SUNDAY: The promotions of Baez and Morejon are official. The Padres made room for them by optioning outfielder Josh Naylor and righty Trey Wingenter to Triple-A El Paso. They also transferred injured pitchers Adam Warren and Miguel Diaz to the 60-day IL.
SATURDAY: Righty Michel Baez’s promotion to the Padres from Double-A Amarillo is “imminent,” per the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Kevin Acee. Baez, who was a nominal starter prospect – and near-consensus top-100 name – prior to the 2019 season, has worked strictly in relief for Amarillo since returning from a back injury in mid-May.
It’s the third in a string of high-profile prospect promotions for the plummeting Padres this weekend, who also recalled INF Luis Urias from Triple-A El Paso and are set to select the contract of touted lefty Adrian Morejon, also from Double-A. The San Diego ’pen has been in shambles lately: apart from the untouchable Kirby Yates, who’s on pace for one of the best reliever seasons in MLB history, the revolving high-leverage door for the Friars hasn’t yielded a single reliable arm.
Baez’s prospect stock has slid considerably this season, with FanGraphs now characterizing his once-solid command as “fringe” and bemoaning an unforeseen velocity drop in the latter stages of the 2018 season. The 6’8 righty’s size can be a “hindrance,” per Baseball America, who notes that Baez has struggled to repeat his delivery of late. MLB.com is the high team on the 23-year-old: they place him at a solid #70 on the site’s top 100 list.
In 27 innings for Amarillo this year, Baez has set down 38 and walked 11 en route to a 2.00 ERA. Like soon-to-be teammate Morejon, Baez isn’t on the club’s 40-man roster, so two players will need to be jettisoned from the group shortly. The club also must make room for lefty Jose Castillo, who’s set to return soon from a lengthy injury absence.
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They keep a lot of their better pitches in AA, probably so that they don’t lose their confidence in the crazy PCL.
In a lot of organizations AAA is basically the holding pen for their AAAA players and players on optional assignment.
simply not using AAA is not a good idea. why dont they just build their AAA a shiny new ballpark that’s a bit bigger and solve the problem. you’re not solving the problem by simply not using AAA.
This season the problem is the MLB baseball being used in AAA. Numbers are up not just for the PCL, but for AAA in general.
Building a bigger park in high altitude parks like El Paso, Albuquerque, Reno, Las Vegas, and Salt Lake just creates a problem of more space to cover in the OF so BA that are disproportionate with the actual hitting talent.
Most of the PCL plays in neutral or even pitcher friendly ballparks like San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Iowa, Memphis, New Orleans, Round Rock, Sacramento, and Tacoma.
Would you want your best pitching prospects to pitch in the PCL with a juiced ball?
They don’t either.
this absolutely absurd. whoever is authorizing this is certainly trying to destroy the franchise.
What exactly are you afraid of? Losing David Bednar, Henry Henry and Allen Cordoba to the Rule 5 draft? Those guys could all be valuable someday, but they’re probably not the difference in a playoff series.
Destroying the franchise by calling up two top 100 prospects who have been successful in AA is super dramatic. Can we all agree to be a little bit less dramatic?
They can have Córdoba and Mitchell
Cordoba is leading the Cal League in hitting. He’s a six-year minor league free agent after the season.
Like I said they can have him. Hitting in the minors was never not a question. The dude spent four years basically in rookie ball.
“What exactly are you afraid of? Losing David Bednar, Henry Henry and Allen Cordoba to the Rule 5 draft?”
Yes. That is EXACTLY what we are afraid of.
Although in Cordoba’s case I don’t see anyone taking him considering he was already placed on outright waivers once and the other 29 teams all passed on claiming him.
Cordoba is still an interesting talent, as Torrens is, but i think if he doesnt hit AA this year no one will pick him. I doubt anyone else would have picked him besides the Pads the first time, and other teams could have very well forgotten him by now. i wouldnt say its impossible, but it may be a risk the Pads have to take with their OF glut.
We’ll trade them for 85 cents on the dollar like we did before the Rule 5 draft last year. In exchange for losing the 15 cents on the dollar for each of those players we can see if these (more valuable) players are able to contribute to the team from the jump in 2020.
If they do get plucked in the Rule 5 draft, and are successful for another team, great! I’ll be happy for those individuals. We have ten thousand prospects and some will have decent careers on other teams, that’s fine. The alternate option is to be prospect hoarders while never building a truly successful Major League team.
I personally am excited to see these young men pitch. Watching baseball is the least important thing that any of us do in our lives, when we promote a top prospect and you get all angry (about something that you ABSOLUTELY cannot control) instead of enjoying the ride, why are you even watching?
They didn’t have to call up Morejon and Baez now in order for them to contribute in 2020.
You’re straw man-ing. I said to see if they can contribute from the jump (i.e. if we can stick with them as contributors on April 1st or if we need a free agent arm to hold down the fort until they are ACTUALLY ready).
David Bednar pitching for the Marlins is not going to be the difference between us making the playoffs or not. Baez and Morejon contributing from day one COULD be, though.
You say “straw-man.” I don’t think you know what that means.
Would you rather have Michel Baez AND David Bednar or just Baez?
Baez and a shot at the playoffs this year over Baez, Bednar, and flaming out in 2019… just an outsider’s perspective. Don’t think you can continuously lose season after season and think it’ll eventually get corrected without seeing what you have in top prospects who are basically ready.
Dude. Don’t be a guy that finds value in insulting others, it doesn’t make you better and it could hurt someone else. There’s no point.
And I’d rather have a high-ceiling, low-floor prospect that doesn’t count against the 40 man roster. Which is the type of player we’ll likely target in a trade. It’s what we did with guys like Alex Dickerson and Walter Lockett.
The Padres still would have gotten to see what they have in Morejon and Baez if they waited to call them up, mmkay?
I didn’t insult anyone. And even if you are the type of person who gets “hurt” by insults from randos on the internet then maybe MLBTR isn’t for you.
Morejon and Baez weren’t going to count against the 40-man roster. But now they will. Once a player has been added to the 40-man roster they can’t be removed without clearing outright waivers, which just isn’t going to happen with Morejon or Baez.
You’re not a rando… you’re pinche west coast Ryan aka red rooster aka LOSER
You’re wrong. Baez would (have been) Rule 5 eligible in November.
I’m not wrong. You are. He was signed after the Rule 5 draft in 2016 (this was likely by design) so 2016 doesn’t count as a Rule 5 draft for him. But because he was 20 when he signed he is eligible after 4 Rule 5 drafts as opposed to 5 so that puts him in the same class as most of the rest of his international class.
Guys, guys, guys. Simmer down. Don’t worry. No matter what happens, when you eat, poop comes out and the sun will come out tomorrow. Enjoy the ride…..There’s an asteroid headed for Earth?
Weirdo
@show me your tatis Ryan, you know better than to post that garbage. Cordoba had a serious concussion and that was why he cleared waivers. Have you even gone to see him play in LE this season since he returned from the DL in May? I doubt it.
I think he has you pegged exactly Ryan. Straw Man Fallacy – Substituting a person’s actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument.
Ryan, the point is that the Padres would not have gotten to see what Morejon and Baez have NOW if they waited to call them up. The Padres bullpen and starting rotation need help today.
The Padres have shown time after time that they don’t agree with you on when to call up players. They just keep calling up guys that you say shouldn’t be called up. Margot, then Urias the 1st time, then Paddack and Tatis, and now Morejon and Baez.. Don’t you get it? They know more about those players than you do and it doesn’t matter what you think.
@Koamalu/Pads Fans
A player being injured isn’t a reason not to claim him if you believe in his upside. It’s not like Cordoba cost any money and couldn’t have been hidden on the 60-day IL. It is extremely uncommon for a player to be taken in Rule 5 after clearing outright waivers because the threshold for where a player is good enough to be claimed is much lower than it is to get taken in Rule 5.
Congratulations, you know how to copy definitions from Google. What’s hilarious is that you still don’t know how to use them correctly.
They agreed with me when they didn’t call up Cal Quantrill and Logan Allen last year even though they theoretically “deserved it.” It was no accident that every prospect they called up in the second half was going to be Rule 5 eligible in the offseason. If they lose anyone to Rule 5 this year you will realize your mistake, but you won’t admit it.
By the way you thought they should have kept Margot, Paddack and Tatis down for service time reasons as well. And you weren’t necessarily wrong there. The decision to call Tatis up early is going to look very bad very soon unless Tatis is extended on the cheap.
But no, it doesn’t matter what either of us thinks because we don’t work for the Padres. Maybe you should send your resume in since you think you know so much more than everyone else.
Cordoba is playing extremely well right now. Hitting over .300 in Lake Elsinore. The concussion cost him time, but he is still a great player.
Córdoba is nearly 24 in high A and running out of option years.
Cordoba has two option years left (was off the 40-man roster this entire season so did not lose one in 2019). He does not lose an option this year if he is called up to the majors unless he is optioned back down.
Cordoba will be eligible for minor league free agency this offseason if he is not placed back on the 40-man roster.
Destroying the franchise by starting a prospect’s clock? It’s a welcome sight to see a team like the Padres doing their best contend after years of rebuilding. Their bullpen is a mess and they’re trying to remedy the situation.
they’re clogging up their 40 man with all these young pitchers that dont need to be be protected for over a year at least and pushing them to the Majors when they arent ready. (well, perhaps Baez could be in the pen now) they cant risk exposing their young pitchers when they dont have a great chance at even a wild card. the future is more important then a desperate run at contention in a crowded NL.
They can’t sit in the minors forever.
And they aren’t clogging anything, the bullpen is one of our biggest areas of need, they are just doing what is necessary. Besides, they need to see mlb action anyways, the best way to improve, imo. Seeing big league hitters and work with balslry
They wouldn’t have to sit in the minors forever. And they are indeed clogging the 40-man roster. The Padres will have to protect every one of Esteury Ruiz, Buddy Reed, Jorge Oña, Ronald Bolaños, David Bednar, Eguy Rosario, Michael Gettys and Hansel Rodriguez this offseason or risk losing them to Rule 5. Then they need 6 roster spots for guys that need to be reinstated from the 60-day IL and then a couple more for any Major League FA’s they might sign.
Yeah, but moves can be made, there are quite a few players the Padres need to get rid of as well, so we shall see what happens. After all, we are just a buncha fans and don’t know all the information in play at the moment. Let’s see what preller does and hope for the best. I for one feel good about things right now
Even with the players they need to get rid of (Kinsler, Pirela) they still need more space. And this could very well force them to trade guys they don’t want to trade, or to take less in a trade because the acquiring team knows that they have to either make a trade or lose that player for nothing.
First, Gettys is a 6-year minor league free agent. Second, do you really care about possibly some of those guys to Rule 5? Do you know how many Rule 5 guys actually stick? About 1 in 20. Frankly, the only one worth protecting is Bolanos.
“First, Gettys is a 6-year minor league free agent.”
Gettys drafted in 2014. He’s not a 6-year minor league FA for one more year.
“Second, do you really care about possibly some of those guys to Rule 5?”
Yes!
“Frankly, the only one worth protecting is Bolanos.”
And now they might not be able to do that.
You’re worried about losing guys like Wieck,Erlin and Stock?
Cause that’s the worst that will happen here and even then only if a trade isn’t in the works
No. We are worried about losing guys like Buddy Reed, Michael Gettys, Ronald Bolaños and Jorge Oña.
I think that it depends on your definition Spack. If you are just talking about players picked in the Rule 5 draft you are about right. 1 per season on average.
If you are talking about staying in the majors and becoming a regular then its 1 in 72.
Not real good odds.
Gettys is in his 6th season in the minors.
baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=get…
At the end of 2019 he will be a minor league FA.
Ryan, you are seriously worried about losing a 24 year old guy that is struggling in his 2nd season in AA? About losing a guy that is hitting 40 points below his teams average in AAA with an OPS under .300? Seriously?
@Koamalu/Pads Fans a player can be a minor league FA after his sixth FULL season if not on a 40-man roster. This is Gettys’ fifth FULL season. He has one more year. You can admit you were wrong now.
And yes, that is EXACTLY what we are worried about.
Adding on, injuries don’t stop a player from accruing service time in the major or minor leagues. Getting placed on the restricted list does however, which is why the Phillies retain the rights to Mark Appel if he ever does return to professional baseball.
Bring back down votes for stuff like this.
Or, you can just grow up.
Pads Fans is mad they got rid of down votes because now he can no longer use his many backup accounts to spam downvote any comment he doesn’t like.
Im 100% sure you have no idea what you’re talking about… We bring them up to help fix out bullpen, just like with our future closer Munoz…
Not sure how utilizing prospects on the mlb team is a bad thing, kinda the reason why they are hear, amirite?
if you have to call up top prospect starters from to AA to fix your bullpen that’s not a good sign. your exposing young guys that may not be raedy y3t
misclicked send…i was also about to add that you could better use those 40 man spots next year on more ready players.
Baez would be the only one who is not ready, if that’s even the case… And if you look at his entire journey through the minors, one could argue that he is ready
Baez has produced well enough in AA that saying he can produce in a MLB bullpen now is not crazy, but still a leap of faith. id want to see him in AAA a bit first – those numbers are hardly worth rushing him when he doesn’t need a 40 man spot next year and that he probably cant be relied upon to push the needle too much this year.
Yeah I suppose, I guess we will just have to see… Sure it’s a leap of faith, but he could be a prodigy
Neither has been used as a starter for some time.
They will be used in the BP until something else changes.
Dark Side Ryan and Show Me Your Tatis Ryan. Just stop while you are behind.
Morejon is starting the game today.
@Pads Fans/Koamalu funny, we were part of the same conversation yet see the outcome differently.
How does it feel being so consistently wrong yet so consistently sure of yourself?
The Padres brought up two great young arms that were pitching extremely well in AA and both throw 98 mph. The Padres bullpen is overworked and showing signs of tiring. How is that is destroying the franchise?
Our bullpen is terrible. Bring these guys up, no trade needing to be made and protect them from rule 5. Pretty simple.
They were signed in 2016 no needs for that
My bad
Baez would be Rule 5 eligible this year.
No he wouldn’t.
Yes. He would. He was 21 when he was signed. Ask anybody at Madfriars.
Read my other comment. He was signed after the 2016 Rule 5 draft which means that one doesn’t count for him. He is eligible for the fourth Rule 5 draft following his signing. That’s 2017, ’18, 19 ‘and ’20.
According to RosterResource.com, Baez will be eligible for the Rule 5 draft in Dec 2020.
IT’S HAPPENING, EVERYBODY STAY CALM.
I think Fowler is ready to piss his pants, this team has looked bad the last 3 weeks. And if this farm doesn’t produce something good not named Tatis pretty quickly Fowler WILL chop some heads.
they have called up about a half dozen rookie starters this year alone. they dont turn into stars instantly. chill.
Yes. All rooks are to produce immediately … or else.
Padres dont care about service time. AAA is very hitter friendly so some of our pitching prospects are skipping the PCL entirely. Morejon being only 20 is more suprising but hey Andres Munoz is 19 and throwing 100+ out the bullpen with good results so Baez should be a nice reliever.
Neither had to be protected until December 2020. But 2 other things should concern Padre fans:
1. It looks like Preller wants to solve their problems internally, rather than going shopping.
2. They just created a potential option-year issue, especially with Baez, whose inconsistencies have been noted.
The Padres have held onto their prospects like grandmothers pearls. Problem is, aside from players with stupid natural ability this team doesn’t produce great big leaguers. Player Development department is lacking.
Except for those times they traded for Justin Upton and Craig Kimbrel and Will Myers and Steven Souza.
Yes 5 years ago they did do that. Since then they have assumed that every prospect in the system is too good to trade.
Well they did trade Enyel de los Santos for absolutely nothing a year and a half ago…
And where is he now? They got a decent year of play out of Galvis. de los Santos is at Lehigh Valley.
Looking at the situation objectively, the Padres would be better off today in every way if not for the Galvis trade.
How’s that? With another up-and-down relief pitcher spending most of the year at El Paso?
Frankly, they should have kept Galvis and not signed Kisnler.
“How’s that? With another up-and-down relief pitcher spending most of the year at El Paso? ”
They’d still have de los Santos or could have traded him for something else, would have $6.8m extra to spend and would have drafted higher last month which means a bigger signing bonus cash pool.
“Frankly, they should have kept Galvis and not signed Kisnler.”
I agree but keeping Galvis would not have justified trading for him.
Mountain = molehill.
Maybe, but without that trade the Padres are in the exact same position right now as they are in our timeline even in their worst case scenario. You asked “how’s that” when I said the Padres would be better off in every way without the Galvis trade and I answered.
Ryan, how much is a guy that is a AAAA starter/reliever like DLS who has an ERA of about 7 in the majors and 4 in AAA this season worth in trade?
Is that more than the accelerated development the Padres got for their young starters by having an exceptional defensive SS last season?
Apparently the Padres don’t agree with you. Looks like they spent that $6.8 million anyway. Do you enjoy being wrong so often?
Enyel de los Santos may not have moved the needle for the Padres but we know Freddy Galvis won’t because he’s a Blue Jay now.
They got NO development for their young starters by having Galvis on the team in 2018. The team would be playing just as well now if they never traded for Galvis.
It isn’t a matter of my opinion, yours or anyone’s. The Galvis trade was a failure in every possible way.
This is coming from you, the guy basically make a career out of being wrong on the Internet. Is that why you change accounts every year or so?
@Pads Fans/Koamalu where is your empirical evidence that the Padres would be playing worse this year if they had never made the Galvis trade?
Oh Ryan…
Have the Padres traded Wil Myers for Corey Kluber or Noah Syndergaard yet?
@Pads Fans/Koamalu yeah, didn’t think so. What a clown you are.
Damn, Yates really is on pace to challenge Mariano in ’93 aka the greatest reliever season of all time.
Yeah, Mariano’s 2.08 era in A-ball was awesome in ‘93
Geez! If a team has a great farm and decides to utilize them on their roster, they’re chastised to hell! If they trade them to get tools for their club and the wheels fall off, they’re still chastised to hell for not getting exactly what all these lounge chair GM’s think they should have! Come on people! Let a low payroll team do exactly what they should to compete! If they have the tools to rebuild their bullpen in their system, give the kids a chance! It’s not like anyone expected the Padres to contend this year anyway. They’ve over performed and now they hope these kids coming up will be hungry enough to over perform even more and get them to the post season. Simple logic for a low payroll team trying to contend.
you dont just call up premier starting prospects from AA in a desperate hope of contending. they have options in AAA that are probably more ready.
Nope. El Paso is empty. They’re not doing this to contend this year. Vision extends way beyond that.
Steven Wilson, Carlos Torres, Eric Yardley, and Sammy Solis have all pitched fine in AAA. there are plenty of options you dont have to worry about exposing of taking the roster spot of in the offseason.
Ryan, Pay attention. Torres and Solis are gone. Wilson is pitching well, but do you really think he is better than either Baez or Morejon long term?
milb.com/roster/index.jsp?sid=t4904
Do you really think Nix or Kennedy are better than Quantrill or Allen long-term?
welcome to the internet.
Good.find out what they have now. Only 3 games but Andres Munoz has looked good so far. Time to find out now who will be part of the future.
I like this time to start filtering through all these young prospects to see who sticks. If the Padres intend to contended in 2020 then we need to see who will stay. I don’t think it would be a good idea to test a lot of youngsters in a contending year so doing it now is smart
Exactly. Everyone on here complaining about service time and 40 man roster spots are ridiculous. These are guys that we need in our pitching staff to compete. We’re trying to compete next year. Bring em’ up, have them work with Balsley and see if they will be able to contribute next year either in the rotation or the bullpen. No reason to let them keep demolishing AA when they fill spots in a horrendous bullpen right now.
Let the kids play and get as ready as possible for 2020. This staff could look real impressive if they can contribute and they bring up Gore early next season, with Patino potentially right behind him.
Waiting until next year to call them up wouldn’t have stopped us from competing next year.
STOP, Ryan
Go to an asylum.
You’re commenting from an asylum..where else would you have 5 hours a day to actively comment(ignorantly) on every thread from different accounts…?
Actually I comment from my phone.
You fail to understand the simplest concepts, your grammar is borderline incoherent, oh yeah, and you have a stupid username. Yes you do belong in an asylum.
… “GRAMPS!”
Seriously, who talks like that?
you’re not going to get an accurate evaluation of the value of your arms if you push them too quickly, espacially past AAA. again, Baez has pitched well enough to suggest he could help the MLB bullpen right now, but there’s no real need to rush him. Morejon meanwhile, makes absolutely no sense, having not excelled in AA. you’re adding way too many inexperienced arms to the 40 man before they are ready and are bound to have an issue with roster space soon.
Baez and Morejon are bullpen arms? What is the Padres starting rotation…? Paddack, Luchessi, Lauer, Lamet, Quantrill? I like how the pads seem to waste no time promoting within. Put up or shut up! The future is NOW!
No. It’s not. It’s next year and beyond.
this managment of roster spots should help quite a lot of teams in baseball. a lot of the guys that are rule 5 eligible this offseason could be had for prospects that don’t need to be protected, and perhaps causes SD to be more willing to give up some of their prospects, namedly the arms. doesn’t help them, but helps everyone else.
This is great seeing so many passionate Padre fans. Always wondered where they were when id visit daygo.
Just exchanged tweets with John Conniff and Kevin Charity. They both pointed to Fangraphs, which has Baez Rule 5 eligible this year.
Roster Resource has Baez Rule 5 eligible in 2020.
rosterresource.com/mlb-san-diego-padres/
I’ve done further research and stand corrected. Rule 5 eligible Dec. 20.
Doesn’t matter, really. They want to give him a head start.
What’s up spack?!
Head over to gaslampball.com. There are more knowledgeable Padres fans over there.
Two words: hive mind
More knowledgeable then MadFriars?
Yeah right.
The Padres want to strengthen their bullpen. I would expect 2-3 bullpen arms getting moved out shortly.
The Padres can’t play defense anymore, that includes Tatis, Manny and Kinsler now Hosmer is makin stupid mistakes at 1B.. I will predict the Padres will finish in last place and Green could be heading out the door.
I think he’s lost contact with the players. I see no intensity in this team.
I would really like to see AJ make at least two or three trades and move some of these so called hot prospects for some players who will make this team accountable guys under 30 who have had some good seasons and would be our No. 1 or 2 in our rotation, mainly 2 SP’s and one middle relief guy. This season is over a real shame something even happened to Tatis he’s lost his edge and he’s not looking like he did one month ago.
Sadly Green isn’t going anywhere. He’s a front office puppet and does that just fine.
Unfortunately your right, who knows if AJ brings up the rooks and their not producing AJ could be shown the door in Nov. I liked Kevin Towers as a GM he always went after SP and Defense.
Towers was GM during steroid era turned blind eye never developed prospects
Hosmer is actually pretty solid for a player at a posotion for players with no positions.
Like to see AJ gone he’s a loser
Hosmer is overpaid bad signing by Preller. Hosmer has 4 homers since June none this month. His defense is average at best. He strikes out a ton. He’s highest paid 1B and 5th best in NL. Josh Bell, Freeman, Alonso, and Goldy better
Balsley is best pitching coach. Let him work with these pitchers. We have guys who can’t cut it: maton,Ervin,stock etc. get rid of them and bring these live arms up.
If Balsley is so great, why have a bunch of very talented young pitchers struggled so much this season?
“Young” is the operative word.
Yup. And off the top of my head only Logan Allen has fallen short of expectations so far.
Come on PF. You know Balsley is Jesus.
Baez has worked in strictly multiple inning relief and only every 4th to 5th game. He was never a nominal starter prospect. In 2017 led all of baseball in K/BB ratio. Since then injuries in 2018 and 2019 have limited him to just multiple inning relief outings this season. Per Andy Green the Padres still see him as a starter in the future. Which jives with his high prospect ranking. Relievers are not top 100 prospects.
He is 6’8″ tall, throws 98 mph, and has struck out 12.7 per 9 IP with a 2.00 ERA in AA this season. The kid is going to be a monster wherever he ends up.
“Relievers are not top 100 prospects.”
aroldis chapman, archie bradley and josh hader says yer wrong
In PF’s defense, Hader and Bradley were expected to stick as starters when they graduated from prospect status. Then Chapman was super-hyped and came armed with easy triple-digit heat from the left side.
I really don’t understand putting Tatis & Paddack on the opening day roster if your going to call guys up from AA instead of trading at the deadline. If you want to develop AA guys at the MLB level fine. But don’t piss away a year of control on Tatis & Paddack then.
Most players need time to adjust to the big leagues before becoming players who can help the push to a championship. I’m not against bringing these guys up to get them acclimated, preparing them to win for the next several years. Preller is hyper-aggressive in this manner, which could be a good thing.