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  1. TruffleShuffle
    You're aware that two of the most patient hitters (Rizzo, Soler) aren't in the lineup, Baez and Alcantara are in their early 20s and have like 200 at bats between them, etc You are aware that you are making excuses right? Ok well let's just ignore all the extenuating factors. Boooooo 21 year old Baez with 100 plate appearances at the major league level, booooooo.
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    http://www.dirtybutton.com/videos/780-happy-fun-ball/
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    You're aware that two of the most patient hitters (Rizzo, Soler) aren't in the lineup, Baez and Alcantara are in their early 20s and have like 200 at bats between them, etc
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    Randall Grichuk sounds like the name of someone who would be president of the douchiest, bro-est frat on campus.
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    I guess Valbuena really did not like when I said he has the same fWAR as Robinson Chirinos.
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    Zastryzny ahead of Tseng? What on earth?
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    Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything in the last game thread about how good the bullpen has been.
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    I'm on mobile and too lazy to look up if this is true, but I feel like the bullpen has been really good since around the ASB.
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    Mat Latos is a douche bag
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    What's the record for golden sombreros in a player's first 30 games?
  11. TruffleShuffle
    So who has their tickets for next Monday at Wrigley?
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    PTR booked the cheapest flight from Tacoma, which happens to have a 12 hour layover in Hong Kong.
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    It's like the 2009 team except not really at all.
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    I appreciate Valbuena for what he is (cost controlled, patient hitter, versatile), but it's not like I'm going to stop what I'm doing to see what Luis Valbuena does when he's up to bat. I mean, the dude has the same fWAR this season as Robinson Chirinos.
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    Really? I've cared about more than that for about three weeks now. Not like I am enamored with Valbuena, Coghlan, Castillo, and Ruggiano, but I certainly want them to do well and think any/all of them can have an impact in the future. I guess I don't see most of them as significant contributors to the future. Maybe Castillo if for no other reason than the lack of options to replace him, and he's fine in a lineup loaded with other good players.
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    Nah, they won't break Soler in at cleanup. Castro 4th.
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    Castro is back from bereavement leave too. That means five position players in the lineup that I actually give a [expletive] about, which has to be the highest number since at least 2008.
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    Btw, if he's being called up, hitting a home run off Taijuan Walker is a pretty cool way to end his minor league career.
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    I am trying to figure out what is going on in the Iowa game. Soler hit a home run and was pulled before the next half inning started. Rafael Lopez was hit by pitch immediately after the Soler HR. So possibilities: -Soler somehow hurt himself while hitting a home run. -Soler is being called up. -Soler acted like a dick after homering, Rafael Lopez was plunked by angry Taijuan Walker, and Soler was removed to teach him a lesson. Also, Jokisch is out of the game after 2.1 innings due to a blister.
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    Jeffrey Baez strikes me as Junior Lake 2.0
  21. TruffleShuffle
    Rest day for Russell :(
  22. TruffleShuffle
    If a lot of those guys pan out, that lineup would be like the great Red Sox and Yankee lineups from the late 90s and 2000s. Loaded with guys who would be middle of the order hitters on most clubs, and lots of "base cloggers."
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    Which is the highest FSL OPS by about 100 points (min 150 PA). At some point "he's a polished college hitter, he should be doing this" rings hollow - especially when he's now young for his league and is still destroying it.
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    I don't have my 2014 prospect handbook handy, but I think I remember most of the top 6 or 8 picks making most of the BA writers' lists. Schwarber might have been regarded as an overdraft, but top 5 picks who reach high A and OPS over 1.000 are going to be on most top 50 lists, even with some defensive concerns. One, some of the gurus acted like only a select few would make the top 50 and it might have been Law that said no one would have made his top 25. Keep in mind, just because we drafted him 4th, he was considered a top 12-15 guy and these guys aren't going to bump him just because we took him higher. Then add in that Law doesn't appear to give a [expletive] about stats from college guys at lower levels and Parks places a huge emphasis on position and its not looking great for Schwarber right now for their lists, in my mind. Kiley likes him a bunch and my guess is BA will rank him rather highly too. The highest ranking he's likely to get will be from Sickels, since he's damn near an all stats guy. They all say stuff like that right after the draft, but then dudes like Alcantara and Baez and Taveras graduate and some of the high draft picks put up great numbers over half a season, and inevitably end up on top 50 lists.
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