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  1. sneakypower
    well, yeah, they're winning almost 2/3 of their games
  2. sneakypower
    the Tigers have 1.5 MLB-caliber starters in their entire organization right now i still suspect Ilitch overrides FO's better judgment because frankly, he's 86 and ill
  3. sneakypower
    didn't kyle say it was a mistake because they 'paid a pitcher before they had to'? eh, even if he didn't, i'll try to remember it that way as yet another amusing bit of lunacy
  4. sneakypower
    Nottingham seems like a Jesus Montero-type prospect (which is actually meant to be flattering in this case) with less bonus-hype it's at this point we remember he was actually traded for Michael Pineda...
  5. sneakypower
    this would serve as a fairly suitable signature
  6. sneakypower
    that's actually a really good idea, let's go get a couple young #1/#2 starters
  7. sneakypower
    LaStella ZiPS: .311 wOBA, 94 wRC+ Herrera ZiPS: .265 wOBA, 63 wRC+ nope no can do
  8. sneakypower
    He can play LF, where at the moment we do not have a long term option. Sure Bryant or Schwarber could end up there, but right now they aren't, and as such MCKinney profiles as our future LF'er until Bryant and Schwarber prove they are disasters at their current positions i think it can reasonably inferred McKinney very much has a long-term role on the team the FO doesn't really appear to have a lot of love for players with poor approaches; we've seen repeated rumors of Castro, Baez being dangled in trade discussions, while Castillo and Alcantara have already been exiled, whereas they're actively acquiring anybody that makes opposing pitchers work: Montero, Fowler, LaStella (delayed promotions for Edwards is also another indicator of this attitude) if the "90% of the game is controlling the strike zone" refrain Theo's championed is reflective of their true beliefs, McKinney is nearly untouchable (given his presumably underwhelming trade value to other orgs)
  9. sneakypower
    oh, well, when you put it like that...
  10. sneakypower
    #wearegood
  11. sneakypower
    why, that must only mean Jamaica's on an upward trajectory!
  12. sneakypower
    flashing the bukie signal...
  13. sneakypower
    oh hey would you look at that the gold cup semis are on at the same time what a shame i'll have to skip this one
  14. sneakypower
    did Chris Shelton sport a .333/.429/.613 career MiLB line and make his debut barely a year after being drafted and/or play C?
  15. sneakypower
    now they're toying with the idea of playing Middlebrooks at short & Yonder Alonso at 3rd...
  16. sneakypower
    #36 Yordano Ventura demoted to AAA
  17. sneakypower
    seems like Master P should be his nickname
  18. sneakypower
    This is not at all related to Baez(or David Price), but I want to take this opportunity to say how excited I am for Alex Reyes to become the new Aaron Sanchez that everyone fawns over while ignoring he can't throw nearly enough strikes. This excitement is tempered by the worry that he'll get traded in a year or so for Carlos Correa or some such nonsense. i'd say more AJ Burnett, who gives a team like a year or two of #2 production at random before FA and the rest of the time was spent with his arm in a sling or frustrating with his maddening inconsistency
  19. sneakypower
    if Raul Mondesi is a top-25 prospect, Baez for sure is other BA top 25 prospects i probably wouldn't trade Baez for: Joey Gallo, Alex Reyes, Aaron Judge, Jose DeLeon, Brett Phillips, Hector Olivera and maybe Barreto
  20. sneakypower
    Brett Taylor thinks he's been a top 30 pitcher in baseball
  21. sneakypower
    the point of defensive independent stats is to have better (E)RA prediction, but that matters not one iota for purposes of a conversation purely focused on describing past events unless you're making some argument that there was highly anomalous defensive performance, i guess
  22. sneakypower
    did you see this on a bumper sticker? it's irritatingly Pollyannaish (and typical Brett) to make the claim "Jon Lester's Been a Top-20 Pitcher This Year" willfully ignoring major components to the job of a pitcher, most of which he's been bad or terrible at FIP is ignorant of these facts: - Lester has been 32nd percentile amongst qualified starters in strand rate - Lester has been 37th percentile amongst qualified starters in babip (41st percentile in hard-hit rate / 29th percentile in LD%) - Lester has allowed the 2nd-most SB for pitchers by the same stupid theoretical logic, Raisel Iglesias has been really swell/ginchy, too
  23. sneakypower

    Castro

    sneakypower replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    The point is that unless they do a complete 180 on Alcantara(and he starts hitting at AAA) or Baez gets healthy, the only true alternative to playing Castro everyday is Herrera. Sure there's some probability that Herrera might be better over a short stretch, but it's a move with no upside that bottoms out Castro's trade value, all for the (some might say slim) chance that Herrera nets a couple run improvement over whatever Castro gives you ROS. There are no other real options to playing Castro. who'd have ever thought that the MI logjam would devolve into a place where advocating the .269 wOBA of Jon Herrera gain PT is a semi-defensible position -Castro emulating geriatric-state Omar Infante -Baez busting a finger -Alcantara stagnating/regressing -LaStella died pretty sad state of affairs
  24. sneakypower
    99th in bWAR / 62nd in RA9-WAR
  25. sneakypower
    barely top-100 if you care about actual runs given up
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