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oh i don't care that either team made it, but the bengals didn't beat anybody good all year and houston is missing their starting qb, top pass rusher and their star wr is a cripple.
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Yeah, but we have 3 high celing CF prospects in Jackson, Szczur, and Ha, 4 if you count Rubi Silva but nothing in the form of corner outfielders. Part of me would just as soon get Drabek, Snider, and 2 young high celing guys. And personally I do think we have some high ceiling talent in the under 21 crowd, just none that we'll be seeing in the next 3 years with the possible exceptions of Jackson, Szczur, and McNutt. Your definition of high ceiling is very different from mine. At any rate, of that group Gose would have the most power, best speed, and highest walk rate. jackson definitely has a higher walk rate than gose, both last year (when gose's rate improved) and going back through their minor league careers. but yeah, generally when people talk about high-ceiling players they're talking about guys who, if they pan out, could regularly post star-level production in the big leagues (4-5 wins or more per year). gose is more likely than any of the cubs' current prospects to reach that level, though he's still a long shot to do so and is a much higher risk than jackson of making no positive contribution at the big league level.
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Yeah, but we have 3 high celing CF prospects in Jackson, Szczur, and Ha, 4 if you count Rubi Silva but nothing in the form of corner outfielders. Part of me would just as soon get Drabek, Snider, and 2 young high celing guys. And personally I do think we have some high ceiling talent in the under 21 crowd, just none that we'll be seeing in the next 3 years with the possible exceptions of Jackson, Szczur, and McNutt. we probably have zero high-ceiling CF prospects. jackson doesn't have a high ceiling; everyone thinks he's likely to be average to above average because he does a lot of things pretty well and nothing really well. szczur is only a high ceiling guy if you think his power and patience will develop. ha is probably not a CF and doesn't have a high ceiling, and rubi silva sucks. even ignoring your poor usage of the term "high ceiling," it's good to amass good prospects regardless of position. if brett jackson turns out to be a bum, maybe you hit it rich with gose. or if jackson is firmly established in CF and you don't think gose's bat profiles well in a corner, then you trade gose for a position of need.
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nobody is saying they don't want drabek, they're saying they don't want him as the centerpiece of a deal. and i like szczur, but i think it's pretty crazy to prefer him over gose. gose has strikeout issues, but he's reasonably patient and has a high ceiling, and a .253/.349/.415/.763 line is pretty good for a 20 year old in AA (in a pitcher's league). everyone's bitches about the lack of high-ceiling talent in the cubs' system - gose could be carl crawford if he pans out, so there's your high ceiling guy right there.
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Who on twitter, exactly? it's probably just a regurgitation of this article. only other thing i've found is this. i don't really see anything that would lead one to think that a deal is close, or that drabek/other stuff for garza is likely.
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Known Liar&Cheater Ryan Braun Caught Lying&Cheating Again
TruffleShuffle replied to ctcf's topic in General Baseball Talk
yeah i definitely wouldn't write off the cards. if berkman has another strong year then they're really just downgrading from pujols to beltran, and last year (based on fangraphs' metrics) pujols and beltran were separated by only half a win. now that's in a down year from pujols and a nice bounce back from beltran, but i'd only expect about a three win difference between the two players. they replace the mediocrity of mcclellan and edwin jackson with wainwright (who presumably won't be at his best, but bad for wainwright is probably still better than those two) and won't be wasting time with theriot's lousy defense. i'd actually rate the cards as favorites to win the division. -
Because they will be asked to coach a different way. Rather, told. new boss: "JOHNSON, YOU'VE BEEN A HORRIBLE ACCOUNTANT FOR YEARS, IT'S KILLING OUR BUSINESS. AS YOUR NEW BOSS, I DEMAND THAT YOU START DOING A GOOD JOB INSTEAD OF A BAD JOB" johnson: becomes competent employee yeah, i don't really have the concern about trading for highly-regarded prospects, but that's mostly because i assume there will be a lot of new people coming in to do things on the farm, not because the morons we've had running the show will all of a sudden become competent.
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that has to be one of the worst playoff games ever.
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quarterbacks who can't complete 50% of their passes really should not be starting in the nfl.
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why is the HOF "way too inclusive"? i think there's only like 15 third basemen in the hall, and they've been playing baseball for almost 140 years. an average of one third basemen or two shortstops every decade doesn't seem like a ridiculously loose set of criteria. it's not like every guy who has a good five-year spell is being enshrined.
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it would be kind of fitting for denver and oakland to both lose "must win" home games today, given how piss-poor that division is.
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FDB
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holy [expletive] tampa might try to lose by 100.
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i've had just about enough of that [expletive] honey badger
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yeah you'd think the chargers' players would be pretty eager to get their own incompetent coach fired.
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or tampa just hops an early flight and doesn't come out of the locker room.
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mickey mantle wasn't the best CF of his era, should he not have been considered for the hall of fame? There are a lot of people that do not belong in the HOF. Mantle is not one of them. the point is that not being "the best of his era" is a really foolish thing to count against a player.
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there's pretty much no chance he keeps his job, right? they completely quit with at least a quarter of the season remaining.
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who is this Bree fellow
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mickey mantle wasn't the best CF of his era, should he not have been considered for the hall of fame?
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lol
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whiter than Merill? Or Jed? Yeah....I thought Jed was already pretty white. i should clarify... rich and white. jed can be a hillbilly from west virginia. someone named beckett hoyer will have to be an avid yachtsman.
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oklahoma vs boise st would have been a good game.
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2012 College Football Offseason Thread
TruffleShuffle replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
whatever, I'm done. I said "possibly thinking" because that's how you interpreted what I wrote, and you take this as admission that I think PSU is too good for saban. Bravo. Anyway, I'm looking forward to tree's next rumor. I'm thinking saban at head coach, peterson at offensive coordinator, bob stoops at defensive coordinator and belichick managing the special teams. -
I don't think anyone predicted the cubs to be a likely world series contender by next offseason, regardless of what epstein's plan was. That being said, once you get into the playoffs with a decent team you can still win it all (note: mostly only true for st louis cardinals)