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  1. sneakypower
    he was 19 [expletive] years old, Bryant is 22...those two are not remotely analogous situations
  2. sneakypower
    The problem is that even if almost all of them succeed, you are still short a lot of pitching, which is why any injury to a pitching prospect would be especially upsetting. We have no margin for error there. thank god we don't draft pitchers but we won't suffer any injury heartbreak!
  3. sneakypower
    i looked at their depth chart and was unimpressed by their NT spot...let's go with Timmy Jernigan
  4. sneakypower
    amazingly, he failed to K BJ Upton in 4 tries
  5. sneakypower
    so does Justin Ruggiano http://www.fangraphs.com/projections.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&type=oliver&team=17&players=
  6. sneakypower
    Wada?
  7. sneakypower
    everybody's mocking a CB for us, but we're not exactly hurting for young CBs- really just need to develop them some more...another playmaker on D would be welcome, though 1 Texans - Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina. 2 Rams (from WAS)- Jake Matthews, OT, Texas A&M 3 Jaguars - Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson 4 Browns - Mike Evans, WR, Texas A&M 5 Raiders - Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M 6 Falcons - Khalil Mack, OLB, Buffalo 7 Buccaneers - Teddy Bridgewater, QB, Louisville 8 Vikings - Blake Bortles, QB, UCF 9 Bills - Greg Robinson, OT, Auburn 10 Lions - Anthony Barr, UCLA
  8. sneakypower
    Olt's hitting .167/.231/.208 against pitchers not named Wandy Rodriguez
  9. sneakypower
    http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/Matt-Garza-Brewers-Cardinals-crazy-041414.gif
  10. sneakypower
    seemslegit.jpg
  11. sneakypower
    the first thing i do whenever i click those AZPhil recaps is go right for the attendance hey, double digits!
  12. sneakypower
    Is Matt LaPorta Quad-A? (from Feb '12)
  13. sneakypower
    i can do the hully gully, i can imitate Vin Scully!
  14. sneakypower
    looking at the Red Sox prospects list for a 5-year stretch (06-10) produces this list Jacoby Ellsbury CF Dustin Pedroia 2B Anthony Rizzo 1B Josh Reddick / Brandon Moss RF Jed Lowrie / Jose Iglesias SS Daniel Nava / Reymond Fuentes / Ryan Kalish LF Will Middlebrooks 3B Ryan Lavarnway / George Kottaras C Jon Lester Clay Buchholz Justin Masterson Felix Doubront Jonathan Papelbon Junichi Tazawa Stolmy Pimentel Manny Delcarmen most of the impact names there certainly panned out...player development is really about the one thing i'm still willing to give the FO the benefit of the doubt for
  15. sneakypower
    i think it's probably fair to say he's a legit #1
  16. sneakypower
    it's actually been the Cards so far (.600 OPS)...we've been about 100 points better than that
  17. sneakypower
    i'd be curious to find out why he has the worst UZR in baseball right now
  18. sneakypower
    this has not been a fun game to watch.
  19. sneakypower
    maybe they'll be able to win consecutive games now
  20. sneakypower
    well yeah, if he struggles the most by far with curveballs, Wainwright would certainly seem to be a nightmare matchup for him
  21. sneakypower
    i hope you're right
  22. sneakypower
    GRIII and Stauskas to declare unsurprising, but still http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Bald-Zach-Galifianakis-Tries-Holding-In-His-Crying-In-Sad-Movie.gif
  23. sneakypower
    makes him susceptible to high K totals he swings at 35% of pitches out of the zone (average is about 30-31%), and swings at 71% of strikes (average is around 66%) so the bolded doesn't seem to be a major problem also, the one pitch he's proven himself to be totally helpless against is the curve...he has positive scores against FB, CH, SL, and seems to love to hit cutters
  24. sneakypower
    Lake is one of the worst hitters in the league for plate coverage; he makes contact with pitches out of the zone only about 1/2 of the time well, everyone knows this is all bad. what this post presupposes is...maybe it isn't intuitively, we understand hitters are going to put better contact on pitches in the zone, and the data bears this out: http://baseballanalysts.com/babip_xy.png it's worth considering that if Lake can't hit pitches out of the zone, he can't make feeble contact to waste an AB (despite his struggles on pitches outside of the zone, he's been perfectly acceptable with the rate he's made contact on pitches in the zone)...one has to wonder if he has the ideal skillset (hard contact in the zone, top-end speed, a relative fly-ball avoidance) to do a really good job of cheating BABIP's orthodoxy the downside here of all this is obvious, though: as pitchers start to give him fewer & fewer pitches in the zone to hit, he'll need to become more willing to take walks to combat that but it's also important to remember he'll provide enough value elsewhere (32.5 uzr/150, lol) and he'll carry an inflated ISO, so his performance in the batter's box needn't be better than "merely adequate" to really provide a lot of value to a team but while others seem to be sure they know exactly what he'll become, i honestly wouldn't be surprised at any future outcome for him falling in the range of Starling Marte, to present-day BJ Upton
  25. sneakypower
    Braves RP Luis Avilán gave up 5 runs in 1 IP tonight and earned the W
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