DAT: All Star Break Edition

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My first half highlight is Yuli's hair.

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Good luck to George, Carlos, Jose, Dallas, Lance, and Chris in miami.

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What's your highlight from first half of the season? Mine is Marwin grand slam vs ranges.

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Yfpha cruising

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I tried to find the Gif of Lance calling out napoli after the pitch but couldnt.

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Like a lot of pitchers in this last group of 10, Stroman is not so easy to project. At times, he looks like one of the best pitchers in baseball, as he has in the first half of this year. Other times, he looks like a pitch-to-contact guy who doesn’t manage contact very well and is destined to be an inconsistent starter until he figures out how to miss bats more often.

ZiPS is obviously not a big fan, though I’d happily take the over on Stroman being an average pitcher going forward, assuming he stays healthy. But with an inconsistent track record and three raises coming off his Super Two status before he hits free agency, Stroman is a tough guy to peg down. There’s a good argument for him being 10 spots higher, just like there’s a good argument for him not appearing on this list at all. For now, he’ll settle in here, though he’ll likely either be a lot higher or off the list entirely next year.

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Here’s the player on this list most likely to be moved in the next few weeks, which should give us a chance to look back and see how well we estimated his market value. Early-season struggles aside, Quintana remains a very good pitcher — and, importantly, one of the most durable pitchers in the game — as he heads towards a fifth consecutive year of 200 innings pitched. While this group of 10 was full of pitchers who throw harder and miss more bats than Quintana does, he’s a relatively safe selection in a land of high-risk options.

With three years remaining on his contract, the latter two of which are team options, it’s obvious why the White Sox are hanging a high price tag on their best remaining big leaguer. There aren’t many guys out there who offer this level of quality with minimal financial risk. Rick Hahn clearly believes a team will eventually come around to the idea that Quintana is a scarce commodity, a frontline controllable starter, and he’ll be compensated accordingly. Whether a team will pay an ace price for a guy who doesn’t have prototypical ace stuff remains to be seen.

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