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Diaz's 103 wRC+, if qualified, would rank 12th in MLB among shortstops...just behind Trea Turner and his superstarish 104 wRC+. Even in his one completely fluke season, Goins was just an 85 wRC+ hitter.

You say this as if its a "surprise" or something. Diaz is obviously better than Travis at this point and can play SS, so he's definitely on the team over him. Drury is a guy they like a lot and he will absolutely get the chance to prove himself over a failed experiment from the last regime.

He was not deemed "innocent", the case was simply dropped because the accuser conveniently doesn't want to testify all of a sudden. His involvement with the Sinaloa cartel had been quietly talked about long before this incident even happened, so take a wager and guess why his accuser all of a sudden has no interest in leaving Mexico, it should be pretty obvious if you have any idea what goes on in Mexico. Osuna got off, but that does not make him an innocent good ol' boy in the least. The team was aware of his "offseason activities" like a year ago and had apparently already been planning an eventual departure.

Yeah, he went on a week long slump, so obviously your comparison is spot on. No MLB player ever fits in slumps.

Gonna be getting some camp reports boys. The Orelvis Martinez hype train begins (or derails...)

Yes, his Japanese/South American genetics obviously suggest that he'll be 6'5 by 21.

The fact that he's young means less than it does for most players because he isn't expected to grow much and his frame is already developed. If you want to believe that an 18 year old will grow 4 inches overnight, go ahead, but what you see is more than likely what he is.

I followed his games this season. He is not throwing "high 90's" or sitting mid 90's LOL. Its more sitting low 90's and touching mid 90's. Temper expectations. He is good and polished, he isn't a superstar. He is also able to bully rookie-ball hitters right now with his advanced feel for pitching and that becomes much harder the higher you climb.

The most recent claim is that his bat speed has disappeared. Is this related to his hamate injury? You better hope so, because if he's showing average or worse bat speed then he's pretty much done being a "top prospect". The plummet in rankings reflects that; no-one really cares that his numbers weren't good.

He is more often 90-93 in games than he is "mid 90's and topping 97/98". The secondary stuff is good, but again, his height will make most of his stuff play down some just like it does with Stroman. If you take into account his playoff start where he got bombed, he gave up 7 HR's in 51 IP (1.23 per 9 innings) this season which shows that his lack of height is likely already giving him leverage problems. Pardinho is more of a good-stuff/high-floor type than a "superstar". A mid rotation type if everything clicks, whereas Franco is an Acuna/Vlad/Soto type player. You need to temper expectations here, his stuff isn't even at Stroman-level yet and Stroman is hardly "elite".

Franco and Pardinho are only similar in age and relative polish. Franco is getting hyped because he has superstar tools, whereas Pardinho only has good but not elite stuff on top of an obviously below-average frame. Its an upside thing.

This. Krylian is just using age-driven logic which doesn't even apply to pitchers as much as it does with hitters. Merryweather has MLB-quality stuff and he's already knocking on the door, thus he is obviously more valuable than a comp pick. The small likelihood of finding a superstar prospect with a 2nd round comp pick is there, but at that point you also have to consider that there is also a small chance that Merryweather finds one small improvement and ascends to a higher level himself which is entirely possible with any pitcher who throws mid-90's and flashes above-average secondary pitches while showing the ability to throw strikes. Look at someone like Kloffenstein (who we should rightfully be hopeful about) who we got in the 3rd but paid 1st round money to. He was 90-93 in his limited outings in the GCL while flashing "potential" secondary pitches. Yes he is just 18, but it isn't even a given that Kloffenstein even becomes Merryweather. Merryweather certainly already throws harder, and while Kloffenstein could grow, it isn't abnormal at all for HS pitchers to hit peak velocity at 18/19. He could also jump into the high 90's and become a superstar, or flame out in A-ball like a ton of other HS pitchers do. If you look at it objectively instead of focusing on "hype", then Merryweather is obviously above a 2nd-round comp pick. There is also a reason why Cleveland put him onto the 40-man roster after posting a 5-whatever ERA as a 25 year old last year: there is obviously something there, and if you read actual scouting reports its pretty easy to see what it is.

Yeah, all of our problems would be solved if only we had 36 year old 0.8 WAR Edwin Encarnacion on the team. f*** YOU Shatkins! Go back to Cleveland you LOSERS we only like proven winners here.

#BrainFog. Your case appears to be terminal.

Did you seriously need to ask that? We gave $3.5 million to Martinez. We obviously have no money to sign either of the Mesa brothers.

Reed Johnson was a complete slap hitter. What kind of crap comparison is that? Maybe McKinney out of HS would fit that profile, but not his power-oriented new approach.

Its very obvious that they would have traded most of these guys much earlier. If anything, the fact that he's now supposedly considering going to the Mets which are in a worse spot than us and have even worse ownership should point signals to the idea that he's probably not very happy getting thrown onto a landmine over decisions that they never wanted to make in the first place. If he leaves, things are very wrong with Rogers and yet the casual morons will probably be celebrating the departure without understanding what the actual situation is.

Yeah, we're going to get more for an injured version of him with 1 month left on his contract than we gave up for him with years of control left in his prime.

Solid guess. Big power + exit velo guy. Obviously has holes in the swing.

Eric Pardinho got bombed by the Rays. On the flipside, Shane Baz didn't fare a whole lot better in the first inning.

It says that Miami wouldn't do a deal with us unless Vlad was in it. Once we said no, they imediately went with Milwaukee's offer. I.E: saskjayfan is stupid.

The human stomach has a pH of ~1.5, which is extremely acidic. It secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin. The hydrochloric acid denatures proteins and the pepsin acts as a digestive enzyme, it does nothing to break down plant matter. Every herbivore has a high pH (ie: alkaline) stomach. They FERMENT plant matter using microorganisms to extract its nutrients, which we do not do. When you ingest raw plants, they don't get broken down enough and end up sitting in your bowels (where you do very little digestion) and hence most of the nutrients are unabsorbed and you end up with shits that visibly look green or have pieces of plant matter. Ever notice how meat, despite being much more dense, never magically shows up undigested in your feces?

You know nothing. Go eat a giant salad. When you s*** it out, what do you think all the still present plant matter in your feces is? Its undigested plant matter....because we aren't meant to digest it LMFAO. Why do you think the Chinese cook all of their vegetables? Because they understand that its the only way to make it digestible. The problem being that cooking vegetables kills all the nutrients in it anyway. Notice how vegans and vegetarians live off smoothies, juices, etc? All attempts to make plant matter more digestible. You can eat raw meat and absorb all the nutrients from it by comparison, assuming that its real meat (I see that a few of you seem to be shifting the argument towards commercialized grocery meat...no you idiots, humans weren't meant to live off of that either). When I say "meat", I'm talking about a primal diet that would mean healthy wild animals. Not a bioengineered Chicken fed got knows what. Your digestive tract is nothing like a herbivores. Jesus Christ, our education system is non-existent. How can we possibly be herbivores when there are something like 7+ essential vitamins/nutrients that are nowhere to be found in plant foods? On the contrary, there is nothing essential to your life that you can't find in some part of the animal (organs, fats, eggs, milk, etc). You are warped into believing that meat is just protein and fats while plants and vegetables provide everything else. Animal liver is loaded with more DIGESTIBLE vitamins and minerals than any plant. Then there is vitamin B12 which only exists in animal products, and seaweed (which in nature is obviously only available to a small population of humans). Creatine, vitamin K, etc, etc. are all the same.

So without domesticated farming you wouldn't be able to hunt wild game like wild boar? What a retarded argument. I never said that today's bastardization of commercial livestock wasn't made more convenient. An animal is still an animal however, and you still wouldn't be able to eat oranges in December you idiot even if they did exist (they didn't: oranges are a man-made hybrid).

The fruits you find in your supermarket are entirely man-made through decades of cross-cultivation. They don't exist in nature. You think "Golden Delicious" apples are natural? Wild apples taste like s*** and you'd have next to zero instinct to eat them in the wild. The fruits you eat are all engineered to pack as much fructose as possible (because sugar is a highly addictive drug), and fructose like all sugars is horrendous for you and will rot your teeth (go look at all the "fruititarian" dipshits with rotting teeth in their late 20's and early 30's LOL). The human body requires minimal amounts of carbs which it can actually produce from protein and fats through gluconeogenesis, so there goes that argument. Use some common sense; unless you came from the tropics you'd only be able to find fruits in SEASON for a few months of the year in nature. What fruits are you going to find in the dead of the Canadian winter? Watermelons? Mangos? LOL. At best these are "once in a while" food sources as evidenced by the human body's adverse digestive reactions to overeating them (diarrhea, bloating, reflux, etc) and yet your "food guides" will try and tell you that these are things that you should be loading into your diet every day when its a sheer logistical impossibility in nature, and not biologically supported either. The digestive tract argument is far more important than the teeth argument (which is absurdly stupid). Your front teeth can in fact tear flesh. Humans also possess hands and fingers which can serve the same purpose, that other carnivores do not. Yes, you are an "omnivore", but the story that you are told is completely wrong. You are not programmed to be a 50/50 "ominivore" which is what the term seemingly implies, and even worse that is now shifting through manipulation to suggest that ~75+% of your diet should supposedly come from grains (never eat these), legumes (LOL), and plants and fruits. The bulk of your diet should come from real animal products. Every civilization in history understood this, which is why they'd value animal foods over everything else when given the option. It is virtually impossible to become overweight on a ketogenic diet, and yet in today's society with obesity and heart disease through the roof you are told to limit meat intake to things like skinless chicken breast, and load up on "heart healthy" whole grains LOL. In nature, the first things that humans consume is fat and organs as they are the most nutritious. Even herbivores like cows take plants (grass) and CONVERT it to saturated fats which they then utilize. All you need to look at is raw human behaviour. Why is it that you find that infants, toddlers, and young children are absolutely disgusted by plants and vegetables which are supposedly "the most nutritious" foods (as you are told)? It makes no evolutionary sense for something that you are supposedly meant to survive on to taste disgusting, and that is exactly how young children view most plant matter. The only reason why people eat things like spinach, kale etc. is because they are TOLD it is "healthy". There is no biological urge to eat these plants, and alas in nature which is filled with plant matter you understand that 99+% of it is completely inedible or will make you horribly sick, whereas you can eat almost every animal known to man and draw nutrition from it...even insects.