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2014 Draft Discussion
sneakypower replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
still kinda wish we had done that -
you're obviously trying to be an obnoxious puke as per usual, but within your sarcasm is mostly an actual truism collectively, over the last 15 years*, the Cubs' best home-grown hitter has been Geo Soto, with a total 11.2 career WAR; for comparison's sake, Nyjer Morgan/Tony Graffanino/Frank Catalanatto have higher career WARs Ryan Theriot is 3rd(!) on that list, and Carlos Zambrano's hitting would place 5th; it's probably impossible to overstate how comprehensively inept our player development has been on the offensive side for the better part of this century, if you're making any type of honest attempt to be objective *picked at random- a nice, even round number
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I think that actually makes it more likely they hit the market, since they don't have a relationship with the new team, and more importantly, their relative value gets a bump because they don't have a draft pick attached. Has there been a deadline deal with a good SP in the new CBA that re-upped with that team? Garza, Dempster, and Greinke didn't, anyone else? Anibal?
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62 points and 0 assists, lol i wonder if that stat line says more about Melo, or the 13-14 NY Knicks
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one guy iso'd 300 last year: Chris Davis take away some HRs and like 40% of the walks from Pedro Alvarez's 2012 campaign and you can see a realistic Baez outcome being well below average and tt could be right though, i could entertain an argument for the order i chose being reversed; they're all four still mostly pretty close in terms of predictability
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order of likelihood of being acceptable MLB starter: Almora, Bryant, Soler, Baez
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Branden Dawson broke his hand today... Joe Rexrode @joerexrode Dawson says he was watching TV clips this morning with the team and got frustrated, slammed hand against table, suffering injury. he'll be out 4-5 weeks
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Offseason Rumors
sneakypower replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Ubaldo totaled 3 fWAR in the 2nd half alone, which led MLB we didn't even have a 3 fWAR pitcher for the whole season -
he was just the main piece in your Felix Hernandez trade (you dropped Eddie Butler), and had 10 starts since (2.27 ERA and 8 of which he went 7+ IP), so we can be forgiven for being able to make no sense of your valuations unless you expect Jake Odorizzi to be a Cy Young Candidate, and/or Cespedes to completely hulk out i guess
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we did that to Wisconsin too...lulling them into a false sense of hope!
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man, i love Beilein
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Cling gets my 3rd round amateur and we swap draft picks - Clint gets my 6th rounder and I get his 8th rounder and...?
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Kemp? yeah, you just have to ask SSR, who knows what every team bid
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this is so stupidly simplistic; for all we know the city's limited relative Japanese community could have played a critical role (Thanks, Theo!)
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Wasn't this your plan for this offseason only replace morrow with Hughes or something? yeah, for the most part (last offseason, too), but we didn't pursue any of those avenues...pretty annoying
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sign all of Brett Anderson, Brandon Morrow and Josh Johnson at reasonably reduced rates and you'll come upon a TOR arm (or two!) somehow or another
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more realistically, i'd put Castillo=2, Lake=1.5-2 but the rest is conceivable assuming replacement-level bench performance, that's good for 17 WAR, which is right in line with where we were last year where we were 21st in the league on the positional side -BUT- using platoons to their full benefit and getting an unforeseen monster breakout could get a lineup like shown above into the top-3 for positional team WAR, as the A's showed us last year; you really just don't know
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more realistically, i'd put Castillo=2, Lake=1.5-2 but the rest is conceivable assuming replacement-level bench performance, that's good for 17 WAR, which is right in line with where we were last year where we were 21st in the league on the positional side
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i fully expect Soler in by 2015 he's gone
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it's cute that we had a few guys do kinda ok, but Kerry Wood being held up as a shining example of our farm/player development kind of says it all: he totaled 22 WAR in a career spanning 14 years, which ranks 66th amongst pitchers during that timeframe
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it may be worth noting then, that the Cards win lots of games at the big league level almost entirely with players pulled out of their farm system, or from trades using players from their farm system Did anybody say "don't build up your farm system?" mentioning the Cardinals in contrast to our MLB-level failures kind of misses the point; we're seemingly trying to build a franchise mostly the same way that they have done, but they didn't have a decade-long stretch of overarching ineptitude on the MiLB side cratering their talent pool for years to come
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it may be worth noting then, that the Cards win lots of games at the big league level almost entirely with players pulled out of their farm system, or from trades using players from their farm system
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hashtags don't even suffice
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NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
sneakypower replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
turns out ownership came through on their promise to bring a Lombardi to Detroit -
NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
sneakypower replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-ohru2_0o
