sneakypower
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if logic prevails, Baez is going to stay at SS in the minors until he's called up if he kills it there, you just move Castro to 2B since he's been regressing anyway if he doesn't, he can even move to 3B upon call-up; Machado played two games of 3B in the minors but now he's Brooks Robinson over there, it's not that drastic a switch- hell, look at Valbuena too
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normalize to what though? he's top-10 in LD% (min 200 PA), he's 7/11 on bunt attempts and gets a TON of IF hits, turning outs into hits with his speed: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=30405695 "nothing's routine when Junior Lake is running" and then when fielders rush plays, he gets on via error* (7 in 209 PA...league-leader Norichika Aoki has 13 ROE in 595 PA)... *slightly tangential, but it irritates me that players aren't credited for positive value in OBP (Lake would be at .388) or even WAR, for reaching on error, which has an even higher linear weights run value (.546) than a single - it appears i'm not alone, Posnanski also seems to be bothered by this
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=fister001dou
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definitely should have given somebody that hideous mess of a team before rosters locked, or imo at least give the new owner some kind of an expansion draft to at least add some marginal keepers from FA like other teams were allowed two weeks ago i just say this from the bad experience of inheriting Vance Worley as my 2nd-best exempt keeper while guys i much preferred like Alex Cobb & Wily Peralta were sitting out there unclaimed
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even if Jags get #1, i have a hard time seeing them pass on a QB
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The minor league season in review
sneakypower replied to biittner77's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
surprise: Lake, Hendricks, Villanueva's power, the actual pronunciation of 'Alcantara' disappointment: BJax, Soler's injury, Vizcaino, Starling Peralta longshot: Willson Contreras -
ugh, just terrible
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now look at Juan Lagares
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why are you confident he can't be good
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man, Samardzija is just completely allergic to 6th innings
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why? we'll likely have a protected pick also, Lincecum gave the Giants replacement-level performance the last 2 years; i'd be pretty surprised to see him get QO'd To be fair, that's really not true at all. He hasn't been very good, but he's still been worth 2.5 wins since the start of 2012. He's posted xFIPs of 3.82 and 3.53 the last two years, so there are reasons to believe he could bounce back. However, I do agree that it would be surprising to see him get QO'd due to the recent perception of him. i don't really want to sidetrack the thread, but i'll just say i don't fully subscribe to the theory that every pitcher should expect to be hit equally hard; over the same timeframe, MadBum & Cain have had low BABIPs (.264, .260) working with the same defense while he's been over .300 i was referring to his RA9-WAR when calling his performance replacement-level
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Sweeney's not the one who'll need a platoon partner why? we'll likely have a protected pick also, Lincecum gave the Giants replacement-level performance the last 2 years; i'd be pretty surprised to see him get QO'd
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in flex, i don't sit a top-20 RB (which McFadden surely is) for anything but a top-10 WR unless maybe you're in PPR or something weird
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He's such a big dude, it seems unfathomable that he would be such a pierre at a plate for so long. Are we supposed to be upset if he's in our Opening Day lineup next year? I've got no clue what to think about him. assuming a tight budget, i'm actually fine with Sweeney & Lake starting provided we can sign Tanaka or do something exciting with the other monies freed up
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PROPOSED RULE CHANGE: chess rules- if you concede a matchup you automatically lose the matchup, i don't think i can handle another season of you whiny fucks falling over each other to be the first to declare your hopes dead on a weekly basis
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#NEEDTOSPOON
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in his podcast he called Jonathan Gray and Eddie Butler future relievers; there's seemingly like 4 pitching prospects he sees as actual future starters
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they had (iirc) 54 plays in the first half and built a 26-7 lead off their fast-paced hurry-up offense; it's not just a typical ESPN fabricated storyline, seeing how Chip Kelly's offense translates to the NFL is an actual thing of real intrigue man, i can only imagine your guys' disdain right now if you had followed Chris Brown/SmartFootball on twitter
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so, is Ryan Sweeney: Power Hitter a real thing?
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this is how you execute a block
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jamie mac @justcoverblog 17h Since Devin Gardner became starting QB, Michigan is 29/29 in the red zone chance w/ 25 TDs. That's 6.44 points per trip
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ok i guess that makes up for that [expletive] bounce on their first TD
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well that was quite possibly the worst thing i've ever seen in my whole entire life
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it just hit me that Rees looks like [expletive] Break from American Pie
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purple face time!
