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  1. Prince William
    The chemistry on a team is limited by how moody the darkest, nastiest, pissy narcissistic person on the team gets when things don't go there way. The feuding Oakland team knew they were a special group. Despite the publicized feuds there was likely a cohesive group
  2. Prince William
    In order for him to be a failed shortstop he would have to play there. I hear there is a pretty good shortstop on the major league team right now So if you are looking at him to be a SS, it would be in the minor leagues. It makes the RF question moot. Another season of minor league ball also makes clear what Lewis' capabilities are at a higher level a slugging percentage that is 40 points higher is drastically better than one that is 40 points lower,
  3. Prince William
    Career best should never be expected to be repeated but should not be viewed as an impossible happening. Watch closely this year as a few of the free agents do not meet their recent statistics. Observational hypothesis but not necessarily researched is that you see a drop off with pitchers then the arm goes under the knife. Maybe Maeda is a stoic individual and tried to pitch through it, hence the longer time of downslide. Recovery could be as 9 months, could be longer. that is the beauty of medicine, it isn't as predictable as fixing a car from the 50'5
  4. Prince William
    TJ takes out only one year, not two.
  5. Prince William
    On your way of thinking, based off of a one part of a season statistic Jose Miranda also slugged at .563 at a higher level of baseball with a better rate of XBH of 41 in 81 games than Lewis did in the AFL. Why would one not advocate for the player with more XBH per game? Sabato had 11 XBH in 21 games with a better slugging percentage of 613. Put him out there. Then there is Matt Wallner with a 606 slugging percentage. Old Royce better not get too comfortable out there, Wallner is going to come for him. I sure hope people are not so naive to believe Correa is here for the long haul. Lewis may need to be the shortstop of the future more than the LF of the future. I don't think Wallner nor Miranda are SS material, but could do fine in the OF.
  6. Prince William
    Those that clamor for free agent mega contract forgot what Winston Churchill once said about history. The FO would appear to know what an expensive crap shoot FA pitching is and the previous GM in franchise history that wanted to up spending to rebuild the franchise.
  7. Prince William
    Oh be in that position in life to think that 28 is not young The development of many of the pitchers was hindered by that silly little thing called a pandemic. It is strange to assail the front office for things that they have no control over. They were not responsible for what the previous regime drafted. Their first draft class had high school pitchers. The players drafted after that haven't had time to develop in 2 seasons. What does people expect a timeline to look like for drafted high school or college pitchers? Patrick Corbin, Eovaldi, Bumgartner, Arrietta and Cobb all really sucked for the bucks they were paid. Darvish, Cole, and Strasburg contracts are not close enough to complete to say they were good or bad. There were only a couple of contracts that worked, Wheeler's contract out of all of the big splash contracts signed while this front office has been employed has been the only one that has been worth the money. People here wonder why the FO does not sign big name pitchers to big contracts. The answer lies in effectiveness of how the money gets spent.
  8. Prince William
    When every team gets an all star player somebody gets to go for the mediocre teams. That was Archer. A statistic on the success rate of TOS is in the abstract. It costs money to read the article. $509 if my short term memory is working. I am neither rich enough nor benevolent enough were I rich enough to pay that. Performance in major league baseball pitchers after surgical treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome - PubMed (nih.gov)
  9. Prince William
    Released last month and picked up by Atlanta
  10. Prince William
    Major League Leaderboards » 2021 » Relievers » Dashboard | FanGraphs Baseball Yet Atlanta still won it without a leader.
  11. Prince William
    Al Worthington is still around and as viable of a reliever at this point.
  12. Prince William
    Gore has had a prospect ranking lower than his age. For not being able to throw strikes an awful lot of people must be missing something that you see
  13. Prince William
    Four things people know after this trade. Jim Pohlad learned his lessons well from his father. The team lost money, so a Pohlad will pinch the pennies. Money analytics will override baseball analytics Bill Smith trades do not look as bad in hindsight., In a couple of years the fan base will really gnash their teeth. There will be many people who hope Yogi Berra was right. It is not over until it is over. Let the trading season be ongoing
  14. Prince William
    To get on the Preposterous Statement you have to have name recognition. Perhaps John Bonnes can get you on the morning show
  15. Prince William
    EXPLANATION OF RPA (baseballthinkfactory.org) Your player with a higher average on 600 plate appearances would have 36 more hits but contribute less runs
  16. Prince William
    For the sake of what you appear to not understand. The FO had some players when they got here. Most failed to develop. That really isn't on the FO. If a top 100 player failed to develop it would also be on the failed analysis of the ranking people who historically do not get much right
  17. Prince William
    A few? Romero, Gonsalves, Stewart, Mejia, Jorge Duffey and May turned out to be fine starting pitching if you were a tanking team Rogers, May and Duffey are failed starters that are fine relievers. A few. were in the top 100. Do you know what it means to be just in the top 100? It means that you are warmer than a warm body as a player. It means you were a top draft pick, or might be called up. Woo hoo. Pressly became a lights out when he finally listened to the current FO and used his slider more
  18. Prince William
    The subjectivity of such a statement as "worse off" makes it really an undebatable comment. Last year's win total obviously makes it so. Considering that Ervin Santana, Hector Santiago, Tommy Millone have all been spending time in the league last year, you have to ask would those three plus Duffey as a starter had won as many games as last year's team did? How about the starters drafted by the previous regime? Kohl Stewart anyone? The previous regime had no starting pitching other than Berrios and Gibson. That in no way is in good shape. Is Berrios what he is because of the current regime or the past regime? The previous regime wanted Buxton to beat out base hits. Would Buxton be as big being the hitter he was the first 2 years? You can have an opinion based on win of one year. Myopia is what it is
  19. Prince William
    Ownership hired them to have an idea of winning. but not an expectation of winning every year. No mid market team can do that
  20. Prince William
    Horse Hockey. Fans wants winners at any cost. Do you see winning at any cost out of anything beyond the Yankees, Dodgers and the like? No the issue becomes tanking. Would you seriously think that anyone wants their team to tank in spite of not having success for multiple years? In the news recently Jeter quit because he felt like the main owner was more interested in profit than winning Jeter was the true fan and a player. A higher CBT was a negotiation ploy. Much to my amazement, that really would have been unchanged. The players want the lower tiers paid. That is greed? Owners charging as much as they can for any service, ticket, parking or item of food they can is not greed? The last baseball team to go bankrupt was a long long time ago. Increased parity is evidenced by the increased tanking If the owners were truly interested in parity there would be a direct tie in to spending and revenue sharing. That does not exist. Owner greed
  21. Prince William
    To answer the question of draft him, why yes. First round, no way. He has no leverage for the bonus despite Boras. If he wants to sign he can. It will not be a multi million dollar contract. If he wants to pitch indy ball or overseas to prove his value that is his option and risk.
  22. Prince William
    Was it half the mistake the Yankees made at 2/34. I think that if it was an analytic based decision they ought to have fired the analyst.
  23. Prince William
    Signing your own players to an even minor overpay is not a bad thing. He is the epitome of 3 outcome baseball. He should be rewarded for various reasons
  24. Prince William
    a team shouldn't need 13 all at once. hopefully only2 or3 prospects a year are needed
  25. Prince William
    Rice University Pitchers in Professional Baseball - Minor League Ball You can update the list if you would like MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Rice University (Houston, TX)" | Baseball-Reference.com
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