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  1. Laika
    I've looked into this before and the importance of being a "top 100" prospect really stops mattering after the top ~50 or so. 100 is an arbitrary number and players who are in the HM range of a top 100 are for the most part just as valuable as the back end top 100 players.
  2. Laika
    Aggressive rankings for these three, which is great. Would have been nice to see a few more Blue Jays dudes sneak into the back end of the list but that doesn't really matter.
  3. Laika
    You'd think so. Last year they added a couple of veterans in Phelps and Hudson in January and March and both worked out well. This year they haven't really added an MLB pen arm unless you just consider Tamagachi a reliever, which would be fair. I do not see what Pannone really offers. He is the only LHRP on the 40 man roster which is something, but it's not like he has obvious LOOGY qualities. Are there any decent LHRP available?
  4. Laika
    That would probably be even worse. Maybe the people who decide which baseball players are the best should be the people whose actual jobs are to evaluate baseball player contributions to winning - executives, front office employees and analysts, and maybe scouts.
  5. Laika
    Yeah that's all problematic and I'm not sure how to fix it. It needs to be a long process to account for changes in perception over time. But if it's a drawn out process writers will do petty stuff like make people wait until they are about to fall off the ballot.
  6. Laika
    The 10 year system has some merit because perceptions of player value and hall worthiness can change so much over time. I would like to see the stupid Veterans Committee changed. Just make it a secondary ballot for BBWAA members to keep things simple and congruent. The "Veterans Committee" can put forth the list of nominees for the secondary ballot and the writers vote on whether or not to let them in. The current committee process opens itself up to some silly inductions. I'd just like the writers to be able to consider players who have fallen off the ballot once it has been another ~10 years of whatever. Guys like Stieb and Lofton. Did everyone know that if Mike Trout dies before the 2020 season he would not be eligible for the hall of fame? "The player must have competed in ten seasons." Trouty is only at nine. Same qualification for the Veterans Committee. The Commissioner would have to appoint a special Trout committee or something like that.
  7. Laika
    Likely the case.
  8. Laika
    Such a quiet fall from grace for VV. I remember when he was hot s*** in 2016 with that 10.50 K rate. He still misses bats and he hasn't lost velocity but it just doesn't work as well as it could for some reason.
  9. Laika
    Sprint speed is technically an average of their top end speed on the plays where you would expect them to be sprinting at max effort. It's an average of their highest speed on these plays: * Runs of two bases or more on non-homers, excluding being a runner on second base when an extra base hit happens * Home to first on “topped” or “weakly hit” balls. There is still a small hustle component to sprint speed. Statcast also measures "Bolts" which is any run of 30 ft/s or higher; Biggio had none of these in 2019. Some of the players around Biggio on Sprint Speed had multiple Bolts. Jarrod Dyson had 40 despite a 28.4 Sprint Speed. So Sprint Speed is not the players top speed, exactly. It's their top functional speed. I think Mookie would beat Biggio and Judge in a race, lol
  10. Laika
    Aaron Judge is faster than Mookie Betts at top speed, lol. Betts probably has elite acceleration though. Betts ranks better if you sort by home to first times.
  11. Laika
    Yeah a C with plus speed is incredibly rare.
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  13. Laika
    Jonn, hate to break it to you...
  14. Laika
    Scouting reports are often wrong but them being wrong on his speed is pretty weird. It's the easiest tool to literally measure! A stopwatch! Biggio is just so f***ing smart. Baseball IQ off the charts. I bet he could play a plus LF/RF/1B and an adequate CF/3B.
  15. Laika
    It depends on the sport. Things like tennis, golf, curling, soccer - not sure why but I find the women's games entertaining even if they would get destroyed by amateur men. But other sports the quality just isn't there. I could never watch professional women's hockey even if it is entertaining in the Olympics when Canada plays the USA. I guess it's not the fact that a Minor Midget AA team would beat them, the sport is just not as entertaining when women play it. I think baseball would be the same way. The WNBA is that way (haven't tried to watch it in forever though).
  16. Laika
    For real. I mean they can have them for sale and wear them once or twice a year if they want but I wish they'd wear the whites and greys 95% of the time.
  17. Laika
    It was an inside joke for Mr. Erlichman who frequents this message board. Have a cup of tea and relax. It's Sunday.
  18. Laika
    Love to see the team getting guys like Dull and Panik on minor league deals.
  19. Laika
    Pretty big implications for Ohtani in fantasy: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/01/new-rules-allows-angels-to-keep-ohtani-on-roster-as-hitter-while-on-rehab-assignment.html
  20. Laika
    LOL that call at 1:55 it never made sense to me that women, who have smaller hands than men, play the game with the way bigger ball. HOW DUMB IS THAT!?
  21. Laika
    The package for sure. Blackmon is old! Cruz might be like a shortstop Aaron Judge. Howard is good too
  22. Laika
    Seeing the Blue Jays wear red jerseys is one of the most horrendous things in sport. f***ing camo is easier on the eyes. I really doubt they would make the hashtag #NewBlue if it was a black jersey. I think the black stuff was just for some of the promo materials, to make the lighter blue pop (kind of faint on a white background). I could be wrong.
  23. Laika
    Not a horrendous list, actually! Good job Scotty
  24. Laika
    The vote about scrapping the death compensation system is stuck at 10-6, with 10 being in favour of getting rid of it. If one of the four stragglers votes for it whenever they log back into the league then the vote is passed.
  25. Laika
    I wanted him too! Argh
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