Nox

Against RHP, I would approve.

Just don't care enough to fully rage. It's honestly laughable. Who in our system is a legit position player prospect? Who? f*** me sideways.

LERN 2 DRAFT f***ing idiots. f***ing god damned idiots.

Nice pick imo.

Twitter says Appel to Houston. Surprising.

No time to rest in this, an all-in season!! #speakingreek

Lol!!

Exactly. I'm pretty sure a guy busting his ass in the gym with proper nutrition/supplements accompanying it enhances performance when compared to your standard cheesburger/beer diet of most ball players 50 years ago. I'm not saying I have the answers to this question. I'm just pointing out why it's a hard question and why I think the current witch hunt approach the MLB seems to favour is pretty thick skulled.

The necessarily vagueness of your statement is part of what's so bothersome.

Sigh. Sometimes I wish I was paid to simply talk with no logical thought behind.

So where do we draw the line? Where do things like TJS with a ligament from a cadaver that gives an elbow better than natural strength come into this? What about the stem cell treatment used on Big Fat Bartolo Colon? Without them I doubt he'd be in the big leagues right now. Should such treatments be illegal? What about hypothetical complete shoulder transplants ~50 years in the future that both "heal" and improve baseline performance? etc, etc, etc, The first arbitrary line in the sand usually drawn is something along "injury recovery vs. performance recovery". Well, staying healthy is a skill. It's not all luck of the draw (especially with pitchers). Keeping them healthy is essentially equivalent to enhancing performance. And what about in the future where there may be PEDs that have no side effects? What reason is there to not take these if every normal person (non baseball player) should theoretically take them to improve their day to day life?

Yah it is. Be careful, he's in the military and has shot a gun before.

Exactly. It's all a gray area anyways with arbitrary lines being drawn in a ever shifting bed of sand.

OMG our MLB pitching is like so bad!! Lets get sum armzzzz *prevailing thought in the war room today*

From our resident Hab/JPA Homer on the old board Mr. RIPEXPOS: Nox - "Price = Rask for all intents and purposes. Rask might even be better." RIP - "That's completely insane." Nox - "Rask is easily a top 10 tender. Price is there too. To make it sound like Price is on some other level is completely inaccurate." RIP - "Price has nearly three times as many NHL starts under his belt, and their the same age. Neither have proven much of anything, but Price at least has multiple seasons of being a #1 starter in the NHL under his belt. Rask has never been more than a platoon guy to this point. I don;t think anyone thinking rationally would tell you they'd take Rask over Price. The guys has yet to show he can be #1 over a full season." Nox - "Yah, it sure looks like he's struggling with being the full time guy this year doesn't it?" RIP - "There are lots of goalies with #1 tender talent, but the guys who emerge as legit #1 guys are the guys who can handle the mental and phsyical rigors of a full regular season." Nox - "Or maybe Rask hasn't even performed at his peak level because he's always had a competent goalie threatening to steal playing time and has never been afforded the opportunity to get into a "groove" (which people of your ilk tell me is important). Can I call Rask good yet? Huurrrrrr

Yan Gomes!!

Unfortunately not. I wish this was my troll account.

*Checks box score, see's 3 run bomb by Edison Volquez, decides NOT to turn game on*

Every pitcher is a good fit for Petco.

Can't tell if srs

Maybe the only good youtube comment from the last 5 years: "Costner needs to be better than that" lol

.800 OPS floor

Retarded

It absolutely has changed. His swing change increased his batspeed and changed his swing path, 2 things that can definitely lead to more max distance. Fly ball distance is basically determined by (in terms of what the hitter controls): Speed of bat, weight of bat, backspin, launch angle and to a smaller extent wrist strength (the less give on the bat on contact with the ball the better). A swing change directly effects 3 of these (speed of bat, backspin and launch angle).

I can assure you this isn't true.