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  1. John_Havok
    Great plays stick out in people's minds as do bad plays. Realistically, great and bad plays make up a tiny percentage of a fielder's overall plays. It's the 95% of the other plays that determine whether a guy is good or not. That's why defensive metrics were created, to cut through the bias of the plays that stick out in memory.
  2. John_Havok
    You'll be waiting a while. There's a good reason why there is no case being presented for him being valuable defensively. Because no human being with a logical thought process a could actually form one that makes sense.
  3. John_Havok
    Woods is done. It's too bad as he had every chance in the world to break Nicklaus' major wins record.
  4. John_Havok
    Interesting argument. But you haven't actually made a case for why you think he could be a useful defender except for "another manager played him in the field sometimes last year so maybe he's not actually bad at it and could play more." There's no metric or eye test available that would back up your hypothetical. All objective and subjective evidence gathered on Morales' defense can be summed up in two words "he's bad." When a manager puts Morales in the game at 1b or anywhere else I promise you the thought process is not "well he's an okay defender so we don't need to worry about that today." It's more like "f***, our regular needs a day off/oh f*** our regular is injured....please please don't have a ball hit to Morales today, please please please holy f*** please no."
  5. John_Havok
    I'd like to see minor league players in the low levels that didn't get millions in bonuses earn enough money to actually call it at least minimum wage
  6. John_Havok
    It's long overdue, but not enough dinosaurs are extinct yet
  7. John_Havok
    Looking at my list... I had Gourriel 6th, Rios 8th and Greene 11th. I think I should definitely swap Greene and Rios but in my defense, I thought about this list for all of 20 minutes and sent this in because King reached out and asked if I was going to submit one 3 hours before the deadline.
  8. John_Havok
    I know for me, the 2 guys I had the hardest time slotting were Greene and Gourriel Jr, the former because his numbers just haven't matched up with his stuff for basically his entire minor league career, and he still hasn't cracked 100 IP in any season yet, and the latter simply because he has no stateside experience to draw anything from and all anyone really has is Cuban league scouting reports and 1 showcase.
  9. John_Havok
    I think it's completely defensible to have alford over Vlad given the latter is still super raw and young. Everything on vlad is still really hype with 1 season of numbers in rookie ball at a really good age. It's damn impressive, but alfords age level and stats are damn fine also, and doing very well in the AFL which is arguably better than the level he just played during the season. That and the CF position vs vlad Jr's still positional uncertainty (does he stay at 3b or end up in LF or 1B as he .. thickens?) Is more than enough to at least defend an Alford #1 ranking
  10. John_Havok
    Alford 1 Vlad 2 SRF 3 Tellez 4 Gourriel Jr 5
  11. John_Havok

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    John_Havok replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    I'm not even watching the game because of that. You just know the Raptors will be at least -5 to -10 in foul calls when playing the cavs
  12. John_Havok
    I don't think what he does on the bases can be called running
  13. John_Havok

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    John_Havok replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    This fine, outside the line and he's garbage.
  14. John_Havok
    They just re-signed him to a minor league deal with invite to spring training. Not sure why he's showing on the 40 man roster page.
  15. John_Havok
    I posted something similar after the jays were eliminated that Biagini will probably get a look as a starter in the spring. He was a starter in AA when they grabbed him via Rule 5 so there's 0 downside in giving him a shot at it again, when you know he's got the pen role as a backup if it doesn't work. Every team needs at least 7-10 starters every year and right now the jays are pretty thin past their starting 5.
  16. John_Havok
    I'll be there in July next year, I hope they have a home series while I'm in town
  17. John_Havok
    I was about to post that same thing. With where the Jays are on the win curve, adding 5-6 wins is worth more than 8 million per. But cudos to the poster for laying out an argument that didn't boil down to "omg he's over 30 and just had a bad year"
  18. John_Havok
    Irony alert.
  19. John_Havok
    Too cheesy grant.
  20. John_Havok
    Awful.....no pun points for you
  21. John_Havok
    That's easy, anyone who doesn't like RBIs
  22. John_Havok
    f*** this. HANG THE HIVE FROM THE NEAREST YARDARM
  23. John_Havok
    Sorry...who?
  24. John_Havok
    At the risk of sounding Grant-esque, you're ignoring the context of Alford's situation. While it's technically true that Alford will have completed 5 years in the minor leagues after 2016, he's only had about 1.5 seasons worth of plate appearances over that 5 years - mainly due to playing football in the first 3 years. Taking that into account it's actually even more impressive that he's advanced as far as he has Since giving up football, he's had pretty much his entire 1.5 years of plate appearances in the past 2 seasons, with the missing time only due to s***** injury luck. If you told me that a guy with only 900ish plate appearances in the minors would be dominating in the Arizona fall league during his age 21 season...i'll take that any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Judging him the same as a true 5 year minor leaguer is willfully ignorant
  25. John_Havok
    Not sure I can remember the last time that the majority of their top-end propects were bats either
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