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  1. LouisEly
    It even brings out a Sessile Fielder/Battlekow sighting. Still waiting for Batman to reappear...
  2. LouisEly
    What the hell just happened? Gameday says Yadier Molina steals 2nd base.
  3. LouisEly
    Dubon was traded for (a player they drafted).
  4. LouisEly
    Yep. There's even a book about it (a book that, in my industry, is a must-read at some companies). +1000. Don't forget the "fueled by the anonymity of the internet & social media" component of that either.
  5. LouisEly
    My guess is that Braun’s reaction of immediately turning his head and shoulders back towards the plate may have thrown him off, but still not a great sign. This - Ueck could have been watching a monitor, because I just watched the highlights on MLB network and when I saw Braun's reaction (the way he turned his head and shoulders) I thought he popped out and was frustrated. His hearing might be going, and with crowd noise might not have been able to hear the ball off the bat.
  6. LouisEly
    I thought it was because Moss only had one year left on his contract, and TT would not give up the pick for only one season - he wanted Moss to sign an extension for at least one additional year.
  7. LouisEly
    Fixed
  8. LouisEly
    [sarcasm]Yep, should have cut him[/sarcasm] Way to wait and say this after he struck out the side. Been saying it since he was in AA. He's nowhere near as bad as some on this board would have you believe. 3.88 FIP last year - not bad at all.
  9. LouisEly
    [sarcasm]Yep, should have cut him[/sarcasm]
  10. LouisEly
    Yep - the tanking occurs prior to the trade deadline and during the offseason. The players on those eight teams are playing for their jobs next year, especially the guys called up in September, so I highly doubt there's a lot of tanking going on in August and September.
  11. LouisEly
    News flash: Hader is filthy
  12. LouisEly
    I think there is a significant dropoff in talent in this draft around #10; I don't think there is a big difference in talent between the #14 pick and the Packers 2nd round pick. Of the players available at #14, the only one projected to be available who I think might be worth that pick is Harold Landry. He can probably be had in the 20s, and Josh Jackson and DJ Moore can probably be had in the early 2nd. I'd part with #14 if the Cardinals sent back their 2nd round pick (#47), then look at packaging a 2nd and a 3rd or both 2nds to move up to get Landry. I'd also part with a 2nd, 4th, and 5th if it meant guaranteeing to get Landry and Peterson.
  13. LouisEly
    I think this is the more relevant quote: “We feel comfortable with where we are pitching-wise,” said Stearns, whose staff ranked fifth in the National League (4.00 ERA) last season. “I think we have a very deep staff when you look at the guys that not only are going to start at the major-league level but also the guys who will be in our Triple-A rotation. “I do think we have eight to 10 starters right now who we’d feel comfortable making starts at the major-league level. So, that’s a good place to be heading into a season."
  14. LouisEly
    Ironically, Spriggs was drafted because there were still questions about Bakhtiari after his third season. It wasn't until Bak's fourth season that he broke out and made the pro bowl.
  15. LouisEly
    Stop it. Stop making every damn thread about your Villar hating agenda. It is so damn tiring that every year you do this with certain players. Bolding the part you may have missed. Unless Villar has changed his first name to One and I'm not aware of it, I took that to mean one of the three 2B (either Perez, Sogard, or Villar) will be gone but the exact one not specified.
  16. LouisEly
    I had Harber in my top 50 pre-2017. I wonder if the Brewers asked him to add a pitch or two, or change how he throws it. He could have been putting a lot of work in to the change.
  17. LouisEly
    2019? May well see that at the end of 2018. I think the point of the "glad we didn't sign Cobb/etc." crowd is that they didn't want the Brewers to be hamstrung by a long-ish contract when they have so much depth in the upper parts of the minors now. Nelson's injury seems like it isn't as serious as initially speculated, then you have Anderson (who has pitched great the last 1.5 years), Davies (who is only 25), and Chacin as your top four. Then you have Woodruff (top 100 prospect), Burnes (top 50 prospect), Ortiz (borderline top 100 prospect), and Peralta (potential to be top 100) knocking on the door, plus other potential starters (Wilkerson, Perrin, Derby) who are all likely to be in AAA this year, plus the pitchers moving up from A+ to AA (Ponce). Why invest in a multi-year deal when those guys are knocking on the door and can spend the money elsewhere?
  18. LouisEly
    I'll take Barnes' major league performance over the last two seasons over Hoover's major league performance in a heartbeat.
  19. LouisEly
    I think it's as much about how high they are on Jones and Brice and having what they perceive as equal replacements than about losing Burnett for $5M/year. The other question is how much guaranteed money Burnett is getting from PIT versus how much GB was offering. GBs AAV may have been in line, but with little guaranteed.
  20. LouisEly
    Thank you.
  21. LouisEly
    They're analytical people. I think the formula is: Last year's rotation (8th in MLB in Wins Above Average) minus half season of Nelson minus dead weight (Garza, Peralta, Milone, Espino who combined for 210 innings) plus better OF defense (Cain, Yelich) plus Chacin/Woodruff/Suter (absorbing Nelson's innings and replacing dead weight). I dare say that Woodruff/Suter are much better than the dead weight they are replacing (Garza, Peralta, Milone, Espino), then it boils down to Chacin replacing Nelson and the added value of better OF defense. I don't think it's a bad rotation at all. At least, not much worse than last year, which was pretty darned good.
  22. LouisEly
    Why not keep the best 25 guys regardless of options? Guys like Hoover, Miley, Gallardo... really, what are the chances that they get claimed by another team? Cut them, most will not be claimed by another team, and then sign those guys to a minor league deal. I don't want to lose games in April and May trying to get an extra year of control for Woodruff and Williams. Hoover has walked 5.7 and 5.8 per 9 the last two seasons - it is going to take a lot more than a handful of spring training innings to convince me to keep him over Williams. If they signed a minor league deal to begin with... chances are there isn't much interest out there to have them on the major league club except in case of emergency.
  23. LouisEly
    The Jets want one of the three QBs. By trading up to #3 they know one of the three will be there. The Browns have to be ecstatic, as they now know they can get their choice of QB at #1 and then Barkley at #4. The Giants have to draft a successor to Manning, and the Jets obviously moved up for a QB.
  24. LouisEly
    Fangraphs has Williams' fastball last year at 96.1, and I don't necessarily know that he was "letting it rip" as he was coming back from injury and it also was at the end of his first season pitching in three years and might have been a bit tired. They have described his fastball in spring training as "electric", suggesting it either has more velocity, more movement, or both. Velocity is a majority of the battle, but how well the pitcher hides the ball is important too. Mike Fiers hid the ball well, which made his 90 mph fastball seem like it was 95+.
  25. LouisEly
    1 Woodruff B 2 Hiura K 3 Burnes C 4 Peralta F 5 Ortiz L 6 Phillips B 7 Erceg L 8 Williams T 9 Houser A 10 Ponce C 11 Bickford P 12 Lutz T 13 Grisham T 14 Dubon M 15 Medeiros K 16 Ray C 17 Gatewood J 18 Stokes T 19 Feliciano M 20 Diplan M 21 Pennington J 22 Supak T 23 Brown Z 24 Webb B 25 Harrison KJ 26 Wilkerson A (I'd have him higher, but I don't think they will give him a chance) 27 Nottingham J 28 Perrin J 29 Kirby N 30 Carmona J 31 Herrera C 32 Ramirez N 33 Derby B 34 Lemons K 35 Ernesto L 36 Clark Z 37 Lopez J 38 Henry P 39 Garcia G 40 Owenby D 41 Hummel C 42 Vassalotti M 43 Wren K 44 Uhen J 45 Rodriguez C 46 QT-C 47 Coulter C 48 Neuhaus T 49 Wilson W 50 Williams D Very little difference between 7 and 12, then a dropoff but very little difference between 13 and 31.
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