Laika

I don't have any experience working with and manipulating data for stuff like this, but yeah, I imagine "sum seasons where age < 30" is a hell of a lot simpler than trying to actually sum the first 6 service time years. You can't really do first 6 season because lots (most) players have a partial year or two in there that doesn't = a full service time year. Even if first 6 or first 6.5 seasons would work theoretically, it's not as easy to pull as less than 30.

Using first 6 years WAR might be a cleaner way to look at it. With an age 30 cutoff, you'll get guys who break in early and accumulate more than 6 years, and you'll get guys who break in later and have less than 6 MLB years before age 30. It might all even out, but it might not. Like you say, the better prospects might be getting 7, 8 years on average here, and the worse prospects might be getting just 5 years. So that would change the magnitude of the relationship here - making the more valuable picks even more valuable, and the less valuable picks even less so.

This seems excellent at a glance, a great resource.

Chances are Santana won't be as effective in 2014, and even if he almost is, he'd probably accept a QO next time around.

Every front office in baseball is well aware of park and league factors. Hard for me to believe that anybody actually gets more money because they put up a better ERA in the NL. It's 2014.

Wait, when did Spanky get back into the big leagues?

Round #3 of Medlen vs. Beachy, the spaghetti arm throwdown: "@mlbbowman Kris Medlen confirms he has spent the past couple days preparing himself to undergo a second TJ surgery"

Ceci n'est pas une Ninja: http://www.breakingblue.ca/2014/02/23/what-happened-to-the-ninja/

As someone who, in ironic foresight, picked Toronto for every free agent in part 1, can I get a part 2 only leaderboard, plz and thx?

People should at least realize that Stoeten ripped on this message board pretty hard last year for the "Official Fire AA Thread", which was made largely through the prism of last years moves and maybe contained more thoughtful foresight than he was willing to entertain at the time. He washed away the sentiment that AA was performing poorly with a response of "baseball is hard", and then he said this message board was full of dopes. Lots of people here are dopes, sure, but for Stoeten to come completely over to the darkside because the Jays missed out on Ervin Santana is pretty funny to me. Blogging is hard.

Doesn't Santana have a small tear in his UCL, dating back to 2009 or whatever?

How can you completely let him off the hook through? Santana isn't even that good so missing out on him specifically doesn't bug me, but Anthopoulos let him go unsigned until the Braves had a mid-March pitching crisis. If AA adds a few more dollars and incentives, maybe Santana signs before Medlen even gets hurt, when it's just Toronto and Baltimore in the fray waving around 1 year AL East deals. Who knows. AA waited for the price to drop on a pitcher. It did, for Santana. Then AA tried to wait him out again, by throwing up an offer (that other teams could assuredly match) and hoping Santana would come back to it for some reason. And he got f***ed.

LOL Start of offseason: "Speaking of pitching, GM Alex Anthopoulos told media (including The Toronto Star) that the rotation is "the most glaring hole on this team and that’s the most glaring area we need to address." What exact kinds of starters will be acquired, however, is still up in the air. “Can it be done with five mid-rotation starters? Would we be better off with two front-of-the-rotation guys and three guys that are five-hole or four-hole guys? ... I think it’s as much about guys who give you a chance to win games," Anthopoulos said." Doesn't address it. The Blue Jays have a GM that doesn't even address self-admitted glaring holes on his pseudo-competitive roster. I am almost in awe of the let down offseason that Anthopoulos is letting happen. Good luck getting fans excited this year.

Fantasy 3B rankings: http://www.breakingblue.ca/2014/03/11/fantasy-ballevski-3b-rankings/ Already did Catcher rankings: http://www.breakingblue.ca/2014/03/08/fantasy-ballevski-catcher-rankings/

There's a decent chance that he was trying to give the kids a chance to get some hits and score a bit. Would be a bit of dick move to just come out there and throw down 12 hammers and then leave the game, laughing. New angle - Aaron Sanchez is a bit of a dick.

Morrow against some seventeen year old Canadians: 4 innings, 3 walks, 2 K's, 2 earned runs. Welp.

Where was Aaron Sanchez pitching today? I saw on twitter that he had 8 K's, no walks, 2 hits in 4 IP. Was it the game vs. the Canadian juniors, maybe?

Well, we all know results don't matter in spring training. Someone watching the game tweeted that he was sitting 96-98 with every fastball (averaged 92.6 in the bigs last year). *wipes kool-aid mustache*

At least Trevor Bauer only gave up 6 ER today!

Him and Beest made some calls and talked to ownership, but at the end of the day they ended up plugging the hole with a choppy ch131.so feed

* AA hops on twitter as his pseudonym, "JonnBell" * * AA notices the fan dissent * * AA calls Jeff Blair and invites him over for hoagies * * AA plants some positive propaganda bugs in Blair's ear over macaroons and an episode of HBO's Girls "

I don't think he falls under any current rules so it's something that we just have to make a judgement call on. We said that international free agents in the system before the rule 5 started were eligible to be drafted / added later. We said that prospects that hit AA were eligible to be drafted / added later. We said that prospects that played but didn't hit AA last year are frozen until the rule 4 unless they are added to an MLB 25 man. I can see the argument for letting waivers sort out guys like Aledmys Diaz. The waiver system is built in, so it's a rule that we don't really have to monitor or anything, which is nice. Having midseason international signings that hit the system be subject to waivers also makes waivers more interesting. And it is a small reward for attentive teams that might notice when someone hits the Yahoo system. It's also in the spirit of competitive balance since bigger name guys like MAG, Abreu, etc., can be claimed by poorer teams if they hit the system mid-season. What does everyone else think? Let's do a quick survey of fools. MAG would have definitely been subject to waivers if he signed last year before the season ended, so the way we worked last year would have had Diaz as waiver bait whenever he hits the system.

I did a tiny bit of digging and it appears that most blown elbows these days are properly identified as elbow injuries or elbow strains right off the hop, although sometimes teams will use a more generic term like forearm strain, or actual forearm strains will be an early sign. I dunno. Pending further Dr. examination, obviously.

Isn't a forearm strain the typical initial presentation of a partially torn ligament?