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  1. sneakypower
    why was McKay windmilling him there??
  2. sneakypower
    this discussion reminds me of all the idiotic overreactions Yankees fans and sportswriters had to Cano's .715 OPS age-25 season
  3. sneakypower
    wow, almost an unbelievable play by Castro
  4. sneakypower
    Not part of the master plan. Got to keep sucking to gain draft picks. http://synthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/emperor.jpg
  5. sneakypower
    why go further back to when he pitched with a completely different repertoire? it's the only one representative of what he is going forward
  6. sneakypower
    Castro and Upton have the same OPS you dullard
  7. sneakypower
    I really don't know that. That's my problem. He is tied for 70th in fWAR among starting pitchers. If you want to do a little voodoo to normalize his HR rate, you could probably get him from 1.3 fWAR to 1.9, which would be tied for 49th. And that's in the second-best year of his career. I guess you could define that as "TOR," but that's in the same way that we get excited about the 100th ranked guy being "top-100." And these are supposed to be his prime years. When we are talking about an extension, we are talking about buying his age 30-35 seasons. I'm not really interested in paying top dollar for the post-prime years of a pitcher who was merely above-average in his prime years. we know xFIP is a better predictor of future performance than FIP, and he's been the 14th-best pitcher in that regard for his duration as a Cub i'm ambivalent about keeping him/trading him, but it's very reasonable to term him a TOR pitcher moving forward
  8. sneakypower
    yeah, Polanco's a career .300 hitter with 3 gold gloves; there's not many prospects i'd ever project that kind of career for
  9. sneakypower
    i see torreyes as a sure a bet to be a productive major league player as anyone in the system. he may not have the high ceiling as some of the others, but as you've said, his hit tool is too good not to make it and stay for a long time. if he makes the bigs: best case - polanco most likely - fernando vina worse case - mark lemke What the hell? You just turned on Torreyes! You just blindsided him. He knew you were all in on him and now you just hit him in the head with a steel chair. Take out Mark Lemke and move Polanco to most likely and Vina to worst case and I'll buy it more. I'm still working on best case. Polanco was a 3.5-4 win player for a decade, if that's Torreyes' likely career path, he's one of the most valuable assets in the game
  10. sneakypower
    i see torreyes as a sure a bet to be a productive major league player as anyone in the system. he may not have the high ceiling as some of the others, but as you've said, his hit tool is too good not to make it and stay for a long time. if he makes the bigs: best case - polanco most likely - fernando vina worse case - mark lemke
  11. sneakypower
    http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/yes/Al_Bundy_excited.gif 5 of those K's were in the first week of the season, too and he's still listed as the only 19 year-old in the FSL
  12. sneakypower
    I let out an honest "Ohh!" after reading that. it seems like torreyes has been raking forever now and his numbers still aren't very good. what kind of a [expletive] hole did he dig himself? he had a .127 babip month, somehow
  13. sneakypower
    http://sainthelena.us/school/classrooms/specialists/library/catalogs/LibraryTitle/St/Images/1314.jpg
  14. sneakypower
    a 31-year-old corpse set to put up a 3-win season, and missed 30 games yet posted 6 WAR last year
  15. sneakypower
    you're making inferences and drawing conclusions off a small data set and creating narratives from them, which seems...out of character amusingly enough, he had a .914 righty split last year too (55 PA), but maybe pitchers/scouts didn't pay attention to those AB's
  16. sneakypower
    i don't think much of him, but Colletti was probably the biggest deadline winner; i hate that we couldn't top their lowball offer for Hanley
  17. sneakypower
    today i learned that a .914 OPS isn't particularly good
  18. sneakypower
    I don't see a point of this. He's a nice platoon option. You can find a use for a cheap guy like that, or another team might. Now, there's no more dreaming of a big trade, but maybe some team offers you a low A gamble this offseason, when teams can sit back and take a deeper breath to assess their needs and assess how guys can fit. If you can get some sort of gamble for LaHair, why not? And maybe they decide, hey, let's keep him around as a cheap bench bat, rather than wasting money on a FA bench bat (if they felt a need to add one). Since April he's been almost completely useless at the plate, and while I can't find month by month L/R splits, he's faced so few of them total that I don't really think they're dragging his numbers down. He's just not a major league hitter unless he can play a capable SS or something. so, just arbitrarily throwing out his month of 1250 OPS, he's been a (La)hair below MLB average as a hitter and he's put up a .310 OPS vs. lefties, so yes, they're undoubtedly dragging his numbers down it's fine to say he has no role as a starter on the team because of defensive limitations, but there's still no legitimate reason to believe that he's not a capable MLB hitter vs. righties
  19. sneakypower
    well, Cabrera seems to have a decent slider
  20. sneakypower
    Brett Jackson or Angel Pagan and Joe Blanton, or Liriano, or Santana, or Saunders it shouldn't be terribly difficult
  21. sneakypower
    well that was a little embarrassing
  22. sneakypower
    isoD is sometimes distorted by HBP rates, like Baez for one; BB% usually makes more sense and yeah, Vitters is having a fine season, if you completely just pretend defense isn't a thing
  23. sneakypower
    ISO 2012: .150 2011: .125 2010: .108
  24. sneakypower
    Castro's so damn exciting
  25. sneakypower
    Liriano was 3-10 with a 5.31 ERA and is FA-to-be Maholm was 9-6 with a 3.74 ERA and has a cheap option so while i'm probably the biggest Liriano fan there is, i'm not surprised at all that Liriano was a much tougher sell at the deadline
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