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Wright's a current top-10 pitcher over 1/4 the way through the season, and Votto might be a little bit broken; there's actually a good argument for either side not like a good 1B prospect (a position so deep a top-40 overall batter was just dropped there, and 'Joey freaking Votto' hasn't even been startable/top-16) and a fringe-FA OF http://i.imgur.com/HqmjU2H.png for a 575-point starter...and 3.5 free years of an elite SP prospect, just for the hell of it you think it's defensible because you're very well accustomed to having the scales being even more comically lopsided, which is the problem

this guy's gotta be a real pain in the ass for database administrators

agreed

ok Gleyber you have my full attention...

...and there it is

i think Bryant just beat the game (bc Final Boss)

i'm fairly certain that was in fact CBB http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200404170.shtml Close, he was at 3B. Eric Cooper behind the plate. well horsefeathers, what am i thinking of that happened forever ago that made us all hate CB

Matheny's giving Seung-hwan Oh the Joe Torre usage, it seems

What's the story here? Kerry Wood got ejected in a game and I believe suspended a start for cursing out the ump in a 2004 game. i'm fairly certain that was in fact CBB

it's a shame Jake didn't go full Kerry Wood on CB Bucknor there

i'm almost totally on board with this, but with the slight apprehension that dealing with Dave Stewart so much may have badly altered Coppolella's idea of a 'fair return'

oh for the love of God you do this every time and each time it's patronizingly disingenuous, but here we are today and you've got a stud roster full of other teams' best players and mysteriously you're undefeated and they're all mostly in the doldrums like tell me again how that Bryant, Correa, Stroman, 1st-round (Bautista) for Trout, Waino swap was mutually beneficial

looks like Carpenter doesn't get the chance today to improve upon his .053 split vs. Jake

he's been decidedly below average with his FB/LD exit velocity, but i think more than anything his persistent problems with pitch recognition bury him in this regard to better elaborate, it seems more & more now today's game is about working yourself into favorable counts (or perhaps this was always true) and sitting on a pitch you can reasonably predict and doing damage with it this is pulled from a 9/2014 article, but i doubt the league-wide numbers here have changed substantially: After 0-1 count: .221 average, .592 OPS After 0-2 count: .166 average, .438 OPS After 1-2 count: .178 average, .489 OPS (a .226 on-base percentage!) After 2-2 count: .193 average, .584 OPS After 1-1 count: .234 average, .656 OPS On a 3-2 count: .216 average, .792 OPS After 2-1 count: .252 average, .781 OPS After 1-0 count: .268 average, .796 OPS After 2-0 count: .281 average, .955 OPS After 3-1 count: .274 average, 1.029 OPS After 3-0 count: .282 average, 1.209 OPS (a .736 on-base percentage!) my anecdotal observation is he's always putting himself more in holes during ABs and that obviously has shown to be deleterious; can he improve upon that? to his credit, he's adjusted his 2-strike approach for more contact, but sacrificing power there- but, i think this highlights why Carpenter/Zobrist types can still always hit for power despite having decidedly wimpy swings Tommy La Stella and his 40? power has a better ISO as a Cub than Jorge Soler & Baez, both of whom have been scouted having 70 raw power

[tweet] [/tweet] also, we didn't give him enough love for how he pimped his HR http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/8878538/v733785783/chcstl-soler-belts-a-tworun-shot-to-center-field

i've got him down for .333/.462/.714 baby steps...

how about that, another trade where tim gets the unquestioned two best players in the deal, ok cool

2 1 (operable legs)

he's #10 now, and he was #12 on the preseason list, but Seager, Buxton, Mazara all exhausted eligibility so effectively among the same group of players, he actually placed down a spot which is remarkable considering he has seemingly made as big a tangible skills improvement as anybody in all of the minors but Torres' high placement, Giolito over Urias, Devers over Moncada are all relative stunners also

the Leake deal seems like a reasonable precedent, and Mella's decent but he's never been a top-100 prospect, so i'd think that would be do-able unless of course Hill pitches at this high of a level for 2 more months, then you're looking more for a Cueto-type package i'd think

.358 OBP / .470 SLG .353 OBP / .479 SLG one of these lines belongs to La Stella's '15-'16 and the other belongs to Schwarber's; i won't tell you which is which

Gallagher

those two and Cespedes all have 32 in that span

possibly on topic, would you believe Khris Davis has the most HR in baseball since last year's trade deadline?

interesting that Raffy Devers jumped to the top 5 with a 60 wRC+ start to the season also that Joey Gallo corrected his discipline/K problems in a major way and essentially dropped from preseason ranks