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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's really annoying that we might actually have been better off listening to all those "Trade Castro, call up Baez immediately" idiots.
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    Rob Zastryzny ‏@RobZastryzny_8 If y'all were wondering if I watched magic mike last night by myself...I did. I absolutely did.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baez has a 33% K rate and an infinite/unmeasurable K/BB in his last half-game :( Who cares? He's getting on base at a .667 clip and hitting a HR 33% of the time. Thanks to both an unsustainable HR/FB and BABIP. On a more serious note, Logan Watkins' slash line is really disappointing to me. That's not the PCL line of a guy ready to start in the majors, even as a really fringey starter.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Using $6m/WAR, Castro is on pace to underperform his contract by roughly $20m.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baez has a 33% K rate and an infinite/unmeasurable K/BB in his last half-game :(
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Easily Alcantara, imo. Johnson still has to prove he just isn't playing in too low of a level for his experience.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well yeah, statistically speaking it's probably near impossible. My problem is the way he characterized the grad degrees as a "waste of money". As if they would be rendered useless if he didn't get into a baseball position. It was just a cocky, stupid answer. Anyways, it's not pertinent to this thread and I'll quit my random rant. It's not like he jumped in on a guy who mentioned he wanted to work in baseball. The guy was asking for his advice, so he gave it.
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    The fact that they do it on a scale that starts at 20 is even more mind-boggling. I have no idea why they started at 50, but the idea of going 3 standard deviations in either direction is pretty useful.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow. Not too shabby at all. Weak. A few days ago he said they'd have 4 top 25 with Bryant. I know you're joking, but he said "possibly."
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you just look at whole-season stats, all this worrying about whether or not to buy the streaks is heavily alleviated.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    If we're talking about odds, I don't think either is better than 49% to play 3b in the majors.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes, but even in the context of one of those silly fantasy lineups, I'd put Candelario in LF and Bryant at 3b if they are both being presumed to make it.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I've seen those. Those are the same sort of fan reports that get people believing Vogelbach can play LF or that we have like five guys who can play MLB above-average defense in CF. I haven't personally scouted him or anything, but I'm sticking with the evaluation we had going into the season: Probably going to outgrow 3b and not athletic enough to handle it consistently at a big-league level.
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    Happy to help.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Why is that exactly? Both more advanced and more athletic. Candelario is barely hanging on at 3b as it is.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bryant is way more likely to play 3b in the majors than Candelario.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Penalver and Balaguert are a little.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    How's your doom boner, half mast? Full-blown. Our superstar, long-term extension SS is suddenly a full win below replacement nearly halfway through the season. Edit: There we are, .598.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    He had complications in the elbow that has ended three consecutive seasons for him, and he's never really had a healthy season. If he has Angel Guzman's career at this point, that's a pleasant surprise. Did we ever have it confirmed where the calcium deposits were? They can be in the ligament.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Could this be the night Castro drops below .600?
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think that's probably true. But our hitting talent is light years ahead. I don't really care which side we get the minor league talent, as long as it's there. That's certainly true. The hitting is miles and miles ahead. Before the 2011 draft, I don't think we had a single guy who projected to 20+ HRs in the majors (*maybe* Jackson if you really liked his power potential). Now we're overflowing with them.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    McNutt had better stuff, which should make up for the worse season. He was only a year removed from an even better season than Johnson is having, and would have been a few months younger. I'm very uncomfortable with the "of course they're better, look who picked them!" argument. Glancing over 2011 Boise and Peoria, here's some names I recall people liking at the time: Ben Wells, Jose Rosario, Austin Reed, Tony Zych, Wilengton Cruz, Cam Greathouse, Starlin Peralta, Austin Kirk, Matt Loosen, PJ Francescon, Frank Del Valle, Dallas Beeler. And we hadn't quite given up on Hayden Simpson yet.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd put current Pierce Johnson, Vizcaino, Paniagua, Hendricks, Blackburn, Underwood, Zastryzny, Masek, Skulina, Clifton, and I guess Maples ahead of Oct. 2011 McNutt, Rhee, Carpenter and Maples. Am I missing anyone? I tried to list anyone remotely interesting. Is 2013 Pierce Johnson better than 2011 McNutt? Vizcaino's arm has fallen off, Paniagua is a 31-year-old international terrorist in disguise, and the rest is just the same generic compliation of 2nd-4th round picks that we've always had in the system.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you compare our pitching prospects (using how they were valued/projected at the time) from Oct. 2011 to now, I'm not sure we're any better.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Since we love arbitrary endpoints with regard to Baez, I'll just throw out that he's hitting .055/191/222 in his last 6. *ducks*
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