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  1. Mephistopheles
    Yeah, that's 300 at-bats. I'll take the career numbers over those any day of the week to compare. There's something to be said for trends, especially when they span 3 seasons and are for a not-insignificant sample. Besides, even looking at his career numbers he's got a .076 IsoD against LH(.061 v. RH) and a .215 IsoP against LH(.203), so the career similarity is more of a BABIP thing. It's not a significant sample size. There's nothing to be said for trending upward when he's on the wrong side of 30. It's a statistical anamoly. He may be slightly better against lefties, but whenever the righty platoon argument is looked at statistically - it doesn't hold water.
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    How sweet. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/2007/01/21/EfLagl2A.jpg
  3. Mephistopheles
    Is there anyone who is not in the draft who is reading this and interested in taking this spot if the guy doesn't make it in 24 hours?
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    Yeah, that's 300 at-bats. I'll take the career numbers over those any day of the week to compare.
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    Erik Goeddel is supposed to be very far along in development as well. Ditto for Tanner Robles, dunno if they are more than Samardzija, but they're as far as Neil Ramirez.
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    Toolsy is more or less the overall athletic ability a position player has (you don't hear about toolsy pitchers they simply call them athletic). A "toolsy" player is a player who can do most of the five tools at a fairly high level {hit for average, hit for power, play defense, run well and good throwing arm}. Obviously most toolsy players have a very high ceiling. Potential in it of itself is a little different. For example take say Mark Teixeira. He could do the two hitting "tools" at a very high level, but none of the others. He wasn't very "toolsy" but he had a very high ceiling. A player's ceiling to me is the type of player they can develop into if everything breaks for them and they develop. Sure it's defined by their tools to a certain extent, but tools =/= skills. A tool is something innate a player has, whether or not that tool plays is a different case. They all CERTAINLY matter a great deal because they encompass so much of what the player will develop down the road. Because we are talking about PROJECTING players five years down the road when drafting (or when they are even in Double A) we don't care about what they can do now, we care about what they're able to do down the road.
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    .267 .328 .470 career against righties .258 .334 .473 career against lefties
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    without a lot of thought ive put this # 1.5 Felix Pie # 2 Donald Veal # 4.66667 Tyler Colvin # 3.5 Sean Gallagher # 6.08333 Mark Pawelek # 5.16667 Eric Patterson # 12.9167 Jeff Samardzija # 9.5 Chris Huseby # 8.75 Scott Moore # 11.4167 Jae Kuk-Ryu # 12.6667 Ryan Harvey # 10.3333 Juan Mateo # 14.5 Jose Ceda # 13.8333 Mitch Atkins # 15.75 Andrew Rundle # 20.4167 Brian Dopirak # 18.0833 Chris Shaver
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    Only two hundred plate appearances, but it's nice to see some power from Lil Ronny. For what it's worth, he slugged four hundred in September.
  10. Mephistopheles
    *High School and College prospects included That Samardzija = Brackman comp looks good. Callis also compared Price to Veal. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/askba/263167.html
  11. Mephistopheles
    Guzman isnt a prospect and Rapada is a middle reliever, a position that really doesnt have much of an impact overall.
  12. Mephistopheles
    guys entering your picks like so would make it a lot easier later on.... 1-1) Albert Pujols 1-2) Jose Reyes 1-3) Johan Santana 1-4) Alfonso Soriano 1-5) Alex Rodriguez 1-6) Carlos Beltran 1-7) Ryan Howard 1-8) Miguel Cabrera 1-9) Carl Crawford 1-10) Chase Utley 1-11) 1-12) cuubs4life is up then baseball87
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    positions c 1b 2b 3b ss of of of util sp sp rp rp p p p yes to the others
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    Dylan had a rough rough season. On another note is the Grant Johnson velo return legit? If so I would have thought he'd be somewhere in the middle of the list, he'd be very interesting.
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    Ill agree I saw it coming, but not Ryan Harvey magnitude.
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    Man they are down on Pawly.
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    from the article posted above i stopped reading there.
  19. Mephistopheles
    Projected WARP the next five years 26.0 Eric Patterson 26.0 Felix Pie 21.1 Carlos Zambrano It has Pie passing Z up next season and likes Patterson more now.
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    DeRosa would be better with Theriot playing 2b. Prior said hes been throwing since mid November and that's good news. Z: Wants a deal before 07
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    Prior: Throwing for a couple months now. Throwing bullpens for a couple weeks.
  22. Mephistopheles
    Well Soriano said he would like centerfield. <3 Get Jonesy in.
  23. Mephistopheles
    And Gonzalez isn't a Pirate.
  24. Mephistopheles
    Ankle/hamstring. Pretty much the same bone! :D
  25. Mephistopheles
    Prior ought to be gone by then.
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