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  1. TruffleShuffle
    Right. Same here. uh oh we got an nsbb group think going on here.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    What's so insane about this, is short of an even bigger season from Molina this year, can anyone see him getting this contract on the open market? yeah that's the part I really didn't get. The only way he would possibly get a better deal is if he maintained elite defense and hit even better than last year, which was a career year. This is really nowhere close to a hometown discount and really seems like an overpay, especially given that the Cards had nobody to compete against in negotiations right now and for the next several months.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    Of course he likes cardinal fans, many of them are racist hillbillies too.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    well it's still not very clear, so i guess what you're saying is that the sabermetrics people are embarrassed to admit that they can't perfectly quantify every player's defensive abilities with a number, and therefore they can't determine who is good defensively and who isn't.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    no, that's first base. and what is your position here? that nobody can determine who an elite defensive catcher is? or that some people can, but the sabermetric community cannot?
  6. TruffleShuffle
    well a lot of things are quantifiable. like how effective catchers are at framing pitches (there's actually a metric for this that places a number value on runs the catcher saves or costs pitchers based on how well they frame pitches). there's WP+PB/(total pitches), which isn't great in a small sample size, but is useful over the long run and when you compare this with other catchers facing the same pitchers. same with how frequently players run - a catcher who doesn't have a lot of SB attempts against is probably a good receiver, and a catcher who consistently throws out more baserunners than his peers on the same roster is probably a good receiver. i have no idea what "quarterbacking the infield defense" means; generally the bench has a lot more to do with infield defense than the catcher. when you take the pitch framing thing into account, the stats on the running game, stats on wild pitch percentage and passed ball percentage, comparing these to other catchers on the same rosters, yes you can get a pretty good idea, numbers-wise, of how good a catcher is defensively. and your original statement is nonsense anyway, because it seems to assume that the sabermetric community completely shuns or doesn't understand scouting.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    well then please explain what the davearm you meant when you said that the sabermetric community doesn't have any clue how to identify an elite defensive catcher.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    yeah all those traditionalists have been saying for years that molina is an elite defender while all us sabermetrically-inclined folks have been saying that he sucks. if only we could watch the games, alas the tv reception in our mom's basements is so poor!!!
  9. TruffleShuffle
    i'm hoping they open it up to 26 teams so that the cubs might qualify this year.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    i thought this was interesting... kevin goldstein from BP polled a number of GMs about what kind of contract they would offer the big 3 prospects (m. moore, m. trout, b. harper) if they were free agents right now.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    Jeff beliveau will be good. Samardzija doesn't last as a starter but pitches pretty well as a setup man. Volstad posts his best statistical season as a major leaguer.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    yeah you felt so bad that you ran over here to post his name and to insinuate that he deliberately tampered with the blood sample by saying that he's a cub fan.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    My BP and BA books arrived yesterday so I am now ready to begin drafting :)
  14. TruffleShuffle
    meh, who hasn't
  15. TruffleShuffle
    or sometimes guys just don't develop like expected. the draft was almost 5 years ago; not everyone who was drafted highly 5 years ago has great stuff or elite talent.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    there were definitely times i wanted guys to fail, like jason kendall so that soto could get his much-deserved shot, or john grabow so that he'd just go away and the cubs would call up someone who at least had some chance of being good in the future. it pretty much requires that the cubs are being complete morons by keeping a mediocre veteran in place over a more talented young player. and usually it only happens when the cubs are lousy and out of contention.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    ok... is there any record of that? it's not in the 2012 draft pick thread and i feel like i'd probably need karen to confirm this since i can't find anything about it on this board. also (for all), if all we have to sort out is this 8th round pick - having already set the draft order and agreed who is major league draft eligible and who isn't - when do we start?
  18. TruffleShuffle
    yeah brewer fans should be embarrassed about how they treated this guy. you can say that the mlb process was flawed, but making accusations that the guy's cub fan son tampered with the tests, and refusing to consider the possibility that this baseball player you like might have cheated, is ridiculous.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    it doesn't do much for them to add players who are a couple of years from making any impact at the big league level. barney doesn't have that much trade value because he's a lousy hitter, and szczur and vitters are extremely unlikely to be posting major league average numbers before 2014. minor has averaged almost one K per IP in the big leagues during his age 22/23 seasons, and the reason his numbers appear mediocre is because he's had a .359 babip in the majors. his FIP and xFIP are a run lower than his ERA. he's major league ready and there's a good chance that he'll be a solid #3, so trading him for prospects who are still 2 years away and aren't that highly regarded would be seriously dumb. it's worth keeping an eye on him in case the braves put too much weight on his big league ERA, but that organization generally is not run by morons.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    ok draft order should be set with all the trades accounted for... feel free to check my work and make sure that you have the picks you're supposed to have.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    [expletive] give me commish powers, I'll do it at "work" tomorrow
  22. TruffleShuffle
    trading a major-league ready starter for a guy like szczur would be absurd. the braves would be looking for someone like brett jackson in return, a (nearly) major-league ready offensive prospect.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    well that's a pain in the ass. i've offered five trades to account for the ones i made last year and during the offseason. everyone accept them please (except for the one where i am trading a 2nd round pick for "nothing" - that one can be declined)
  24. TruffleShuffle
    what do you mean, "make the trades" - like we have to actually make trade offers (in cbs) to get the picks we agreed to swap already?
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    eagles
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