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Hadn’t thought about that, would be interesting if that is the case re: drag

I think there is a strong argument that relative to his time periods offense he is the greatest hitter of all time.

Something that underscores this, we’d all say abreus had a really weak start, but even prior to yesterday’s home run he was actually an above average offensive player this season. Just a ton of bad so far.

this has felt like same issue in college baseball as well, contact way harder for bats right now. I wonder if this is a product of fresher arms that will eventually deaden, or if pitching dev and tech has taken a leap and hitters haven’t adjusted yet.

I wasn't a fan for how Dayton Moore maintained their window, but he definitely can scout. They have collected some great talent, and they don't seem to g.a.f. about industry trends which is kinda fun, honestly. We better get used to it. There is a fast expiration date on being the young exciting team.

I agree on Fields, I am prepping myself to be devastated in a scenario where he falls past falcons, falls past bengals, start dreaming about swapping with panthers only for broncos/pats swapping with dolphins for him. But while I agree on the traits, I think you would also look at that and say Jones isn't it, but I'm not even sure on that. The skills of lance, fields, lawrence and wilson give them a greater vareity of skills to be valuable in (scrambling, buying time, broken down plays), but we've also seen QBs with those abilities that when they are only delivering as average teams are ready to move on anyway. Jones has to be exceptional in his passing accuracy and decisionmaking, but we do know that a Matt Ryan is valuable even as a statuesque passer. Drew Brees, Brady are obvious. But it has limited Cousins, it was obvious how it hurt a Foles. And much of those guys were not top ten, except Ryan. So I also get the people who wouldn't want to take Jones top ten, as planning on someone being extremely elite in one or two skills as they move up a level feels like you are making a bigger gamble. There is a possibility that the players playing QB are more athletic now, and more physically capable of mechanical adjustments, footwork adjustments, from the time when maybe qb was being self selected for more tall, right-handed white dudes with strong arms that interviewed well. So basically we are in the middle of a time where the rules are being re-written for what it means to be a successful QB. That's pretty exciting. And overall I think I would lean more toward a model like Bill Parcells which allows for a QB to get there any number of ways, it just requires that they showed prodigious talent early. It will miss outliers, like Allen and Brady, but would have also guided you to Watson over Trubisky. Regardless,

having a first rounder makes realy draws me in. Listening to NFL draft podcasts and such, man what a bunch of shameless front runners. You'd never think groups like this got Josh Allen so wrong by way they talk about it. And now they shame teams for thinking they could find next Josh Allen when they apparently didn't learn any real lesson from him. To me, the lesson from Josh Allen they seem to push is now just raw lower-competition level guys can improve, but not the thing they laughed at him about was nobody with accuracy completion level that low would succeed. So for me, what should be revised is if ANY of the heuristics people had for judging QBs pre-draft are at all helpful. What is the "accuracy"-like criticism that will be applied to a QB that you'll safely fall back on that will cause you to miss? Is it this decision-making stuff with Fields - causing you to look over the incredible package of talent? The lack of attempts for Lance? The talent around Jones? And by same token, is hitting some of these heuristics that were suppose to matter making you overrate some others? I don't really know, but the success of Mahomes vs. Allen vs. Jackson vs. Watson were all soooooo different in the last several years that if anything it should have caused this groups confidence to crater but it seems like they just act like it was obvious and became more confident. baseball and basketball media >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> football

One thing that has helped me this year is realizing how frustrating every other team has been unless you are a dodgers or, to this point, royals fan. And Dodgers maybe join the list with their injuries soon. It seems sox aren't only ones that have been like "starters good, bullpens bad" so far. Feels good to crush the bad teams, gotta say.

I'm also very happy with his 6% walk rate. If his continued hitting success gets him to an 8% walk rate he really has give himself a good baseline to be productive even in his power range. Narvaez was always kind of a template for me there. Pre-power narvaez. He never had the contact skills of Nick, but he had no reason for pitchers to be afraid of him yet he maintained a crazy high OBP his first two years despite a paltry iso. Pitchers in MLB are very good but most of em can't hit their spots, so Nick can still take advantage of that.

He took a home run cut yesterday. That's the evolution, when he gets into favorable counts where he feels good about what's coming, he should feel okay to take a big cut. Nick is playing fantastic ball and I'm glad when he comes up to the plate. Fine if the dude keeps flipping off the haters (me) for his whole career.

Hell yeah

Steps of caulfield posting: 1. See a players name in yahoo news binge 2. Regurgitate all players names in wherever thread you happen to post 3. get pushback on why player you don’t really know was mentioned 4. furiously, quickly research to try and create a reason why it makes sense 5. dig deeper hole 6. Never back down

Yeah we should have traded Betts for Verdugo.

this is interesting, you don’t often hear Denver trading out of top ten

As Chicago fans, we are in this position constantly, no guarantees next regime is any better so all I can do as a fan is hope they make the next best decision. I don’t really think Paces evaluation here matters as much to me here, Fields especially has enough of the great QBs qualities that you hope you get lucky. Not like nfl as a whole is crushing the QB evaluation beat.

I’m with @Chisoxfn it’s a rare draft that fields would be gettable, that’s a swing you take regardless of current decision makers.

Maurice Archdeacon is an incredible username opportunity

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Offspeed home run nerds

There are so many reasons why this is a stretch of an example, but I don't really care because it still feels apt just because I think the world of Moncada's raw talent: first off, he (and pretty much every baseball player ever) will not get close to the defensive value of this player that made him extremely valuable even when he was inconsistent early Said player never had the low levels of contact Moncada has had But I just think about the early offensive inconsistency of Adrian Beltre, and then how after years and years of being a fine offensive player he became a consistently great one for the second half of his career. Yoan has already shown how big of a difference just a change in approach can make for him. Not a swing change, not a stance, just better plan at the plate. He struggles with what he thinks should happen at the plate vs what does happen, and in 2019 it felt like he just accepted what was coming to him more. I think he may struggle with that, but will eventually click on this front consistently. Also, holy crap Adrian Beltre's 2004 season. You look at that and go "Man he was MVP right?" and then remember that Barry Bonds existed and had a .600 OBP that year hahahahahaha this is just insane: .362/.609/.812 slash line hahahahahahahaha

I just absolutely don't get it, and donovan really needs to figure it out. Bulls even now don't have less talent than the Knicks, who are surging. Lavine getting hurt and then out hasn't helped, but still, no excuse for getting blown out by cleveland and losing to the freakin magic. I mean, I have seen this story before, this decade, just absolutely cratering after march. We are certainly past "ah well a point guard will make it all work" territory unless you are getting a freakin chris paul type guy. We can't get the wing production we get from Williams. We can't get the trash PG production. And if we do get that kind of production, we can't have trash interior defense. But that is the case.

Went with Madrigal. If he can’t hit for power, he’s going to need to control the weather more than he has so far. It’s early thou, I get it.

I wish we could set the top 3 before letting it go.

Here's a nice double-dip draft. Bears should def consider this insane strategy.