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  1. sneakypower
    http://cdn.fangraphs.com/not/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/LBFlip.gif
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    i won't be able to bring myself to care until we've rid ourselves of the burden of that awful Castro contract
  3. sneakypower
    not sure which shot was more impressive, the one he hit left-handed, or the one where he evaporates into air right after making
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    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
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    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
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    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
  7. sneakypower
    probably worth noting, that even using FIP, Wood leads the team in WAR
  8. sneakypower
    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
  9. sneakypower
    doesnt he have like 1 hit in his last 10 6 games? a grand slam those other AB weren't worth the trouble
  10. sneakypower
    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
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    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?
  12. sneakypower
    deja vu
  13. sneakypower
    can't believe we haven't seen Emery yet
  14. sneakypower
    Or 98.6%. you were close though. only missed by like 50%. When abuck said that, they did have ~50% chance of winning because overtime had just started. maybe verb tenses are backwards in australia too like toilet flushes
  15. sneakypower
    flipping Feldman & Ransom for Duffy a year after flipping Maholm & Reed Johnson for Vizcaino would give me weird déjà vu euphoria
  16. sneakypower
    that would surprise me because it sounds like such an oddly specific situation
  17. sneakypower
    Manu took like 17 steps before making any shooting attempt so i'm not super irritated by the no-call
  18. sneakypower
    and that's why you always sink your free throws, Kawhi
  19. sneakypower
    or wtf was Lebron doing on that?
  20. sneakypower
    wtf was Lebron doing on that
  21. sneakypower
    uh oh, we probably missed our chance to extend Sweeney on the cheap
  22. sneakypower
    i actually thought a lot of them seemed pretty straight-forward, and lo & behold i ended up with a 4/10
  23. sneakypower
    yeah let us know what you seen
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    http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130605&content_id=49688824&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb Buxton, Correa, Vogelbach, McCullers are the most interesting names; pitching got decimated due to injuries (Tyrell Jenkins, Taylor Guerreri, Robert Stephenson)
  25. sneakypower
    .314 xbabip, assuming neutral fortune he'd have a near .277/.358/.495 line* he's seemingly lost a ton of doubles to good defense/positioning, which i'm a little concerned might be predictable tendencies http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/player/anthony-rizzo/hitchart/1254792?q=anthony-rizzo all those outs on both foul lines shouldn't be happening under normal circumstances *(he should also probably have at least a couple more HR, too)
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