EdgarDiazRocks

Can Morales play 3B? It would appear not. BA reported him as a "corner infielder" but then I found this . . . . Patrick, who would you have gone with as the Padres budget pick? Chris Nelson? Bailey? Was stunned when BA ranked Nelson that high on the Pioneer League list since he didn't even play all that much, but he would be the only other one I would have gone with in their position (hindsight now included). I don't think Bush is much more of a gamble than any High School pitcher.

I love Dave Dombrowski. These guys are trying to hold teams hostage and he says "I'm not taking part of it, there's Cubans to be had" Does anybody still think that the Padres are stupid for staying the hell out of this mess? Also on a side note, I hope the Brewers at least make a cursory bid for Kendry Morales to play 3B.

I liked Gwynn at the begining of the game stated that the Crew was a young team, then he looked down to see who was in the lineup today . . . . Overbay is the kid. Whoops!!

Not listening today. Has JP confirmed this transaction? From Adam McCalvy . . . In a busy day of player moves Friday, the organization promoted outfielder Ryan Knox from Huntsville to Indianapolis, outfielder Ben Van Iderstine from High Desert to Huntsville and infielder Hernan Iribarren from the rookie Arizona league to Beloit.

I didn't see this note anywhere else here . . . . From Adam McCalvy In a busy day of player moves Friday, the organization promoted outfielder Ryan Knox from Huntsville to Indianapolis, outfielder Ben Van Iderstine from High Desert to Huntsville and infielder Hernan Iribarren from the rookie Arizona league to Beloit. The Hurricane is moving inland http://www.biblenews1.com/history2/pictures/hurricane/20020902.1315hernan.jpg

Sollmann reminds me a lot of Jack Wilson (9th rd pick) at this point. It will be interesting to watch him develop. http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/nd/sports/m-basebl/auto_action/a-sollmann051802.jpg

Edgar, do you want to help too? Oh, god no. I just like reading data. Compiling it might be a hobby occasionaly, but going out of my way to do it doesn't sound like fun.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif One of my problems with all these studies, along with the Non-drafted players is the fact that "injuries" are just counted as "injuries". I think there's a difference between Mike Jones' troubles and Brien Taylor's or Jeff Allison's troubles. Ricardo Rodriguez' career is now in jeopardy after injury not from the result of poor arm action or of throwing too many pitches, but instead the result of ONE pitch lined back into his elbow. The same thing happens in the minor leagues too. Statisticaly speaking, injury is injury. But stepping back from the numbers there is a lot of sheer dumb luck involved. Jose Uribe went from being an average shortstop to a terrible one because he never got over when his wife died in childbirth.But a Sabermatrician looks at his career numbers and says his OXS was 57% below league average, therefore he was a terrible player. Variables happen. As far as the jist of the HS v. College debate and the percentages of players reaching the bigs and thereby saying that a team should only draft one or the other I go with this stat. As soon as Greg Maddux wins his next game, there will be two 300 game winners in the Bigs. One was a HS pitcher, one was a college pitcher. Saying you should go one way or the other would rule out one.. You are a smart guy well now that's even more debateable. there is certainly no data to support that hypothesis.

If you guys do this, please create a seperate catergory for latin players like Oliver Perez and Johan Santana. I think when the whole HS v. College debate gets bandied about the non-drafted latin players who should go into the raw HS catergory IMO get left out completely.

He didn't shoot heroin Al, he's hooked on OxyContin. Sad to report this from BA

Wow, somebody really didn't want to college. An advisor should have told hill Chapel Hill girls are prettier than those at the Angels' AZ rehab center. http://www.footballculture.net/footballenglish/images/hamm.jpg A good gamble by the Angels.

I do think that part is a bit of a stretch at this point. And good god! 2 more HBP! What is that, 22 on the season? Why not mention the backside of Don Baylor when you describe him. http://www.topprospectalert.com/MLRamblings/images/rweeks1.jpg He's going to need more body armor in the bigs.

Mothership has a splendid funkalicious idea! Let's all tip one to the boys who make beer and swear to the baseball gods that we will push that sweet domestic product in trade for at least a wildcard birth and a Corey Hart call-up. I'm rollin' Northwest style . . . http://www.rareads.com/scans/5477.jpg Like Curtis Mayfield said . . . "'Cause I'm your Pusherman"

A lot of the people I argued with brought up the same points, A's better W-L record, easier competition, new "innovative" ideas, and his desciples are spreading the winning ways. But here's the rub, the better W-L is more due to the state of the franchises they took over. Sandy Alderson didn't exactly run the A's into the ground, where as Terry Ryan had Chuck Knoblauch and Marty Cordova as his stars day one. Also, if the 2001 116-win Seattle Mariners have taught me anything, it's that wins don't me squat respect wise without a championship. Ryan and Beane still have none. Having to beat the West is great if you do it, but actually half the time over the past 6 years the A's have been competing for the Wildcard, not the AL West alone. Therefore the competition is all the good teams in the AL not just the Mariners and A's. Theroetically this makes the A's competition even harder, and I see that point, but I think it equalizes it. The Twins havent had a chance to win the wildcard if they havent won the central, but they still have a recognizable goal and they achieve it against the same competition. Do you really think they wouldn't have won the central if there was a balanced schedule and they lose four games with the Tigers? The new "innovative (Bill James has been around awile you know)" ideas are nice and all, but very few of the ones in the book have been implemented at the Major League Level (as far as player development goes), this team still has Grady Fuson's stamp all over it. The moral of the story is there is more than a few ways to build succesful franchises and what the Twins are doing is just as "innovative" because it's working.

As much as I like Beane, Ryan and Scherholtz, Dave Dombrowski still holds that title for me. Have you seen what the Tigers are doing? He built Montreal from scratch, bought a championship in Florida (which is harder to do than you think, ask the Orioles), took that team apart and built the Marlin team that won the series last year, now is turning the Tigers into the best story of the year. That guy is great.

Colby, don't get me started. I just spent a week on another board arguing that Ryan and Beane were pretty much equal in my estimation and the Moneyball freaks started coming out of the walls like the critters in Aliens.

Yovani, we'll love ya' like a first rounder, how 'bout that! Great work on Jack Z. part to get 14 of the top 15 signed in a month's time. Now we wait on all the Canadians.

Didn't I mention something about Tony Alvarez recently too? Sigh.

His fastball dances plenty too. He struck out 13 Reds last time out. 9 Brewers up, no hits, no walks, 5 K's I got a bad feeling about this.

Perez had good control in the first inning. http://www.deportes15-30.com/ant/02-junio15/images02-06-15/OLIVER-PEREZ.jpg It's like I was saying this kid was good last year. Be afraid. Come on Crew! Talk a walk or two.

Good Lord!! Prince Fielder has 8 stolen bases!! Eight!!! Where's the story on that?

So we got a guy with "good face" and a Prettyman? Ladies night in Helena is set! Wait . . are there any ladies in Helena?

I gave a C just because none of these pitchers are going to be ready when the Hitters are. I understand the "best possible athelete" over "need" and agree with the philosophy ('tho in this year certainly Weaver and Drew as a 3B met both of those criteria without the Boras factor), but when the Weeks, Hardy, Fielder, Hart team is ready, whos going to be in the rotation? These guys will be lucky to be in Huntsville. Rogers said all the right things in that BA interview, but I would have liked somebody a little closer to eat innings every 5th day in 2006 at least in the 2nd round.

Steven Sollmann: SIMILAR TO EX-MAJOR LEAGUER CHUCK KNOBLAUCH. Well hopefully he's considerably less twitchy. Excellent pick.

I say it's time to take another Anchorage kid. Start a trend I say! Don't make me sing the flag song again! Juan Buck: CF East Anchorage H.S. COMMENT: TALL, LARGE FRAME. WELL PROPORTIONED, ATHLETIC BUILD. SUPPLE. BROAD SHOULDERS. THICK THROUGH CHEST. EXRA-LONG ARMS. BIG HANDS. STRONG LEGS. NEAR PHYSICAL MATURITY. SIMILAR TO ALBERT PUJOLS. SLIGHTLY CLOSED, UPRIGHT STANCE. SLIGHT UPPERCUT STROKE. VERY QUICK THROUGH ZONE. GOOD EXTENTION & FOLLOW THROUGH. BALL JUMPS & CARRIES OFF BAT. PLUS HR PWR POTENTIAL. POWERFUL STRIDE, 4.25-1B, 6.90-60 YD. TRACKS BALL WELL IN OUTFIELD. PHYSICALLY IMPRESSIVE. STRONG. BAT CHANCE TO BE SPECIAL. RUN PRODUCER POTENTIAL. BIG UPSIDE.

Starters, starters and more starters. We're gonna fix the injury bug by throwing arms at it!