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Thames: .286-.322-.500/130 OPS+ as an M!
He's a better chaser of fly balls than I thought he would be. I love the aggressive, go-to-the-next-gear, attitude he had between 1st and 2nd base on his triple last night.
He swings at 50% of the pitches he sees. Gets the bat on 75% of those. Interestingly, he's seeimg more FB's this year. Up from 54% to nearly 59%. Now that might be withing the margin of error and coincidental. And 59% isn't a huge FB total. But it may show pitcher evolution as they see more of him.
But, right now, I'm a holder on Thames. He's got almost exactly a full season of MLB PA's behind him (613 PA's) and he's had 35 doubles, 7 triples, and 17 taters. He surpasses my 50 extra-base rule, by a decent amount, too.
He has value to the M's. Either as an on-the-field piece, or as a value-added trade chit.
What say we watch and see how that plays out.
Trayvon: Liked him last year. There's a bit of a 80's St. Louis Cardinal in him, I think. I think we can discount his Albuquerque tater-barrage as being an altitude-charged anomaly. But even at that, if he can do somthing like his Tacoma line (.265-.331-.409) and hit the ball out a few times, then he's interesting. There is a significant "if" there, however. 2 homers in 220 MLB PA's doesn't light my fire, but he's shown some double ability.
And there is kind of a contagious karma-rich attitude that he brings to the park, or at least it seems to me.
I think it is unlikely that he becomes an everyday, multi-season, COF bat. All the same, he's an interesting 4th OF guy.
He may get washed out in the move of some of our MiLB IF bats to COF, however.
Say, when Romero starts logging a ton of LF/RF innings.
moe