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Woodman also showed brutal strikeout rates in the Cape Cod league.
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Woodman's contact issues were known well before the draft (With Keith Law famously grading his hit tool at 20 or something ridiculous like that). Since then he's posted K-rates of ~33% last year and now 11 strikeouts in 20 at bats to start this season. The likelihood of a 22 year old hitter in A-ball rectifying those strikeout rates is unprecedented. That s*** only flies if the guy is Adam Dunn in the BB and HR department; and Woodman ain't that. You can basically write him off already as a prospect.
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Its absolutely perplexing that they would reach for a college hitter with obvious contact issues. At least when you go that route on a HS bat you are hoping that three years down the road the kid makes improvements. Just a stupid, stupid pick.
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SRF didn't make it out of the second inning again today after giving up a 3-run HR. Bo Bichette on the other hand is back at it again: 1-2 with another double.
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Hudson Belinsky said today that Bichette has some of the best bat speed in the minors period. Most of these guys have already stated that Bichette is for real. That doesn't mean that he won't fail, but its ruling out "fluke" as the explanation for his performance. He was pitched around a LOT during his senior season so there were a lot of people who really couldn't get a read on his actual talent. By now it is obvious that he was a 1st round talent as a hitter.
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I'm not going to miss the "ignore signability and play hardball at all costs" draft strategy under Anthopolous. Failing to get Singer signed as a 2nd round pick is a colossal fail.
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http://m.mlb.com/news/article/213253022/pardinho-becoming-face-of-baseball-from-brazil/ http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/31426364/v1181362683/pakbra-15yearold-pardinho-throws-23-innings
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Who's got a BA membership to post this sh*t?
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Because those were just negotiations. They actually have an agreement now.
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Mark Shapiro master plan to antagonize other teams into signing Bautista now versus waiting for his compensation period to run out.
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http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/017/046/BptVE1JIEAAA3dT.jpg
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The team couldn't generate runs when it needed to, which is why the Royals bullpen took a crap on our historic offense...which is also the same thing that Cleveland did to both us and Boston this year. Both the Royals in '15 and the Indians in '16 hit more homeruns than us in our respective series'. When your offense is more or less built on hitting HRs (but but but our team OBP...I don't care) and the opponent out homers you, you're probably going to lose.
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The biggest problem with the Marlins trade was how much salary we took on. That led to the Dickey trade (his age meant that he'd come cheap for a "Cy Young" pitcher) and later led to the situation wherein we went into a season with Castro/Osuna/Pompey/Norris/Travis ALL being asked to fill major starter roles on a team that was trying to make the playoffs despite all of them being rookies (we had no payroll flexibility to fill all those holes elsewhere). I'm not sure what ownership pressure he felt, but AA really flipped the switch from "building" to "going for it" way too early. Yes it got us into the playoffs, but it created a short window with a team that ultimately had too many holes to actually realistically win a championship.
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Its no different from Canada Goose LOL. Canada Goose "Arctic Tech" material is 85/15 Polyester/Cotton...this thing is 83/17. Its 90/10 Down fill. Its a legit coat. Is it "as nice" as a Canada Goose coat? No, but I don't think its ~$800 less nice either.
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Sears AlpineTek Down Parka goes on sale for ~$99 every now and again and is basically the same thing as a Canada Goose coat except with a different logo. Its almost too warm.
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Cool story bro; except the part wherein Fowler actually had "issues" with the Cardinals until they gave him an assload of money. IE: None of this was a "factor" at all. He signed with the team that gave him way more money than any other, just like he would have signed here had we given him the most money. Like, you realize that he signed with the franchise that told Albert Pujols "thanks bro, cya later" while he was still in his actual perceived prime LOL.
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He actually hit for most of his power on the road, but at the end of the day he's a guy who was a 100-105 wRC+ hitter for three seasons and all of a sudden put up a 130 wRC+ season backed by a huge uptick in power. He doesn't walk much, and he's not very good defensively either. He can clearly hit; but guys who rely on high BABIP tend to age worse and be less dependable than BB-driven batters.
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The Nationals were definitely down on Giolito. Velocity down and even at 93/94 he somehow couldn't miss any bats while getting lit up like a Christmas tree.
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"Poor secondary offerings"...he struck out more batters/9 this year than Giolito ever has at any level. "Reliever, no secondary pitch"...sounds like Syndergaard.
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How is it significantly better? Giolito is either hurt, or his stuff has gone backwards big time. Robles is in A-ball and can't touch Moncada anyway. Is Reynaldo Lopez a star? Probably not.
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What exactly makes Fowler overrated? He walks, makes solid contact, average power, plus base-runner. The fact that he is a player driven by walk-rate instead of BABIP strongly suggests that he is likely to age well as a hitter (unlike someone like Carl Crawford who never walked and therefore became useless once the legs wore out). Fowler left Coors Field and actually became a better hitter.
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Kopech is like Syndergaard when we traded him: a prospect who was obviously right on the cusp of blowing up, but who's actual "prospect ranking" hadn't quite synced up with the talent/upside. Given Giolito's drop in velocity and overall stuff, it isn't absurd at all to see Kopech end up as the better prospect.