Laika

Batting first and playing LF for Toronto tonight, Missing No. http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pokemonzetaomicron/images/6/6c/657.png/revision/latest?cb=20140430200233

DFA space saver!

BJMB Examiner Cute Instagram Domestic Abuse Victim Shamed and Violently Emotionally Assaulted by Sleazy Online MRA Rape-Apologist Grant77 Rape Victims Everywhere Given Cause for Pause in Reporting their Ordeals

This is the full post: "kristenmeck Four years ago I went back to school to get my degree, shortly after, I moved across the country for love. Three years ago I was engaged. Two years ago I was planning a wedding. And one year ago I left the person I thought I was going to marry. I had beautiful moments with a man and I fell in love with a sense of humor and authentic soul that I wanted to spend my life with. I also was physically and emotionally abused by this beautiful man. He gave me a lifestyle most people only dreamed of, but it came at a price. I am forever thankful for the joy, love and laughter he shared with me. I am also forever grateful for the darkness I experienced. Because of that, today is more full of light than I would have ever expected. When I left I had $300 to my name, I had no access to money, I had no access to cars and was only given the courtesy to remove my items from our home. When I left, he and his family made sure I had nothing. But, that is far from true. I had my life, I had my family, I had my friends and I had the fight and heart that has been in me since I was a little girl. With the help of a stranger I met in an airport I was given the strength to get on my feet and fight to rebuild my life. I sold what "materialistic" items I was able to take with me in order to fly to San Diego and live until I could find a job. I found a job, I found a place to live and I found myself. As I sit here, shaking, scared to share a small glimpse of the last year of my life I can't help but let tears fall down my cheeks. I just finished my last day of my school. I am officially a college graduate, living in my dream city, working for a great company, teaching yoga and more importantly I am free of anxiety and surrounded by the love, support, grace and kindness of my friends and family and strangers and the world. Thank you to everybody who listened to me vent. Thank you to those who held me as I cried for hours. Thank you for those that didn't judge my nightmares. Thank you to those who supported my dreams. Thank you to those who encouraged me when I could finally laugh again. Thank you to those who gave advice. Thank you to those who didn't speak and were just there." I think it's absurd that MLB would conduct anything more than a preliminary inquiry based on a passing line in some attention-seeking instagram post.

You know there's a Jew in our league now, right?

Jim, do you know who I am?

I listed Gudino because he was on my personal list of guys I tabbed with potential, based largely on his purported defensive skills and 2013 bonus size. He's been disappointing this year. Big let down. In unrelated news, you seem like a f***ing stooge. Try being less dumb next time you reply to me

Gudino was a bonus baby four years ago. He got over $1M as a signing bonus. Every year he doesn't hit is a tumble. He's still tumbling. Just stop.

Yes, inferred by level. There was some hope that at 20 years old he would be assigned to full season. It's not a huge deal but it is a league where there are routinely 30+ qualified teenagers. Gudino has a .615 OPS, with six extra base hits all year. He's been a zero with the bat. lol @ rising

I didn't even realize that Grilli was just replacement level with Toronto last year. Seemed better. He gets a lot of strikeouts for a replacement level arm. He's like an old Neil Ramirez

And Vlad might be an objectively superior prospect to Snider. Depth is a bit of an issue. Before this season Toronto already had a decent corp of top 100(ish) guys and depth was the main criticism. For every prospect that is taking a step forward like Borucki, one like Perdomo seems to be falling flat. Falling: Woodman, Palacios, McGuire, Ramirez, Rios, Tellez, Urena?, Pruitt, Murphy, Gudino Rising: Vlad, Bo, Borucki, Leblebijian?, Fields?, Rowley?, J.Davis, Jansen, Pentecost, Jones, Jackson It seems like the vast majority of SP prospects are just treading water this year. IF you ignore Vlad-Bo, developments on the farm have been pretty f***ing boring. That's a huge thing to ignore though.

Available for pretty cheap (pick or RP upgrade) before draft: Mondesi Jr. (killing AAA) Jaime Schultz Ryan Cordell Andy Ibanez KeBryan Hayes Better prospects also available for MLB stuff

Danny Salazar pitching out of the bullpen in a 10-3 game to Alex Gordon who has a .483 OPS. Extremely sad picture for a pair of ex-Butt Stallions.

They (you?) need a social media campaign. Twitter activity, mainly. Athletes seem to be pretty good about responding to situations like this (although, they are more likely to give up their time for kids). Most of them use twitter a lot these days and interact with individuals through it. Judging from the indiegogo, and I mean no offense by this, you need someone with better writing skills to produce the copy for your social media campaign for Rick. Clear, well-crafted writing can be pretty important in grabbing people's attention.

- He's been a real prospect for a couple years - Straily is doing good

Well Trout's off to a much better career start than Bonds. All he needs to do is stay gud for another decade and then find a way to peak at 37/38. Hmmm....

If Babe Ruth were transported as a 16 year old to Latin America and then signed by an MLB team, where would he reach? - MLB Superstar, Miggy/Pujols type hitter - MLB occasional All-Star / MLB regular - MLB low-end regular or bench guy WHO KNOWS

I can't see anyone in the current draft that looks better than him. Seems like an awful lot of arms, 1B, and lower upside guys this year. Maybe there are MiLB players that are better profiles than Bo though (mainly, closer to the bigs)

See, now you get it (Of course the Dante Bichette on your list is Bo's brother. Not sure what you did to assign his dad's career WAR to him. You did the same thing with Boog Powell, somehow)

two scouts this week offered the same opinion: By the end of the 2017 season, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is going to be the best prospect in baseball. *2nd best to Bo

This is demonstrably false though. The set of players who have "done what Bichette is doing" is incredibly small, and largely populated by uber-elite talents who have amounted to everything. Try keeping these benchmarks in mind: Age, 19 League, MWL PA, 192 K, 17.7% BB, 10.4% OPS, 1.077 wRC+, 205 BABIP, .453 Position, SS [infield] Set the PA minimum to 190 and go year by year for the MWL. You'll see that Bo differentiates himself even from some extraordinary players. Fangraphs will default sort by wRC+, then you can just sort by age. Look at the top 18, 19, and 20 year old performers in any given year. The only types of players who have really "done what Bo is doing", all things considered, are guys like Correa, Trout, Seager, Buxton, Wil Myers, Oscar Taveras, Javy Baez, Eloy Jimenez... Bo is even outperforming some of those talents by significant margins. Even if you want to BABIP correct Bo a bit, these are still his historical peers. If you increase the size of the net it's true that you catch some cautionary tales like Snider and Jaff Decker, etc. but you also comp some elite dudes like Justin Upton and Sano and rock-solid MLB outcomes like Bruce, Rasmus, Jose Ramirez as well as decent MLB contributors like Wong and Marisnick. And here we're talking about guys who maybe scraped a .900 OPS --- they aren't really in Bo's league in terms of production. You can't successfully normalize what Bo Bichette is doing to the MWL. It's not normal. Get hyped or forever be known as the Bo hater.

Your PA cutoff is way too low for something like BABIP. This removes most of them. A prospect appropriate age cutoff would remove others. I guess you still might get 50 Sniders if you look at the last decade

It's extremely sad. But, baseball did seem overdue for some heartbreaking busts. This year has supplied a few (Buxton, Swanson, Glasnow, Reyes, others)

Name fifty "Travis Sniders"