sneakypower

awesome, i was listening to the radio call driving home yesterday and couldn't really imagine it actually happening like Dickerson/Price described i guess it really did

doesn't seem like it, nor were players who contribute defensively i can't see Toews ever winning, if he didn't get nominated this year; the argument for Tavares is basically he carried his team to the playoffs, but i'd figure Datsyuk would have an even stronger case Toews, Getzlaf, Datsyuk would probably be my finalists

i subbed in J. Castro for DL'd AJP, btw

"Soler has shown outstanding power, strong strike-zone discipline and the ability to mash in games. He’s hitting .290/.374/.559 through 25 games" my favorite part: "keep in mind the FSL’s average slugging percentage is .381."

last summer, evaluators were stating a preference for Baez to Sano sigh

Blevins was traded for Jason Kendall, who gave us the comp. pick to select Ryan Flaherty the Harden (and Gaudin) return was Murton, E. Patterson, Gallagher and Donaldson

whoa, kyle is asking others to refrain from doing things that annoy him you ****know**** this has to be some kind of absurd joke

he's currently leading the team in bWAR, so what's the problem? well, he won't be for very much longer... the bad right now, he's been barely above average (106 wRC+, 104 OPS+) offensively, despite the enormous benefit a .431 BABIP provides (it's worth pointing out that it's been partially earned, with a 23% LD rate and .341 xBABIP) the problem here is besides the singles & doubles, he's not doing much else offensively (1 BB and 1 HR -- with just a .341 BABIP, he'd have a line near .248/.290/.332 right now now, the other issue is defense: BB-ref shows him at +6 and FG shows him at +2, but i think it's reasonable to say that's probably generous, as he's pretty poor at blocking pitches (7 PB & 32 WPs in 80 GS) and his framing skills (which aren't factored in) are just dreadful; we don't know the full effect of this, but it's safe to assume it's fairly significant, and his real life defensive effect likely isn't an overall positive the good it's not all doom & gloom though; he's team-controlled through '17 and his overall numbers give some hope: 1.9 fWAR thru 326 MLB PA, and his 20% LDs & .324 xBABIP show he's making good contact when he hits the ball...he's also young enough to still possibly iron out a few wrinkles in his approach and become a hitter with more sustainable bat and for the complaints i had about his defense, his arm is tremendous and he has potential to shut down a team's running game, and his willingness to take HBPs might mitigate the BB problems a tiny bit but i'm starting to feel like this might be another Hendry holdover with too many bad habits and undeveloped skills to bother trying to mold into the type of player Theo wants, to where we'll keep considering other options

i think any chances of acquiring Stanton died with Baez's horrid start

can we hire away whoever got Mark Reynolds to trim his K rate by 8% (career 33%, down to 25% this year) to work with Brett Jackson and Javy Baez? or the Chris Davis voodoo guy, assuming one must exist

the time to trade for Headley was last season, but if it's possible to acquire him without including Shark, Castro, Rizzo, Soler, i don't see the harm in trying but the one thing i don't like about this is it greatly reduces the value of another worthwhile asset in Valbuena, if you feel like his UZR/150s (-7 @2B, +22 @3B) are even remotely representative

there've been several people mentioning that as a possibility of course that'd involve a team passing up the opportunity to have the next Hasheem Thabeet

Dempster did us a favor after all! Whatever you do, don't torture yourself like I did and notice that if we were able to get Delgado, the package of players sent for Upton around him were pretty easily duplicated... NTC

haha, Navarro, you slob

it's awesome that he does that; it helps make him un-shiftable

well, more specifically, his power spike

for me, it's easily Valbuena

i'd like to know his home-to-1B time; i can't remember ever seeing a play like this actually go for an out: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26341027&c_id=mlb that coupled with the way he's pulling the ball, i'd play him in triple play defense if the situation warranted it

i found a picture of GammonsPocketTweets http://thecia.com.au/reviews/s/images/saving-silverman-8.jpg

awesome AB by Castro

lol, stupid Yadi

this game's been kind of a snooze-fest

He's matched his career high in bWAR which is another way of saying he hadn't topped 2.4 bWAR in a season by age 26, which doesn't really seem like a huge damnation and you could also say this is the third straight year he's been an above-average player but what does FG think? 11: 1.9 WAR in 258 PA 12: 3.2 WAR in 452 PA 13: 2.3 WAR in 115 PA 7.4 WAR in his last 825 PA - basically 1.5 seasons worth of games

which reminds me, Soriano never did move to 1B, did he

per UZR, only Alexei Ramirez, Elvis Andrus and Brendan Ryan have saved more runs with their range (amongst SS) than Castro has since the start of his career; his problem has always been errors, which are frankly to be expected for a SS his age, but have improved each year in the league i can't really see a legitimate reason he'll need to move off short unless injuries become a factor