Last weekend’s mailbag had one of my favorite questions, from Michael, and so I’m stealing it for the staff roundtable this week as well. The question was: If you could take any position player on the team, and magically maximize one attribute about them (power, contact, speed, plate discipline, fielding), which player modification would help the roster the most? I did, for what it’s worth, alter it a bit to allow for pitchers to be included.
Jake Kostik
The modification I would make would be to increase Bryan Mata’s control of his pitches. It may be unimportant for 2021 due to news of his UCL injury, but Mata still represents one of the future rotation members and that makes this valid for me.