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Saw that, liked it, and love the name. That's a name you can believe in for a baseball player.

And I agree. I think there is a big difference from having the data to analyzing it for advantage. And even worse than scouting, are they using analytics to truly customize their development programs for each player effectively. The measure of that is NOT what they are doing today vs five years ago, it is what they are doing vs. every other team. Sox brass at soxfest will be quick with examples of how they are doing something, and sure, they are doing it. But are they leading out in front on anything? Hard to say yes based on results. Possible examples: Seemed like a bunch of draft picks with a plus change-up last year, and a lot of change-up usage in majors (anecdotal). Their waiver wire pickups all seemed to be plus exit velo players Maybe there are other examples. None are as convincing to me as houstons heavy emphasis on spin rate in pitching prospects. When sox have seemed to focus on one trait, seems to have come at heavy cost of other traits.

and what's that about the backlash to shifts leading to increase in walks?

It seems a single word works for our swear filters?

And yet shooters who had left a scene have often been recovered without murdering them. He can't just assume the person needs to be shot to death to be incapacitated. Maybe he should have thought twice when it seemed like the person should be shot, but was not, by officers at the scene.

I agree that when i read juror instructions I was like "this is impossible". One thing though, his therapist(?) mentioned prior to arriving on scene he was saying things such as "why haven't they shot the guy?" which to me seems so pre-meditated and preparing to act prior to "feeling threatened". He was also a defense witness and had a great line about how he acted reasonably based on his perception, which is such an absurd and hilarious-if-it-wasn't-so-tragic standard. Basically, it's very hard to act unreasonably based on your perception, we all react base on our perceptions, but also we must trust officer perceptions as always being correct because we don't understand danger of job. So ... there you go.

i'd really like to see a high school ss maintain or rise up to our position.

This is a great point, and the big tell is the lack of baseball systems engineers. For context, here is the milwaukee brewers: Senior Analyst, Baseball Research and Development Andrew Fox Analyst - Baseball Research and Development Ethan Bein Analyst - Sports Science Baseball Research and Development Inga Milo Analyst - Baseball Operations August f**erstrom Analytics Developer - Baseball Research and Development Josh Schaffer Data Architect Matt Culhane Architect - Baseball Systems Will Hudgins Developer - Baseball Systems Chaning Ogden Developer - Baseball Systems Dan Yang Now we have examples of coaches such as zaleski pushing hard based on data to change the arsenals of our players. But when you hear ex scouts from progressive orgs come out they stress just how much better the info they all have is over what is available to public. Then they have their proprietary systems on top of that.

If it comes at the cost of markannen/carters offensive development it will be a bad lottery ticket.

They will definitely fall in love with portis and pay him even though they could easily replicate his production with an exception contract. They fall in love with their own draft picks (unless they are actually good).

you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, though, so his 91% missed shots is still better.

I don't know what qualifies as a hurry I guess, I'd have put it at like 12

If you are making the argument the Sox aren’t using analytics effectively, make that argument. But stop making the argument Sox aren’t using analytics, and getting consistently proven wrong with examples (including your own) and then changing your argument as a counter.

Also didn’t he tear his ACL in year 4? 2008-9: Boston series 2009-10: Cleveland series 2010-11: Heat series 2011-12: Sixers series / injury

oh my god derrick rose is an 11 year vet that makes me feel unbelievably old

Right, and team usa has trackman too I think. The influence of team usa picks and colleges with trackman definitely seems to indicate sox are drafting with a heavy eye on analytics.

The original Mahomes

I don't think it was luck with Aguilar. Sure, he was best of the bunch. But they made a point of using it and found some really good talent including our own Junior Guerra https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/milwaukee-brewers-make-use-of-waiver-wire/c-222657522 I would take brewers FO in a freakin heartbeat over ours.

That is so common though. It was bad but it was probably within .5 a second.

Mahomes was awesome last night. I want Reid to win a superbowl. I hope their defense can stabilize enough to do it this year, prior to bears winning 3 straight.

I am not advocating moving any player in advance of anyone. Jimenez, madrigal, anyone. But I am against this idea that specifically comes up about Madrigal that the player he is today is his ceiling just carried over to MLB stats. He needs to walk more, he needs to hit for more power. He needs to translate his college SB numbers to the pros. The reason people think he will be quick to pros isn't because he is a finished product, it's because he has a number of major league level skills. If he doesn't progress anything else of his, he will likely be bad to average. But the starting package is very promising, I don't think he'll ever hit for 25 home runs, but every marginal growth in power for him means so much more than for the same growth on a related player. His other skills are that strong.

It's amazing that you read what I wrote and thought it validated your trubisky opinions.

All I'm getting out of this thread is reaffirmation for my stance that player comps are terrible and obscure more than they clarify. Every low power, below 6ft, multi positional infielder on this forum for last 3 years is Yolmer sanchez. Uber athletic powerful high school bat? Courtney Hawkins. High power, high ks, poor positional defense? Adam Dunn.

With a .242 average and 124 ks.

Nicky, Davidson, Palka (realistically, though I like him)