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  1. CubinNY
    To answer your question Tom or someone else linked an article where the driveline people or someone else like them was saying basically it’s too hard to do because our brains don’t have that much control over movement or some other explanatory fiction. I don’t know how the “lab” could create more velocity and the other stuff with biomechanics and technology and not also figure out how to work on control issues. As you alluded to, it would seem that control is the other side of the coin, so to speak. My very uneducated guess is that they are not very good at what they purportedly do. Velocity, movement, and spin on a baseball doesn’t mean a damn thing if a guy can’t throw strikes.
  2. CubinNY
    Reaching deep into obscurity. need to go back a few years and do one on Mark Bellhorn or Jon Leiber (EDIT: he was actually traded for Brant Brown!!!!). Bellhorn had a lot of NSBB fans.
  3. CubinNY
    Yes. The overall economics of baseball is incredibly suppressed and overwhelmingly skewed toward capital. Free agency is a “gift” that very few players are ever able to take advantage of and even those that are able have their market suppressed by “luxury taxes”, qualifying offers, and the ability of owners to back fill cheap talent through the draft and trades. Some of this is the fault of the union who bargained away their rights. It’s the owners game and they are swimming in money. Any fan who touts smart spending is playing their game as well. Smart spending was buying the franchise, everything else is either about trying to win or maximize profits.
  4. CubinNY
    If he has opt outs the number of years are meaningless. I expect it will be a “creative” contract with multiple opt outs and team options/buyouts. I expect it will be well and away the richest contract at least on paper. Maybe a huge up front bonus and smaller AAV. Maybe a backloaded contract with huge AAVs after the team options. it will have protection for the team it will have multiple opt out points for Ohtani. people will talk about like they do the Bonilla contract.
  5. CubinNY
    Aside from pining for Harbaugh, Greenburg’s article in The Athletic could have been written by Goony. - sign Harrison, Jr/BPA DL in the first and don’t chase for a franchise QB.
  6. CubinNY
    UMFan must be happy —— Alabama cut through Auburn like a hot knife through butter
  7. CubinNY
    Excellent finish to an excellent game. I fully expect MHJ to make a hail merry I. The end zone
  8. CubinNY
    We got us a game in Ann Arbor. I did not expect OSU To be able to run the ball like this.
  9. CubinNY
    Yeah, I just saw they had some booster drive, after they fired their last coach and it generated $35 million in a week.
  10. CubinNY
    My sources tell me he will choose a team on the coast or middle of the country.
  11. CubinNY
    It’s so strange that according to the gurus the Cubs hired to run the lab, control is hard to teach/can’t be taught under “lab” conditions but movement can be taught. Obviously, there’s a fair bit of Dunning-Kruger working on my part, but it seems than that the sensible decision would be to draft and sign guys with good control and then shape up the other stuff. They seem to draft and sign guys with good stuff and then act as if control doesn’t really matter.
  12. CubinNY
    I do think McCarthy has a future in the NFL.
  13. CubinNY
    This is the best OSU’s offense has looked this year. Games against MAC schools don’t count.
  14. CubinNY
    I think you treat those sites as rough estimates. I wouldn’t get too caught up in it. Pushing a model to its breaking point isn’t indicative of its usefulness or lack there of. However, I’m almost certain some here or elsewhere will use it as gospel.
  15. CubinNY
    Do they have any draft picks at all?
  16. CubinNY
    The decision was questionable, but the execution was incredible
  17. CubinNY
    The Mets are linked to Yamamoto and the other Japanese pitcher so they are planning on spending plenty. I don’t know their status on Ohtani.
  18. CubinNY
    That was a pro pass Michigan’s QB just threw for a touchdown.
  19. CubinNY
    Yes.
  20. CubinNY
    From my non-scouting perspective, Morel’s issues are throwing related and not catching related. I don’t know which is more fixable My point here is that many seem to be short selling him. Most of his contemporaries are still in AAA and AA. That kind of talent is worth a lot. Also, defense metrics still aren’t worth a whole lot when most positions are bunched inside .5 standard deviation. In other words outside of glaring outliers they all are about the same.
  21. CubinNY
    No other innings he’s played matter. Certainly not the three years he played I. The upper minors. also, those metrics are about as reliable as a 1980 Lada. Also, DH is a position.
  22. CubinNY
    lol, not in pay.
  23. CubinNY
    Trading Morel should only be done for a marquee player. Right now he’s the most productive hitter on the team. I really don’t understand the perception on here that Morel can’t play defense. Besides this year where they were moving him all over the place to start the season he’d been mostly adequate at 2nd and 3rd. People act like he’s easily expendable.
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    Seems perfectly fair to me. Jed get it done.
  25. CubinNY
    I did not get to see him this year when the Smokies played in Montgomery, but the previous year I saw him in SB several times. I don’t know if it was the uniform but he didn’t exactly look athletic. Tall yes, wide hips, rather narrow shoulders, I was stuck by his appearance. maybe he’s filled out in year. I do not agree he’s a better prospect then Alcantara, I like he cut down the strikeouts. I love the power. If he can be traded for a difference makes, I’d do it and take my chances.
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