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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Brett Jackson home run. He's going to need to get and stay hot for a long time to get back on the radar.
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    Hendricks threw a 7-inning CG shutout in the first half of a doubleheader. 7 IP, 7 H, 1 BB, 7 K, 0 ER. ERA down to 2.20, and his FIP and xFIP are both well in the 2s as well.
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    I was figuring we'd get a mod to step in on that one. The bonery went all the way up to Tim, instead.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Kyle Hendicks is dealing again, btw. 4 IP, 1 BB, 4 H, 4 K, 0 R
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Those guys give me a confused smirk. Soler gets maybe a leering grin, but my boners are reserved for .900+ OPSes.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    If it's razor thin, why not go with the guy who already has shown to be productive in the pros? (in a difficult league for that, mind you) Because Soler's production gives me more of an appreciative smile than a raging boner, and the pick has boner potential.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    With everyone jockeying for bargaining position and looking for an excuse to differentiate the top 3 or 4, it has to have some effect.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd go No. 2 pick (as long as it's not signability based) first, then Soler, Almora and Baez. I'd consider Soler/Pick to be a razor-thin margin.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is it the default? I voted no.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    So if he didn't only have a really good starting rotation but also a really good bullpen he would look better? Well, yeah, he's a manager. There's not awhole lot they can really do on a good team.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I basically agree with what TT is saying: If we had a roster full of adequate pitchers, Sveum's worst flaw wouldn't even come up and we could all just bask in the glow of his shiftiness.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    We'll see where it stands at the end of the year.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ditto. I don't see why he couldn't be the No. 5 prospect in the system right now. He's got eerily similar production to Baez with much better peripherals, a year further along in the system.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want the Astros to go the cheap route and leave no doubt that whomever we get is the one guy that our front office wanted the most.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Guy who posts on ProSportsDaily Cubs forums who has a lot of connections with scouts in the Midwest. He doesn't have a direct inside connection with the Cubs, but he's shown some reliability posting insider rumors from around baseball.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    If someone could just disabuse him of his loyalty to awful veteran relievers, I could go back to voting yes. Still love most of what he does.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    if his hit tool is so bad, why is his average high and isop so low in your projections? Everyone makes mistakes, and he hits mistakes really hard.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    The whole "he isn't a finished product" routine is technically true, but the only reason it gets brought up is to try to deflect away from how rare it is for low-BB hitters to become something else. No one said anything about him being "doomed." He's in a high-bust category, and if he gets there, I think something like 290/320/500 (or even more ISO) is the best-case realistic scenario.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Castro at the finish line
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, yeah. A lot of stuff goes into OPS.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    No.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Baez and Soler with RBI singles in the first for Daytona.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want two new catchers this time next year.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, these last two games have done a good job of killing all that good feeling about the Cubs. Need another five-game win streak, please.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    From the article: Yes, the article points out that if you shrink the population to guys whom you already know had long, successful MLB careers, then MLB OPS and MiLB K rate are positively indicated. That means little for Baez, who does not go into that category yet. That category is very small and (as the article points out)was dominated by high BB/high K guys such as Larry Walker (12% BBs as a 20-year-old in AA), Joey Votto (15.9% BB rate as a 20-year-old across A and A+) and Ryan Howard (minor league debut at 21, 14.8% BB/rate in A-). Baez just doesn't fit that profile at all. No one's saying he's a for-sure bust. I'm saying if isn't a bust, it's almost certainly because he gets enough value from his power and defensive position to make up for an adequate-at-best OBP.
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