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  1. sneakypower
    personally i think you all but have to say 'worse' just simply because we have so much more information now and that Shaw, Wiggins, Rosario, Hope all look like great picks and Sanders & Melendez have also flashed, but there's so much unknown with all these '24 guys until they face real competition
  2. sneakypower
    a lot of meaningless words to try to paper over career OPS in the .500s he's dog horsefeathers
  3. sneakypower
    i'm going to fight! fight! fight! you for even suggesting this
  4. sneakypower
    i love that Walls' paltry season stats are displayed on that clip, and that he had to wait like a week to do this celebration because XBHs are such a rare event for him
  5. sneakypower
    what DJs put their palm flat on their right ear and hold up a defiant fist, motionless, like that
  6. sneakypower
    oh really, did they act like their ear just got shot, too
  7. sneakypower
    yuck, really sad to hear that, my prayers go out to cholera
  8. sneakypower
    Steele has the best ERA in baseball over the last 2 calendar years (min. 250 IP) Hoerner is replaceable enough internally that i like gauging the market, but i don't know how we really improve by selling off a steady frontline SP unless maybe it's Basallo & Holliday coming back
  9. sneakypower
    Morel has expected slash of .248/.345/.468 which is a middle of the order bat (Seiya Suzuki OPS) – if – you have reason to believe he's underperforming solely due to misfortune and not that he has a predictable spray chart; i admittedly haven't dove into this enough to have a strong take either way but i still think there's enough in his bat that we have to find him regular PA until there are clear better options internally
  10. sneakypower
    i really dislike the way he formatted his ordering there
  11. sneakypower
    maybe they'll hold the line and he'll be forced back to Michigan for another year 😁
  12. sneakypower
    and the problem is Jed's terrible at actually spending efficiently; all the avenues for doing so have proven mostly fruitless amateur draft: seemingly getting better last few years but just Steele ('14) and Nico ('18) are really the only significant contributors from 2014-2023 drafts, which is just such an abysmal performance from the org. in that dept (not including Happ here anymore who's already expensive) rule 5 draft: [file not found] IFA: Assad (ZiPS-U: projected 0.9 WAR), Morel (0.7) and Amaya (0.3) is basically all there is despite plenty of monetary efforts trade: Busch, PCA, Brown reclamation projects/bargain bin FA: Tauchmann, Leiter Jr., T. Miller unproven/risky FA: Shota i'd probably argue all but #4 are downright awful compared to the average org and then the rest of our biggest performing players (currently nobody is even projecting for 4 WAR) are all basically being paid market rate values it all amounts to a FO who have performed capably at paying sticker price for some established decent players and more or less failed miserably at the rest of their job for about the past 5-6 years
  13. sneakypower
    ownership presumably gives GM/PBO a limited budget of finite money and of course the goal for FO is going to be to maximize the dollars their allowed to spend i mostly dislike Jed but this line of argument doesn't really make any sense
  14. sneakypower
    oh no how can we prevent tom from reading that write-up
  15. sneakypower
    i mean it's always made apparent the implied or explicit qualifier is, if they hit their maximal ceiling they could resemble a certain archetype, for whatever that's worth to the casual observer every hard throwing righty in drafts for a few decades got Clemens > Wood > Verlander comps, it should be intuitively clear we're not being actually promised HOF talents all throughout the eval process
  16. sneakypower
    nobody did this
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  18. sneakypower
    really odd their '22 top-100 prospect SS currently has the best wRC+ of any 20yo in his league (and only two younger players are hitting better) and that has somehow free-fallen him to outside org. top-20 they really badly missed the mark on one of these evals also still rating McGeary as a prospect makes me think you're no longer paying attention
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    56 runs of offensive value difference the last full year between Willson Contreras and Yan-maya is just bad luck, sad to say, nothing can ever be valued or foreseen in a sport full of such randomness as this
  21. sneakypower
    "he had no idea that a player developed from start to finish entirely under his leadership was gonna suck" oh in that case he can be excused
  22. sneakypower
    i feel like i keep asking this but if the PBO can't even be held responsible for explicitly deciding to expel the currently best hitting C in baseball and replacing that production with intangibles guys, then.. who is
  23. sneakypower
    worst record in the NL since April ended and you're totally undaunted, as usual impressive amounts of blind homerism on display here
  24. sneakypower
    hell yeah juice up that trade value
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