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  1. sk7326
    Ryan Zeferjahn Law: Longenhagen
  2. sk7326
    Middlebrooks was a better athlete. Really that he got to the bigs that quickly was a testament to that. He was a two sport guy who just had not played all that much baseball. Chavis has played more baseball than Middlebrooks has, and it does show in the more mature approach at the plate.
  3. sk7326
    He has also shown he can lay off of it.
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    Right - a requirement of the situation is that a hitter can still turn on something inside, otherwise there is no incentive for pitchers to do anything else.
  5. sk7326
    Jarren Duran hit 2 HRs in his last year at LBSU and already has 4 on the farm - it's an impressive story. Now as a college signee you expect him to move quick, but getting to Portland already is good.
  6. sk7326
    I think with both of them - since they were looking to hit fly balls anyway, they looked at the shifts are relatively unimportant. What I wonder is whether the shifts will open up a chance for speedy slap hitters again. The problem is that to get to those slaps and to set the defense to shift on you, you have to be able to turn on inside stuff with at least SOME authority.
  7. sk7326
    That is a very hard call for the umps to make in real time - it means there has to be a simultaneous view of the baserunner and the ball as it leaves the field of play. You almost have to go to replay to feel good about it.
  8. sk7326
    Middlebrooks came up on a BABIP hot streak. It was clear that at some point that would fade. What is clear is that Chavis can clearly hit - he has a real approach and stuff.
  9. sk7326
    The shifting has gotten more precise. What I find interesting is that - longer term - you'd think that there would be a real market for an Otis Nixon of yore - who can make slap contact into the vacated SS or 3B hole and get on base that way. That seems like a natural counter which has not been deployed as much as one would think - at least not yet.
  10. sk7326
    One theory about the Volpe pick - although he is clearly a prospect in his own right - is that it might pave the way for the Yankees to use a later pick on Leiter and see if drafting one of his buddies helps convince him to sign.
  11. sk7326
    Usually when the "shoot higher" guys slip to 30 and beyond it's signability. And the system creates a strong incentive to get signable guys early - or to not mess with tough signs in the first 10 rounds unless you are confident. (related: see if the teams have some moon shots in mind for the later rounds on that basis)
  12. sk7326
    Fangraphs Longenhagen on Sox picks
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    Law on Yankees Picks: (his big board goes to 100) Longenhagen on Yankees picks:
  14. sk7326
    From Law's Top 100 http://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/26789854/keith-law-2019-big-board-updated-top-100-draft-prospects
  15. sk7326
    Half of those contracts were ridiculous
  16. sk7326
    Longevity matters. Going to the JAWS rankings - Pedroia ranks 19th all time among 2nd basemen - smack in the middle of the pack relative to guys who actually made the hall of fame. There are guys above him with better cases - Bobby Grich and the criminally overlooked Lou Whitaker to name two - but Pedroia's case is not bad. Essentially Pedroia's profile is virtually identical to, say, Ian Kinsler's. Pedroia probably gets the nod over him though - less overall WAR but a higher peak and more hardware.
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    One the two best middle infielders in Red Sox history. (Doerr was the other) Nomar was better the time he was here, but the time was limited and the injuries were what they were. The Top 20 Red Sox ever in terms of fWAR Clemens 76.8, Young 54.8, Pedro 51.9 1. Ted Williams 130.4 2. Yaz 94.8 3. Clemens 76.8 4. Boggs 70.8 5. Evans 64.3 6. Cy Young 54.8 7. Tris Speaker 54.4 8. Bobby Doerr 53.3 9. Pedro 51.9 10. Rice 50.3 11. Papi 48.8 12. Pedroia 47.1 13. Fisk 38.3 14. Foxx 37.6 15. Dom Dimaggio, Lefty Grove 34.6 Pedro is the best pitcher I ever saw, but Clemens did produce more for the Red Sox overall and that cannot be discounted.
  18. sk7326
    What is interesting is that Pedroia - at the point of the signing - was pretty durable. There were no indicators his body would fall apart - the 8 years was rich but the team was correct in that he'd be a screaming bargain if he could stay on the field. Of course his fortunes turned in 2015 and never got better healthwise.
  19. sk7326
    At his age, the power has still to come
  20. sk7326
    he's one of the three greatest infielders in the eleventy-billion year history of the Red Sox ... and possibly the greatest middle infielder in franchise history (and definitely one of the top two). He did all he could - and he remained a good player until his body failed him. Shame it has to end but father time is undefeated.
  21. sk7326
    you can't hit a ball much harder than the balls Bogaerts and Devers hit
  22. sk7326
    BTW: It is very bad for baseball that the flagship MLB Network announcers are so crotchety and ill-informed. This is really bad.
  23. sk7326
    For fangraphs, he has been the league's worst regular by a mile over Travis Shaw, partially because UZR does not like his defense as much as the eye test. (my operating theory has been that Betts has hurt him in the area of defensive measurement)
  24. sk7326
    Aaron used greenies instead
  25. sk7326
    Oh he advocated solid contact, but he was trying to get backspin and all of that good stuff. Really all the mystical woo around launch angle and exit velocity is silly ... it's just ways to measure stuff Williams and others understood qualitatively.
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