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Agreed. I hate bunting as much as anyone but it's still a very relevant skill to have for the Pillar (and *cough* Goins *cough*) types.

I'd MAYBE understand if he was born in Cinci, but this is getting really stupid.

lmfao Wow

I don't know what's going on here but congrats!

Why is Jim Leyland managing this team anyway? I thought this ancient dummy retired already. Knowing him, he probably just doing this solely to troll the "sabermetrics" guys because new things are scary when you're 100.

wait, how did you end up in there? Did like 10 teams from each league you're in drop out or something?

Actually, I have one more championship than you but this still works I guess

MGL N follows M in the alphabet By places in the alphabet, M+G+L = 32 Matt Kemp wears #27 32+27-10=49 Matt Kemp plays OF Lumernati confirmed

What a hater. Making any type of disingenuous stretch to prove his point. All I gotta say to King and people like him: watch and learn, folks.

LeMahieu stepped up his game last season by embracing his true identity. The result has been a .305/.362/.406 slash line over his last 812 plate appearances. “I became a player who knew what his strengths were and what his weaknesses were,” LeMahieu told me. “Last year, I decided to strengthen my strengths as much as I could. I hit the ball to the other side of the field well — I hit the ball oppo — and I don’t hit for a ton of power. In order to succeed, to be at my best, that’s what I need to do.” It’s hard to argue with the results. LeMahieu’s line-drive (29.3% this year) and hard-contact (33.8%) rates have gone up along with his higher percentage (40.3%) of balls hit the other way. The introverted infielder wasn’t very expansive with his answer when I asked if a mechanical adjustment was involved in the transformation. All he shared was, “I just tried to make sure I don’t get outside of myself.” Colorado hitting coach Blake Doyle had more to offer on the subject. “We did a few things to simplify his approach,” said Doyle. “We had him cut down the plate, so that he wasn’t trying to cover all 17 inches. At this level, you need to pick a side, pick an area, until you get to two strikes. He’s also staying inside the ball with his hands. He’s letting the ball travel more, and he has more control of the club head now that there’s less movement with his body. “He’s not a leg-kick guy. There were times he was kicking a little bit and his swing was getting a little too long. We cut down on that movement. When you’re his size, people expect you to hit the long ball. That’s not what he does well. We talked about it, and DJ bought into being someone who stays inside the ball. That’s who he is.” He’s also a productive big-leaguer, which was far from a given when the Cubs drafted him 79th overall out of LSU in 2009. The Detroit-area native hit .344 as a collegian, but he was a bit of a square peg in a round hole due to his aforementioned profile. Chicago wasn’t all that bullish on his future, as they swapped him to Colorado two years later for a pair of spare parts. LeMahieu admits there was no Plan B had he stalled in the minors. “I was hoping I was going to get here, and that I would stay once I did,” said LeMahieu. “But you never know. The big leagues were my only goal and if I didn’t make it, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I put all my eggs in that one basket, so I guess I kind of had to make it.”

He's had a bit of a progressive skill change. He was still quite valuable in 2015.

I'd do Osuna+ for Reed still. The DJLM trade is the worst one by far of those three imo.

lol this trade is fine. Christ.

Neat little Photoshop project.

U gaiz r so dumn

I'm so thankful that Greg Bird's shoulder is just fine. Playoffs, here I come.

I find he veers too much into the scouting gobbledygook. He's not markedly worse than any other site but I miss Dan Farnsworth.

This is like paying Michael Moore to be your dietitian.

http://i.imgur.com/CwIzRyK.png Oh boy.

yeah for a waiver pick or something.

whatever

If you'll recall, I argued that fat people shouldn't have to look at a bigger number when they step on a scale.

I tried to pry Healy away from you earlier you dumb f***

What's it to me? I have to read it since I enjoy your dumb ass far too much for me to stick you on my IL.

Watching you go on another one of your obnoxious "dinger helium guy" trips is annoying.