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  1. metafour
    Boyd went from underrated to overrated really quickly. Don't get me wrong he's taken a step forward and now looks like a legitimate prospect, but lets not forget where we "started" from here. The fastball is nice, but his MLB upside is still as a replaceable back-end starter if he continues moving forward with no plus secondary pitch. You need an out pitch in the MLB, otherwise the hitters will simply eventually hit your fastball. He may be able to move his fastball around and dominate AA hitters, but that same approach is going to be a lot less effective against MLB hitters. The secondary problem is that he's a flyball pitcher, so while he's a guy who relies on his fastball, you can't even hope that he becomes a guy who can dominate by inducing a s***-ton of groundballs and weak contact. He's a prospect, but now we're talking about him as a potential #3 starter? Really? A #3 starter is a good, above-average MLB starter. Dial the expectations back. Look at Kendall Graveman.
  2. metafour
    You're missing the part where the actual stats he's putting up don't mean much.
  3. metafour
    He's going to be a #3 with no plus offspeed pitch? Alright. Is JA Happ a #3? Thats another lefty who can throw reasonably hard but lacks a real plus secondary offering which is why he'd get into lots of long pitch counts.
  4. metafour
    He has nothing that projects as much more than average or slightly above average, which is his main problem.
  5. metafour
    The velocity jump is nice, but he still doesn't have a put-away pitch. His ceiling may be something like J.A. Happ.
  6. metafour
    The second part was sarcasm genius, because that was what NJH was implying: that I saw the Hoffman GIF and that was how I supposedly made my analysis. Hoffman has thrown a better breaking ball throughout their individual developmental paths. That will continue once he starts pitching professionally.
  7. metafour
    Hoffman hasn't even made a pro pitch yet, and his "grades" right now are affected by it. Watch, once he actually starts dominating against professional hitters those numerical grades will all shoot up in next year's installment of rankings. Just like Syndergaard's pitch grades have all risen as he has proven himself. Hoffman easily has the better breaking ball.
  8. metafour
    LMFAO @ those reports. Syndergaard has a potential 70 curveball now? The guy who could barely spin a passable breaking ball two years ago? Yeah, I totally saw that Hoffman GIF from yesterday bro and thats what I'm basing my opinion on.
  9. metafour
    Wrong. Hoffman has MUCH better off-speed stuff.
  10. metafour
    Cordero. He's so hot right now. Cordero.
  11. metafour
    Barreto isn't doing any better. .154/.200/.250 in High A. I'm sure he'll recover.
  12. metafour
    2 good games, 2 poor games. Its just consistency. He struck out 8 in 4 innings with 1 ER on the 18th.
  13. metafour
    He's not. 2.5% BB rate 35.1% K rate .545 BABIP
  14. metafour
    Yup. His problem has always been that he takes a rigid black/white approach to scouting when he should know full well that anything can and WILL happen in baseball. Law deserves all the flack he receives for this reason alone, because he brings it upon himself. The snarky replies he gives just makes it even worse. Remember when Yan Gomes was a "non-prospect"? 8 WAR the past two seasons.
  15. metafour
    Exactly. Orioles fans are completely delusional. Oh, he's a Rule 5 guy and therefore he obviously just missed (by a laughable margin)....why is he on the team then if he can't even keep the ball from going behind a batter? Better yet, if it was accidental then why didn't he make some sort of gesture to indicate "my bad"? I'd assume that would the first thing a no-name Rule 5 pitcher would do after throwing a ball behind a star player IN A BLOWOUT. The whole thing is so obvious it is laughable that they are actually trying to spin the "accident" excuse. Its a blowout, the inning prior Encarnacion launched a ball into the 5th deck, and in comes a no-name pitcher the very next inning and launches a ball behind Bautista who they've been "targeting" for two years now...with a ball ending up behind him just a week ago! Nothing suspicious there at all.
  16. metafour
    To be fair, we could be one of the ~15+ teams that do nothing of significance in this market. We'd still be getting the "best" player in this class, and even if we don't sign multiple other million+ dollar talents I'd bet we'll land several other mid to high six-figure signings with promise. Isamael Cruz and company have done a very good job.
  17. metafour
    Gatewood wasn't available to us as he went in the Compensation first round.
  18. metafour
    Unlikely. The whole "promote 20 year olds from A-ball" thing isn't likely to stick as an actual strategy.
  19. metafour
    He also struck out Michael Gettys twice today. Gettys was having a pretty good start to his season as well (for a kid with major hitting question marks). That sequence of picks in the 2nd round will be interesting to follow for us moving forward. Reid-Foley, Monte Harrison, and Michael Gettys back-to-back-to-back. All three had first round talent/tools.
  20. metafour
    MiLB is showing Silverstein now as well.
  21. metafour
    He's pitching in extended spring training. Its all rehab work still.
  22. metafour
    So MiLB is listing Tirado as the probable starter for today's game....
  23. metafour
    Told you guys 100 times that Labourt > Smoral.
  24. metafour
    He took a job with Perfect Game and just kind of disappeared. It was announced today that he was hired as the National Prospect Writer for D1 Baseball; which seems to be a new site headlined by a few ex BA (Aaron Fitt) and PG (Kendall Rogers) guys.
  25. metafour
    17 year old who hit for a .754 OPS in the DSL last year. Signed for $250K, ranked #21 IFA in the 2013 IFA class by MLB.com. Will be one to track in the GCL this year.
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