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With just under 170 pa and now out for the season will he get a full card?

What do you think?

I think he will. Players have shown up in the regular game with a lot less PAs. However, I'm sure he will come with a price.

I have heard the cutoff for card exclusion is now 150 PAs, so unless he would completely skew the game (like a 70 HR season skew), he should be in.

The guy I am worried about is Kipnis. He has 121 PAs with 7 gms to play, so if he played in every game and got 4 to 5 PAs per, he might just make it. Otherwise, unless his stats come down, he might be excluded. I believe the cutoff for 100-150 PA non-catchers last year was $5M, meaning if you had 100-150 PAs but your card was worth over $5M, you'd be excluded. For guys between 50-100 PAs, I believe the number was $2.5M.

Lawrie should get a card...he's got incredible numbers, but its not like he hit 5 HRs in 50 PA's which would be a really unrealistic card. If he got around 550PAs in a season he'd be getting around 30 HRs...which is far from unheard of.

Although Lawrie hit about .293 vs both L&R pitchers hit OPS vs RHP of 1.022 vs a pedestrian .786 vs LHP will give him a likely 6R slant or so whith huge power which will push his SOM salary even higher.

He also grounded into ZERO dp's so he should have no gba's on his card. He had 6 errors in 150 AB which should come out to around an e24. I have no idea how SOM calculates the fielding range however.