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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think Castro would have been able to make the tag anyway.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    If it doesn't work, I'm gonna say he shouldn't have gone with Marmol.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    That was everyone's denial speaking at the time. That happens a lot lately. Vizcaino isn't injury prone, shut up.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wasn't Puig a hilarious Dodger mistake and not even that good of a prospect?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh look, Sveum's unwisely trying to squeeze an extra inning out of a starter for the twelfth time in the last week.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's not currently on pace to live up to his salary this year on $/WAR.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wonder what pitch Wacha was working on tonight.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    If nothing else, a relatively current, easy-to-use post will make it all the easier to call guys who don't look up basic stuff idiots I usually just tell them their ideas are good.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I guess the idea is good.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    You're welcome as always, guys.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baez 0-for-2 with a pair of OBP-raising HBPs.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hayden Simpson anecdote is pretty funny.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    It makes a ton of sense, baseball-wise. I'd assumed they were avoiding it to avoid the adding even more pressure on Castro. Three straight lefties at the top isn't ideal, though.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Nationals DFA'd Zach Duke today. I would be interested in him filling the "Please, dear god, someone get Sveum a replacement-level lefty so that he quits using Russell like that" role. He has a reverse split in SSS this year, but for his career he has a bit of a normal platoon split.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Having had a day to process the arguments and discussion on both sides, I think I would pass on Gray over this incident. His whole ascension to the top of the draft board, when he suddenly could not only hold his fastball velocity late into games but improve it, was already in need of an explanation. Now we have a potential explanation that seems pretty plausible to me.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was my fault. I worded what I was trying to saw awkwardly, and Tim was right to question it.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's what I was talking about. And he turns 24 next month, so he's already creeping up on his prime.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I phrased that poorly. I meant he'd have to massively improve his statistical profile. What he's doing now doesn't project to a .740 OPS in the majors, so he'd have to massively improve to actually put up a .740 OPS in the majors.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I absolutely know that. I don't think Szczur can be a 360/740 guy in the majors. I don't really think Ha can either, but even if he can, I'm not convinced he can play good MLB CF defense.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ick. I mean, anyone can be anything on a team if the rest of the team is good enough. But I really have trouble coming up with any sort of adequacy for Szczur that doesn't involve him massively improving over his current stats while transitioning from minors to majors, or having Bourn-ian levels of defense and baserunning. And Ha is just a worse version of the same thing.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's not how you judge such things. It's definitely part of it.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    It sure looks that way now.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Same. I have an issue with signing older guys to massive (think Pujols) commitments when you are going to get the majority of the value in the first 2 or 3 years of a deal and then be paying for that production for years thereafter, but otherwise, criticizing getting good value on guys for now is ridiculous. What the hell else were they going to do with the $5M they saved in 2013 by not signing Fujikawa? Or the $12 or w/e on Jackson? Use the money saved on Fujikawa to upgrade Jackson to Sanchez?
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Unfortunately, the Astros are probably thinking the same thing. That's what's weird about it. I don't know if it hurts his draft status or not, and I also don't know if by hurting his draft status he might actually cause himself to go higher or not.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    23/26 bb/k to 9/56 bb/k as well..... So other than the younger guy not hitting for as much power he's doing everything better after it took Baez a crazy hot stretch recently just to get here. Yeah. Lindor's line and K/BB rate are way more indicative of an ability to move up to higher levels and succeed.
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