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  1. Baseball organizations are so huge that you just can't look at specific players like Urshela and get any information from their path about an organization's competencies. A good org will have developmental failures and a bad org will have successes - you need to look at the total picture. Toronto is clearly on the right path, as you say. You can also point to players like Kirk, Pearson, Hatch, Kay, Borucki, Font, Thornton, Groshans, etc. In one way or another guys like that are success stories. You need to balance out all the stories and see which side is heavier and recognize that the majority of players will fail no matter what the org does. On the bad side Toronto hasn't had success with SRF, Alford, Drury, McKinney, Hector Perez, maybe Kevin Smith, to name a few.
  2. Keith Law was so emphatically right on that point that it should legitimize his entire operation. We should all subscribe to The Athletic to see his work.
  3. Yeah I thought they'd option McKinney because he's not even being used and Espinal was getting some chances. Being said, maybe the fact that Espinal was getting some chances inspired the smart front office to remove him from Charlie Buntoyo's tool box. There's some logic there, if you do a handstand and squint directly at the sun.
  4. I just decided to grow up and BE the change I wanted to see. Take notes.
  5. After playing 2 games and hitting .333/.500/.500?
  6. Very excited to finally have these powers. Spanky's reign of terror will soon be over
  7. Look at Sean Manaea's velocity trend: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/sean-manaea/15873/graphs?pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2016&end=2020&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FA&ymin=&ymax= Guy came up as a power lefty in 2016 and now he has less velo than 33 year old Ryu
  8. I don't get why Borucki didn't just get the 8th.
  9. I very much like when the team has so much SP depth that good young arms end up in the pen. RP versions of Hatch, Kay, Borucki are very watchable
  10. New rule: The DL is unlimited. New rule: Adding any player with a red flag is illegal. These may be temporary for the Covid season only. I can't set red flag add restrictions in a free Fantrax league but if you get noticed doing it you have to donate $50 to BLM.
  11. Yes I'll make it the first week of September instead.
  12. It's 2020 and he's remarkably only 25 years old. I think he has one more health bar.
  13. The other day I learned that there are different flavours of Jelly King. The labels are so similar that you barely notice.
  14. Your wife stole your porno? I didn't know she was so into ebony bushes
  15. Jacob DeGrom's fastball is averaging an obscene 98.6 mph this year, about 2 mph higher than 2019. His average FB velo is higher than almost every reliever with an 80 grade fastball. Airing it out in a short season? Freak of nature gets better? About the have his arm fall off?
  16. You've jerked off in an alley?
  17. Lucky me that absolutely nobody wanted Gio Urshela this off-season. A stud monster
  18. How is nobody taking this?
  19. well I will think about it. best I can do
  20. Reason we haven’t done it is IL hoarding since we can’t block red flag adds without being a paid league. I mean we still could do it and just say no red flag adds but then I’d have to monitor adds even more
  21. You’re a power battum.
  22. Laika

    NBA Thread

    Old good Norm or old bad Norm or less old good Norm? There are a lot of old norms at this point...
  23. +9000 f*** bob man fred
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