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  1. TruffleShuffle
    He's an integral part of "The Plan" the rest of the year. I say he gets at least a few more starts. yeah, i'd give beeler, wada, hendricks and maybe jokisch at least a few starts each. good time to figure out if any of these guys can be a solid back-end starter.
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    where do jorts fit in to this poll
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    daytona should play all their games starting at 10am; they'd actually get most of them in.
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    Am I missing where someone said that the yankees could have easily beat the offer? I saw some quotes from Cashman that they were seriously involved, but Theo had told him every time they talked that if one team relented and included one player, that's who they were going with. When Cashman saw, he admitted they got the best deal they possibly could have. exactly. so maybe that tool from the ny daily news should not have written that the yankees could have made a far better offer. (although to be fair, he probably had no idea who addison russell is, and the trade is difficult to evaluate if you don't know stuff about other teams' prospects)
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    home run baez. (jeffrey baez)
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    after an alcantara double, they had logan watkins bunt him to third. in the top of the first inning. with baez and bryant up next. #-o
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    daytona rained out \:D/
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    bryant finally batting fourth.
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    jeez wtf has happened to beltran?
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    trout is insanely fast though trout has been getting probably something like 15 extra hits (infield hits) a year from his speed, at least relative to a masher with average speed. definitely gives a boost to his average, but even if you took out those hits he'd have a well above normal BABIP.
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    http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=34400591&sid=milb
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    i don't see why baez would definitely have been up; he has an immature swing-from-the-heels approach and has traditionally struggled each time he is introduced to a new level.
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    bryant doesn't seem like a guy who should contend for a batting title because he strikes out a lot, but then again mike trout doesn't seem like a guy who should hit .320, but he does despite striking out almost once a game (because his babip is like .370 every year). some guys just have a knack for hitting the ball hard and who knows, maybe bryant is one of those guys.
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    i would like to know how the yankees could have "easily" beat the a's offer. what, if they offered their entire minor league system? or if you're one of those people who believes that 6 prospects in return is automatically better than 3, regardless of quality?
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    good, hopefully some organization will be dumb enough to think that russell is as good as his current ERA.
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    i can't think of a reasonable argument to rank the twins ahead of the cubs. the twins have a really nice system, but their best two prospects have basically had a lost year of development. as for depth, yeah the cubs' system had a long way to go when the new management took over, but now they're at a position where players like p. johnson, tseng, edwards, torres, jiminez, rivero, vizcaino, etc are hard-pressed to make the top 10. not only do they have the best position prospects (a safer bet than pitchers), but they probably have the strongest depth of any minor league system.
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    home runs by soler, baez, and two by almora? http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/z/zR/fark_zRbKbuiCLf8qeKD3z5WSVHX8qBk.gif?t=PaD1otYSGBSo4iiPYtoe9g&f=1405310400
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    i think it's a good time to get arms like wada, hendricks, beeler, straily up. hell, get rivero and vizcaino up and alcantara in cf. let's find out what we have with some of these guys. the cubs can contend in 2015.
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    http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/1749134/seinfeld-elaine-dance-o.gif
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    baez is only 11 months younger than bryant. and bryant, as long as he stays healthy, is going to hit like 50 home runs in the minors in his age 22 season. along with hitting over .300 and drawing a [expletive]-ton of walks. yeah there are strikeouts in his game, but i feel like those come more from his patient approach than a lot of over-aggressiveness and swinging strikes. bryant has already walked more times this year than baez has in any of his minor league seasons.
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    also from the bp midseason update:
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    soler went for .281/.343/.467/.810 last year as a 21 in the fsl. that's a nice line, but it's hardly destroying the ball. and he's played 104 games in 2.5 years, so while some of the injuries have been fluky (like the broken leg from the foul ball), they have to be a concern at this point.
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    bryant is what 80 power looks like. it really is mind-boggling that a 22 year old prospect in his first crack at the upper minors can post a video game OPS. i don't even think that i would trade him for stanton straight up (largely because of the salary difference, of course). i'm convinced that bryant is going to be a perennial all-star either at 3b or rf.
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    i like how straily isn't even part of the deal in the thread title.
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    fujikawa pitched for the azl cubs. he supposedly pitched a clean first and then got knocked around in the 2nd, but i don't know if this is one of those things where MiLB just screws up the 2nd inning pitcher and it was actually someone else.
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