I have Carl Crawford on two of my teams. As far as I'm concerned, he (along with Reyes or Santana) are all options for the first pick, along with pujols.
I was in a draft yesterday with a couple of friends. There was only nine of us, so the guy who set the draft up added one of his buddies at the last minute. He picked Nomar in the second round and Eckstein in the second. I would have thought he was scewing up on purpose, but i think he really didnt know what the hell he was doing. He picked like 8 cardinals, so im assuming that he's a fan of theirs, and he just doesnt know any other players.
Rufus Alexander How big is Briggs? Rufus played this year at 217, I'm sure Briggs is closer to 240. I don't know that Rufus is big enough to succeed in the NFL to be honest with you.
It's not an article. It generally is a little blurb on the side of their top-10 writeups and just is a little add-on. The top-10s and the "best ..." are the best and most important things in these segments. Looks like not a lot of thought or research went into that post.
Muskogee Phoenix. Oklahoma, holla. Huh, cool. I been to Muskogee one time, where a buddy of mine went to one of those OSU school there. Yeah, I hate muskogee, but the sports page at the paper is nice, so I plan on working there for a year or two.
I figure its ok to post this, since it's just an item that crossed the AP wire, and not in a newpaper yet (give me a few hours, and it will be in mine though, I love running baseball articles. Main art and story on page 3? Matt Morris sucking it up for the Giants, ahahah.)
Is anyone else having trouble logging in to mlb.tv? When I try it just sends me to an account preferences page, it never logs me in. Sort of frustrating.
Think about the fact that a 26 year old with no minor league experience is rated the number 1 prospect in all of baseball. Over Alex Gordon and Delmon Young. He deserves to be #1. Daisuke's definitely the best prospect with no major league experience. I still believe players from the Japanese Pro League should NOT be allow to be consider a "ROY Candidate" or a "prospect." Dice-K, like Ichiro were/are not rookies at the time of the ML debut. Nor should they be considered ROY awards. Yeah, definitely not rookies. Daisuke came over after throwing 1,000 major league innings, and Ichiro had already logged over 1,500 hits in the majors before their debuts.
I guess the question would make sense if every player on this hypothetical team was homegrown and had also never attempted a steal in the minors as well. But since that isn't really ever possible, then I would imagine that the point is that you can look at a lot of players' past history to see whether or not they are a decent base stealer. Someone like Pierre had years and years of data to look at, we didn't need to tell him to try to steal 50 bases for us last year before we knew how good he was at it.