sneakypower

i strongly think Soler will still be up next year, and Alcantara needs to come up with Olt going down, right about now we'll surely see Hendrick this year, too, probably in early August

http://giant.gfycat.com/BouncyEnergeticAurochs.gif

Hendricks is awesome: 86 pitches through 7, nearly all of them (60) strikes he's so economical, if he had capable fielders he'd probably just throw CGs every turn...go ahead and put him ahead of that weirdo misfit we just picked

I think it means 2 and maybe a close 2 at that? yeah, maybe something like Bryant Soler Baez Alcantara Almora Edwards New Guy

he told Liriano, mess with the best, die like the rest

he was over-aggressive on that play, and looked like a real hacker - zero cool

damn, Josh Harrison's actually sort of good these days: .290/.325/.476 yup, that'd play in our OF/2B

ALL HAIL KING TINYFACE

i still put Soler ahead of basically everybody

he literally can only hit fastballs and now after hitting a few for HRs, he sees (relatively) none

took one pitch for Valbuena to just about outpace about an entire month's worth of production for Olt

hahahaha that's great

tweaked his back or something seemed pretty precautionary that they pulled him

i wonder if there was a heated fight in the Bucs bullpen over who would get to face Olt, Barney, Whiteside, Wood

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/images/160x/4238916.jpg BUT IT WAS MY FAVORITE NSBB MEME

you left out the funnest part: the paces for instance: his last 36 games, he has a 172 R, 46 2B, 77 HR, 190 RBI, 100 BB pace full season...147 R, 47 2B, 57 HR, 142 RBI, 101 BB pace

Chirinos is 1.7 fWAR (fWins?) better than our two current backup catchers (sorry TT)

lol top-10 in starter FIP right now (min. 30 IP)

well, to be fair, he does actually have the 3rd best FIP amongst our SP

wow, i didn't expect such a quick response also, he gave Gallo's high-A translation: 233/340/519

also drop Prince Fielder add Nelson Cruz

it won't really matter, but i PM'd Abreu as my wild-card PM'd Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:14 am

Are players who run hard all the time hurting the club? That's the necessary corollary to your statement. If they hurt themselves or burn out and can play 5-10 less games per year? Yes, especially when the replacement option is Darwin freaking Barney. This is an asinine argument to make. Castro running the bases hard every time or getting an extra base is such a minute part of his overall value to the team that anybody who really gives a damn about the team couldn't care less about how hard he runs down to first on a groundout. Criticizing him for not going first to third on a single is an entirely different point, but not running out a grounder is completely missing the point of having a reliable 160 game SS. I don't care about him not running out a ground ball back to the pitcher. I care about him loafing into second when he could have a triple with one out. Or failing to go first to third on a single. Or jogging out of the box when he thinks he's hit a home run (but hasn't). Or barely running when he's hit a popup behind third that could easily fall. Castro has done every single one of these things this year alone. even so, the best way we have of quantifying baserunning depicts him as an average baserunner on the year, so his lack of aggression you're describing might still be worth it for the outs he's avoided, to say nothing of injury avoidance

the defensive difference hasn't exactly been monumental, either Valbuena as a Cub (12-14): 3B UZR/150: 19.1 Machado career (12-14): 3B UZR/150: 23.4 though it should be noted, DRS doesn't see them as being remotely comparable (+7 vs +42), so who knows

Josh Hamilton and Bryce Harper immediately come to mind as examples of players directly injured from hustling Chris Snelling's entire (short-lived) career was maybe the best example of this