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  1. TruffleShuffle
    You do realize that you have been talking to a HS coach, right? yeah I think he realizes that. He was just a pitcher that threw 175 pitches in one game and our high school coach left him in while he was, obviously, real tired. Our HS had a coach that really did not know much about the game of baseball as he tried telling pitchers other ways to throw while messing up their mechanics. He resigned a few games ago and the freshman baseball coach became the varisty coach. He coached a 41-1 loss with the freshman team and he somehow got promoted. needless to say, I think most HS coaches know what they are doing because they are in a somewhat high level of baseball. Unfortunately, for our school, the coaches that we have don't have a clue what is going on out there. I think a lot of coaches know what they're doing... but unfortunately, they're more focused on winning any given game with their best pitcher on the mound than about the potential effects that driving that pitcher into the ground will have on his career thereafter.
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    I'd take someone like Matt Antonelli - a hitter with patience - but the Cubs would never do that. Still, I pick him.
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    He's gonna need to go nuts for that to happen. Wells, Sizemore, GMJ, Granderson, and Damon are all in front of him, production wise. I was thinking of him being the O's token representative but then I forgot who plays shortstop for them. Ramon Hernandez is a lock unless he starts to slump. The guy who drafted for me in our fantasy draft (who did a really crappy job) forgot to pick a catcher on my team and realized it before the last round. So, he picked Hernandez, and he's the top ranked catcher more than a third of the way through the season. But back on topic, I hope Corey keeps playing great and throws even more egg on the collective faces of the Cubs' coaches and management.
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    I'm a big fan of Patterson's. I wish he'd cut back on the K's, but he walks, has pop, and is a good basestealer. If he can settle in in the .280-.290 range at the MLB level, I think he has a Todd Walker with speed/better defense upside, possibly better. Agreed, in fact I think I made the exact same comparison to Dob the other day. Good, well all aboard the bandwagon then. His strikeout rate is high (101 in 119 ABs last year), but better than someone like Ryan Harvey, and his walk rate remains solid. He hit well and showed good patience and baserunning instincts during college, so I was really surprised when he fell into the 8th round. I think because he's short, plays middle infield and runs fast, people are trying to pigeonhole him into a Jose Reyes type of approach at the plate. It's silly to overlook the fact that he's hit HRs and XBHs all through his college and minor league career. He's got the strength to hit with some pop, so why just try to slap the ball through the infield? I think Brian Roberts is also a good comparison - good speed but not overwhelming; decent power and a good ability to take walks. I could see him as a Brian Roberts with slightly more pop but a little higher strikeout rate. What was it really? D'oh!!! I meant games, not ABs.
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    booooooooooooo
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    holy crapola!
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    Daniel Bard
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    A long-term contract extension has to be coming for him anyday now.
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    It's hard to steal many bases when you don't get on base. Which, I'm coming to realize now, is much less a function of Corey's complete lack of an eye at the plate, and more related to how the Cubs' coaches tried to turn him into something he wasn't. Maybe if the Cubs keep dropping young players and have them blossom elsewhere, someone in the organization might figure out that it's not just bad luck. Of course, the person to figure it out will be the traveling secretary or the locker room janitor, not Hendry or MacPhail.
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    94
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    Oooh, I like GPA. Kind an OPS-like stat but places more emphasis on OBP than SLG. That might be my new favorite stat.
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    Yeah, it does. I know of the LD% stat but never paid much notice to it. I thought Jason Lane was having really poor luck with his BA this year, but he has the worst LD% in baseball, so that helps explain it. Huff's LD% has also been declining the last two years. That site really is a gold mine of info... I'm going to have fun learning about a lot of that stuff.
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    I'm a big fan of Patterson's. I wish he'd cut back on the K's, but he walks, has pop, and is a good basestealer. If he can settle in in the .280-.290 range at the MLB level, I think he has a Todd Walker with speed/better defense upside, possibly better. Agreed, in fact I think I made the exact same comparison to Dob the other day. Good, well all aboard the bandwagon then. His strikeout rate is high (101 in 119 ABs last year), but better than someone like Ryan Harvey, and his walk rate remains solid. He hit well and showed good patience and baserunning instincts during college, so I was really surprised when he fell into the 8th round. I think because he's short, plays middle infield and runs fast, people are trying to pigeonhole him into a Jose Reyes type of approach at the plate. It's silly to overlook the fact that he's hit HRs and XBHs all through his college and minor league career. He's got the strength to hit with some pop, so why just try to slap the ball through the infield? I think Brian Roberts is also a good comparison - good speed but not overwhelming; decent power and a good ability to take walks. I could see him as a Brian Roberts with slightly more pop but a little higher strikeout rate.
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    Boy, I also notice looking through that stat page that the Cubs have 3 of the top 11 players in ground ball percentage, and that all three are the starting outfielders. That cannot be a good thing.
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    Thanks! This has been added to my extensive list of baseball bookmarks. Huff's BABIP is .192, by the way. So on the subject of BABIP, is it really all luck? For example, I think it has to be the case that weakling slap hitters like Neifi, Pierre, and Rey Rnez must have low BABIPs for their career. None of three strike out much at all, but especially in the case of Neifi and Rey, their career batting averages are not very good. If BABIP were all luck, shouldn't they have high batting averages since they put the ball in play in a large percentage of their ABs?
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    Is there anyplace that tracks BABIP on a regular basis and makes this available to the public? I was looking at Aubrey Huff's numbers and thinking he must have a pretty bad BABIP, which then led me to look for a place that lists the stat. Any help?
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    Fortunately for me, most of the people who opted for someone other than Pujols are pretty far behind. Jones was a safe pick. You generally know what you're going get from him, which is 20-25 HRs. I went with riskier picks like Swisher and Gomes, which have paid off big time so far - but also Huff, who hasn't returned to his former self, although he's shown some signs of life the last week or two.
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    D-Jaxx win 7-1. Solid game for E-Patt... 2-4 with a double, 2 runs, 2 RBI and a stolen base. People haven't talked much about him this year, but he's still got good numbers for a pitcher's league, especially for a 2B.
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    Matt Antonelli?
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    Scherzer
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    Morrow
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    Why? His brother has a 6.64 ERA. If he has another couple of solid starts, I don't know why they would send him down and keep throwing his crappy brother every five days. because they paid jeff a lot of money and probably aren't going to want to kill what little confidence he might have left by replacing him with his little brother. jered will be in the rotation eventually this year - i'm just not convinced he's a permanent fixture right now. That contract was horrendous - paying a guy like that after he put up an ERA+ of 99 in two years with the Dodgers. So yes, they paid a league-average pitcher $8.5 million. I guess maybe didn't realize that Dodger Stadium is a pitcher's park... but then again, neither did the Rangers when they signed Chan Ho Park, and neither did the Dodgers when they signed Darren Dreifort. But back on point - it's a one year deal. The AL West sucks, meaning that for as bad as they've played, the Angels are very much still in the race - especially if (or when) they start getting healthy. If Jeff continues to suck in his next couple of starts and Jered is cruising, I can't see them sticking with Jeff. Fans and players would be pissed off. I think if Jeff's confidence is going to be shattered by doing that, then you just write him off as a loss.
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    Sure, I guess if they like him then the pick makes sense... Rowell it is for me too.
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    Brandon Morrow
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    Pulled up lame on a foul ball in the top of the second, holding his back. Don't old people have a lot of back problems? :lol:
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