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  1. sneakypower
    The interesting thing is that this might happen again next year just in reverse. McGary is a lot like Zeller, and Ferrell and Burke are similar as well. Zeller has most of the edges statistically. Burke plays more minutes and gets more assists. Zeller shoots a much better percentage, scores more points, shoots better from the free throw line, blocks more shots, gets more steals, and turns it over less. Burke is asked to do more for his team, but Zeller is the much more efficient player. i'm not sure there's many players in the country more important to their team than Burke is to UM; look at how miserably we played against Iowa when he was in foul trouble. he's sadly the only player on our team capable of creating from the dribble you can't really close out a game better than Burke did against Ohio on Saturday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDweePDCfI&t=11m4s Burke leads his team in 3ptm, assists, steals, blocks (lol) and trails by .2 for the team lead in ppg
  2. sneakypower
    i assume that might just be because the Bill James projections he's using have Wells & Volstad projected for full-time starting duty and just 72 innings for Wood i'm not certain, but James might project relievers differently
  3. sneakypower
    http://www.gifsoup.com/view/73114/faint-o.gif
  4. sneakypower
    Taco! so, this was the best day of all-time, probably
  5. sneakypower
    wow, Michigan got verbals from five 4-star '13 recruits today that's pretty exciting
  6. sneakypower
    his height (he's listed at 5'11) probably hopefully keeps him in school for at least a couple years
  7. sneakypower
    he was just a 3-star i can't wait to see what Beilein can do with 4- and 5-stars
  8. sneakypower
    Trey Burke makes my heart flutter
  9. sneakypower
    well, all that, and the inability to field their positions
  10. sneakypower
    brian from mgoblog had a brief writeup re Weber that helped me to better appreciate the man
  11. sneakypower
    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzaqa4R1Eh1qhfgrk.gif
  12. sneakypower
    ...not since 2006, they aren't
  13. sneakypower
    fwiw, i was looking through Scouting Book's top 525 prospects list, just for the hell of it, and while i admire their ambition there are some interesting results Cubs who made it: 23. Brett Jackson 37. Anthony Rizzo 57. Matt Szczur 69. Javier Baez 117. Trey McNutt 125. Josh Vitters 149. Welington Castillo 195. Gerardo Concepcion 208. Dillon Maples 232. Rafael Dolis 261. Junior Lake 279. Logan Watkins 300. Dan Vogelbach 329. Robinson Lopez 340. Casey Weathers 351. Chris Carpenter 359. Juan Yasser Serrano 360. Jay Jackson 361. Michael Burgess 362. Hayden Simpson 363. Dae-Eun Rhee 411. Adrian Cardenas others of particular relevance: 40. Hak-Ju Lee 49. Chris Archer 89. Jorge Soler 114. Yoenis Cespedes 213. DJ LeMahieu 264. Russ Canzler 326. Jose Ceda 381. Max Ramirez 456. Ryan Flaherty
  14. sneakypower
    #3, behind Singleton and (lol) Matt Adams
  15. sneakypower
    they also won three games with Joey MacDonald in net, which more than balances things out
  16. sneakypower
    i could definitely get used to THJ and Smotrycz contributing offensively
  17. sneakypower
    at age 18, Torreyes already has more HR than LeMahieu managed his entire milb career and LeMahieu struck out more than twice as often, and was two years older in doing so he's not very good
  18. sneakypower
    yeah, we have two guys capable of driving to the hoop, and one of them decided to stop doing that this year and jesus, you need to stop bitching about the threes already, since that's basically our most effective offense
  19. sneakypower
    in an exercise in masochism, i was looking at Law's top 100 and noticed a trend with a lot of the names: Taijuan Walker (24), Castellanos (37), Zach Lee (41), Yelich (48), Zack Cox (66), Gary Brown (68), Jenkins (74), Olt (75), Aaron Sanchez (96) might have missed more, but obviously the theme is first-rounders picked after Simpson in the '10 draft (along with Brentz, Syndergaard, Ranaudo, Wojciechowski, etc., who show up high on other prospect lists) were all first rounders picked after Hayden Simpson which isn't to say in hindsight it was obvious any of these guys were good, rather that there were obviously a lot of much more intelligent choices at that spot than a guy who was universally considered a non-entity; it was terrible arrogance that has backfired in a predictable way iirc, he also (rightfully) called Vitters, whom he placed 8th, a "non-prospect" last summer
  20. sneakypower
    i'll give him credit for the Cates inclusion; he's another guy people should like more than they seem to man, i can only imagine how low he'd have ranked our system without all the offseason additions we've made (Rizzo, Cates, Torreyes, Concepcion, Sappelt, Cardenas)
  21. sneakypower
    Jackson at 89 is lunacy, but that's par for the course with Law, i guess
  22. sneakypower
    Tyler Zeller hilariously blew that one even better than the cushion on the game-winning three was tipping the ball into his own basket right before that
  23. sneakypower
    i agree with what you're saying, but i also think with guys like him it's harder to rely on scouts too much because they obviously are going to tend to pigeonhole him based on size alone i mean, check out this draft profile on Dustin Pedroia:
  24. sneakypower
    that just involves things like taking the extra base, or getting thrown out trying to; stolen base prowess is rolled into wOBA* (Gomez netted something like 3.4 runs with steals, so even when discounting his mistakes while not stealing, roughly 1/8 of his value came from his performance on the basepaths) here's the full primer for it http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/ultimate-base-running-primer/ *Tony Campana gained a full 30 points on his wOBA from steals, lol
  25. sneakypower
    saying Torreyes needs to "show some power development" is really bizarre to me; i'm not sure whether he'll keep it up as he goes up the ladder, but he's shown more than enough power so far to suggest he's not purely a slap hitter like Pierre and Campana consider, Torreyes has averaged an XBH every 9.95 AB; Josh Vitters has averaged an XBH every 10.38 AB
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