sneakypower

last year i got 76% of best possible score, this year i got 88.5% of best possible score tune in next year to see if i will get 101% of best possible score

He's the team's best contact guy and sometimes you need contact. He's got a 727 OPS as a utility infielder. He's a perfectly fine candidate to participate in the postseason. and 850 OPS in September with 1 total strikeout

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GULP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD-SvFiivM

what is your favorite Dan Campbell memory

fatalistic Cubs fan side of me expects 7 shutout from Jake, we scrape out a run, but Strop comes in & walks 1, hits 1, and rat-face Cervelli hits a first-pitch gapper and we go softly into the night

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think i like the Night of the Hunter sig best there

this is rich from the guy who had the george bush/dusty baker sig for like half a decade

nevertheless, while i feel the same, i am pleased at what he just did. Is there some sort of statistically plausible reason a nearly 30-year-old is going from a career high of 13 homers as a pro (2010, mostly AA) to 28 in the big leagues? I'm trying to decide how much that should annoy me. A: plate discipline is everything the Indians have a SS that hit the majors and suddenly gained the ability to hit for power and somewhere tranny is sitting, rocking back & forth in a corner bemused

man, why is Brett Taylor such a gomer? his cringey clickbait headlines preclude me from ever wanting to wade into his website anymore; i'm just not ever mentally prepared to suffer through his fangirling creepiness "watching this EPIC Addison Russell fielding supercut gave me ALL OF THE FEELS. just, whoa. #slickD"

is this a 40-team league? there has got to be more appealing options in FA if not, i think i'd probably go Vereen

put it this way: top-Javy-Baez-comparable, Danny Espinosa is 2.5 WAR/160 G during his career how much somebody personally values the route he's taken to achieve that production is personal preference; i can entertain arguments on either side of love/hate on a player like him

nah, that was accounting for even the 40th? percentile outcomes ZiPS gives him .239/.288/.444 with 32%+, and even with +5 glove & wheels, that's the makings of an above average MI even if it's not exactly mine or the FO's ideal type of player

hey tree did i ever tell you what a good friend you are *elbow nudges* *bobs eyebrows*

his isolated slugging is 40% below projected levels, not sure how you missed / neglected to mention that...

in this [expletive] offensive climate, .250/.290/.400 with +5 2B defense is still like a purely average starter go bring up Kolten Wong's (edit: Wilmer Flores's!) fangraphs page and have a hearty chuckle at how stupid this sport is right now

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Fowler CF Schwarber LF Bryant 3B Rizzo 1B Castro 2B Montero C AJax RF Russell SS Arrieta P is my assumption

mentally i know we've got the guy with the 0.80 or whatever 2nd half ERA going, but emotionally i'm just here like http://i.imgur.com/4jr35kO.gif

no can do- too whiffy still too whiffy

he's actually out for a while with a knee injury so maybe that wasn't the best example, heh but the point remains!

Same could be said for baseball too. It's not about the talent up there, it's that you don't have to worry about another team stealing the guy you want. no, it's about talent that's my point, though; i'm no NFL scout, but i don't see much if any difference between Ronnie Stanley (top-5) & Jack Conklin (20-25) / Nkemdiche (top-3) & DeForest Buckner (top-15) / Treadwell & Ramsey... There's a big difference in talent from top 5 to 15-20 in every draft ever. Ronnie Stanley has top 5 OT in football potential, much higher upside than Conklin. Nkemdiche has as much talent as any interior DL has had since Suh. Buckner (who I like a ton) is really good too, but not in that same class. Conklin can easily be argued is a better player currently, and i put a lot of stock into that i just don't know about mythical upside; Clowney had a bunch of gushing hyperbole and JJ Watt was thought of as a high-floor solid performer, wasn't he? what does that matter? football seems more about winning your individual battles on every down for most of these players and you don't get much perspective on that with physical measurements it's like Henry Anderson slipping to day 2 (or 3 was it?) because he doesn't look the part, or Aaron Donald not being ideal because you want DTs taller...these guys KILLED it in college- i don't know if these points are germane to the discussion, but i guess that's why i'm agnostic to there being a big talent gap anywhere in the top half of the 1st round this year

and i saw his contact rate (was pushing 70), now i'm a believer, i couldn't leave him if i tried

not sure why it's kind of silly, but anyway Rizzo leads MLB in win prob. added, and Bryant is 3rd; it's a big reason why #weareamazinggood