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  1. sk7326
    On the field: Really the sport has roster rules exactly backwards. Start the minor league season LATER. You really should have your 40 man roster in April, not September. Go to automated ball-strikes calls. Umps are lousy at it, it's an impossible job for humans to do. Also - the strike zone is in the rule book, that umps interpret it their own way is a mistake. Off the field: Allow trading draft picks. (Hell, abolish the draft - but that's never going to happen) Abolish salary limits. Get rid of draft pick compensation for free agents.
  2. sk7326
    Bar has to be high as a pure DH. Ortiz is not the best qualified pure DH will a Hall case (Edgar Martinez is at least as good). I'd argue for them both, but I can't argue for Ortiz first.
  3. sk7326
    Watching pitchers hit and bunt is enough evidence. (heck the proliferation of watching bunts period)
  4. sk7326
    Guys play hard for him - and he clearly is very good at a lot of the "stuff we don't see". The org has committed to the young position players and they have flourished. The prior dithering about them when they did not turn into All-Stars in seconds seems like above his pay grade.
  5. sk7326
    essentially they are shutting down minor league pitchers - so only guys coming up in roster expansion are position guys (and ours are not that bad)
  6. sk7326
    Montreal makes sense - what the league did to them was criminal. Mexico City sounds good - but the economics and the security are an issue - it would be hard for FAs to go there. But a natural to me is Austin, which could capture San Antonio as a secondary market. A team somewhere in North Carolina would also make some sense. If they do that, going to four 8 team divisions and balancing the schedules would be good.
  7. sk7326
    Hard to say - the Phillies did end up paying him more AAV
  8. sk7326
    I don't deny it - but it's a place to put a guy who can rake ... I am not trying to rain on Ramirez' parade, but if he weren't so transcendentally awful in LF last season, I suspect the discussion this season would not feel so amazing.
  9. sk7326
    Strikeout rate is a career high 31% - so the first approximation says this will get better ...
  10. sk7326
    It's because 1B is the position where you move bats without positions (when the DH is not an option).
  11. sk7326
    No. People are just amazed Hanley can walk onto the baseball field without tripping over his shoelaces.
  12. sk7326
    The pitch framing is amazing
  13. sk7326
    Sox are in a serious zone ... enjoy it while it lasts. Sox are on a 920 run pace
  14. sk7326
    It's a lefty - this is Young's one special baseball talent
  15. sk7326
    The baseball spaghetti monster put Chris Young on this earth to hit lefthanded pitching ... fortunately we are now starting to see more of it
  16. sk7326
    There are no absolutes. The system player of the year is always weird to me - it's a nice way to recognize guys who play well, but the correlation with how the org views its prospects does not seem that high. The Lars Anderson, Andy Marte's of the world make the whole scouting thing a particular bear.
  17. sk7326

    The Cubs

    sk7326 replied to iortiz's topic in Other Baseball

    Cubs are the league's best team right now - but we also know it's baseball - and being the best team is worth less in the postseason than it is in any other sport. It will be a fun ride.
  18. sk7326
    Probably - although wOBA is not very difficult to explain at all. It's really just correcting slugging percentage.
  19. sk7326
    oh it's Vasquez or Bradley. Bogaerts' range is never going to be amazing, but he has done a very good job. Errors are for the most part useless for conveying this sort of information. Ramirez has been good - but I wonder how much credit we are giving him because he has not been the toxic sewage dump he was last year.. Being valedictorian is nice - but if you're the valedictorian of summer school, it's a bit less impressive Our up the middle is really good - the corners are adequate but definitely the weaker part of the defense. Fortunately that is better than the reverse. I don't think we are adding value to our run prevention the way that Kansas City has - but it is a breath of fresh air compared to 2015.
  20. sk7326
    I can see it - but I am not sure how much Owens was getting out of not throwing strikes and making old Dice-K starts look like Greg Maddux ones.
  21. sk7326
    "@jonahkeri Chili Davis once told reporters "If you don't get laid in Montreal,you're really in a slump""
  22. sk7326
    Yes. The sample is too small to say anything about a guy's quality - but it is enough to say whether things have gone well or not. It's like how a .300 hitter than go 0 for 10. It doesn't mean the guy is .000 but it is still a rough 10 at-bats.
  23. sk7326
    What is fun is that the attack has found a sort of happy hybrid of the Royals sort of high contact, gap hitting and old school take and rake Red Sox. Shaw and Bogaerts have both gotten off to MVP-flavoured starts. Striking difference in the left side of the infield.
  24. sk7326
    The data is very noisy so far - he is not off to a great start clearly. But you really need 2 seasons of data to make any conclusions about the player. Bradley is more likely to bounce back.
  25. sk7326
    Cards are 17-16 with the NL's 2nd best run differential. They are not sellers. Now they could move Holliday for value reasons but they have no reason to give up on 2016.
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