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  1. Sammy Sofa
    A mid-level prospect is pretty only acceptable if the Yankees are picking up a bug chunk of his salary.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Very enjoyable game.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    This guy somehow both gets things and is WHOOSH-ed by them at the same time.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Not really. They have annoying players and an annoying fanbase. I'll root for Garza though. They do? :-k Come on, he's a Cubs fan in New York...of course he has to deal with them ALL THE TIME. Close friend of mine is a Rangers fan. I've heard the fanbase has generally become self-entitled by their success in recent years. I'm a Cubs fan and I promise you that 99% of the Cubs' fanbase is terrible.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Not really. They have annoying players and an annoying fanbase. I'll root for Garza though. They do? :-k Come on, he's a Cubs fan in New York...of course he has to deal with them ALL THE TIME.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Not really. They have annoying players and an annoying fanbase. I'll root for Garza though. Hahahahahahahah!
  7. Sammy Sofa
    He's about 100 points above that line.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    PCL average last year was .278/.345/.430 National League average was .254/.318/.400 That's already 55 points right there. That doesn't even account for the normal loss in numbers from jumping up to the majors, or the thought that power hitters tend to have even more inflated numbers in the PCL than the averages would suggest. Vitters' MLE equivalent last year was .253/.291/.409. Not awful for a solid third baseman. Pretty bad for a corner OF or a bad defensive third baseman. The odds of him hitting anywhere near an .800 OPS in major league action are pretty low still, although the limited action this year has some encouraging signs of continued progress. Exactly. Thanks for putting it better than I could have.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Braun is feeling all like this: http://www.csnbayarea.com/sportsnetBayArea/thumbnails/Sportsnet_-_Pacific_Associates/932/923/7.11_RYAN_BRAUN_GIANTS_PITC_1500MP4_640x360_2051025377.jpg But I'm felling all like this: http://citymedia.avclub.com/images/368/368857/16x9/627.jpg
  10. Sammy Sofa
    If he gets to .900 in AAA, that would put his career AAA OPS at .900, too, which would be in 500-600 PAs, not really a small window. Wait, if he makes it to a .900 OPS this one season it somehow makes his career AAA OPS .900? How the hell does that work? Sorry, meant to say close or ish. I guess...look, I just don't find that all that impressive given his supposed pedigree and how he needs to offset his defensive abilities. Just to keep it in house, David DeJesus managed a .900-ish OPS in the PCL, too. And Vitters doesn't have the defense.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Someone explain him. College SP who moved very fast through their system with solid, but unspectacular numbers. Has filled in the MLB rotation this year and gotten battered around a bit. Still projects as a SP?
  12. Sammy Sofa
    If he gets to .900 in AAA, that would put his career AAA OPS at .900, too, which would be in 500-600 PAs, not really a small window. Wait, if he makes it to a .900 OPS this one season it somehow makes his career AAA OPS .900? How the hell does that work?
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Someone explain him.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, the bar for excellence is probably above what Rizzo did. Not sure what the point is on that one. Really? A guy hitting over 1.000 isn't a better example of "excelling" than a guy with serious defensive problems hitting in the .800's? Rizzo obviously was a better example of a player excelling at AAA than Vitters. Which was my point.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, the bar for excellence is probably above what Rizzo did. Not sure what the point is on that one. Really? A guy hitting over 1.000 isn't a better example of "excelling" than a guy with serious defensive problems hitting in the .800's? I'm just using sulley's own terminology. Please don't make this yet another example of "jersey unleashes a semantics vendetta."
  16. Sammy Sofa
    He's only been flirting with .900 for a very, very brief window, soooooo...let's not sucking each other's hot dogs just yet.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    He's not excelling at AAA, especially given the expectations and his defensive liabilities. I'm not rooting against him, but I'm not holding my breath that he pans out. Ok, so his bat is excelling. His defense can be at least partially covered up by a move to the OF, where his arm might at least have some value. How is his bat "excelling?" Given the expectations and the need to overcome his defensive liabilities he needs to be beating the hell out of AAA. Relative to that he's essentially just doing well, but certainly nowhere near good enough to think he could justify being a starting corner MLB OF. His OPS is near .900. You know, excelling. Yes, a high ceiling, defensively challenged prospect is hitting in the .800's in AAA. That's not excelling. Excelling is what Rizzo did.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/14/article-0-0D303B0D000005DC-388_468x446.jpg
  19. Sammy Sofa
    He's not excelling at AAA, especially given the expectations and his defensive liabilities. I'm not rooting against him, but I'm not holding my breath that he pans out. Ok, so his bat is excelling. His defense can be at least partially covered up by a move to the OF, where his arm might at least have some value. How is his bat "excelling?" Given the expectations and the need to overcome his defensive liabilities he needs to be beating the hell out of AAA. Relative to that he's essentially just doing well, but certainly nowhere near good enough to think he could justify being a starting corner MLB OF.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    He's not excelling at AAA, especially given the expectations and his defensive liabilities. I'm not rooting against him, but I'm not holding my breath that he pans out.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Rizzo's first stint in AAA: .331 .404 .652 1.056 Rizzo's second stint in AAA: .342 .405 .696 1.101 Vitters' AAA stints: .304 .356 .513 .869 .271 .367 .459 .826 .306 .383 .514 .897 The mention was really more regarding their struggles in the majors than their successes at AAA. the fact that I stated that Rizzo struggled wasnt to draw a comparison, but show that players we tag as "prospects" can have bad first stints in the majors, too, and that Vitters shouldnt be written off because he had a bad 100 PAs. But that's not the only reason people are down on him. It's a big reason, to be sure, but it's one of several. Bringing up Rizzo was rather pointless because his first terrible stretch in the majors was offset by the potential demonstrated by how he kicked the holy [expletive] out of the minors. Vitters, by contrast, is bad defensively and doesn't hit nearly well enough to justify staying at 3B or playing 1B or the OF. He's been "good" offensively at best in the minors when he needs to be a LOT better.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Rizzo's first stint in AAA: .331 .404 .652 1.056 Rizzo's second stint in AAA: .342 .405 .696 1.101 Vitters' AAA stints: .304 .356 .513 .869 .271 .367 .459 .826 .306 .383 .514 .897
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Or not be adorable dogs.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Batflip es muy bueno.
  25. Sammy Sofa

    Castro

    Sammy Sofa replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Yesterday felt like the good ol' days. More, please.
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