Washington Nationals acquire Josh Bell

Washington Nationals acquire Josh Bell
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he Washington Nationals acquired first baseman Josh Bell from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for right-handed pitcher Wil Crowe and right-handed pitcher Eddy Yean on Thursday.
Bell, 28, joins the Nationals after five seasons with the Pirates including the 2019 season in which he was named a National League All-Star. In those five seasons, he hit .261 with a .349 on-base percentage and a .466 slugging percentage with 105 doubles, 13 triples, 86 home runs and 309 RBI across 552 games.
“We are thrilled to be adding a player of Josh Bell’s caliber to our team,” said Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo. “He adds a switch-hitting power bat to our lineup. And we know Josh will be an outstanding addition to our clubhouse and our community.”
During his All-Star season of 2019, Bell ranked among National League hitters in RBI (6th, 116), extra-base hits (T6th, 77), doubles (8th, 37), home runs (9th, 37), slugging percentage (9th, .569) and OPS (10th, .936). His 60 extra-base hits prior to the All-Star break were the most ever by a National League player and tied with Hall of Famer Frank Thomas (60 in 1994) for the fourth-most by any player in Major League history.
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Since making his Major League debut in 2016, Bell’s .466 career slugging percentage ranks fourth among switch-hitters, while his 309 RBI rank sixth and his 86 home runs are tied for seventh. In five seasons, Bell has hit .271/.360/.485 as a left-handed batter .232/.315/.410 as a right-handed batter.
In 2020, Bell hit .226 with three doubles, eight home runs, 22 RBI, 22 walks and 22 runs scored in 57 games. He finished the season strong, going 19-for-66 (.288) with a double, four homers, eight RBI, nine walks and nine runs scored in 21 games from Sept. 6 through Sept. 27.
Bell finished third in the National League Rookie of the Year voting in 2017 after leading National League rookies in hits (140), doubles (26) and walks (66). He ranked second in home runs (26), RBI (90), runs (75), triples (6) and total bases (256). His 26 home runs were the most by a switch-hitting rookie in National League history.
A native of Irving, Texas, Bell was selected in the second round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft out of Dallas Jesuit College Preparatory School. He was Pittsburgh’s Minor League Player of the Year in 2014 and 2016, and participated in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures game in Minnesota in 2014.
Crowe, 26, is Washington’s №10 prospect according to Baseball America. He made his Major League debut in 2020, going 0–2 with a 11.88 ERA in three starts for the Nationals.
Yean, 19, is rated by Baseball America as Washington’s №8 prospect. In two professional seasons, he is 3–5 with a 4.70 ERA in 21 games (20 starts) between the DSL Nationals, GCL Nationals and short-season Single-A Auburn.

Basics of JavaScript Pure Functions

When you grow as a developer, it is essential that you write code that is cleaner and readable. Functional programming is a paradigm that helps you achieve this status. Pure functions are a special type of function that is a core feature of functional programming.
According to JS guru - Eric Elliot,
Functional programming (often abbreviated FP) is the process of building software by composing pure functions, avoiding shared state, mutable data, and side-effects. Functional programming is declarative rather than imperative, and the application state flows through pure functions. Contrast with object-oriented programming, where application state is usually shared and colocated with methods in objects.
In order to understand pure functions, let’s have a closer look at functions.
What is a Function?
Functions are one of the basic building blocks of JavaScript. A typical function accepts inputs also known as arguments, does some processing, and returns an output value. According to Elliot, functions serve several purposes.
Mapping: The output values are produced based on the input values. A function maps input values to output values.
Procedures: A function can be called to perform a sequence of steps. The sequence is referred to as a procedure, and programming in this manner is referred to as procedural programming.
Input/Output(I/O): Some functions provide communications with other parts of the system such as the screen, storage, system logs, network, etc.
Although functions are similar to procedures, for a procedure to qualify as a function, mapping should take place. I strongly believe that functions are a combination of mapping and procedures with I/O as an additional feature as mentioned by Elliot.
What is a Pure Function?
A function that obeys certain conditions will be deemed as a pure function.
Consistency between arguments and output. Same arguments would always return the same output value, regardless of any external factors.
No side effects.
Consistency
A pure function will always maintain a relationship where its inputs and output are consistent with one another. A pure function should not depend on any variable outside of its function scope. A pure function must not rely on any external mutable state, because it would no longer be deterministic or referentially transparent. But it is allowed for a pure function to depend on a constant, even outside of the function scope.
Let’s have a look at a function that does not maintain consistency.