that story broke has been extreme.
Everyone wants to talk about him getting rocked by J Ram because it’s funny, but that had nothing to do with it. He was hitting .301 and was an all-star in 2022, then he had season ending surgery on his hand and has sucked since.
In the last game in the Phillies/Marlins series the two biggest hits from the Phillies were both grounders to short. They were hard hit for sure, but I was surprised when both of them went through. Unsurprisingly it was also his last game as a Marlin.
Jose Ramirez knocking him out last year really derailed his career
They can’t remember the Mariners whole lineup every year?
Eh, 2 years Paul Goldschmidt was MVP, and while he’s not Tim Anderson bad, he’s pretty bad.
Jose Ramirez done ended this man’s whole career
does Anderson know what a fucking walk is? Like I’m all for putting balls in play, but take a walk here and there. At least with Ichiro, he made contact. Even on Anderson’s best seasons, a sizable number of outs were Ks. Contact hitters need to be more like Michael Brantley. Don’t just force yourself to make contact. Take your walks. Free base. No contact hitter should be striking out 100+ times in a season. Melky Cabrera was a so-so contact hitters and even his dumbass didn’t strike out 100+ times in a season. Melky averaged .49 points higher OBP over his AVG. Anderson only .30. Melky had a 15 year career to help dilute that number. Anderson has only played for 9, and likely won’t play many more.
Anderson doesn’t get walks, doesn’t steal bases, doesn’t hit home runs, doesn’t hit doubles (anymore). What fucking use is he?
Tim Lincecum. Was on top of the world through 2011, and then it was just over in an instant.
Jose Abreu has entered the chat
If you had told me after the Field of Dreams game ended that we’d be here, I would’ve never believed you.
Cody Bellinger:
* 2019 NL MVP * 2020 World Series Championship and shoulder injury * 2021 .165 batting average * 2022 non-tendered at end of season
I was at the Phillies game on Sunday, that error on the ball up the middle made me so sad. It’s just dad disappointed in himself energy out there.
35 comments
Tim Anderson; 2022 MLB All-Star, 2023 World Baseball Classic runner-up playing for Team USA, to being DFA’d by the Marlins at the span of just 2 years.
I feel like even when he was at the top of his game, challenging for batting titles and stuff, it was widely understood that his profile was on a knifes edge and could collapse at any moment. This is basically that.
Jeff McNeil has fallen off pretty bad since 2 years ago when he won the batting title.
It mostly tells me that high average guys with low power and do not walk a lot, regress hard. Which tells me Luis Arraez could be next.
It’s easy to chalk it up to him not hitting the ball hard anymore, and striking out more, and leave it at that.
But *why* is he striking out and not hitting it hard? Wtf happened? Did Jose concuss him?
That Ramirez KO gave him whatever funky concussion Rizzo had last year
Usually a guy has to put on a Mariners uniform before his bat declines this rapidly
Jose Ramirez punched the baseball right out of him.
I feel like he’s one of the greatest examples of why advanced metrics are important. Not that he was bad during his prime, but as other people noted, he didn’t seem long for MLB stardom. Looking at this guy as purely a batting champ and all star makes this look shocking, looking at a guy who had shaky advanced stats makes it a bit more understandable.
TA DFA’d the day the White Sox come to town seems like more than a coincidence.
couldnt of happened to a better person
Jose Abreu
Remember when he called himself today’s Jackie Robinson? Then just fell off a cliff
What getting punched in the face does for a mf
perhaps his performance was always on a knife’s edge but i have to imagine that playing for two of the worst teams in baseball isn’t doing him any good. seems like some players have a really hard time performing at their best when their organization is in the dumps.
Dude has CTE from getting knocked the phuck out
Jose Abreu’s fall off was worse within the same span. When comparing their respective 2022 and 20224 season, the drop off in each stat is alarming for both but markedly worse for Abreu.
Tim Anderson Stat Differences from 2022 to 2024: -79 OPS+, -.087BA, -.102OBP, -.169SLG
Jose Abreu Stat Differences from 2022 to 2024: -131 OPS+ (not a typo), -.180BA, -.211OBP, -.251SLG
We just talked about Chris Davis yesterday, same boat in such a rapid decline
If you look at season splits more granularity its a much smoother transition. He’s been bad since the all star game in 22
Jose Ramirez knocked the baseball out of him.
“DFA’d by one of the weakest lineups in MLB” makes it sound like the other guys in the lineup collectively voted him out
Jose Ramirez ruined him.
On the pitching side, we unfortunately have Patrick Corbin. I am grateful that he held it together to be invaluable to the Nats in the 2019 World Series. Since then, he has fallen off cliffs more often than Wile E Coyote.
Knocking up Tik Tok’ers while being married with kids wasn’t a good career move for TA. The drop off since that story broke has been extreme.
Everyone wants to talk about him getting rocked by J Ram because it’s funny, but that had nothing to do with it.
He was hitting .301 and was an all-star in 2022, then he had season ending surgery on his hand and has sucked since.
In the last game in the Phillies/Marlins series the two biggest hits from the Phillies were both grounders to short. They were hard hit for sure, but I was surprised when both of them went through. Unsurprisingly it was also his last game as a Marlin.
Jose Ramirez knocking him out last year really derailed his career
They can’t remember the Mariners whole lineup every year?
Eh, 2 years Paul Goldschmidt was MVP, and while he’s not Tim Anderson bad, he’s pretty bad.
Jose Ramirez done ended this man’s whole career
does Anderson know what a fucking walk is? Like I’m all for putting balls in play, but take a walk here and there. At least with Ichiro, he made contact. Even on Anderson’s best seasons, a sizable number of outs were Ks. Contact hitters need to be more like Michael Brantley. Don’t just force yourself to make contact. Take your walks. Free base. No contact hitter should be striking out 100+ times in a season. Melky Cabrera was a so-so contact hitters and even his dumbass didn’t strike out 100+ times in a season. Melky averaged .49 points higher OBP over his AVG. Anderson only .30. Melky had a 15 year career to help dilute that number. Anderson has only played for 9, and likely won’t play many more.
Anderson doesn’t get walks, doesn’t steal bases, doesn’t hit home runs, doesn’t hit doubles (anymore). What fucking use is he?
Tim Lincecum. Was on top of the world through 2011, and then it was just over in an instant.
Jose Abreu has entered the chat
If you had told me after the Field of Dreams game ended that we’d be here, I would’ve never believed you.
Cody Bellinger:
* 2019 NL MVP
* 2020 World Series Championship and shoulder injury
* 2021 .165 batting average
* 2022 non-tendered at end of season
I was at the Phillies game on Sunday, that error on the ball up the middle made me so sad. It’s just dad disappointed in himself energy out there.