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  1. SouthSideRyan
    i am, but that's because i've paid enough attention to his history as an executive to see he's proven to be pretty much beyond reproach when it comes to player development That assumes Epstein is being the least bit honest with his public statements.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Control is a big deal for expected stars, not for JAGs. To some degree, the longer Baez continues to swing through a lot of strikes, the less meaningful the extra year of control will be. For example, I think a reasonable projection for Baez, long-term, might be as a .755-OPS guy. A .755-OPS 2B with good defense is a useful player. But it's not like resigning a .755-OPS guy would be a budget-buster; or that losing a .755-OPS guy would be a dynasty-buster. (I get the .755 using 35HR/200K/35BB in 620PA, with otherwise normal BABIP.) Heh heh, I suppose if Baez shows up in Iowa pretty soon and explodes, and builds up hopes for being much better than .755 guy, perhaps the extra year of club control would look much more significant. If I replace 35HR/200K with 45HR/180K, the calculation jumps from .755 to .851.) As you're saying, the only way Javy earns his way back up quickly is by Bryant-ing all over AAA immediately. Otherwise he'll be close enough to an extra year of control, that I'm sure they'd hold him down.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Deadline is 10 CT tonight. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=25983
  4. SouthSideRyan
    So now you want to keep him down until mid-April of next year? Avoiding Super 2 is saving a few bucks at a time when we should be wiping our asses with 100 dollar bills
  5. SouthSideRyan
    I'm pretty sure Javy won't be back up until we get an extra year of control on him, so I don't think he'd affect a Russell call up.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I could not give a single [expletive] about super 2 cutoffs. Are you seriously buying the "full season at a level" garbage Theo is trotting out to keep the MLBPA off his back?
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Well by all means let's keep him down because a lot of top prospects struggle early on and we have a perfectly capable mediocre DH in LF already.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    The point would probably be that we're giving regular playing time to Chris Coghlan and Mike Olt.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Hawkins ERA vs. the Cubs has to be roughly a bajillion.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Opting for the blind guy with a broken wrist is an interesting strategy
  12. SouthSideRyan
    No.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    La Stella is unavailable due to injury.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Hell ya You only said him because Seth Smith wasn't available.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I think I'd prefer the plate full of jelly
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Raftery, Gottlieb, Bilas, Len, McDonough, Sciambi, Foley, Gus
  17. SouthSideRyan
    And he's worse than Chip Caray at reading the ball off the bat.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    19th! Yankees have tied it up in the bottom of the 9th, 16th, and 18th.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    The options aren't pretty. Edwards Jokisch Ortiz Parker Rosscup ETA: It's the 6th man in the pen, the options aren't supposed to be pretty. I'd take Blake Parker or Rosscup over Schlitter. Those guys can at least miss bats. I hope they drive him almost all the way back to Des Moines and put him up on top of one of those wind turbines in western Iowa and leave him there. Though as David said, the bigger problem is bringing him into a close game. In Colorado. If he must be on the team, he should be strictly a garbage time pitcher. My issue was that he didn't double switch Olt out for LaStella so Motte could pitch more than 1/3 of an inning. And typing that sentence made me physically ill. Clamoring for La Stella and more Motte
  20. SouthSideRyan
    http://www.baseballprospectus.com/a/17637
  21. SouthSideRyan
    And here come the pretzels.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah, I thought Hammel was tomorrow
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Pat Hughes kinda sucks too, there I said it. completely agreed, though if jonmdavis hears us say it we will likely take up residence on the bottom of lake michigan very soon. now that dude jumped ship completely I just assume he changed his name and became some level of UFC champion.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    The options aren't pretty. Edwards Jokisch Ortiz Parker Rosscup ETA: It's the 6th man in the pen, the options aren't supposed to be pretty.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Remember Kyle Farnsworth? Like that. Farnsworth struck everybody out
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