Laika
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FWIW I think a lot of your scouty / experiential stuff here is spot on.
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Yes, and probably for every team. Still, big diff between guys like Nola/Weaver (2011) and a guy like KB who is possibly the ~3rd best prospect in baseball. Sigh. (Arguably the #1 prospect I suppose? Maybe? I dunno).
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Imagine if Toronto signed Kris Bryant back in 2010?
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Brentz: more walks than IP or K's. Tellez: .650 OPS woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo blue jays
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I really like the blend on Stroman's repertoire. When a guy throws a cutter, a slider, and a curveball, I think it probably f***s with the capability of the batter to pick up the spin and time the specific pitches. If you can throw a 2 seamer, a change, a 4 seamer, cutter, slider, curve, then you've got an entire spectrum of pitches. A rainbow of speeds and breaks. You can ROYGBIV guys to death. If you throw only three pitches, a FB, curve, and change, then you have very segregated offerings. It might be easier for hitters to pick up those pitches earlier. Of course, having less pitches might mean mastering those specific pitches better.
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426K + pro quality surgery and rehab seems like a pretty f***ing good deal for an injured 15th rounder.
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The comparison isn't Sanchez' curve vs. Stroman's, it's Sanchez' curve vs. Stroman's slider. I think Stroman's biting slider has more utility than Sanchez' curve. It's easier to command, for one thing, and I feel like the slider is just a better pitch in general. You can use it in more situations. With the curve, you can try to freeze a guy with it or have it finish out of the zone and induce a swinging strike. With the slider, you can backdoor it more effectively, you can try for whiffs both down and away (in to lefties), and you can also throw it in the zone looking for weak contact. Stroman sets up his secondary pitch much better too, with far superior command and control of his fastball, but that's another matter.
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Pretty sure MLB teams have PitchFX data at the college level these days. Publicly available, no.
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Actually, you might have a really good point. Sabermetrically speaking there is a lot of focus on SwStr%. I don't think a lot of people have ever paid much attention to called strike % with breaking balls, but it might, just maybe, be a significant thing. If you've ever played baseball you definitely know that feeling when you think a curve might plunk you in the elbow or the belt, and it drops in for a strike down the pipe. On the contrary though, that type of pitch would also induce a lot of swings and misses if you started it in the zone, so statistically speaking the easier (better) thing to look at would probably be SwStr%. Called strikes as we've described could have real significance from a scouting perspective though, since scouting occurs in small sample sizes. I feel like a lot of called strike % with breaking balls (or any pitches) would be sequencing though, so it would be hard to delineate raw pitch quality vs. sequencing. For instance, Bark Muehrle gets a lot of called strikes with 40/50 grade stuff.
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Damn, wasn't able to watch his first outing. Hopefully a highlight package pops up somewhere.
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Because Spanky, A) knows he needs to make a thoughtful, well considered deal, and doesn't really have the attention span to do A)
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I can truthfully say that I never offered one of those three things.
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Jose Bautista has a .631 OPS in July, and only 3 HR since the beginning of June. Spanky's trade tactics --> despairing himself?
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Yankees are finalizing a deal to acquire Headley
Laika replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
* pulls up Tirado's BR page * ......... umm............... Yes! -
Yankees are finalizing a deal to acquire Headley
Laika replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Solarte is especially valuable on a team like San Diego that has essentially no infield spots fully spoken for. Throw Cabrera, Amarista, Peterson, Gyorko, Solarte, Lindsey at the wall and pray that three of them stick. -
Yankees are finalizing a deal to acquire Headley
Laika replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The Blue Jays will do one of two things: 1) Absolutely nothing (a la last offseason) 2) A batshit retarded overpay big splash trade for someone like Cliff Lee (a la Marlins/Mets deals) There is no middle ground. -
Jesus Christ. What a nightmare season.
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We've been falling behind too often on processing trades, so I've added Boxy as a co-commissioner on Yahoo, PB, and the Google Doc. Hopefully with four Darrells things will get processed in a more timely fashion once again. Boxy, the only thing to note about the Google Doc is that you have to use keyboard commands to copy, cut, and paste. Right clicking to do that s*** doesn't work for some gay reason. Also, since you are the most nubile Darrell in power you now have to save a backup of the Google Doc to your hard drive every few weeks. Oh, and if you exit the Doc too quickly, sometimes your changes don't take.
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The logic for Cats behind this Lee-Shields swap is the same as the logic behind me trading Anibal to Dinger for Ryu. In the short term it might be a downgrade, but it could be a pretty big plus long term.
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Case in point of why nerds like JFaS should just stick to blogging.
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Liriano? Sure!
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Fixed.
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I'm sure I would have if I ever talked to one of them. Most of them were 30 year olds lying about their age to get scholarships, and I don't like liars.
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Exactly. Was he Dominican? Were they Dominican?
