Bill James rates Cubs young talent 29th in baseball

[UMFan83]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/11/02/billjames.rankings/index.html

 

Not really surprising for a team that doesn't spend a lot of time developing their own talent.

[Keener98]

Albert Pujols is considered young talent?

[Mephistopheles]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/11/02/billjames.rankings/index.html

 

Not really surprising for a team that doesn't spend a lot of time developing their own talent.

 

 

they spend a lot of time developing their own talent. they just go gaga for tools and despise actual ball players. we field the best track and field team every year though ... and that counts for something.

 

ill wait until i read the book to comment on how much james trips over himself (the guys NOT that good. hes a good writer and was the first to do these things, but hes fallen behind by miles since then).

[NewUserName]

Reading this I am guessing what he means by young talent is players that are already playing MLB. Not depth of minor league system or anything like that. I couldnt argue with much I seen if that was the standard.

 

As for James not being very good. I think he is like the Doyle Brunson of Sabermetrics. Probably not the best anymore but the most famous. Also James was never a complete stat geek as some would say. 1 of the reasons he quit writing the Abstract back in the late 80s was he was sick of people who didnt watch the games and understand the players. They just read a stat sheet and that is how they evaluated players. James is kind of in the middle of old school and Stat geek.

[Keener98]

Reading this I am guessing what he means by young talent is players that are already playing MLB. Not depth of minor league system or anything like that. I couldnt argue with much I seen if that was the standard.

 

As for James not being very good. I think he is like the Doyle Brunson of Sabermetrics. Probably not the best anymore but the most famous. Also James was never a complete stat geek as some would say. 1 of the reasons he quit writing the Abstract back in the late 80s was he was sick of people who didnt watch the games and understand the players. They just read a stat sheet and that is how they evaluated players. James is kind of in the middle of old school and Stat geek.

 

Id like to know what his cutoff for "young'"is. Pujols was supposedly born in 80 while Aram was in 78, and yet Aram doesnt get included but Pujols does. Is there really that much difference?

[cubscausestress]

chase utley a Grade B? wtf?

[wolf stansson]

I think Bill is just messing around at this point. This article makes me not sure I believe he actually follows baseball.

[ottawacubbie]

At first I thought it was rates talent developed within organizations, but then I saw Coco Crisp listed under the Sox. There has to be some kind of catch here.

[nilodnayr]

chase utley a Grade B? wtf?

 

the older you are the less of "young" talent you are

 

the more appropriate wtf would have been on Edwin Jackson. Last year was only his year 24 season, but still.

[nilodnayr]

At first I thought it was rates talent developed within organizations, but then I saw Coco Crisp listed under the Sox. There has to be some kind of catch here.

 

The catch is that hes not evaluating talent development, hes evaluating talent.

[Yanksfan1523]

What happened to the Yankees young pitchers?? Hello?? hughes? Chamberlain? they both had good big league impacts??

[rocket]

http://forums.nyyfans.com/

[Mephistopheles]

do you have to bold everything you post?