Jake

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that was ridiculous. How do you play baseball your whole life and interpret that bunt to be a bush league move?

Of all people in MLB that had as many ABs as Josh Phegley last year, he was the absolute worst hitter of them all. It wasn't even close. I'm not sure if he could do anything to make me feel confident in him at this point, especially considering his atrocious defense.

T Wolves are brilliant. They've put themselves in a position where they have to get Love. Everyone knows they aren't good enough without him and the public speculation and the stuff like LBJ calling Love mean that Cleveland has failed if they don't get him. So what does Minny do? "More please!" Yep, just keep asking for more because CLE is backed into a corner

Pitcher pissed about 2-out bunt against shift w/ 2-run lead, calls it breach of etiquette

I am going to be real and say I don't know a god damn thing about this kid so...if we get him, I hope he's good, and if we don't, I hope he goes to the Cubs for a very high price and then sucks ass

I think they're way too down on Davidson, especially considering his recent bounceback. Too high on Micah. WAY too high on Beck.

Wilkins and Micah are both players that saw their walk rates plummet upon arriving in AAA

I wouldn't immediately jump to the conclusion that Astros are in the wrong, here. If the kid's medicals look like s***, they look like s***. With that said, I wonder if Close feels that he can get free agency for Aiken now, which is why he apparently advised him to balk at all offers.

Yes yes yes, I understand how amnesty works. I was just too lazy to edit the post

The thing about the amnesty that f***s you is that it happens after everyone has spent their money. He would have gotten himself paid if he became available July 1

I believe Jon Rauch entered a season as #4 when I last looked at BA's history

Saw this the other day and I think it exemplifies exactly why advanced statistics are a worthwhile venture. Quote is attributed to Bill James - "a muddy truth is better than a tidy lie"

Any other Sox on there?

I'd be a lot more open to it if I didn't have to play him in CF, which is apparently the demand that's causing him to want to be traded

FWIW, we put Mitchell in AA before he had gotten over the A+ hump and then put him in AAA before he got over the AA hump. We put him in a really tough position, developmentally speaking. There was no good reason to believe he'd do well in AAA based on anything he'd done before when we put him there.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 16, 2014 -> 07:42 PM) Well what state are you in again? OH

We easily would have traded Danks for Eaton, so probably

I have to tell you, I'm looking in a different location for apartments and I never saw a single one that didn't require the deposit alongside the application with the only way of getting it back being a rejected application.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 16, 2014 -> 12:38 PM) I always wonder how much Deng's wrist (and the fact that he did not opt for surgery) impacted his wrist. I bet his wrist had a lot of influence over his wrist

I think there is confirmation bias at play if you think the overturned replay calls are wrong as often as they are right

Indiana was supposed to be an amazingly well-run unit until s*** like this started to happen http://deadspin.com/report-pacers-had-fist...me-1-1566493478

Micah isn't ready. He's had a nice developmental trajectory thus far that has involved him drawing lots of walks at levels which he is ready for

I don't think I want Lance in my team's locker room if last year is any indication of what that's like

That's stupid. So you have to vote for someone for the HoF even when you don't believe anyone deserves it? That's a great way to get undeserving guys in there

I think it's going fabulously well. It was really iffy, inconsistent, and time consuming at the beginning of the year, but it has really improved since the first month or so of the year. The only thing I'd like to see changed, though I don't know exactly what to do about it, is the awkward period of time in which the manager waits for a signal from the dugout.