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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    I really want to see what happens when this guy gets called up. Is he a pitching genius? I just don't get it. A pitching genius? Can we call him P-GZA?
  2. Little Slide Rooter
    You stay away from him, Brett Jackson!
  3. Little Slide Rooter
    Any chance that Russell's rebuilt some value? Been great since May. Not a ton of Ks, but not many walks or runs.
  4. Little Slide Rooter
    Listening to offers is nothing but link-clicking lingo. Not much more substance to it than "one AL executive expects..."
  5. Little Slide Rooter
    Said on MLB Network last night that the last person who had that injury was Joel Zumaya, and he has never pitched again. Big blow for Floyd. It was ugly too. Happened to Prior, too, didn't it? :( I'm neither religious nor superstitious, but God happened to Prior.
  6. Little Slide Rooter
    So Cease and Gilliam are this years Maples and Dunston?
  7. Little Slide Rooter
    it's funny when a picture actually speaks a sentence to you. Traded to the Pirates.
  8. Little Slide Rooter
    In today's edition of fringe prospects that nobody really cares about, we discuss Bijan Rademacher and why he remains at A+ five days past his 23rd birthday. Though the smart money's on him turning into a pumpkin at the next level, there's also the chance that he proves to be more than just a guy who can adequately handle the pitching of men 1-3 years his junior. Sadly, this is more then can be said for most of our minor league outfielders. Though the reward would be a modest one, the risk is non existent.
  9. Little Slide Rooter
    I CAN ARGUE ANYTHING YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME If Nuts & Gum were to write an autobiography, this would be the title. ETA: Sammy Sofa? What the? When did this happen?
  10. Little Slide Rooter
    this is about how i see it, but i probably swap in Hendricks for Arodys, and maybe even move him up a few spots, too I have to think that Baez' age, level, and position give him a free ride in the top 2, maybe even 1, for another year.
  11. Little Slide Rooter
    It's a fair deal for both sides, but unless he tanks, he'll get at least that much in the winter. My guess is that he's banking on Lester and/or Scherzer to re-up before season's end, in which case he's looking at something ridiculous.
  12. Little Slide Rooter
    And have I mentioned that I really want to keep this rotation together beyond this year? If somebody wants to go all out with a package for Shark or Hammell, sure. But there's no reason to carry on with the Mission: Get What We Can and Run! M.O. every July.
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    I am arguing against the notion that Barney is [expletive] blocking Olt. Olt had his chance to whip his [expletive] out and do something with it but he blew it. Barney's sucking has nothing to do with Olt's [expletive]. Not saying Olt is good at all, but it's possible for guys to blow it early in their careers and, you know, get better. Again, not saying Olt is that guy, but it happens. A lot. This is true. With Olt, we're talking a 25 year old who still has a chance to figure things out and become a perennial 30+ HR guy. With Barney, he's a safe bet to spend the next decade doing what he doing scattered between 7-10 teams.
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    Textbook sell high He's 28 and under team control for 3 more years. Door number two's always intriguing, but at some point, we're going to think in terms of a big league rotation beyond July.
  15. Little Slide Rooter
    lol Someone make that their sig. But it's true. Those with even a slight understanding of how minor league ball works know otherwise. But to the majority of fans, all they see is stats, and thus are going to start clamoring for this beast to come up and immediately begin terrorizing big league pitchers as he has AA. These same fans don't think in terms of a lost season well before the all star break. They have no concept of an arbitration clock. They're more interested in some miracle playoff run than what happens beyond 2014, and continue to be until that E# hits 0. In a sense, I envy their mindset.
  16. Little Slide Rooter
    Anybody know what's going on with McNutt? He's not on any roster. If you enter his name in MiLB player search, he comes up with Iowa and listed as active, but he's not on the roster on the Iowa page. Even if on the DL, I'd think he'd be listed somewhere.
  17. Little Slide Rooter
    I'd still take it over any post prior/pre-Epstein top 10. And facetious or otherwise, you'd need Alcantara in there.
  18. Little Slide Rooter
    Baez is nailing the Soriano feast or famine thing.
  19. Little Slide Rooter
    'd move Jackson, but hopefully to absorb salary for a better player return. Valbuena: I can't imagine anybody giving up enough for him worth a guy under control until 2017 who would be at worst, a super sub. Beyond that, I suppose Schierholtz, Barney, Ruggiano, Bonifacio, Wright, and Villanueva are all guys who I could see Epstein moving in a few of his patented spinning straw into silver, or at least younger, more exciting straw trades.
  20. Little Slide Rooter
    I disagree. He's essentially Kris Bryant light, sans the Boras factor. He's a bat only guy who came out of nowhere to become a top 5 pick. There's no point in playing hard to get, as he's at the age where even if he did go back to school, one off season would be the difference between top 5 underslot money and slightly overslot 12th round. Cubs had all the leverage here.
  21. Little Slide Rooter
    he literally can only hit fastballs and now after hitting a few for HRs, he sees (relatively) none Even when he was "good" he wasn't hitting much in terms of LD's; what a sad bust. he's more like a bizarro bust or something. we were expecting him to be awful and hoping he might be OK. don't think you can really count it as a bust when he turns out to be awful (unless you mean his career in general, of course) We wanted to believe, so the moment he showed signs of life, we did.
  22. Little Slide Rooter
    The thing about the leagues is they get harder as you move up. While the pitchers are more advanced, they're not necessarily better. As discussed at one point during Javy's abysmal start, A-AA aren't so much trying to fool hitters as they are trying to burn them. In AAA, you're going to see some of these only more advanced. However, for every one of those, you're going to see 3-4 junk ballers who are unlike what they're used to. They're trying to trick these cocky young prospects into chasing seemingly tantalizing garbage that big league hitters will let fall well out of the strike zone. Now keep in mind, many of these junk ballers had some level of big league success, which they achieved by fooling big league hitters. Until, of course, big league hitters figured them out and sent them packing. It should go without saying that prospects are going to take longer to adjust than big league hitters. The younger the hitter, the less exposure they've had to this. So while they may have been able to handle some of the top pitching prospects, guys like Justin Germano and Rodrigo Lopez at first, may as well be Greg Maddux.
  23. Little Slide Rooter
    Ryan Braun was 22 in his first AA stint. In 59 games, he put up a line of .303/.367/.589 with 15 HR. Prior to today's monster, Bryant was at .344/.452/.659.
  24. Little Slide Rooter
    You know what this game thread could use? Lithium.
  25. Little Slide Rooter
    Cease and Sands cost money...... yeah, but at least take a dude with a scouting report. If only the organization were paying somebody evaluate these kids and compile their own scouting report.
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