I didn't have any issue with the ranking; such rankings are arbitrary. I had issue with the "reasoning" that was given. Giving significance to 4 hitless games sandwiched between 5 multiple hit games is fatuous. The guy had 11 hits in his last 9 games.
And I'll apologize for contributing to this tangent.
your fundamental error is that you equate round with circular or spheric. It's not. It's only approximately so.
This is 100% semantics, and in semantics you need to go back to the definitions of the words.
There are 20 guys I could have put 14-20, and I think they all have a chance for a ML career.
1. Chourio
2. Frelick
3. Mitchell
4. Ruiz
5. Wiemer
6. Turang
7. Quero
8. Gasser
9. Black
10. Brown
11. Avina
12. Y. Perez
13. Misiorowski
14. Feliciano
15. C. Rodriguez
16. S. Cruz
17. Devanney
18. Small
19. Areinamo
20. Moore
And he got 3, 2 and 2 hits in the 3 games before those 4, and 2 and 2 hits in the two final games of the season. So in the 9-game stretch which is centered on 4 Oh-For games, he still hit about .290.
There's probably no thing in the known universe that's perfectly round, if you measured it precisely enough. The semantics used in those articles is based on a faulty (implied) definition.
I wouldn't. We don't even know if Turang will hit well enough to stay up the whole year.
I wouldn't extend Wong, but picking up his option and then trading him is something I hadn't considered. Should be able to trade him for a solid RP. The only risk is if you can't trade him. Finding a quality young 3B in trade is about as easy as finding a unicorn.
I wouldn't. We don't even know if Turang will hit well enough to stay up the whole year.
I wouldn't extend Wong, but picking up his option and then trading him is something I hadn't considered. Should be able to trade him for a solid RP. The only risk is if you can't trade him. Finding a quality young 3B in trade is about as easy as finding a unicorn.
It doesn't have to be perfectly round to be "round." Definitions from Oxford American English Dictionary:
round | round | adjective 1 shaped like or approximately like a circle or cylinder:
2 shaped like or approximately like a sphere