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So I was thinking about this last night. Not necessarily related to your story here. But it was a pipe dream of mine for the Royals to trade for Gallen. The more I look at it though…why would the Diamondback actually trade him? And what exactly do the royals have to offer? I get if they aren’t going to be able to resign him then sure….but at that point the royals will be bidding against every other team…and wherever we want to put the farm system…other teams will have more to offer. If I’m the diamondbacks you try and resign him, the rotation has come a long way with the new pitching coach there or trade him at the deadline next year. Tough to see the royals giving up what is needed (meaning I don’t think they give up Melendez, Vinny, or Witt) and tough to see them outbidding other teams for his services.

Was a nice pipe dream…but seems tough to see now. Singer is a great start that’s for sure. Curious for the article tomorrow. If next year is another non contending year we would still have Singer for two more after that right?

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Gallen would be amazing and I think if the Diamondbacks moved him, it's because they could get maximum value this winter with him having three years of team control left. I don't think they are trading, but you're right. If they do, I don't think the Royals will give up what it would require. They would have to trade a big leaguer because that's where all the "prospect" capital is right now. I could see a world where Daniel Lynch would be a good start. You get two extra years of control with him and he has potential to get to where they'd need to go. But then you're without Lynch, who has that same potential in KC. I just don't necessarily see it being a fit. Now, if the Diamondbacks wanted to trade Merrill Kelly, that could work.

Singer has four years of team control after 2022 because of his demotion to AAA along with his four days of not earning service time in Toronto.

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To my great surprise, Brady Singer genuinely does look like a real live grownup front-of-rotation MLB starter, whether he has his best stuff or best command or not. I'll admit it, I'd totally bought into Keith Law's analysis that he was only suited to be a reliever in MLB, if that. So much for my baseball acumen.

Of course that was before his demotion to Omaha and the addition of the changeup to his arsenal. Yeah, I probably wouldn't mind seeing him throw it more than 8% of the time. But it's impossible to argue with the results he's been getting, or the quality of his two main pitches, since he returned from exile.

I had him pegged as largely uncoachable. Maybe he's just grown up a little this year. Maybe he's a guy who needed some tough love: "If you ever want to see the big leagues again, you WILL develop and use a changeup!" (Although I'm less than confident that Dayton would actually permit that approach. It's not nice enough.) Whatever the case may be, I like it!

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I thought Law was always way too harsh on Singer, but some were way too complimentary. The changeup usage overall probably isn't a good indicator. He's throwing it 14.5 percent of the time to lefties since he was called back up, which is a better number. I said this when he was sent down, but he doesn't need it to be good. He needs it to be a pitch hitters think about. And he's done that, which has allowed his other two pitches to play up. Plus, as Matheny said and I wrote, it allows him to keep his delivery in line to get the movement he gets on the sinker.

I also thought he was far too stubborn to change, but I imagine starting the year in the bullpen and then going to Omaha was a bit of a wakeup call for him.

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Have you guys seen Singer's GB/FB ratio this year? I'm seeing different calculations between ESPN and MLB.com, but both sites have him with more fly balls than ground balls for the first time in his career. I wonder what's going on there, given the overall success and improvement with his sinker.

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So I believe those sites don't differentiate between something caught on the fly and actual groundouts, so it'll include fly balls, line drives, popups and all of that. On Fangraphs, he's 1.36 GB/FB. The ground ball rate overall has dropped. My first thought was that he's gotten more strikeouts with it. And he has, but not as much as the difference would indicate. I wonder if maybe it's just that he's throwing about four percent fewer sinkers?

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More misinformation from what I thought were reliable internet sources. Smh.

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#FakeNews?

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Who hits *that pitch* 437 feet, sort of one-handed? Bobby's going to be so good. #Analysis

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Literally nobody! I find it fascinating how such a small mechanical adjustment can change so much.

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Yes, yesterday's game wiped away some of the ugliness of the previous game's last three innings. My nickname for our bullpen...the nibblers (and not in a good way).

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Rookie going for a 30/30 season.... but the biggest number is that it is his 21 year old season. He's gonna be special.

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I don’t mean to be *that* guy, but it’s his age 22 season. Still very special!

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Ha! For clarification, how is it determined exactly since he started the season as a 21 year old?

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It goes by player's age on July 1 of that season, which I think is so silly, but that's what it is.

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