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  1. sneakypower
    i'd be pretty amazed if we had more than $180M in the budget available to spend in just one offseason
  2. sneakypower
    we're seeing that you can have Halladay, Hamels and Cliff Lee and go sub-.500 through 45 games if your offense is bad enough if we blow all our money on Hamels this offseason, we're likely to be in that situation for next season
  3. sneakypower
    last year Scioscia said Trumbo should be considered for MVP, they weren't going to trade him for Marmol and his bucketful of blown saves
  4. sneakypower
    edit: was way late on this one
  5. sneakypower
    Updated 2013 ESPN rankings: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/class/2013/order/true 38) PF Marc Loving OSU 39) PG Derrick Walton Michigan 60) SG Stanford Robinson Indiana 61) SG Zak Irvin Michigan 64) SG/SF Kendall Stephens Purdue 65) C Mark Donnal Michigan 66) SF VJ Beachem Notre Dame 70) PG/SG Bryson Scott Purdue 76) PG Bronson Koenig Wisconsin 82) SG Malcolm Hill Illinois 90) SF Brandon Austin Penn St 92) PF Luke Fischer Indiana now that's more like it
  6. sneakypower
    per bb-ref (Sean Smith's TotalZone), Castro (+8) has been the best fielding SS in the NL this year and 3rd-most productive fielder at any position in the NL (Barney at +9 is 2nd); last year Castro was the worst fielding SS in the NL under the same system, and 3rd-least productive at any position for the league just thought i'd throw that out there
  7. sneakypower
    honest to god, i was all about OBP as a kid playing this game: http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/misc-games/3214-1.jpg and loading up the Cubs with all the guys with the gaudiest stats
  8. sneakypower
    Cespedes, after the first week of the season .238/.286/.345
  9. sneakypower
    What the hell is wrong with writing about what happens in sport? Is everybody just supposed to shut up and not write or say anything until the 100-game point? There's nothing dumb about writing about what happens over the first month of the season. It's dumb to make assumptions that those things will hold steady the rest of the year, but that's not what he's complaining about. that is what he's complaining about, the entire rest of the article lampoons the stupid inferences writers make from the first few weeks of baseball results
  10. sneakypower
    i like this a lot The Stupid Things You Didn't Get A Chance To Read: http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/5/23/3039015/the-stupid-things-you-didnt-get-a-chance-to-read
  11. sneakypower
    through age 22: Castro: 1406 PA, .305/.340/.421, 4.8% BB, 14.1% K - 4.4% HR/FB Cano: 551 PA, .297/.320/.458, 2.9% BB, 12.3% K - 10.4% HR/FB Cano had a .271/.305/.410 age-25 season
  12. sneakypower
    Sickels put this out in September 2010, and to be honest, Starlin hasn't done much yet to really swing it one way or another (short answer: it's really impossible to tell, absent any knowledge of what his walk rates, future build will look like): http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/431770/starlincastrocb.gif http://www.minorleagueball.com/2010/9/4/1668866/crystal-ball-starlin-castro
  13. sneakypower
    he's still comfortably a top-3 prospect in our system; why would we do that?
  14. sneakypower
    that 4.88 FIP sure is tempting...
  15. sneakypower
    how is Conger a miss? he's 24 and has already acquitted himself very well at AAA; that's probably ahead of the curve for a catcher prospect
  16. sneakypower
    #2 can be filled by BJ Upton
  17. sneakypower
    "When Brown gets away with something like that after the whistle — knee on knee, that's a dangerous play. If Raffi Torres gets 25 games for his hit during the play, this guy should be done forever." -Mike Smith, apparently still upset his tomahawk chop to the knee didn't accomplish this
  18. sneakypower
    Good starters will give you average starts half of the time, and then be really good 25 percent of the time and bad the other 25 percent.
  19. sneakypower
    the BTB xBABIP has his expected BABIP for this season at .328 so far (.244 for '11) it seems like a huge difference (and it ostensibly is), but all that amounts to is 23 of his 104 balls in play going for hits, rather than the roughly 34 hits you'd expect to get on those batted balls, based on LD rate, etc. with a .328 babip, he'd have at the very least a .277/.366/.416 line (the slugging would undoubtedly be higher based on lost doubles)
  20. sneakypower
    Torreyes' May BABIP is .044 (was .254 in April)...never really seen anything quite like that also i just stumbled upon this, which is pretty amazingly convenient http://firstinning.com/daily/chc
  21. sneakypower
    in 134 AAA games (587 PA): 44 2B, 40 HR, 140 RBI, 59 BB, 123 K, .336/.407/.664 his overall AAA MLE, adjusted for Wrigley, is (roughly) .283/.344/.523
  22. sneakypower
    the Cardinals fielded a team full of guys with significant injury concerns; it'd be really ignorant for their fans to complain about them as if they are some unforeseen misfortune
  23. sneakypower
    http://rgifs.gifbin.com/g600616996.gif
  24. sneakypower
    well, it was a clean play, but it's absolutely stupid that it was called the way it was
  25. sneakypower
    Phone Blake Lalli: hello? Voice: Congratulations Blake, you've been called up to the Cubs to fill in for Geovany Soto Blake Lallli: Is that you, Tolbert? This isn't very funny, you know. I'm hung over! My knees are killin' me and if you're going to pull this [expletive] at least you could've said you were from the Yankees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g04aCp3ej-I
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