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  1. Elrhino
    Any suggestions for sacrificial lamb? I prefer a garlic rosemary sauce, but some people stick with the Greek classics like yogurt mint.
  2. Elrhino
    Cubs and Twins tied for 4th worst winning% in baseball at .407. How is the 4th pick decided?
  3. Elrhino
    Given the Cubs current winning% and season trajectory, looks like they could have their pick of anyone not named Rondon. Donnie Murphy will keep McThoyer out of the top 3. Coming into the September final stretch. Houston almost has Rondon locked up. Miami is out of reach for the 2nd pick, but we're breathing down the White Sox necks for that #3 spot.
  4. Elrhino
    Probably the same thing with Masek, considering he was pitching fairly well.
  5. Elrhino
    Given the Cubs current winning% and season trajectory, looks like they could have their pick of anyone not named Rondon.
  6. Elrhino
    So what's the deal with him anyway? Looks as though he's been pretty terrible since returning. 3 appearances and 7 innings pitched is a pretty small sample size to read too much into, but nothing looks glaringly wrong to me. He's given up 1 XBH, 2 BBs and 10 Ks in those combined 7 innings. I'm sure knowing that the current organization you're pitching for is probably not the one you're going to be pitching for in a few weeks had to be somewhat distracting.
  7. Elrhino
    Between Villanueva and Alcantara, Tennessee piles up the doubles. #1 and #2 in the Southern league, by a nice margin. Silva is no slouch in that department either.
  8. Elrhino
    I don't get the Lindor love either. I guess don't know why it's just assumed that Lindor's power is going to develop when his ISO has held constant and steady at ~ .100 for 3 years (but Javy's K and BB rates are always huge red flags despite objective evidence that they're improving over time. ) Is it just a case where it's cyclically en vogue to overinflate slap hitting gloves the way we overinflated big fat opb guys in the early-mid 2000s?
  9. Elrhino
    The second one is almost more impressive, because it doesn't look like he made very clean contact. He hit a 380 foot popup.
  10. Elrhino
    Closing in on 200 PAs at 20 years old, Javy's current ISO in AA at .360. Lindor's is currently .105
  11. Elrhino
    "Conventional wisdom" has been that Lindor and Sano should be ranked higher. All it takes is one of them to rank Baez ahead of Lindor, and the many others will soon follow. I think it's mostly about herd mentality and social proof than re-evaluating or reassessing. IMHO, a shortstop with 40 HR potential should top any list of position players, just from the scarcity of skillset. Even if Lindor becomes a plus glove at SS and a .300 slap hitter, aren't there about 8 of those guys in the MLB currently?
  12. Elrhino
    everyone outside of buxton has warts, so it really just depends on how he finishes up and what context prospect evaluators put his season in. Taveras - injured most of the year Sano - contact rate, might not be a 3B. Bogaerts - graduated. Lindor - Will be a shortstop, but is a slap hitter Bradley - Too many walks Walker - 1.4 WHIP in AAA Yelich - Graduated. Correa - Hitting the [expletive] out of the ball in a level he's too good for, but confusingly hasn't been promoted. I think Taveras has locked up enough good will to still be #2. Also, depending on what the publication uses for qualifications, Bogaerts could easily still be eligible. Hopefully a publication like BA will rate Correa, Lindor and Sano lower, but who knows. Heck, Callis said he preferred Bryant to Baez just two weeks ago. Parks is on Twitter saying he still likes Sano and Lindor over Baez. I really don't understand how anyone can prefer Lindor over Baez at this point. Give them till the offseason (and possibly the AFL) to reassess. Let them form a new consensus of groupthink that supersedes the current one being regurgitated.
  13. Elrhino
    Arismendy with 2 BBs and belts a double, and gets completely overshadowed.
  14. Elrhino
    All this talk of Vogelbach never being able to play 1B makes me all the more appreciative of Pablo Sandoval's ability to play 3B with the same exact body.
  15. Elrhino
    So if Bryant keeps up the current pace in Daytona and destroys AFL, optimistically what kind of promotion schedule are we looking at? I can't even remember the last advanced college bat we've had in the system. Are we looking at a Weiters/Posey type of schedule where he's starting for us at 3B by 2014 all star break?
  16. Elrhino
    The problem for Olt is this isn't the organization or the position to take a mulligan year. Assuming Vitters gets moved to another position (or organization) in the offseason, that still leaves Villanueva breathing down his neck. Who knows how rapidly Bryant is going to ascend up the system and/or whether Baez ultimately gets moved. Olt's meal ticket is being a great 3B glove, but what's his MLB tool when there's no room to play 3B?
  17. Elrhino
    I don't think either Vitters or Olt will ever be MLB starters as 3B (aside from the fact that I think Baez ultimately ends up there in short order next year). I can envision a backup multi-position utility bench righty role for Vitters because of his hit tool. I just don't see any MLB role for Olt. His glove isn't going to provide much value when it's not on the field. Pinch 3B glove? What is he going to bring to the table that Villanueva can't?
  18. Elrhino
    August OPS split < .600 definitely doesn't inspire confidence that the eye surgery fixed everything (or anything).
  19. Elrhino
    Rosscup 1 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 2 K
  20. Elrhino
    Daytona's daily box score check just got more entertaining by a factor of a million.
  21. Elrhino
    Szczur is 24 years old and hitting .730 OPS and slugging .374 in AA. Maybe he could be a very end of roster pinch runner, late inning defense, and "Oh well, I guess he's slightly better than a pitcher" last man left on the bench pinch hitter, but that is a Jose Macias caliber bat for a 4th OF.
  22. Elrhino
    If Szczur is our 4th OF, something has gone horribly wrong.
  23. Elrhino
    He's was hitting well for his age at AAA last year. He got called up to play MLB because the Cubs had maybe the worst 3B situation in baseball and had nothing to play for. He predictably looked awful, considering he was 22 years old and really hadn't had that much seasoning in AAA. Olt looked awful in his cup of coffee last year too, a full year older. His defense probably isn't good at 3B as an everyday player, but is it good enough to spot start , as well as play occasional 1B and LF and provide a righty bat off bench ? I would say a guy like that has value, particularly when he's cheap and cost controlled. If Rizzo is going to continue to continue to hit at < .700 OPS and OBP < .300 against LHP, it would be nice to have a cheap right handed 1B to occasionally give Rizzo his "rest day" against strong left handed starters.
  24. Elrhino
    i would say that bryant will probably start in daytona next year regardless of where he plays the rest of this season. although candelario's presence does make things a little more complicated. candelario should move up a level and bryant is too advanced for the low minors. maybe they do a platoon where one plays 3b and the other plays 1b or corner OF. wouldn't surprise me if bryant could handle AA right now, frankly. in other news, all the tennessee hitters have reached base safely except for baez. :( he's 0-4 but at least he hasn't struck out (2 ground outs, 2 fly outs) Daytona has the DH. They could alternate 3B and DH. Maybe some 1b (Jeimer) and OF (Bryant) also. I'd guess both will start at Daytona, with the goal of Bryant forcing a promotion after a couple months at most. Or just let Jemier repeat KC for a few months until Bryant works his way up to Tennessee. He's still just 19 years old and hasn't exactly outclassed A level with a current .731 OPS. He needs everyday at bats and consistent work in the field at 3B more than he needs the improved level of competition.
  25. Elrhino
    Javy's grit is raising his teammates' level of play via leadership osmosis.
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