mods PLEASE change this thread's awful name already Ryan at BP Wrigleyville did a piece on EJM http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/03/17/eddy-julio-martinez-international-man-of-mystery/
I was just catching up on this thread and was gonna say that Almora is either super slow or he Edmondsed the hell out of that catch linked earlier. Almora isn't very speedy. Iirc pretty much every scouting service talked about how his instincts in cf that make him so good out there are other worldly because he's got very average speed for a cf'er. So his stellar defense heavily relies on his acumen for the position rather than his speed, which is impressive when he's pretty much praised across the board for his defensive ability. Kyle def knows this and has brought it up many times re: Almora in questioning just how good his defense really is.
My guess would be Hammel...based only on the fact that I think he caught him the other day and Hammel seemed to make a point of saying good things about it. [tweet]
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Guess I'll do this for once... A: Bryce Harper B: Paul Goldschmidt, Giancarlo Stanton C: Carlos Correa, Andrew McCutchen, Kyle Schwarber D: Addison Russell, Jason Heyward, Yasiel Puig, Maikel Franco, Alex Gordon WC: PM'd
Yep. I'm the biggest spring training is meaningless guy and the combination of how terrible he's been plus the high leverage innings he'll be getting has me worried.
I don't see the White Sox looking like bad guys at all. I see LaRoche looking like a kinda crappy parent, though. an overly attached parent. If the kid was there every day during the summer that would make some sense, but the fact that they pull him out of school to hang out in a locker room is kind of creepy. fair enough way to put it.
These guys go 3 weeks at a time without seeing their families, I fail to see how the kid being in the club house is hurting anyone. Not to mention a 14 year old now knows that the White Sox didn't want himn around and his Dad left baseball because of it. Yeah, I'm sure none of the other players have any problem with a 14 year old running around their clubhouse and one (terrible) player being allowed to do it.
Home schooling? apparently they pull him out of school for weeks at a time and load up on homework, but goes back home when the team is on the road. Seems like a really good setup for him.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-wrigley-field-opening-day-cubs-20160315-story.html Not much news, but the marquee will be back up in 10 days, according to Crane.