Magnetic Curses

just make this guy throw a million pitches.

it's sad because meph is a walking computer.

we're really lost on this one without hoops, that's for sure.

they realized that it would be the end of indiana football. but iu has never minded doing whatever it takes to win games, regardless of what rules might be broken.

Hoops fled town months ago. hoops doesn't live here, anymore.

i think vitters will have a lot more value later on, unlike any other cubs prospect.

sosa had a lot of power and finally adjusted to how pitchers were pitching him. it wasn't that big of an adjustment. when you have no power or discipline to begin with, you have nowhere to start. plus sosa is one player out of how many? I realize Sosa isn't the rule but the exception but if Colvin has the tools to begin with (which I assume why he was a top pick) then he could or is suppose to develop into an impact hitter, just like Sosa was suppose to do. again, colvin was a reach in the first. he reminded wilken of alex rios. i think wilken mentions the name alex rios to anyone who talks to him, and alex rios is a good player, but nobody to go around bragging about as the crown jewel of your scouting career. I'd have to guess Halladay is the crown jewel of his scouting career. and halladay would have been the answer to an obscure trivia question had he not changed everything about his delivery after being demoted to single-a and finding the right coach.

sosa had a lot of power and finally adjusted to how pitchers were pitching him. it wasn't that big of an adjustment. when you have no power or discipline to begin with, you have nowhere to start. plus sosa is one player out of how many? I realize Sosa isn't the rule but the exception but if Colvin has the tools to begin with (which I assume why he was a top pick) then he could or is suppose to develop into an impact hitter, just like Sosa was suppose to do. again, colvin was a reach in the first. he reminded wilken of alex rios. i think wilken mentions the name alex rios to anyone who talks to him, and alex rios is a good player, but nobody to go around bragging about as the crown jewel of your scouting career. IIRC, the Cubs also took him that high out of fear the Kenny Williams & the White Sox were going to take him with their pick. and that baffles me, why would you pick somebody out of fear that someone who has a lower pick than you is going to take him? that fits with wilken's logic, though.

sosa had a lot of power and finally adjusted to how pitchers were pitching him. it wasn't that big of an adjustment. when you have no power or discipline to begin with, you have nowhere to start. plus sosa is one player out of how many? I realize Sosa isn't the rule but the exception but if Colvin has the tools to begin with (which I assume why he was a top pick) then he could or is suppose to develop into an impact hitter, just like Sosa was suppose to do. again, colvin was a reach in the first. he reminded wilken of alex rios. i think wilken mentions the name alex rios to anyone who talks to him, and alex rios is a good player, but nobody to go around bragging about as the crown jewel of your scouting career.

sosa had a lot of power and finally adjusted to how pitchers were pitching him. it wasn't that big of an adjustment. when you have no power or discipline to begin with, you have nowhere to start. plus sosa is one player out of how many?

what's wrong with the post?

So is Colvin a small diamond or coal? Too early to tell. His K percentage and BB percentage are getting much better lately. 2007 K percentage: 20.5% 2008 April through May 15th K percentage: 28.9% 2008 May 16th through present K percentage: 11.96% 2007 BB percentage: 3.05% 2008 April through May 15th BB percentage: 7.54% 2008 May 16th through present BB percentage: 10.87% Unfortuantely, at the same time his batting average is way down this year, and the loss of all those singles is really killing his slugging (his ISOP is also down a little bit, but the batting average being down is the bigger cause of the really bad numbers). So he was actually more productive last year, but his peripherals are a lot better these last couple months. It's obvious the Cubs are working with him quite a bit to make him more comfortable deeper in counts. Now when he gets more comfortable, will the batting average go back up a ways? Next year maybe? It's really hard to tell. All we know for sure right now is that he has shown the ability to hit for average last year. He has shown the ability to have a good K/BB percentage over the last couple months. What he hasn't done yet is put it together, and while I'm willing to give him a year or two before I write him off due to his adjustments, he can't be an exciting guy until he starts to put it together. Thanks CCP. It seems to me that Wilken likes this type of player and if the new Cub system of working the count is taken advantage of by Colvin it'll help him in a lot of ways. I'd be surprised if some team wouldn't be interested in a former #1 pick. i don't think that there's any hope for colvin. he is what he is, trying to radically change his approach will result in an even less productive player.

So is Colvin a small diamond or coal? colvin was a piece of coal in the first round. a pick made out of the collective hubris of wilken and hendry, just as jeremy brown was picked out of arrogance and pride. the difference is that brown was one of like 7 picks whereas colvin was all alone. we're crazy if we think that beane will be fooled into thinking that he has any value beyond perception.

Wieters is in AA. Milb is wrong. He is on the Bowie BaySox OPS 1.081 in 42 plate appearances. Limited plate appearances so far. But, thought I'd throw it out there. i kind of get confused as to how organizations move along their college prospects. some of them are playing in the majors the next year, while some are moved slowly through the system, even the ones who are the most mlb-ready coming out of college. i don't get it.

i mean, he's trying to find the next alex rios when he should be trying to find the next player who can put up a .900 ops in any season.

why on earth would anyone think that beane would be interested in colvin? "billy, here's a big mistake we made, but really, he's a prospect." colvin is not a prospect. he's an example of wilken out-thinking himself again, trying to find a diamond in field of bigger diamonds.

i haven't heard that at all, and it would be a shock, considering xbox live is featuring exclusive downloadable content for gta 4.

you're right, that makes absolutely no sense. of course he'll want to not be considered a cardinal until he retires. he probably won't be a cardinal again in his active career. unless larussa wasn't trying to be facetious with those comments and was actually stating the truth.

swing the bat, jackass.

If these trends continue, I'm never going to stop buying you beer next game you come to. haha.

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gameday is slow.

castillo not contemplating swinging the bat.

You just jinxed him. if he did, i still feel better. a jinxed wood is better than anything else that we have.