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James O'Brien

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
281 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

That means 93% of his games where he has three or more played, like a full game, he gets on, moves the guy over, walks, hits.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

He's not just walking to the batter's box and walking back.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

And then I was looking at splits.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

They're very similar, but Carroll is worse versus righties because he's a, which is interesting.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

He's the best versus lefties.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

He's not as good versus righties, but it's still a 796 where Soto versus lefties is 763.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

So Soto has the lowest split of the most.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

I don't know if that's enough for me.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

And then there's another factor I looked into here, but they kind of were so even, so I won't even go into it.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

I'm going to go with Soto.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

Right field isn't a position I care about.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

It might be the least position out of the nine I care about defense.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

I think it's just a perk, but...

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

Juan Soto can impact every single game.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

The only thing I don't like, the one thing in Carroll's favor is with runners on, Soto's OPS goes down 100 points and Carroll's kind of stays the same.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

Soto has not been driving in his teammates, and I'd like him to do that.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

But I'm going to go with Soto because day in, day out, when he plays, he's adding to a winning effort.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

Only 7% of the time he doesn't.

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)
Choosing the Players Through May!

All right, that hurts a little bit, but snaps.