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  1. sneakypower
    is the wind really swirling or is Viciedo just that comical out there in left?
  2. sneakypower
    Gray
  3. sneakypower
    it's the walks and the strikeouts; think of even the hackiest, flailingest pro you can think of and they very likely both exhibited more patience and made more consistent contact at Baez's age than he has been doing
  4. sneakypower
    the way he's usually been described has sounded to me like Troy Glaus
  5. sneakypower
    i liked the idea of a Dom Brown trade as an upside play, but reports were we were the ones who didn't want him he's also taken as many walks as Castro this season and UZR hates him: -19 UZR/150 in the OF for his career he's basically Delmon Young if he doesn't start taking more walks again
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    http://i.imgur.com/6Ru7Ra4.gif
  7. sneakypower
    Lawrie hurt again with no room left in the infirmary so i put Weeks in my lineup bc what does it really matter this week
  8. sneakypower
    for the past month, 5 of our top 7 hitters are pitchers http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2013&month=3&season1=2013&ind=0&team=17&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=16,d collectively, they have a .569 SLG during that span
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    http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/kramer-yeah.gif
  10. sneakypower
    wtf Welington
  11. sneakypower
    the fourth NO! in that clip really makes it
  12. sneakypower
    Granderson to DL again, Brantley in
  13. sneakypower
    love that bron-bron!
  14. sneakypower
    not sure if Liriano would be getting these calls either, nobody's taking any pitches to find out
  15. sneakypower
    good, this 1B ump is actually calling foot off the bag tonight
  16. sneakypower
    if Orlando opts for McLemore, i'll start dreaming up scenarios where Pistons can trade ahead of Sacto and fill their PG vacanty with Burke and i can regain moderate interest in the NBA regular season again
  17. sneakypower
    developmentally, he's pretty far behind the Adam Jones path though recall that Adam Jones came up as a part-time pitcher and moved off SS to the OF; even being that raw, he advanced up the ladder quicker than Baez and showed world's better plate discipline/pitch recognition the way i see it, the only real hope that Baez can be an elite hitter lies in the thought that the current player development team is correcting errors made by the previous regime, but you'd hope that all would have taken place last year; it's been noticeable throughout the season with other hitters but he hasn't seemed to be on board yet (until very recently, maybe)
  18. sneakypower
    Brett Jackson has 8 K in 47 PA (17%) and a .295 AVG in 11 G since returning from injury
  19. sneakypower
    at the very least, Theo should give him a bullpen flowchart
  20. sneakypower
    well, i'm very pleased by this
  21. sneakypower
    Bailey got a ton of love coming up too, culminating in two straight top-10 prospect ratings and hasn't really had any significant injuries derail his career either for him the whole just hasn't been as good as the sum of the parts: really good FB velo, a good breaking ball and inconsistent tertiary offerings but hasn't gotten the swings & misses you'd expect...these are all things i'm reading about for Appel too
  22. sneakypower
    i'm speaking specifically to the types of pitchers both have been in the bigs, not their status as draft prospects way back when
  23. sneakypower
    if i could find anybody who had a 500 PA stretch with 6:1 strikeouts-to-walks in the early minors who actually went on to be an impactful hitter in the bigs, believe me i'd bring it up as an example i'll even try to come up with the most impatient, hackiest hitters who've carved out a niche in the bigs age 19-20 Corey Patterson: 70 BB, 200 K in 1015 PA at A+, AA Carlos Gomez: 59 BB, 185 K in 1025 PA at A, AA Delmon Young: 44 BB, 164 K in 974 PA at AA, AAA Adam Jones: 79 BB, 190 K in 988 PA at A+, AA, AAA Ian Desmond: 68 BB, 227 K in 1108 PA at A, A+, AA Jeff Francoeur: 52 BB, 152 K in 1010 PA at A, A+, AA Javy Baez (499 PA) is half-way to 42 BB, 232 K at A, A+ that's...alarming
  24. sneakypower
    I actually found that ridiculously comforting. i can't for the life of me see why "Secondly, there's been some concern about his low walk rate, but if we take a closer look, he's actually improved that rate since his performance in Peoria -- the performance, by the way, that created all the buzz and essentially launched him into top prospect status with the Cubs. His walk rate has gone from 3.8% to 4.6% since his promotion to Daytona." yippee! no, he's really just given more evidence that patience is a huge problem for him "His strikeouts have also gone up, from 20.4% to 25.8% but there's no inherent flaw in Baez's swing that makes you believe strikeouts are a fundamental problem for him." oh, well in that case at A+: .248/.290/.432, 4.9% BB, 24.7% K in 507 PA .258/.294/.381, 4.1% BB, 14.2% K in 316 PA .238/.280/.459, 4.5% BB, 25.8% K in 264 PA that's Harvey, Vitters & Baez, respectively
  25. sneakypower
    i keep reading these write-ups for the two and am reminded of Josh Johnson for Gray and Homer Bailey for Appel and with the hypothetical that we'd be waiting 2-3 years for Gray and maybe 1 for Appel i still feel more inclined to prefer Gray but Raisin or whoever can tell me if that's really off-base or if those comparisons aren't really accurate
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