Jake

Puig is most certainly a drama queen and pretty unlikable guy...but he just crashed into a wall this time. No big deal.

Glad that this should prevent us from taking Hoffman with the third pick in the draft. I'd be really happy with any of Rodon, Kolek, or Aiken

I wouldn't read too much into Davidson's struggles just yet. He's hit well at that level before and is still younger than many of his peers in AAA. A lot of talent there

What I really didn't understand was why they had him facing away from the camera

To me, the conditions have played a much larger role in killing the vibes in this game. Abreu, Dunn, Flowers, and Bonifacio (except he wouldn't have) would have homers if it was 60 degrees

Yeah I don't know that I'd want to pay him market value, but I would like to see what he would do in Chicago just in the abstract

I didn't know anyone was criticizing Puig for trying to make a catch

I'd really like the way Ariza would look in the Bulls lineup

Samardzija will not want to pound Abreu with belt-high fastballs all night, I can tell you that

The thing I never thought about re:West dominance is that the lottery perpetuates the problem. Every year, really good teams that barely miss the playoffs in the West get put into the lottery, giving them better rookies than they are due.

The problem with Sanchez is how low his upside is. 2 homers in 1800+ PAs so far in his career and not a whole lot of other XBH either. He's a guy who looks like he will have to bat .300 to be worth a damn at the plate

I just love my Roku or else I would check out Chromecast

Yeah, the broadcasters don't want to be discussing the definitions and validity of sabermetrics very often

Maybe it doesn't matter if all the games sell out when the teams continue to make money? I'm just as much of a baseball fan as ever and while I want to go to games, there's only so much I will do. I make at least one game a year, sometimes two. A playoff team would probably increase that to three or four (or would have under my previous living circumstances). I watch the team all the time, though. I miss maybe 15 games per year on TV. I'm profitable

Mr. Unreliable!

QUOTE (flavum @ May 3, 2014 -> 01:04 PM) De Aza LF Beckham 2B Abreu 1B Dunn DH Viciedo RF Ramirez SS Danks CF Flowers C Semien 3B I usually don't get very worked up about batting orders, but I was already getting pissed about having our worst hitter batting in front of Abreu. Now we have our second worst hitter batting in front of our worst hitter who is in front of our best hitter. Sheesh

I'm skeptical about how much anyone earning that much in a non-contract season can net you midseason. Most teams max out their budget in the offseason, making it difficult to accommodate a shiny new >$10M/year shortstop.

I love how even with Rizzo off to a good start, Cashner still looks like he'll be the more valuable player in the deal at a much more important position

He showed some real good signs last time out. I wouldn't mind giving him another start if he looks decent again, but it's certainly something I'd look at on a start-by-start basis

The absolute guarantee is given, followed by guarantee plus all arb. players, followed by all arb. players plus all team options. Note that I don't have Arb players repeat and in those final seasons, you have some chunk of payroll being eaten up by the arbitration of players that probably won't be getting paid arbitration. For the White Sox, for instance, you have guys like Jared Mitchell being accounted for.

Boras would likely listen to an offer that isn't way overslot if we can make some sort of promise about starting his service time, ala Chris Sale. It'd shock me if Rodon wouldn't be ready to act as a LOOGY by end of season

If I had to have one or the other, I'd probably take Paulino. I can hide a crap pitcher who might come around, it's hard for me to hide a redundant, slow, bad-fielding infielder on a bench that already includes Paul Konerko

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 30, 2014 -> 02:32 PM) How about Yankees fans chanting "sellout" at Robinson Cano? Sweet Jesus, talk about the pot calling the kettle black

FWIW, catchers are notorious for being very late bloomers. Not uncommon for very decent catchers to seem to come out of nowhere when they are 27-30 years old. Honestly, Flowers is the type of guy that is on a very conventional catcher career track. I don't know that he will be one that actually turns into a good starting catcher, but spending a long time in the minors, then some unexceptional years as a backup, an unexceptional run as a starter, and then finally getting it at an advanced age is a pretty common deal.

I'm surprised he said that much - since he did, it makes me wonder if something funny happened with Puig's defection...maybe Abreu was to be involved, maybe Puig was supposed to be a part of Abreu's defection, something like that.