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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jackson single, proving once again that he studied the fine art of BABIP under LaHair this spring.
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    Baez doubles to right-center on a hard line drive, was thinking triple the whole way, had to scramble to put on the brakes and get back to 2nd to avoid being thrown out.
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    Four runs in against Concepcion, still in the first.
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    Vitters gets caught at the warning track in dead center, about 395 feet from home plate.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's wild again. I'm wondering where all that supposed polish is. Radio guys describing plenty of off-speed stuff. Hoping he's just out of whack in his first year in the USA and will do better once he gets his feet under him.
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    brettjackson No. 1
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    Matching game, players to BABIP Sappelt Johnson .372 .261
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    http://i.minus.com/ibEmDN7KKtpzz.gif
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    Then maybe I worded it badly. Or maybe it just is bad logic. But when I read tweets that make the guy sound like a marginal prospect, and then he gets paid 35% more than Soler did, my first reaction isn't "Ha ha, the Dodgers spent $42 million on a marginal prospect."
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    If you don't see it, I can't help you see it. That's because you're reasoning makes no sense. So's your face.
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    Really? My reading of the situation was that Puig would bring a lot closer to 20 million than 4, especially with the uncapped deadline looming. Concepcion was talked about as being a top-10 talent in an average system, and he got $6 million. I was going from that to the "not a top-10 talent" comments about Puig to assume that he would get less.
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    If you don't see it, I can't help you see it.
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    That's an absurd oversimplification, but sure.
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    Someone was wrong, either the pundit comments or the Cubs. Given that the Cubs are betting $136 million and the pundits were betting the energy it took to post a blog entry (is that what they were doing in 2007?), I'll assume the Cubs were closer to right. /smartass Teams sometimes have dumb people running them. The Dodgers have a really dumb guy running them. There's a difference in orders of magnitude here. If the pundits were saying Puig was a $20 million dollar prospect and he got $42 million, then maybe the Dodgers are just idiots. The Cubs paid a $90 million player $136 million. The reports on Puig implied he wouldn't be worth a tenth of what he ended up getting. You can't reconcile that with just "well, maybe the Dodgers are dumb."
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Someone was wrong: either the pundit comments or the Dodgers. Given that the Dodgers are better $42 million dollars and the pundits were betting the energy it took them to send out a tweet, I'll assume the Dodgers were closer to right.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Keeping in mind that technically neither Soler nor Almora are technically "in the system" right now, you could sort of defensibly put Candelario as high as No. 2.
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    right now he's my top prospect in the system. Vitters > Jackson says a lot more about Jackson than it does about Vitters, although I'm very happy with Vitters' season.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    And Vitters finishes his day with an 8-pitch walk. That's it, screw it, he's a better prospect than Jackson right now.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    And Jackson, given his best chance to make it through a whole game without striking out, strikes out. At least it was looking?
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Vitters adds a triple to make it 2-for-4 with 5 TB. Jackson's coming up in the 9th for his first PA, and Vitters should get his fifth.
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    I'm not going to condescend, just respectfully disagree. I think the facts fit the "he's getting tired" argument better than they fit the "batters hit his fastball better after seeing it multiple times."
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Coming into today, K/BB ratio: Pitches 1-25: 6.25 26-75: 3.00 76+: 1.67 I've never really bought into the idea that you need a ton of different pitches to be an effective starter. It looks to me that he just doesn't have the stamina to be a starter right now, either in terms of a single game or the course of a season. I don't know if he's going to get better in future seasons, but there's no reason not to try. You can always shift him back to the bullpen later.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    And only 1 K in 17 batters faced. 3.75 FIP or better in 7 of his last 11 12 starts.
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    Saves the trouble of nontendering him later.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    what the hell has been interesting? I dunno. I feel the same way as UMF, but I just can't put my finger on it. I've watched more Cubs baseball this year than the past three years combined, and this team is worse than any of them.
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