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  1. sneakypower
    Iowa announcer claims Brennan Davis hit a ball 119 yesterday..
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    just added a 3rd lmao
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    Caissie HR #2, Montgomery color guy said 458 feet 112 exit velo was a 3-0 green light he obliterated
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    where's Social no more preview option before posting?
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    i'd rather have the entirety of Purdue's season, without a second thought, because this of course includes those 2 accomplishments you listed and banners that are hung forever this thread is having a real atypical hot take fest re Purdue, sometimes stylistic bad matchups occur, that's part of the beauty of March Madness
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    why do you do this
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    i think it's Orange Crush?
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    i honestly think that GMs should be far more aggressive in locking up young players like these before their breakout, because even when it doesn't really work out, the math on your losses for Jon Singleton/Scott Kingery/David Bote guarantees pales in comparison to the huge savings you get from Rizzo-type sweetheart deals, and also it demonstrates to players (for whatever its worth) that you're committed to them through injury & health etc. even though in reality you're just looking to save money on the aggregate basically, the time to do these was when Ian Happ was languishing as a 1.5-win player and before Nico "proved himself" as a 3-4 WAR guy
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    they've got a couple good players but really just sorely lack depth; there's nobody they really trust on either end aside from the big 4 and that makes it really hard to pull away in most games i think
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    the COVID year showed he still has it in him, if he bounces back it probably looks a fair bit like this (4+ WAR), which would be great albeit as trade bait on the level of what Kris Bryant was [attachment=0]bellinger-2020.JPG[/attachment]
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    sad trombone sound [tweet] [/tweet]
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    i prefer nsbb personally nsbb = northside baseball nsb = northside bound
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    people saying this would've been an all-timer classic SB without the holding call are really overselling it, the Eagles were playing boring rugby most of the night, 17 play/60-yard drives should not be anyone's ideal football experience i'd also really love a moratorium on "nobody believed in us" speeches after Kelce's constant idiotic ranting and all of the UGA stupid hissy fits about everybody thinking they'd lose 4-5 games, no they didn't, none of that happened, please have some self awareness people
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    yeah consider me bearish on bat-first .400 SLG guys in general, i probably wouldn't try to find a place for someone like that in a top 150
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    lol i remember doing big-time devil's advocacy for Junior Lake, nice to see a classic trope of unfounded optimism revived to help spring some much needed false hope here re Morel, he had the lowest zone contact rate in baseball last year, worst mark in 5+ years (though funny enough 2018 Ian Happ was 2nd-worst) which is probably a pretty bad sign
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    that's a game you talk about for the rest of your life
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    because of the career year Just from 20-21 he was 34th in WAR, still ahead of Trout and Devers, also ahead of Nolan Arenado, Sean Murphy, Jose Altuve, Yordan Alvarez, Brandon Nimmo, Trevor Story, etc. yeah he had anomalously high value from baserunning & fielding efficiency, pretty reminiscent of a former Braves standout our offense is still very likely quite worse than an already pitiful offense from last year despite now spending pretty significant money from an artificially tight budget
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    Dansby Swanson is 13th in position player WAR the last three years ahead of players such as Carlos Correa, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Corey Seager, Fernando Tatis Jr, and Rafael Devers. because of the career year
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    Jed Hoyer try not to buy high on a career year challenge (impossible)
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    we're still in the process of backfilling like 6-8 holes we allowed to open up in the last couple years, this sounds so weirdly effusive
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    gross, nasty..if we were so horny for good defensive SS that struggles to OBP .300 the Tigers would have made it well worth our while to take Javy back at a fraction of this cost
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    The farm system is most definitely better than average, whatever average even is. I’m the low guy on the mainstream coverage too, but it’s as deep and talented as anyone’s To use Fangraphs' rankings for ease of use, the Cubs are 5th in overall value, 5th in number of 50 FV or greater prospects, and 9th in average value of ranked prospects. they're probably absurdly high on most of our farm, most notably they rate Cristian Hernandez/James Triantos/Owen Caissie top 100 prospects despite there being little to justify it i'd sincerely bet other respected evals that start to trickle in have us way more in the #12-18 range
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    the upshot here
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