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  1. Tyrant
    It's like 10-12 starts from Scott Feldman. I don't know what people were reasonably expecting.
  2. Tyrant
    Right. This isn't a big deal. It's the most perfectly irrelevant Goony nitpicking tangent possible.
  3. Tyrant
    Parks always uses that hashtag #want on Twitter, so I think that might be what it means. It's still a weird opening though.
  4. Tyrant
    Posted on the bottom of the previous page, sir. I was sure that was a Slide Castro Slide post before I saw the avatar.
  5. Tyrant
    You sure have a way with words.
  6. Tyrant
    Prior was definitely not a bust. Incredibly disappointing ending, sure, but not a bust at all. It's all semantics anyways.
  7. Tyrant
    And back to 3 again after the Mets won yesterday. They'll never catch the Marlins or Astros of course, but staying at the 3rd pick seems very possible.
  8. Tyrant
    I knew the Cubs had to have sent more than just Ian Dickson in return for Rodriguez. Probably a guy who was about to be DFAd and they gave him to the first team willing to give up something with a pulse. They knew that Theo was in the market for anything under 30 years of age who can competently hurl a baseball toward home plate, so the Cubs were first on the list. Honestly. What is wrong with you?
  9. Tyrant
    Traded Cashner for Rizzo. A-plus!
  10. Tyrant
    Intentions does not equal signed already. Intentions can change, physicals must be passed, etc. Maybe add in an official or unofficial/tentative tag for some of them? It's helpful to know they've declared intentions in some form but I agree that those could change until they actually sign.
  11. Tyrant
    I was poking around last night, and I found two interesting things as it pertained to Baez. There were some very good hitters who posted poor numbers in A+ as 20 year olds. Most notably, Robinson Cano. .276/.313/.377. Miguel Cabrera was a little better as a 19 year old in A+ but no great shakes (.274/.333/.421). Matt Kemp walked 25 times versus 92 Ks, and CarGo had 30 walks and K'd 104 both as 20 year olds in A+. Carlos Beltran had a much better 2:1 ratio but only hit .229/.311/.363 while the same age and at the same level as Baez. But what really stood out to me was the sheer number of talented hitters who's numbers took a big jump from A+ to AA and from their age 20 to their age 21 years. It seemed to be a fairly consistent trend. If Baez had a K/BB ratio in line with those guys, we wouldn't be having the conversations. I don't care much about slash lines at this level one way or the other. But when the K/BB ratio peaked at over 7, that's worth being concerned over. After tonight, it's still 6:1. I love your work. Since your comments 7 games ago, Baez has hit .414, scored 8 runs, smashed 3 doubles, a triple and has a 1:1 K/BB ratio. I don't know how you do it. Can we stop giving Kyle any further reason to feel important?
  12. Tyrant
    This. I think he seems like a bust because he's been around forever but his last 400 or so major league innings have been quite good. Not that this has anything to do with Appel or Gray of course.
  13. Tyrant
    It'd be fascinating and frustrating to construct a team there. I'd have to agree that this would seem like the most sensible approach. Related to Gray in Colorado, does anyone know if Coors has a measurable effect on velocity?
  14. Tyrant

    Castro

    Tyrant replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    I feel like there's about one article a month like this about Castro, this one from Bruce Miles. Not that the articles themselves mean much, it'd just be nice if Castro was consistently good enough that they stopped getting written.
  15. Tyrant
    Hopefully the NL will add two DH spots, one for the pitcher and one for Darwin Barney. Then we could use both Vogelbach and Shoulders.
  16. Tyrant
    Whatever that is.
  17. Tyrant
    What's reasoning behind that rule? Seems a bit weird.
  18. Tyrant
    Totally could see this happening. Everyone stop this
  19. Tyrant
    As others have stated, that's part of the recovery process. He needs to go from those pickup games into game action at some point. I think even if he got in 4-5 games this season it would help at least with the mental side of his recovery during the summer. And the mental aspect is all that remains. He's been fine for over 2 months and he's no more of a risk to re-injure his knee now than he will be in a month or 6 months or whenever. I defended him around here probably 6-8 weeks ago but we're long past that point.
  20. Tyrant
    That's pretty amazing. I was just trying to find guys who rarely K and have middling power as possible comps.
  21. Tyrant
    Elite hit tool and ability to square up the ball. Not a lot of power. One "expert" recently thought he could hit 5-10 HRs in the future. That feels high to me. Decent defensive 2B but not a strength. Way young for his level which bodes well for his ability to continue to hit at AAA and the majors. Needed to up his walk rate and has done that so far this season. In fact, in a very small sample size, right now he has walked 7 times and struck out only once. Has a huge mole on his face. So what's his best case comp? Like a Marco Scutaro type?
  22. Tyrant
    Hey this makes sense now.
  23. Tyrant
    It would seem that way but I don't think that's the case just based on Emery's comments. He had this guy targeted from the start. Which makes Emery all the more stupid Doesn't really matter what the reality was behind closed doors -- I'd expect any GM to come out and say "he was our guy from the beginning." I'm not taking his statement as-is. It's PR. I'm not so sure. He's been pretty open and forthright during his time as GM, almost to the point of never shutting up about the team's thought process. I'm not sure he's much of a spin guy.
  24. Tyrant
    Based on that and his comments after the pick, it sounds like he thought Long was BPA.
  25. Tyrant
    kinda
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