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  1. metafour
    Carrera isn't that ridiculous of a pick: he's super hot and he's going against a right handed junk-baller who lives in the zone who also happens to be getting hit a ton.
  2. metafour
    Pentecost 2 for 3 with a HR.
  3. metafour
    Sure, but there is also a premium on present value (versus future value) when it comes to draft picks. Ultimately, failing to sign Bickford didn't turn out to be a huge mistake, I'm just saying that this was literally the reason why we were able to sign Tellez, and that he therefore shouldn't be seen as "a $20 bill found under the seat cushions". Teams draft throw-away guys like Tellez in the ~30th round every year; it takes special circumstance (like not signing your 1st round pick, which RARELY happens) to actually get those guys signed.
  4. metafour
    It wasn't an "oversight"; we were able to sign Tellez (and Brentz) because we failed to sign Bickford, not because we executed some advanced strategy. Obviously it isn't a very sound strategy to fail to sign the 10th player drafted just so that you can get a ~fringe Top 100 guy or two later on. The fact that we ultimately didn't have a first round pick that year makes expectations for Tellez real as he quite obviously wasn't just a "bonus" player.
  5. metafour
    Tellez's power has been nonexistent in AAA so far. The worry I have is that he's just a brute-strength power hitter, which means that he can hit the ball a long way when he runs into it, but at the MLB level its bat-speed over brute strength always. There are a lot of huge guys with brute strength power who get neutralized by advanced pitching and increased velocity. Its much harder to stop a power hitter who's power is drawn from elite bat speed. The whole "he can hit the ball out of the stadium" thing doesn't mean much if he struggles to actually barrel up balls consistently.
  6. metafour
    Personally, I don't like the move, simply because McKay's two-way talents realistically don't boost his overall value. You've got people who feel he's a pitcher moving forward, but in this case is he even better than Kyle Wright from Vanderbilt? I don't think so, and in fact most people will probably tell you that they like Wright better. Then you've got people who feel his future is at 1B, but again even though he projects well here, you're now talking about drafting a 1B #1 overall...and how much better (if at all) is he than someone like Pavin Smith in this outcome? With Greene you are at least getting the highest upside player in the draft, even though the risk is obviously higher. With McKay I just see too much of a chance wherein you make him a pitcher and yet Kyle Wright or someone else becomes better, or you make him a hitter and he simply only becomes "good" because the offensive expectation for 1B is so high.
  7. metafour
    This was literally the game they were spotted at LOL:
  8. metafour
    Just did some Twitter digging. Blue Jays scouts were seen watching 6'6 175 pound HS RHP Caden Lemons two days ago. Lemons is ranked #74 on MLB.com and #96 on BA.
  9. metafour
    San Francisco is NorCal; its not even hot, in fact it can actually be pretty chilly. September is like jacket weather in San Francisco LOL.
  10. metafour
    Anyone who wanted to sell understood that that would be a trade-deadline decision (teams don't buy ~30 games into the season), so I'm not sure what this win streak changes.
  11. metafour
    That was a strike. Crappy receiving by the catcher made it look lower than it was.
  12. metafour
    Better than that scrub Edwin. Shatkins playing 4D chess with you fools.
  13. metafour
    Evan White looks like the most interesting of the college bats we've been on. HR and 2B today, HR and 2B yesterday as well. He's on a tear right now and he's shown real improvement in both power and strikeouts from year to year. He's still got some physical projection as well and apparently there are some that believe he can play CF.
  14. metafour
    Evan White, Keston Hiura, Logan Warmoth
  15. metafour
    Norberto Obeso, Rodrigo Orozco, Jose Espada maybe. They might have some some older-age IFA kids they throw on there too, but most of those guys start in the GCL or Bluefield. Most of the prospects will be newly drafted College kids, which like I said should feature some highly drafted guys this year.
  16. metafour
    Uhm, those guys are already in full-season ball which is a step above short-season Rookie ball. In order from lowest to highest it goes: GCL Jays Bluefield Vancouver Lansing Dunedin New Hampshire Buffalo
  17. metafour
    Yes. They're supposedly going college heavy (at least in the 1st round) so you'll probably get a good chance of seeing whoever goes #22 and #28.
  18. metafour
    Typically after the draft.
  19. metafour
    Vlad was already signed when the trade was made. We acquired the bonus slot because it pushed us out of two year penalty. Tim Locastro went in that deal too.
  20. metafour
    http://i.imgur.com/BlhS5ha.gif
  21. metafour
    There is a guy on Youtube who seems to be some pitching mechanics expert; he went over Pardinho's mechanics and said that its frighteningly scary how advanced his mechanics are for 16.
  22. metafour
    Of course its possible, but the Twins can offer more money than anyone else, therefore the likelihood of ANY player declining to sign at #1 overall is extremely low because it means taking less money.
  23. metafour
    Except that Edwin has shown clear decline in contact and increasing whiff rate for ~4 straight seasons now. Yeah, he's not likely to remain a -0.1 WAR player all year obviously...the question is how much and how quickly his obvious decline will hit him.
  24. metafour
    Aberlour is a Speyside, so you can always find similar styles to it. Macallan, Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, etc. are all from the same region. Either way, buying Scotch in Canada blows.
  25. metafour
    Edwin looks like piss, good lord. Contact rate has fallen off a cliff and his strikeout and whiff rates are through the roof.
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