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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    You were sitting on it for two days in 2014 and you are surprised you got scooped? Get your head in the game, Sahadev.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Olt is just two tenths of a percentage point away from a magical 40% K-rate.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Almora hitting for power is the best thing he could be doing for his projection.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bump for the outright NL HR leader
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's great Jed. But you don't make any real decisions so who cares what you think.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The changeup to K the leadoff man was filthy.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    It takes barely any time at all. 2b is exactly like SS except everything is easier and sometimes you have to make the pivot on the double play. It's not something you need 2 months, and offseason and a ST to learn.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's semantics, but there's a difference between "losing" a year by only getting 6.0 out of him and "using" a year by still getting a bunch of extra months, but using them up a year earlier. And they are all very recent, which leads us too... It's pretty unnecessary, and the consensus seems to be that you'd rather leave him at SS longer in that case to make sure he's getting as many ground balls as possible. For long stretches, the best way to prepare to play 2b is to play SS. We're not close to running out of bad players that could be cut with no remorse.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm just not seeing this. I'm really confused as to how "Bonifacio activated = Alcantara sent down unless Barney released." Alcantara's been playing CF and 2b. You could literally send down or release *any* of the position players and get to the same result.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not saying it's definitely happening. It's just a small dot in a picture that was already starting to come into focus. The big dot was the position switch.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not sure how this is a reason. If you want to bring Javier Baez up, there's precisely two position players on the roster that are of a stature that makes them even worth considering: Castro and Rizzo. Everyone else can get in line and be filled in around whatever you want to do with Baez. There's like six position players on the roster right now that could be sent away at any moment. If Baez stays down, it won't be because there isn't "room" for him. That's weird.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe. But 1) Javy's got almost 400 AAA PAs 2) If they call him up soon, you are getting most of the "free" year still 3) The scouting reports have been pretty good on him lately 4) They sure do seem to be shoving Alcantara to CF pretty hard 5) Javy's changed positions, which is something you don't really need to do if promotion is still 9.5 months away 6) They just DFA'd the ostensible "starting" 2b and opened up a 40-man spot Maybe they want to get the "adjustment" period underway to help our chances in 2015.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh, and the whole "he lost his job due to paternity leave!" thing is going to be a thing unless he catches on in the majors elsewhere.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not saying Javy is coming up soon. But Javy is coming up soon.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow is that ever a cautionary tale about holding out for too much.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    The good news on Lake is that his 2013 Iowa contact looks like it was a weird outlier. He's never been that good at making contact before or since (with the caveat that we don't have contact rates for the low minors).
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    AAA contact rate 2014 Kris Bryant 67.4% 2013 Junior Lake 73.1% 2012 Brett Jackson 66.3% http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b190/Tao_Orii_13/Expressions/nervous.gif
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Listed heights are a joke.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Kris Bryant strikes out a lot
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because shut up. But mostly the volume thing. And maybe we'll just be better at developing hitters, but I really don't know if that's just stupid hope or a real thing. Five years from now we'll know.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's a silly exercise, but he did say that he'd actually provide average defense in LF in this scenario. Why stop there, though? If he could be a plus-5 UZR/150 defense at SS, he'd be our fourth top-10 prospect.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Putting Vogelbach in LF would be only slightly more desirable than fielding a 12-foot-diameter above-ground pool from Wal-Mart with the stipulation that any ball that lands in the pool and stays there is an out.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Lousy logic is using an individual example to counter an assertion of likelihood. And it isn't even an example of what I said was unlikely. Soler hasn't hit in the majors yet. Assertion: Guys who hit like Vogelbach at his age/level combo are less than 50/50 to become major-league adequate hitters. Your counter: Well here's this one guy who hit like Vogelbach at that level but a year older, and now he's mashing at AA in a small sample. That's not a valid logical counter.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe he will slug .800 at Tennessee next year. And maybe Soler's 62 PAs prove out a new ability level and he'll never ever have a hiccup again. And maybe Vogelbach's just as talented as Soler is. Somehow this is going to turn into "Kyle said Vogelbach will fail and there's no chance he'll be any good." All I'm saying is that he's not showing nearly enough right now to be remotely confident in his ability to hit in the majors in the long run. He's a neat prospect, but he's in a class of prospects where there will be 3 flameouts for every success, at least.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    You'd think he'd be putting up at least an .800 OPS in the minors then. The walks are nice, but the power is still unimpressive. Maybe it blossoms in the next few years, maybe it doesn't. jorge soler barely put up an .800 OPS in daytona last year, and he was a year older than vogelbach is. OK?
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