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try 22

as soon as I take the lead I'll start a thread about it on the off topic board.

way to work that count early

Still a terrible QP ratio. 100.27 to 1 post to thanks ratio leaves him in the bottom half of the Quality Post category.

I actually thought you were a female poster and it was meant as a sexist comment. No real offense meant, goes back to an old poster named MetalJay

just sounds like a female to me.

Indians (Kluber over Scherezer) and Jays in a 5 inning parlay paying 8.27-1. $72.70 in profit on lockdown.

Or since you have these links...you could just look them up yourself.

Rajai

Carreno looked awful yesterday. His slider used to be an out pitch yesterday not one hitter missed it. wouldn't surprise me to hear a DL trip for him. Why would Pillar get pushed past Gose? Why does no one mention Goins?

closed again

reopened for Fat cow to get some code info

hard to tell off of one game but he took Cueto`s breaking stuff and waited on a FB. he turned nicely on it just line out to RF. While I understand why management would tell him that they expect a 230 lbs. guy who can`t defend to develop more power but since these changes he`s suddenly a .230 hitter rather than the .300 guy he was looking like he could be...especially since there is no evident power increase.

Boni was 1.1 WAR in 200 PA's in 2010. 0.4 in 274 PA's in 2012. He's been above replacement level in the past three seasons. I don't believe in Boni at all but I don't believe that Negrych would put up positive WAR seasons for three straight if put into the scenario.

that depends on Jimenez's health though.

Lansing vs. Dayton Thursday game notes Pompey - is an all hands guy, Too loopy of a swing to be successful Smith Jr. - Makes Lawrie look like a statue out there. Way too much prep movement for my liking. When he does swing it's a nice level swing, his swing doesn't match the stats to date in my mind. I don't see him being a super low line drive guy. His leg kick isn't quite as prolific as I heard so I'm guessing he's cut it down. I can see him developing a bit more power but not enough to make him a corner OF threat. So he has to be a CF (can't speak for the defense specifically as I didn't see him make a play) or a 4th OF, not sure what happened to the experiment of him trying 2B but I'd like him a lot more if he added more positions. Appears to be a very smart ball player too. Lopes - I look at him in the batter's box and he just looks like a major league star. He's a f***ing statue in there and focused. Swings down a little bit but it might have to do more with situation as Smith was on base in scoring position for his early AB's. He obviously doesn't take quite enough pitches which is surprising for a guy with his AB approach. Didn't get to see the defense at all, but if it can be even close to good (which it is said to be) he'll be a major league 2B someday...very Brandon Phillips light all around. Hawkins - Announcers had a nice conversation about Hawkins talking about what a different hitter Hawkins is this year and they asked about the change, Hawkins told them that management has told him that he's a corner OF (which he doesn't poorly) or DH and he's going to have to develop more power to match his size if he's going to make it. He has not been effective since the change. He looks good in the box, he just swings hard at everything. He doesn't miss the ball all that much, I think he must need more bottom half. Best case scenario is that he becomes a Garrett Jones type. Avendano - most disappointing guy I saw. The few times they mentioned his FB it was 91 or 92. He threw every single FB up in the zone. At one point he threw 6 straight curveballs and it looks good. Can't say I saw a change up. He didn't fool many guys and for a guy that's about biting the corners I didn't see him hit a bat. Cueto - Steady diet of curveballs for the most part. When he did throw the FB it was up around 94. He'll be fine Guillon - Major league stuff for sure. I can see why he's on the Reds 40 man still. He just can't control his stuff. Completely impressed though, will be interesting to see if he can get the control around a little. He'll make a great reliever if he can. Jesse Winker - Most impressive guy on the field. Queue him into every watch list, he's going to be a top 50 prospect shortly...and that might be underrating him.

one of the things I forgot to mention about the Trenton team...they have a dog as a bat boy. he comes out and picks up bats and brings them back to the dugout.

Kozma is younger, performing better and available for a very small pick upgrade. If you pick one pick ahead of me I'll give him to you.

Twitter follower? I hear the guy behind the account is brilliant

but is Negrych the guy that you dump him for? 2011 Bonifacio had a major league season better than any minor league season other than this one that Negrych has had. He batted .380/.466/.450 in July that year. You don't make a reactionary move for a guy that should be a bench player on your team, even if the guy he's replacing is below bench level. Even in 2012 he had a .370 OBP when batting from the left side. I noted that 9 of his 63 hits were bunts last year...why hasn't he attempted a bunt for a hit yet? You can't bring in a guy and take away his most successful weapon.

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That is correct but what do you do when he comes back? Negrych isn't clearing waivers. He is a major league 25th man. The issue isn't as much with Negrych himself it's that he doesn't fit with this team as we already have two 25th men.

In a way he's not wrong Negrych is locked in right now and the line drive rate is at 20.7 same as it was for 324 PA's in Syracuse last year. However given long term at the MLB level he's going to be replacement level at best, he's got a great eye and doesn't miss many balls but he's also below average on the basepaths, below average defensively. He would make a good 25th man, injury replacement guy. That's it. Bonifacio is useless (can't say I didn't warn you) however he has proven at this level that he too can go on a run much more valuable than what Negrych would do. If they had an ability to get something of value out of Boni, I'd say go right ahead, deal him and go with Negrych for a short term spark but it's a move to please the casuals again, not a good baseball move.

Zero need, clearly still working on things. MLB players probably won't swing at nearly as much of his stuff, which means he has to hit those corners. He's not on the 40 man yet and unlike Ortiz if he pitches badly you probably don't want to just dump him for the next guy...and if you DFA Deck he's not clearing waivers.

potentially replaying part of the game. Changing the result. I think there have only been 5 protested games upheld in history. The above mentioned rain delay, the pine tar incident and Jeff Leonard's odd at bat are three that I remember. The Leonard one they had to replay the 9th inning the next day