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  1. MWV
    Rosscup was cut on the 18th. I liked Parker a lot more than Cabrera, but I guess they'd rather stash parker for the time being than expose Cabrera to waivers.
  2. MWV
    With Parker being assigned to AAA today and Villanueva looking likely to start in the rotation, what does the bullpen situation look like? Cabrera, Veras, Strop, Rondon and Grimm from the right side and Russell and Wright from the left side? Am I missing someone?
  3. MWV
    Lake had a decent outing, 2 for 4 with double and a [expletive] BB.
  4. MWV
    Rotoworld sez:
  5. MWV
    Weren't you previously of the (sensible) opinion that ST performance is meaningless?
  6. MWV
    Looks like Patrick Corbin May need Tommy John surgery.
  7. MWV
    Because they appear to have a surfeit at 3B?
  8. MWV
    BWWWAAAAA!
  9. MWV
    Soler to lead off. I guess he will report to minor league camp tomorrow.
  10. MWV
    Holy [expletive]. Thanks, man.
  11. MWV
    The photographer's name is John Antonoff. He's contributing shots to the Boys of Spring blog. He took a similarly great pic of Javy's opposite field HR from yesterday.
  12. MWV
    http://boysofspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Mike-Olt.jpg Show me a guy who can do that [expletive] with sub-standard eyeballs. To hell with tiny sample sizes and spring training caveats. He's fixed. He's soooooo [expletive] fixed.
  13. MWV
    Pretty much sums it up for me.
  14. MWV
    Ha. They also list Bryant as a pitcher.
  15. MWV
    Yep; Tommy John for Sano. Link
  16. MWV
    Baez lined out to third, but your point stands.
  17. MWV
    I can't express how happy I would be if Starlin were to revert to 2010-2012 or "classic" Castro.
  18. MWV
    Shark's 1st IP: 1 BB 1 H (1B) 2K 0 ER.
  19. MWV
    Ha. My phone autocorrects his name to "rug guano". I hope to never again type those words sequentially.
  20. MWV
    Ruggiano? Or is this some NRI I'm unfamiliar with? And thanks for the updates.
  21. MWV
    If I'm following the author's argument, he's claiming that Starlin's low babip, and by extension poor performance in 2013, can be attributed to a new swing that brought about a dip in his contact rate on balls in the zone. Leaving aside whether or not Castro's swing really changed that much, two criticisms occur to me. First, what does contact rate have to do with babip? And second, Starlin's Z-Contact fell from an average of 92.6% in 2010-2012 to 89.2% in 2013. That's not entirely negligible, but it isn't much either. In his three full seasons, Castro saw an average of 2577 pitches per season. Using that number (for purposes of comparison) Castro swung and missed at about 23 more pitches in the strike zone in 2013 relative to his 2010-2012 rate. Even if you assume all those balls would have been put into play if struck, and furthermore that about a third of them would have fallen for hits, that still only gets you to about a .258 average. Am I missing the point?
  22. MWV
    http://voices.suntimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/vogel.jpg
  23. MWV
    More Vogelbach shots from Wittenmyer: http://voices.suntimes.com/sports/inside-the-cubs/cub-prospect-dan-vogelbachs-amazing-disappearing-act/
  24. MWV
    It's Dan Vogelbach. He's slimmed down considerably.
  25. MWV
    This would be solid gold material for anyone writing a book about NSBB.
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