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  1. sneakypower
    Astros lineup today doesn't have a single .250 hitter in it so basically i'm saying there should be an asterisk on this one if he finishes the job
  2. sneakypower

    Week 20

    sneakypower replied to bukie's topic in Fantasy Sports

    i imagine the ignominy of rostering Marco Estrada and John Buck is its own penalty
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    Week 20

    sneakypower replied to bukie's topic in Fantasy Sports

    penalty for this is a person having their commish powers stripped and we all start using street rules where we call your own fouls
  4. sneakypower
    The Starling Marte Method for Overcoming Horrific Plate Discipline to be an Actual Worthwhile Baseball Player 1. have a high BABIP - Lake has an MLB xBABIP of .335* at the moment and he put up a .347 figure for 2011-13 MiLB seasons (and look at those speed scores!) 2. play awesome defense - +23.4 UZR/150 in an admittedly miniscule sample (15 G in left), and we know the tools could support it: he might have the best arm amongst LF 3. destroy the occasional meatball - 13.3% HR/FB for Lake vs. 12.4% for his hacktastic ideal at the MLB level 4. run the bases like a champ - stole 38/44 two years ago, but yeah, this could use some work *should be a skosh higher, doesn't factor bunts for whatever reason
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    i had Rosscup @25 & Szczur @16 two months ago, but i guess in seeing the relative ease with which you can just grab an OF like Sweeney, Bogusevic, Gillespie off the street who won't make a complete ass of themselves in sheltered ABs, the appeal of a 5th OF-type has diminished some for me since then i'd probably have those two mostly reversed in a revision
  6. sneakypower
    oh [expletive] i guess i made that kind of confusing just one of them
  7. sneakypower
    my '14 roster best guess (FA in bold) Lake/Ellsbury/Schierholtz (Sweeney, Chris Young, Sappelt) - trade DeJesus Olt/Castro/Barney/Rizzo (Valbuena, Watkins) Castillo (Navarro) Samardzija/Jackson/Wood/(Phil Hughes/Lincecum)/Arrieta (Villanueva, Rusin [Travis Wood 2.0?], Hendricks, Grimm, Baker, Cabrera as insurance) Strop/Russell/Parker/Cabrera/Lim/Villanueva AAA: Scott Baker, Grimm, Rusin, Joey Devine, Sanchez, Rosscup, Rondon plenty of insurance to provide for possibility of Olt/Lake flameouts, but both players should contribute enough defense to allow more patience in seeing what the bat can do than you'd otherwise want to allow
  8. sneakypower
    Ellsbury #1
  9. sneakypower
    Darin Ruf (just the way your mother likes it)
  10. sneakypower
    looks like you missed your chance at Jake Odorizzi and Eddie Butler nm Butler was dropped, it's your lucky day
  11. sneakypower
    who is this [expletive] guy
  12. sneakypower
    were he hitting up to his career norms (.276) on BIP, he'd have a line approaching .254/.298/.376, or a .295 wOBA ...which still puts him firmly bottom-5 amongst qualifying 2B
  13. sneakypower
    http://minorleaguecentral.com/player?pid=595879&split=3000
  14. sneakypower
    BA's best tools AAA (PCL) Best Defensive 3B: Mike Olt AA (SL) Best Control: Kyle Hendricks Best Defensive 3B: Christian Villanueva Best Infield Arm: Arismendy Alcantara Best Outfield Arm: Rubi Silva A+ (FSL) Best Infield Arm: Javier Baez
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    for the whole season, it's not quite that pronounced vs. LHP: .340/.410/.641, 11% BB, 29% K vs. RHP: .244/.306/.521, 5.5% BB, 24.6% K for his milb career he has a .991/.845 OPS split, but surprisingly also with the higher K rate vs. lefties
  16. sneakypower
    I find the bit about one of the brokers being from Alabama to be a bit humorous. JFF should have been wary of anyone with nefarious attentions hailing from Alabama. Johnny Foot [expletive]?
  17. sneakypower
    There's a bunch of interesting scenarios here: http://northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60154 There's one in the middle of page 2 of the thread that I really like. Do you mean mine? Because that would've ended up a complete disaster, not to mention it wasn't possible due to reasons we weren't privy to at the time. Really though, the specifics is what I'm after. How could they have done better by "going for it" last year? these are always fun to revisit- here's mine pluses: Headley! Liriano! DeJesus! minuses: Sizemore (oof), the Prince Fielder bidding woulda been a good BP, though
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    http://www.kingsofcork.com/archive/images/albert-pujols-cubs-uniform.jpg
  19. sneakypower
    Well, if you were going for it, I doubt you'd trade your best reliever for young players. And we probably wouldn't have traded our best young pitcher for a 1B who needed at least half a year at AAA. ...in which we OVERHAULED HIS SWING don't get pissy at me because you're doing a poor job of explaining your point, or not even making a point Hendry holdovers combined for next to nothing in terms of tangible production, if you want me to dig through the Feldman thread for totals i will; but it would have involved some incredible delusion and likely some dangerous, reckless spending to pretend we had a chance to do much of anything last year...framing it as 'willful punting of a season' is too obtuse/intellectually dishonest an argument to even entertain
  20. sneakypower
    The abandonment of 2012 also put them in a hole they tried but failed to dig out of in 2013, and we may yet see more of those consequences in 2014 and 2015. I'm far from convinced that what we gained in an expedited farm system will make up for the seasons we lost. We've locked in the downside and are praying for enough upside to cover it. I think part of it will depend on how Kris Bryant turns out. Considering he's essentially the only thing we gained out of punting 2012, I'll say it's a pretty substantial part. Anthony Rizzo, Travis Wood, Luis Valbuena, Jeff Samardzija, Arodys Vizcaino, Kyle Hendricks, Christian Villanueva
  21. sneakypower
    why aren't we a decent team? because we didn't sign Prince Fielder
  22. sneakypower
    it's so cute that you still seem to think Hendry left a lot of useful pieces to build off 2013 fWAR Shark: 2.3 Castillo: 1.7 Garza: 1.5 Soriano: 1.0 Cashner: 0.8 LeMahieu: 0.6 Russell: 0.5 Barney: 0.5 Lake: 0.5 Soto: 0.3 Castro: -0.4 Marmol: -0.8 Colvin: -1.1 DeWitt: AAA Vitters: AAA B Jackson: AA Wells: retired so, a little over 7 WAR from the best 13 guys remaining in the league yeah, why the [expletive] aren't we winning championships yet, THEO??
  23. sneakypower
    eh, still beats a plate of jelly
  24. sneakypower
    And Urban Meyer pays them all to go to UF that's Urban "Long Arm of the Law" Meyer, to you
  25. sneakypower
    did Hernandez murder the guy on the ground too
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