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2013 Mock Offseason Thread
bukie replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I think you don't have to look at the exact draft spot to be realistic about the value of the prospect you are going to get there. There are two phases of the MLB draft: the first round, and then a gigantic craps shoot of lottery tickets. 2nd-round picks fall into the latter category. I'm not particularly worried about losing out on one. The possible trade value of a mediocre MLB player we sign >>>> the value of a 2nd-round draft pick. From your list, I'd have no problem sacrificing a 2nd-round pick for any of the 3b and most of the pitchers. Haven't really looked at the outfielders too closely. Now, granted, the Cubs aren't exactly a model franchise for drafting and development, but the Cubs haven't had a 2nd-round pick produce more than 0.5 bWAR since Maddux in 1984. Of course, players like Soto, Samardzija, and Barney were drafted after the second round and cleared that bar fairly easily in the last year. -
What's going on with Walker? Are they just shelving him for the year now?
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@BMcCarthy32 With this sweet new haircut and homemade Bane mask I'm off for a big day of yelling at tourists in Union Square.
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Good news for Bears fans and Jordy Nelson owners.
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Because it's worked so well the last two times they've sat on a one goal lead.
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After all that crap in the first half Zusi gets booked?
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HERCULEZ! HERCULEZ! HERCULEZ!
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It means that SF is easily the best team in the NFL because of that dominant defense.
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I'm sorry I thought you were one of those people who was okay with what they did. See, silly you, it's not a semantic claim, it's a false dichotomy.
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Pick one: Stevan Ridley v ARI Mike Wallace v NYJ Lance Moore @ CAR Peyton Hillis @ BUF Pick one: Matt Stafford @ SF Robert Griffin @ STL
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My two biggest concerns about this game are that nobody important on the Bears gets injured, and that the Bears don't get completely blown out. Beyond that, everything's gravy, since I didn't expect them to win this game coming into the year anyway.
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One concern I do have about the game is how Cutler's improvement in the game seemed to coincide exactly with Freeney leaving the game. Was that extra help all Cutler needed to go from awful to awesome? And are the Bears completely boned once they do go up against a legit pass rush?
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I love National Jump to Conclusions Week in the NFL. "The Jets Offense is one of the best in the NFL!" "The 49ers are the best team in the NFL!" "The Cowboys and Redskins are the class of the NFC East!"
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Two days in a row you pop in for a quick jab at the Cubs and then leave only to miss that they actually won the game.
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Looks like the Detroit-St. Louis game is building towards a game-ending Matt Stafford TD throw. But to which team?
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Ended up autodrafting my second league because of a conflict. This may be the first auto-drafted team I like, though. 10-team league, PPR/PPC: QB: M. Stafford, DET RB: M. Lynch, SEA RB: F. Gore, SF WR: C. Johnson, DET WR: J. Nelson, GB WR: M. Wallace, PIT TE: F. Davis, WAS DEF: Green Bay K: G. Hartley, NO BN: R. Griffin, WAS BN: P. Hillis, KC BN: S. Ridley, NE BN: D. Williams, CAR BN: G. Little, CLE BN: L. Moore, NO
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1. ERA in a vacuum tells you nothing, so don't use it as your only statistic to determine how effective a pitcher was. 2. He was one of the ten best pitchers in the AL in his first year, so he didn't take a while to get good. 3. His social anxiety disorder was very similar to another's pitching injury. As soon as they diagnosed it, they worked to get him back to 100%. 4. When he was 100%, he was one of the best pitchers in baseball, which he was for 5 of the 7 years he pitched for the Royals (one was his second year, one was the year he was dealt). 5. He was dealt just before he got expensive for them, and after he was a Cy Young pitcher, and easily the best pitcher in baseball. So, when you stated that Greinke "took several years" to reach his potential, and the Royals "shipped him off early", those statements were at best misleading and at worst factually incorrect.
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Regardless of what happened during those six years, none of what you posted was true. He pitched well right away, and they didn't get rid of him early.
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Zack Greinke? It took several years before Greinke reached his potential, and by the time he did they had to ship him off because they knew they probably couldn't keep him. Shipped him off early for a larger return instead of delaying the inevitable. Greinke had a 120 ERA+ in his first full season at age 20. He pitched six years for the Royals before they traded him.
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Zack Greinke?
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Just taking a quick look at this, it seems pretty obvious that the Bears would have ranked highly in that system given that more weight was given to the late-season games (when the Bears were playing mostly terrible teams) as opposed to the beginning of the year. The system is adjusted for opponent. And they were 4th in unweighted. And played the toughest schedule in the NFL.
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Logically, if he keeps not swinging at pitches out of the zone, pitchers are going to be forced to give him more hittable pitches. It's at least as likely that those hittable pitches are more frequently turned into extra base hits as it is he continues missing them 42% of the time. Again, though, you miss the point (on purpose?). Nobody's saying that his amazingly good stats will continue as advertised. What people are saying, though, is there's little chance of his would-be-a-MLB-record strikeout rate holding up long-term if he maintains his swing rate and plate discipline.
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Tim Howard kicks the goalpost in frustration. Landon Donovan would too, but he's just half-assing it.
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He had six Ks in his last four games going into today. You can have a lot of fun with arbitrary endpoints, but it's not as if the Ks had stopped in his recent hot streak. He was just getting something out of almost every non-K, which is completely sustainable. Here we go again, with the "everything amazingly good is unsustainable, but everything amazingly bad is just business as usual" rhetoric.
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All of a sudden I'm more than a little bummed that Spurs got shafted out of a CL appearance this year.
