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Oh my...we got Matt Kemp and Ryan Howard! s***, I could have drafted for us

That makes zero sense, Harold

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:56 PM) Blah. Not a fan of another OF this early with the organization starving for SP. Oh poop on you... If Anthopolous would have drafted him you would have jizzed in your pants.

Glad we didn't draft that travieso doucher

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 06:40 PM) His player comparison was Matt kemp... Not bad Trade him for Kemp!

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 06:41 PM) Absolutely a future RF. Extremely, extremely raw, so people here are gonna have to be patient and can't stress this enough.. is only 18. Sox are definitely going pitcher with their next pick. Trade him!

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 06:39 PM) Kevin Mitchell comparisions, this guy is a right fielder, big strong body good build, nice gamble by the sox and our new emergency pitcher!

What would have happened if he landed on his head?

I think Sam wants his phone number

Player comparison : Matt Kemp

Nice smile on the young man!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:30 PM) Roland followed that fine selection by taking Kurt Brown over Barry Bonds in 1985. And a damn good pick it was! Damn ipad

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:29 PM) If you keep drafting the same player, don't be shocked if you keep getting players with the same problem Yeah, but it also increases the chances that one of them will pan out

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:21 PM) Hawkins is the man No s***?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:11 PM) Wacha doesn't excite me. I don't mind him in a vacuum, but certainly not over Stroman. What the hell good does he do us in a vacuum?

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 07:10 PM) She does appear to be quite the cunning linguist. I'll bet she can bend like a pretzel

I'll bet Sam Ryan can do wonderful things

McKeon looking pretty svelt!

Poop

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 05:35 PM) I think we have actually seen a change in his approach. It seems like he is swinging harder when he swings this year, and it is reflected through higher K and HR rates. I don't know that I agree, but if that is true, than I would certainly prefer he stick with it as opposed to whatever he did last year!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 06:20 PM) He's on pace for 260 strikeouts. If he cuts that down to 160, that's 100 more balls in play. He's a career .292 babip. That's 29 more hits. About 1 out of every 4 hits is a homer, so thats an additional 7 home runs. Hard to say that everything else would be the same though...would he walk less than? Would he hit as many home runs with that approach (when he did hit the ball)... One could certainly make the argument that with more balls in play he would have more production, but I think that probably would come with a significant change in approach that might change everything.

The thing about signing Beckham is you'd have to go out on a limb a bit and probably offer him a bit more money than he actually deserves. Otherwise, he's just going to roll the dice that he can clean up in arbitration and in his first FA deal.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) I never said that at all, but OK. Honestly I think OPS is a bit misleading because it gives overweight to slugging stats, and doesn't weight their negative outcomes very well. Looking at Runs scored and RBIs is another double counted stat for a home run hitter. He gets an RBI and a run scored in each homer. Runs scored are also a product of the guys hitting behind you. RBI's are a large part of the guys hitting in front of you. Even at that... OBP-in line with career numbers OPS-barely ahead of career numbers. Balance that with the things you choose to look at, plus his negatives, and then add in the expectations there are for an Adam Dunn, and I arrive at a C. If you want to detail your grading system and do something, have at it. There have only been 26 players in the history of baseball to hit 50 or more home runs in a season. Adam is on pace to hit 51 thus far this season. 1 HR for every 11.31 ABs. He also has an OBP of .375 and a .545 slugging percentage.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) And as I laid out before, OPS is very close to normal. Couple that with the horrible average and historically bad strike out rate, and I would say that balances out the extra .019 OPS. So you get to remove last season from Dunn's body of work, but keep all of Peavy's seasons in for his body of work...and Peavy's expectations are drastically affected by his injury but Dunn's aren't by his historically bad season last year... That's just inconsistent... I'm not saying I could honestly articulate exact criteria with which to grade, and I am sure some people would disagree with some of my grades... But bottom line...in this era of baseball...you cannot say a guy on pace for 50 home runs and a .375 OBP deserves a C...that just does not make sense on any level. Even if Albert Pujols, who probably has the highest expectations in all of baseball, put up Adam Dunn's current line, I would not give him a C.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 4, 2012 -> 02:22 PM) I figured as much. I articulated how I decided grades and why. I even gave statistical analysis of how and why. I don't know why you need to take a piece of out everything and turn it into a personal insult, if you are going to, at least be able to come up with what you are asking me to do. At the end of the day is something to talk about on a an off-day. No need to turn it into a reason to insult multiple people. What? Where did I insult anyone? What on earth are you talking about?