John_Havok

6 picks from a millionaire and you take Pillar and Carrera.... What in the everliving f*** are you thinking?

Ohlman also

Really hard to judge until June starts, but really, the won streak doesn't change certain facts. 1. The team is still old as f*** with increased injury risk. 2. The team is still old as f*** with declining skill sets. 3. They aren't as good as they once were, but IF they stay healthy there's still a lot of skill. Not a great place to build from. This is the type of team that you either double down with or fold and request a new deck.

The San Francisco should be up your alley. It's nothing like SoCal weather. Some days in the mid summer it's downright cold.

Ditto. Both really good matchups too against s*** offenses and ended up -9 points combined. Finally picked a 100 point offense and pitching just sucked the life out of it

At this point, the only storyline remotely interesting in this years playoffs is whether Ottawa can win in Canada's 150th birthday year. And even that is borderline who cares...

He should be available, he didn't pitch yesterday

San Francisco is #1 in my books.

Holy s***. Exit velo on that please,

I've never got past 13 in BTS. It's crazy luck to get that far let alone 56

Sunday day game: Game 38 Happy Mothers Day!!!! Bonus: DOUBLE POINTS Bautista (2 Pts)- Condor13, Morales (3 pts)- Dylan Smoak (5 Pts)- Pearce (5 Pts)- Travis (6 Pts)- LTBF, johnhavok Pillar (7 Pts)- jays4life19 Barney (9 Pts)- Carerra (9 Pts)- Goins (9 Pts)- Coghlan (6 Pts)- Maile (9 Pts) Ohlman (9 Pts) Bench (10 pts)-

Reserved

I'm not either, he's never really been a great baserunner so expecting it would be silly. Defense is part ability, part opportunity and part luck. His ability is still there, the other 2 will even out.

Yeah I hear ya. I mentioned him the milb threads about 2 weeks ago for his obp. Its impressive for sure, but higher level pitchers with better command won't be as likely to miss their spots so his plan on attacking only pitches in the zone he wants ..., will become much harder. Its great that he feels comfortable hitting with 2 strikes, because he will probably be doing it alot.

Hearn has imploded. He started round 3 at 5 under, and is now shooting 9over par on the day ( 4 over total) after 15 holes. Ouch.

This is true for nearly all CF in the game. I really don't understand why they don't play a few steps deeper. It's like they think they need to get those broken bat flares taken away. If a dying quail falls in for a hit, who cares...it's a single. If a ball gets over your head, it's a double or triple. Its also easier to run in on a ball than to track one mashed over your head. To me it's a no brainer for CF to play probably 5 steps deeper than they currently do. Of course alot depends on the hitter at the plate and if there's a runner on second, an the stage in the game etc...but generally speaking I believe they should play deeper.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/aaron-altherr-is-part-of-the-phillies-core/ Relevant

Will remain to be seen what happens when the new book on him gets out to pitchers. He has shown an improvement in swinging on balls outside the zone, and a increase on contact in the zone. His opposite field results though are at a career low, with a corresponding increase on balls hit up the middle. Pull rate is abouut the same. Once defenses realize they don't need to play him straight up and shift a bit up the middle and to the pull side he will have to make an adjustment back to an all fields approach, or his numbers will dry up. Also i'm not really buying a 40 point ISO increase when his IFFB rate is also up and his flyball and grounder rates arent really out of line with his career averages. You can see he's made changes, but those changes do not account for all of his massive increase in numbers. He's also benefitting from some very good batted ball luck, especially on ground balls. To summarize, yes there's been improvements, but those changes don't take an 80 wrc+ hitter to 130. The other bad news is that his defensive performance has slipped dramically. Some of that is randomness in opportunities and some isn't and I'm not saying he's suddenly bad, because that would be foolish to suggest. Just saying that so far his defense overall hasn't been positive and it should be expected to rebound somewhat.

Saturday day game: Game 37 DOUBLE POINTS SATURDAY Bautista (2 Pts)- Morales (3 pts)-o2 Smoak (5 Pts)- johnhavok Pearce (5 Pts)- Travis (6 Pts)- Pillar (7 Pts)- Barney (9 Pts)- Carerra (9 Pts)- Goins (9 Pts)- Coghlan (6 Pts)- Maile (9 Pts) Ohlman (9 Pts) Bench (10 Pts)

I believe Travis as an average defensive 2b. The difference between the 2 beliefs? Mine is right. Yours isn't.

Insert obligatory Asians/electronics joke here.

Possibly, but you know 19 year olds that rake AA are going to be highly ranked, despite the lack of power and still the lack of success at AAA as a 20 year old.

Forgone conclusion. Everyone knew he would do this for he last 2 seasons pretty much. Raps still have the advantage in resigning him because of bird rights and can offer him 50 million more dollars than anyone else. This will be his only chance at a max level deal, so it was a no brainer. He would have opted out even if the Raps won the title.

Hughes s*** the bed in round 2 but another Canuck is now in the lead, David Hearn. Lots of players left to go today but he shot a great -3 today for a -5 total after 2 rounds.

McKenzie Hughes tied for the lead after round 1 at Sawgrass. My favorite tournament of the year!