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  1. sneakypower
    he has a higher OPS (and SLG) than Hanley. including his AA MLE, he's at .317/.363/.464 on the year, with 28 BB to 52 K and 40 XBH in 388 AB ...at 20. he's awesome.
  2. sneakypower
    i've seen keener, and it wasn't pretty
  3. sneakypower
    i actually do trust Hendry when it comes to scouting pitchers
  4. sneakypower
    harping on home-road splits is dumb and people should have learned that with Khalil Greene and Matt Holliday
  5. sneakypower
    Jeff Larish?!? do you mean for Iowa?
  6. sneakypower
    i didn't include him because my dream isn't really to gamble $30m/per on his age 34-43 seasons or whatever length it'll take to sign him
  7. sneakypower
    When Vitters is ready, he'll take over third. I don't really see much of a realistic scenario where either Lee or Starlin are a regular third baseman. As has been mentioned, just not enough power potential. If everybody pans out, the likely 2014 infield is Vitters (3B), HJ Lee (SS), Starlin (2B), ? (1B). My dream 2014 infield would be Lake (3B), HJ Lee (SS), Starlin (2B), Fielder/Gonzalez (1B) fixed.
  8. sneakypower
    Doesn't FIP favor pitchers that pitch to contact? His .337 BABIP suggests that he gets hit pretty hard. To add on to what Tim said, Wells gives up very few HR for someone who supposedly gets pretty hard. And even all things included, he's got a 3.41 ERA in nearly 300 MLB innings, so it's not like he's got a great FIP and is still giving up tons of runs. he really doesn't get his just due
  9. sneakypower
    you don't even have to take my word for it
  10. sneakypower
    please don't assume that anything he says is based in any well thought-out plan he's easily the dumbest-sounding ballplayer i've ever heard talk, and that's including Vitters
  11. sneakypower
    this is an even better narrative, Starlin's gonna get all wise with him about the 3 games at third or whatever it was he did that somehow made the scenarios different "i was looking at your bb-ref page, you can't trick me, Methuselah"
  12. sneakypower
    what's really ironic about the whole thing is that if the situation does come to fruition, ultimately the guy who's (most likely) going to be asking Castro to move is someone who did the same exact thing himself and became arguably the best 2B of all time in doing so
  13. sneakypower
    here's hoping Niemi handles the hearing better than Tommy Salo did...
  14. sneakypower
    yeah i know, it seems like, whenever that happens, the player has a 46 HR season
  15. sneakypower
    Derrek Lee Lee litterally fell into Hendry's lap. Who knows what Choi's career would hve looked like had Baltimore been able to work out an extension. Plus, even if the Cubs didn't have Choi they would have gotten Lee. was our system rife with highly touted mlb-ready 1B prospects Baltim-er, Florida could have plugged in right away to replace Lee? (no)
  16. sneakypower
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2325920887_b206236832.jpg
  17. sneakypower
    i was referring to Chipper Jones the MVP moving to LF (and threatening his HOF status) for Vinny Castilla (oh, please, please try to argue this one as a defensive necessity) there probably wasn't a precedent for that exact set of criteria, either
  18. sneakypower
    It's quite different. He was in his 30s and really bad fielding the position. He also spent most of his time not playing SS before then. Castro is much younger has almost exclusively played SS and presumably will be quite good at it at the time of a move possibly happening. They are not similar situations. Young had to move, and it was convenient they had a guy to fill the spot. Castro should not have to move. i love this narrative. like the Rangers approached Young and said "you're really terrible at fielding, guy" and he's all like "i had no idea, tell me what i must do!"
  19. sneakypower
    why does it have to be SS, that's dumb what's going to make Castro more recalcitrant to move than established stars like Chipper Jones, Cabrera, Young, Soriano were?
  20. sneakypower
    http://scratchbomb.com/images/bobby%2Bvalentine.jpg
  21. sneakypower
    Derrek Lee
  22. sneakypower
    i wasn't really suggesting that the two situations would be analogous down to every solitary last element
  23. sneakypower
    oh i had. it's still not very often that a player ever has a season like he had last year and then goes on to be useful in the majors.
  24. sneakypower
    even an .800 would be a welcome surprise
  25. sneakypower
    uh...he probably just forgot he was playing for a contract, i'm thinking
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