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I just can't get over how annoying Glennon's press conference answers are.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 24, 2017 -> 10:56 AM) Her biggest flaw was her name. If she was named Jackie Smith, or even Belinda FartKnocker, she would have won. But Hillary Clinton has such a negative connotation, it was the final nail in the coffin. If her name was Jackie Smith, she also probably wouldn't have won. That name carried a lot of built in electorate especially in the southern primaries.

I'm pretty happy with that development tbh.

Fry has to be feeling fortunate that despite 2 tommy johns he is still a left handed pitcher in an org with ample MLB playing time and bereft of LH pitching.

Lawdavmercy I'm excited about the Bears.

So with Fulmer, if you aren't as concerned about keeping him in games longer, do you let him go back to his older more violent mechanics? Or was that also to help him get more control (which seems to have failed)

When AZL ends I'll put a final update on the 2016 INTL guys, but hats off to lenyn sosa. 2-3 with a 3b, BB and a K last night. He's 17 in AZL and here is his line: .278 / .340 / .357 12 BB : 17 Ks in 138 PAs. That's an 8.7% walk rate and 12% K rate. Excellent year to grow on. If power comes along the next 3 years without sacrificing too much contact, this could be a player. He's 6'0 / 180, so I doubt he'll ever be a prolific HR guy but certainly some room to grow you'd think.

Yeah, that piece what comes to mind is I'm not gonna give up on him. Screams of a guy who figures out the one trick to keep his body right and become great. I did not see the slider he spoke of but I know he was working on a cutter.

Pretty brutal day on the farm

Can confirm, there is a game

I'm going on Sunday!

eureka. I hope Glennon isn't so distraught

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 04:10 PM) DSL season ends Saturday. Well this is gonna be a pretty amazing 2-3 days!

Finally read this story. We hear "the bad" when it comes to sox lack of turnover and excessive loyalty, and those concerns are warranted, but I can't help but feel like here is "the good". The sox signing him, giving him the time off he needed, but also Tommy Thompson visiting him and giving care to basically a minor league free agent...that's nice to see and hear from the organization you give money to.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?g...ox&sid=milb

It's impossible for me to believe Engel has been not good in CF. He seems to have been covering for subpar players to his left and right and gotten everything hit over his head.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 02:17 PM) There is also an argument that a catcher has little to do with the pitch framing and it has much more to do with the types of pitchers that they handle - guys like Sale make their catchers worse with the movement of their pitches - and the size of the catchers. I have read that taller catchers are naturally worse pitch framers because they obstruct the view of the umpire sooner than smaller catchers. BP has accounted for pitcher though in their framing statistics since 2015 I believe. But with Collins its certainly anecdotal as we don't ahve much to go on aside from in person scouting. He clearly seems stiff. But I'm not writing him off yet.

And Chicago is one of the better markets! Big trend in chicago was people buying multi-family and converting to single family in growing/emerging neighborhoods. This then put a good market to condos to be built. But literally nothing brings out people more than "luxury" condos being built. But chicago lost a lot of inventory to conversions that had to be recreated somewhere. The US has a severe housing shortage issue.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 03:05 PM) I think when he threw those first couple of curves 2 feet in front of the plate, he decided it wasn't happening. Unfortunate but maybe he was just too jacked up I think this is right, paired with really not wanting to fall behind hitters possibly. He may have decided it was more imporant to throw strikes with a fastball then risk falling behind trying to get the curve over. His change was really working to me though, I was surprised he didn't go to that more in the 5-6th.

Enjoyed this probably more than I should https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/mbb9n...-arent-dead-yet

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 01:22 PM) It's SwStr% under the Plate Discipline tab and at the far right. Yesterday it was at 10.1% for Giolito, league average this year is 10.4%. Good stuff. Obvious improvement from early in the year where he could go 3-4 innings with only 1-2 swinging strikes. But he really needs to get offspeed stuff going or change speeds a lot more with the fastball.

You should stay and think about what you've done!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 12:34 PM) Ken Rosenthal moves to The Athletic. They have quite the stable of writers there, will be interesting to see if people are willing to pay to read their stories. That's fantastic. I've been thinking more and more about joining but this seals it.

That's the thing for me. I accept Collins is likely not going to ever be good at blocking pitches. But if he can throw player out plus hit, we are talking about receiving where he needs to be good. What about the last 4-5 years has taught us that framing cannot be improved or taught? Is athleticism key to that? It's possible it's just not something I've heard tied to it.

QUOTE (pablo @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 10:59 AM) Defintiely agreed - he was able to get through 6 innings relying on basically one pitch which is impressive to me but also was expected. Did anyone think the fastball had a little run to it (away from lefties, into a righty)? It didn't seem completely straight as opposed to Fulmer's the other night. I thought the fastball location to the lefties was above average for most of the night - he was able to get inside quite often. Also - anyone know how many swinging strikes he generated? I'm assuming low since he was only throwing the fastball with a little bit of the change. Since he only threw one game, it shouldn't be that hard to figure out but I am confused which stat and which site tracks this. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...&position=P ARe the swing % what we are looking for?