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Very cool, Doc: Thames = Peguero's best case scenario.
Man, I wish I had thought of that. Golf clap for you!
If you cut Peggy's K rate down from 39% (where it lives today) to a sustainable rate of, say, 24%, what would that look like? Well, I'll be darned, it would look a lot like Thames.
Give Peguero the ability to chase down a fly ball and not quite look like a horse on skates and he looks a lot like Thames.
OK, I'll admit that the balls Thames hits are only speeding bullets compared to Peg's Superman-speed shots, but Thames does it on a fairly regular basis, which was always part of the Peguero what-if.
Thames is a guy who will K and won't walk much. Accordingly, he will always have some ugly stretches.....but he also has a hyper-quick bat that will punish mistakes and he has the ability to get red hot. He's played in 19 games as an M, he has 9 extra-base hits. Oooooooh, sweeeeeeeet.
He may well need a platoon partner, maybe. But all the same, he's a cool piece. He's Pegs, with a makeover.
moe