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  1. similarly, i like seeing the HRs lately from Villanueva, but 0:15 in his last 10 games is pretty grotesque
  2. YUP i can go back to complete NBA apathy for the foreseeable future again
  3. every 3B coach is going to send him there; it's the only chance he'll have of scoring, with Feldman due up next
  4. Aramis homers against us for hit 2,000 i'm ok with this.
  5. Yet another example of Vogelbach doing plenty of stuff right, but then you look at the total production and think "is that all?" like the career .902 OPS?
  6. and that's why you always leave a note!
  7. hey, we finally got him to make changes to actually fill out his lineup, so i'd consider that a win in the grand scheme of things
  8. best-case is probably a RH Denard Span, which is an intriguing enough possibility to keep me interested in his development
  9. hahahaha, "you have got to be KIDDING ME, we'll go to the bottom of the 9th"
  10. i highly doubt there's been any talk of replacing Dirks Avisail Garcia strikes me as kind of a RF version of Castro; he makes good contact, but his peripherals are always kind of crappy and you don't really know when or if the power will come, and defense isn't really a strength either i doubt this FO likes him a whole lot
  11. goodnight sweet prince http://cdn1.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/6715423/20120420_jel_sl8_034.0_standard_352.0.jpg
  12. bullpen banter released a midseason update too Almora, Soler, Baez & Bryant came in at 16, 18, 19 & 26, respectively
  13. http://cdn.fangraphs.com/not/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LBFlip.gif
  14. i won't be able to bring myself to care until we've rid ourselves of the burden of that awful Castro contract
  15. not sure which shot was more impressive, the one he hit left-handed, or the one where he evaporates into air right after making
  16. I know that Jordan and Winn were pretty solid pros who had good careers, but I personally see the best-case scenario for Soler and Almora to be better than that... Not sure who I would compare them to, but I just think that is a pessimistic best-case Brian Jordan (31 bWAR during his 8-year peak) and Randy Winn (25 bWAR during his 7-year peak) were pretty awesome; if Soler slugs better than .475 for a decade and Almora tops 13 years with a .284 career BA i'll be on cloud nine
  17. my tiered top-30 top group is listed comparables for best-case / likely / worst-case career arcs for a player, making the assumption they continue development through to the bigs; i guess best-case & worst-case can be thought of as 20th/80th-percentile forecasts, should they see MLB time it's really just an exercise that helps me decide how i feel about a player 1) soler: brian jordan / rondell white / juan encarnacion 2) almora: randy winn / marlon byrd / luis matos 3) baez: adrian beltre / jose hernandez / dale sveum 4) bryant: troy glaus / pat burrell / chad hermansen 5) alcantara: ray durham / felipe lopez / mariano duncan 6) p johnson 7) vizcaino 8) candelario 9) vogelbach 10) hendricks 11) torreyes 12) villanueva 13) watkins 14) lake 15) paniagua 16) szczur 17) w contreras 18) blackburn 19) j-h ha 20) b jackson 21) vitters 22) hannemann 23) amaya 24) underwood 25) rosscup 26) maples 27) a rivero 28) mcnutt 29) zastryzny 30) a cabrera
  18. he's in the top 10 for IFFBs, so xFIP isn't exactly the best judge factoring in hitting, he's at 2.4 fWAR & 3.2 bWAR right now
  19. probably worth noting, that even using FIP, Wood leads the team in WAR
  20. Tigers fans are weirdly fixated on the closing situation; (sports radio host) Mike Valenti was talking the other day about approaching Philly or New York about Porcello for Papelbon/Parnell swaps it's idiotic though, just bring up Rondon & Albuquerque, close with Benoit & they'll surely still win the division by double-digit games and in the playoffs you can just let Scherzer or Anibal close out games
  21. doesnt he have like 1 hit in his last 10 6 games? a grand slam those other AB weren't worth the trouble
  22. http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2011/3/1/2020683/statistical-head-scratchers-the-hit-tool i'd think of Votto, for example, having a 75 or whatever hit tool despite relatively high K rates
  23. first 37 G: .243/.275/.459 (.300 babip), 3.1% BB: 28.8% K last 27 G: .320/.418/.660 (.321 babip), 9.8% BB: 14.8% K look at those BB:K rates...can we get some one-on-one time with Mariano Duncan and Castro?
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