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  1. UK1679666180
    Too many variables to assume. 1)The Cubs will be interested in Tejada after acq's Izturis for SS. 2)Balt. will field offers for Tejada. 3)No other team will be interested in Tejada. 4)The Cubs will outbid any team for Tejada. 5)The Cubs will have more to offer than any other team interested in him. 6)The Cubs have given up on Cedeno. Can Tejada play 2B? I'm sure that would not be his preference, but in any Tejada/Izturis middle IF, Cesar should be the one playing SS. Tools-wise, he can definitely play 2B, everything is there for him to do well there. Media reports had him not wanting him to shift to 3B had he been traded to the Dodgers. I also forgot to mention other factors that might lead to Tejada staying in Balt. and that is if higher up parties within their organization want him to stay in Balt. that'll make trade impossible for him.
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    Too many variables to assume. 1)The Cubs will be interested in Tejada after acq'g Izturis for SS. 2)Balt. will field offers for Tejada. 3)No other team will be interested in Tejada. 4)The Cubs will outbid any team for Tejada. 5)The Cubs will have more to offer than any other team interested in him. 6)The Cubs have given up on Cedeno.
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    A team with a 3-4 of Manny and Papi can afford to sacrifice some offense @ SS to improve their defense. But if Defense is not important why would Boston trade for defense? Why not just keep Normar @ SS? Different needs, defense matters to teams that lacks it and the potential offense Nomar could bring, matters more to a team looking to score runs. It all depends on how someone defines a bigger weakness. If you have a player that is more defense oriented, you have to surround him with players likely to score more runs to compensate. Do the Cubs have that system in place to where it can be tweaked heading into the offseason?
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    Nope that's fine. BB/K and IP tells me enough.
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    That's what scouts seem to hang their hat on. Baseball is a game of failure. Just like most great hitters fail more than half the time, baseball people fail in personel moves quite frequently, and it is accepted. If you sign one guy who does well then you're in the respected club, no matter how much money you've wasted on garbage players. Baseball is an incredibly inefficient sport, because baseball men refuse to evolve. It's a great sport, but it's run by backwards relics. It is set up for failure given how few of the drafted or signed international FAs make it to the majors. Lack of supply doesn't creates that compared to limited openings.
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    It's a skill that some are better than others. true, but to say that most it is more than a guessing game would probably be wrong. You're not bobbing for apples here. Everything I've ever read on scouting is that is surrounded by doing a bunch of research, the more work gone into research, more effort they are putting into it, the more they'll get out of it. There are certain things a scout can't forecast, but he'll use his previous knowledge which might be greater than other and calculate the slotted position of a kid that'll be different than other scouts. Then, the scout that gets to know a family better will have a better idea on the intentions of the draftee and the potential signing bonus. There's enough there to separate the good scouts from the poor ones to say that scouting isn't a guessing game. That's why they evaluate players differently and why some are shocked by those who make moves that surprise many and work out (hopefully Colvin) and those who don't. It's not luck at all.
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    It's a skill that some are better than others.
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    I'll be damned. You learn new jibberish every day. Basically, his right eye could not pick up the delivery but most likely could pick up much of the pitcher's upper body and had to shift (look more over the bridge of the nose) to pick up the release of the ball and that whatever thousandth of a second threw his timing off. It's pretty simple to correct, if a RH batter closes his left eye, his head should be facing the pitcher enough to where his right eye can see the SS and then can focus his sights on the delievry and release w/out having to adjust his vision.
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    Raisin, since you do the matchups everyday and I'm often too lazy to look up anything beyond that, how about more BB/K ratios on the pitchers? Gracias... :)
  10. UK1679666180
    Doesn't the bolded part go hand in hand with '04, though? If you're going to blame losses in '06 on off the field and exclude playoff pressure, then history would mention Sept of '04. This recent streak go with the ups and downs of a regular season that unfort. has had more downs than ups for reasons that don't pertain to pressure about their manager's fate. Teams w/good winning records will have rare moments of rough stretches and teams w/poor winning records will have rare good stretches.
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    The Midwest League is about 21.9, so it has to be higher in the FSL. Was that the average age before or after this year's draft? O-O, sorry it took me so long to respond... http://mwlguide.com/years/2006/season/teamage.html Start of the year & they mention that it has been increasing in age (I assume b/c of the increase of college draftees).
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    This is how I translate what you're trying to say. You're saying that they play better w/out anything to strive for. That they're soft and incapable of winning when the chips are down. If they play better with no pressure and there's nothing to play for, what does it tell you about how they play when there is actually something to play for? That's a horrible statement, one that I hope isn't true about their staff and players.
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    Given how've they played w/pressure, that's more damning than anything else.
  14. UK1679666180
    It would make too much sense...trade a player who may not be here next year and doesn't hustle for a young potentially great arm and a prospect or two. It won't happen. Hendry usually gets the trades done, but doesn't usually trade for prospects for some reason. I still don't know how we got Murton in that deal. Hendry hasn't been a seller at the trade deadline before. He was GM in '02 and traded Fassero to STL and Gordon to Houston, those were his 1st two trades as GM.
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    You should be skeptical of that type of velocity jump. Of course, there's 2 other kids within 250 miles of each other that were drafted early that were in the mid to upper 80s in the fall and jumped to the low to mid 90s this Spring.
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    You can't block it out completely, some are just better than others at blocking it out to where it doesn't impact the AB as some might. Of course, a slight negative impact from a great hitter is often better than almost no impact from an ok hitter.
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    I don't disagree at all, but what other arms were there in Houston besides Oswalt? All I can think of is Elarton. Wade Miller.
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    Here's Dunn calling the Reds booth during a rain delay... http://www.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2006/07/adamfrommilwaukee.mp3 http://www.deadspin.com/sports/mlb/rain-delays-bore-adam-dunn-190732.php
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    They're not focusing on trying to get a hit more than any other hit, they're trying to focus on blocking out the situation and the added pressure. They're trying to get themselves in the same mindset as every other AB. It doesn't make sense them being a slacker b/c they have the ability to block everything out.
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    He's a clutch hitter, he's established that. But, does he focus more? Does he will himself to do better in that situation? Or is he just a damn good hitter in any situation? I think he's a damn good hitter.
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    Low BBs, Low HRs, unusual ability to prevent high amounts of hits for the amount of contact. Some hitters have this ability to have their BABIP match or sometimes lower than their actual batting avg. (Barrett in '03). If he maintains it, it'll be b/c his stuff is better than someone with a real low K ratio and any drop-off in stuff at this stage will put him in btm of the rotation territory.
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    Clutch exists, any key moment of a game is clutch if the result is changed by one action (usually associated with a late/GW HR). As far as applying predictive value is where it becomes cloudy. If I was a Red Sox fan and the choice was Ortiz or Crisp, I want Ortiz. More b/c he is the better hitter than anything else. The quality of the hitter determines how well they will do in key situations more than anything else.
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    It's always good to see a Cubs and Rays fan here, welcome!
  24. UK1679666180
    The Midwest League is about 21.9, so it has to be higher in the FSL.
  25. UK1679666180
    Workload should be separated from pitching while fatigued. Proper mechanics just slow down the tearing down process of throwing. Even with proper mechanics, there's a tearing down progress. Factor ages into the equation and the individual's growth plate. His mechanics have played a role in his troubles as did everything else you mentioned. But, pitchers like Neugebauer and Kyle Peterson had violent deliveries and it cost them.
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