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Smoot I tend to agree with you on him, it's getting awful close to closing the book on him. However, some of his minor numbers are very impressive. His SO/9 rate is elite level. Even with the limited big league sample you are looking at a guy who averages a similar SO/9 numbers as Kimbrel at AAA level and just below at the major league level. Although it's a small sample at the major league level. He has so much swing and miss in him I understand why they keep him. If he could just get the BB9 down to 3-4 he would be valuable. So in that sense I would also pause in out right cutting him right now. But agreed at 27 it's getting close. Although Randy Johnson had some of the same type of BB9 numbers with less SO9 than Jaime and he didn't get it corrected until he was 29 and had already been in the majors 4 full seasons. In fact the year before Johnson's 29 age year (finished second in Cy Young) he had a 10.3 SO9 and 6.2 BB9 rate. That is similar to Jaime numbers in the majors except Jaime has 12.8 SO9. Jaime had a 7.9 BB9 rate at AAA last year but his major numbers are a little better at 6.8.
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