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Steamer600 -- check out how high Colabello is. Also, CCC Jose Reyes (need to drop down for suspension tax) Eric Hosmer Mark Teixeira A.J. Pollock Xander Bogaerts Evan Gattis Rougned Odor Matt Adams Robinson Cano Matt Holliday Chris Colabello Christian Yelich Chris Carter Carlos Gomez Daniel Murphy Oswaldo Arcia Mark Trumbo Maikel Franco Matt Kemp Kyle Seager Brandon Belt Troy Tulowitzki Anthony Rendon David Peralta Gerardo Parra Josh Reddick Shin-Soo Choo Alex Gordon

I always confuse Havok and JF

DDL Team Name power rankings: Tier 1 1. The True Cardinals 2. BALCO Pharm Team 3. London Slayers 4. ISO Horny The cream of the crop. The True Cardinals is a genius fantasy team branding that will stand the test of time. BALCO Pharm Team and ISO Horny are humorous, timeless names that draw upon the world of baseball for inspiration. London Slayers is just rock solid - an homage to the Slay City Slayers from a couple of Sega Genesis sports games in the early 1990s (I think). Tier 2 5. The Butt Stallions 6. Bye Week 7. Burrito Boyz 8. Kitten Mittens 9. Insert Clever Name Five good names here. Ironic, whimsical, self-deprecating, alliterated, unwanted and/or just plain funny. Tier 3 10. Georgia Peach I like this team name because of its link to baseball history, but it's also just kind of lame. Tier 4 11. Taijuan On! 12. Los Osos Blancos 13. Twist and Trout 14. The War Puigs 15. The Bryce is Right Five team names linked to players, which is never a great idea. But three of these players are so elite that it still works, a bit. Taijuan On! also meshes wonderfully with the owner's actual persona. And Los Osos Blancos is able to stand on its own, even if Evan Gattis was traded, since "The White Bears" in Spanish just kind of sounds good and works. Note - if The War Puigs became The WAR Pigs, it could rise a couple of tiers in the rankings. Tier 5 16. Gryffindor Harry Potter fans may disagree Tier 6 17. B.Inge Drinking 18. 2nd Leg to Stanton 19. The Lyon Tamer 20. Triple Hawpe Brewed These four team names are linked to specific players. Three of these players are retired (17, 19, 20) and three of these names are just not very clever or funny (18, 19, 20). B.Inge Drinking gets to the top of the s*** tier by being sort of funny. 2nd Leg to Stanton is a blatant rip off of a name thought up by noted s***** team namer Dinger. The last two are just the worst.

At least it can sort of stand on its own

Other teams overdue for a re-brand: The Lyon Tamer B.Inge Drinking Triple Hawpe Brewed The War Puigs (although I like this one even if Puig is gone)

2) I think it's important to not tie team names to any active player. Makes it awkward when you trade them. TRM needs to hurry up and officially change his team name to brryant - lol bts tho

That's a lot of tape. At least Reyes and Revere share 3 and 1/2 letters. Might have to go from 7 Reyes to 71 Tellez

Did you use masking tape to turn the "Reyes" into "Revere"?

Draft budgets would be a big part of it.

Should keep Padre Pomeranz. Projection are very nice, and he could close or start.

I don't really see the utility of any of his snippets, but if you read a bunch of them he's generally right, even if it's all common sense / obvious. I don't read any fantasy stuff on BP though so I only ever see his name when there is a fantasy spin on scouting reports.

Throwing together some steamer600 Z-Scores and I have Shelby Miller as SP #156, one slot behind Rubby De La Rosa. Go D-Backs!

addition by subtraction if there ever was such a thing

And hearing him talk about things like adding incremental wins, translating draft picks to $$.... definitely a fangraphs dot com guy

Ugh he's so smart that it hurts If I ever cracked a smile, it would be ear to ear right now

Had TJS in 2013 right after getting drafted (October), so everything before 2015 was probably affected by that in some way. He's a guy that was only a part-time catcher in college. So, he's been learning the position while also recovering from TJS. A lot going on underneath the BR page for Knappy. He's a lot different than Cervelli. More of a 50 hit, 50+ power catcher. Maybe Derek Norris... switch hitter though, which is cool beans.

Yes, it's a surprisingly weak list in the 3-10 range, for a rebuilding team. Even Williams still has warts. BA has Knapp above him, which is interesting. Top 10 Prospects ($) 1. J.P. Crawford, ss 2. Nick Williams, of 3. Jake Thompson, rhp 4. Andrew Knapp, c 5. Jorge Alfaro, c 6. Cornelius Randolph, of 7. Franklyn Kilome, rhp 8. Roman Quinn, of 9. Adonis Medina, rhp 10. Carlos Tocci, of

BP put him 8th in the Phillies system? lowl

Alex Gordon is available!

Arencibia was generally considered to have an above average arm, he just had s*** mechanics. Remember he could chuck guys out from his knees, but his pop time was like 2.5. Alfaro's 27% CS rate in the minors is actually worse than JPA's and equal to JPA's MLB rate. Alfaro has bad mechanics and footwork, it seems.

you mean the JP Arencibia of catchers

I might take Matz and Meadows over Crawford and Alfaro. Crawford > Matz > Meadows >>> Alfaro. Hard to say how good Crawford will be in fantasy. Toolz haven't been loud in the minors. Alfaro hasn't developed at all. Mexican JPA?

Must really grind your gears that I'm more e-popular than you

DDL running at 100% capacity, surprise surprise

Boggles the mind to see you guys treat a viable bounce-back candidate like he has spina bifida. The guy's nickname is "The Condor". THE CONDOR, FFS! "not relying on Saunders at all" in this context would have meant non-tendering him. Non-tendering The Condor.