Jump to content
Can the hottest team in baseball slay the Dodgers? Come join our game thread! ×
North Side Baseball

sneakypower

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13,403

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    13

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by sneakypower

  1. sneakypower
    well, Giambi and Tejada are good proof of power being "acquirable"
  2. sneakypower
    Avery. as for Thomas getting the Vezina, Mason should receive less credit for his system but Thomas doesn't get marked down for playing behind two strong Norris contenders? Fernandez (2.24/.921) hasn't had a hard go of it either, when he's been in net.
  3. sneakypower
    this wasn't intended to be predictive of what'll really happen, and you were too lazy to read my mention that i'd be slipping by any means necessary, but whatevs lawl!
  4. sneakypower
    ©hoo's in real danger of losing his spot, what with his measly 950 OPS last year and all
  5. sneakypower
    i think we saw last night the big difference between the Sharks and Wings. Detroit can split up their lines, and they still function well but when San Jose had their top line split up it was an unproductive mess. the Whitney trade smacks of desperation for Pittsburgh oh, and give Steve Mason the Vezina or something
  6. sneakypower
    i don't think that's possible i'll be at the game though, i'll let you know how it went :D
  7. sneakypower
    also, the last 10 #1 picks have combined for just 5 pro bowls between them. i think the stat was also that the last 20 #1 picks have combined for 29 total pro bowls, and Manning & Pace were 15 of them
  8. sneakypower
    character issues and combine overreactions are what have players who kicked ass throughout college slipping to successful teams where fans of the other teams wonder "hey why didn't we take that guy?" Randy Moss and Terrell Suggs, for example.
  9. sneakypower
    1) Detroit Lions - Andre Smith, OT, Alabama obvious character issues aside, Smith upgrades a dismal team at two positions; the borderline useless LT Backus can move inside to G. Smith's talent put him in the top 5, and anybody the Lions pick are bound to have motivation issues regardless. i'll go for talent and rely on a coaching staff to inspire him. but ideally, i'd just re-sign Orlovsky or take a flier on Vick and trade down, or even run out the clock and slide to #5 ala the Vikings and try to save 20 million.
  10. sneakypower
    "If Bowden was a general contractor, he’d build houses with nine bedrooms, six garages, no bathrooms, and half a roof."
  11. sneakypower
    i don't think it can be argued that when he's healthy he's a significant upgrade over Bucher/Harris. and for just $2.5m, he's absolutely a great bargain for the Twins.
  12. sneakypower
    i'd love to hear the Ken Cal call on that
  13. sneakypower
    and looking at that table, it appears he's leading the league with the worst TO%, an ungodly 7.7 TO/g equivalent Carmelo really jumps out at you, i didn't realize he was so efficient in that spot
  14. sneakypower
    i actually greatly prefer Bill James to the rest. Zips, Marcel, Chone are much more regressed to the mean, and you'll have a smaller error if you're trying to do something like Meph's spreadsheet comparing your team to the rest of the league or something like that, but some of the exaggerated projections from James gives a better idea of which players have a higher upside, leading you to consider reaching on them in the draft. ie the huge projection he had for Josh Hamilton last year. it was way off the mark from what Pecota and Zips had for him, iirc, and obviously reaching on Hamilton paid huge dividends. i'm also still pissed at Pecota for Chris Young
  15. sneakypower
    yeah and that turned out so dismally. i for one hated the 1.77 ERA he gave us last year.
  16. sneakypower
    wow, SSR is the only one who makes sense in this entire thread. the rest is a terrible conglomeration of revisionist history. i would have loved it if we had included Fontenot in a Peavy trade so i could proclaim for all eternity that Sosa's rotting corpse netted us el Peavo. and meph, really? really?? Marte's minor league numbers surley portend he has significant talent with which to succeed in the majors, but it's a damn unforseeable mystery why Quentin, with like a .562 career OBP in the minors turned into a successful MLB producer? are you doing more of your rile-the-crowd devils advocate nonsense?
  17. sneakypower
    Amare's out 8 weeks after eye surgery for detached retina funny how that worked out
  18. sneakypower
    Ovie should have gotten an assist on that goal too, he made Hamrlik look really bad.
  19. sneakypower
    that's a really good deal for the Bulls Salmons is a viable 3rd scoring option and Miller still affords them the ability to part with Noah if the Amar'e talks resurface
  20. sneakypower
    i'd wager a guess Rivas would just get called up if an IF got hurt.
  21. sneakypower
    lol Gordon shot 50% scored 24 and was still a -45
  22. sneakypower
    March through June 340 PA, 15.5 BB%, 19.5 K%, 20.1 LD%, 50.9 GB%, .133 ISO, .349 BABIP July through October 250 PA, 11.8 BB%, 22.5 K%, 17.8 LD%, 50.1 GB%, .105 ISO, .251 BABIP
  23. sneakypower
    then next time say from the start that you believe fielding is a meaningless facet of a player's game and save us all some time
  24. sneakypower
    you give money for expected performance, not past. Harris, due to circumstances outside of his control, will very likely not repeat his contributions in fielding from last year. and he had a career year with the bat too, so you'd be making a bad gamble that he'd repeat it. but i don't think it's ridiculous to say his contributions on the field were of significant value last year. you can use this information to make a good projection, using regression and three years of data. but if players had arbitration which paid them after the season in relation to their on-field performance (on a FA payscale), fangraphs' salary value would provide the most accuracy of widely available statistics.
  25. sneakypower
    i know you're being sarcastic, but there's still like eight simple concepts here you're clearly not grasping
×
×
  • Create New...