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  1. metafour
    Hagen Danner just crushed a HR.
  2. metafour
    Davis Schneider signed. He made his debut in the GCL yesterday (along with Danner) and went 1 for 3, 2B, BB.
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    BTW; the newly drafted college kids are absolutely mashing in Vancouver so far. Adams, Large, Lundquist...even Clemens who just hit his second HR.
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    You'd have to think the signing of Warmoth starts the chain of events which forces Bichette to Dunedin: Warmoth to Vancouver, Vicuna to Lansing, Bichette to Dunedin.
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    Ben Badler has the AL East forecast up and he apparently has us linked to 10 names? Someone post that article plz.
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    No, the comparison is really stupid. That 2015 team quite obviously had a historically strong offense. By comparison, even "when healthy" this year's offense isn't even in the same ballpark. Yes, you can use the claim that pitching injuries have hurt our run differential this year, which they have, but you need to also then go back to 2015 and realize that in the same reference point (~first half of the season) we were actually a below-average pitching team in 2015. So in reality that +87 run differential was created almost entirely by the offense. Do you want to argue that a couple of injuries to Donaldson/Tulo/etc. is the ONLY difference between the first half offensive output in 2015 and 2017? That is silly, as even with Donaldson and Tulo back we are quite obviously an average-at-best offense this year. By comparison that 2015 team was first in Team wOBA and had scored nearly 80 more runs than the next highest scoring team (which is also almost the exact positive run differential they had...) in the 1st half of the season. We are 23rd and 26th by those metrics this season, and it ain't because Devon Travis is injured.
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    Someone with a BA account plz post Badler's latest IFA Top 50 article from today. Apparently we're linked to 5 of his Top 50 prospects.
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    It has accomplished the goal of keeping costs down for owners, which is basically the only reason why it was implemented in the first place.
  9. metafour
    Riley Adams: 4 for 4, two 2B, HR Brock Lundquist: 3 for 4, two 2B Kacy Clemens 2 for 4, 2B
  10. metafour
    "Pride Night"...you know, for the whole ~5 gay/whatever Cardinals fans. Straight pandering...to no one. Do gay people even like baseball?
  11. metafour
    Most HS kids drafted in that range are going to take over-slot to sign unless you are cutting a deal to take someone a little higher than expected. Even Adam Hall, the raw Canadian SS, got over slot one pick ahead of us...and he went earlier than expected if you want to go by draft rankings. I knew that Danner would get over slot once I saw what the other HS catchers were signings for (Detroit took a kid in the 5th round that signed for $1 mill, which was basically Danner's slot value in the 2nd round).
  12. metafour
    So Yennsy Diaz is a thing. 20 year old RHP who they skipped past Vancouver out of extended spring training a few weeks ago. He's got 18 strikeouts in 11.2 IP for Lansing; fastball is reportedly sitting mid 90's and he's hit high 90's a few times.
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    Colton Laws signs for slot (not surprising) and Logue only goes $14K under slot. Like I said, there wasn't going to be as much savings here as people had hoped.
  15. metafour
    Cullen Large got slot:
  16. metafour
    Its almost as if patience at the plate isn't a learned skill........
  17. metafour
    Gurriel is back!
  18. metafour
    Again, this has nothing to do with how many pitches he has and everything to do with whether he can even physically pitch a starter's workload. Why is this in question? -Blew his elbow out at 18 throwing what was essentially kiddie-level innings (~40). -Never pitched anything near a starter's workload, or even close to it....ie: his body now has 4-5 years of adapting to a reliever's workload. -Questions arose over his mechanics potentially pushing him into the bullpen even before we rushed him up as a reliever, this also correlates with the fact that he couldn't even stay healthy back when we were babying him with that ~3 IP split-starter workload that we had Sanchez and Syndergaard on as well.
  19. metafour
    Osuna is a serious injury risk. This isn't brought up often because most relevant pitchers don't have TJ surgery at such a young age; but the estimated life-span of a TJ repaired elbow is ~10 years before the risk of needing a second procedure dramatically increases. Because Osuna was only 18 when he had his TJ surgery, this means that he could blow his elbow out again in his ~late 20's, if not sooner. The whole "he has lots of pitches" thing doesn't really matter if he completely falls apart physically while trying to pitch drastically increased innings, which he has NEVER done BTW.
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    He wouldn't have been drafted if he wasn't signing.
  21. metafour
    Gunner Halter has NOT signed yet. Way too much reading into a pointless Tweet by him.
  22. metafour
    Kevin Smith has signed:
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    Riley Adams for slot apparently:
  24. metafour
    I'm not pretending anything, I vocally hated acquiring a SS who you KNEW you'd be paying out the ass for the bad years of his inflated contract after Colorado sucked all his elite years dry. I even publicly stated that there was a high probability with that trade that we were doing nothing but rolling back a few years on Reyes before Tulowitzki became a similarly useless dead-weight contract. None of this is surprising to me; you think the rate of shortstops staying elite into their mid 30's is high? Tulowitzki had a million injuries in Colorado as well so its not even remotely surprising that his offensive decline happened faster than normal. Again, just look at the baseline of that trade: we acquired a SS that was going to cost us $98 million from ages 31-36, knowing full well that most of those years were going to be decline years. You may have a different opinion, but I am never in favour of paying top assets so that another team can pawn off the hilariously overpriced years of an injury riddled player at a position that doesn't exude typical longevity.
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    Tulowitzki was a 104 wRC+ hitter in Colorado and was actually a negative defender before we acquired him. He was worth a whopping 0.9 WAR at the time of the trade. What exactly am I making up? The 104 wRC+ was a clear red flag considering that he was a consistent ~130+ wRC+ hitter in previous seasons, and sure enough he has basically been useless at the plate since that trade which is just a continuation of his swift decline in Colorado.
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