Edgy MD
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I still am. I didn't notice a broad consensus gathering around me in the caucus room.
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Houston: Carlos Correja (top five overall prospect) had 29 games in AA and 24 in AAA. Preston Tucker had 125 games in AA and 108 games in AAA. Minnesota: Eddie Rosario had 79 games in AA and 23 games in AAA. Byron Buxton (top five overall prospect) has had 60 games and counting in AA and none as yet in AAA. Miguel Sano (top 15 overall prospect) had 133 games in AA.
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It's certainly a pale distinction. I type "expectation" into my online thesaurus and "prediction" comes up. Anybody expressing "high expectations" in the offseason was certainly in a small minority.
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There's a tremendous amount of precedent going back a long time for top prospects going straight from AA to the majors with little or no time in AAA. What there isn't a lot of precedent for is going straight to the majors with little or no time in AA as well. And 30 games is little time.
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I completely missed the high expectations.
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Adrian Abreu is the catching prospect nobody's talking about. He's most recently been with Savannah, where he's hit .273 / .368 / .364 // .732, also going (look away if you're the sensitive sort) .097 / .176 / .097 // .273 this season for St. Lucie. He's getting an 80-day time-out after testing positive for Stanozolol. Another guy currently with Savannah has been 2013 23rd round pick Gaither Bumgardner. He's also reporting elsewhere this morning, having been dealt to Los Angeles (A) for international bonus pool slot number 90, which is exciting, because it totally means... I don't know what it means... but the report says that's worth $239,400. Adrian and Gaither, I hardly knew you, and by "hardly," I mean "not at all."
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Dilson had the advantage of coming up for a September run with no implication that he was there to save anything or do anything other than take his turns and enjoy the catering.
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There is, however, more than a little wisdom common (if not scientifically verified) in baseball (and other sports � see Freddy Adu) that launching a player on the big leagues prematurely � particularly with the pressure on him to save a team's ship � can be set the player's development back, for the short-term and the long-. I mean, how many recent batters can we name who've been promoted with only 30 games above A-ball? I agree that he can't do any worse than Campbell, and likely can't do any worse than Mayberry. He probably can do worse than Cuddyer. But say he stays for three weeks, having stunk as badly as Campbell, that's probably an awful career turn for the guy. And another problem for the team.
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Yeah, here's a picture from one of their early dates. [fimg=500:24xg6ci8]http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/sexy-woman-leprechaun-13120508.jpg[/fimg:24xg6ci8]
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I don't think Sandy Alderson's moves are succeeding or failing based on his testosterone level or cellular degeneration. He strikes me as a man who can clean the floor with a lot of guys half his age, for what that's worth.
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They handle enough players that comparing each players career trajectory projection when he comes under a manager's care with what they ultimately produce under him should do the trick. Any one player's change in career trajectory could be attributable to any number of factors with varying degrees of relevance to his manager's care. But as dozens and then hundreds of players pass through the manager's stable, patterns emerge and meaningful bottom line starts to form.
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I don't know that anybody's done it, but I think a manager's performance is quantifiable. Coaches, too.
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According to the New York Post, anti-police protestors attempted today to burn the American flag in Fort Greene, announcing their intentions to do so on social media. Their attempt drew counter protestors, including a biker gang who forcefully intervened, leading the anti-police protestors to supposedly need protection from those selfsame police. All a typically overblown Post story full of jingoism, testosterone, summer passion and divisive politics? That's what I thought, until I saw one of the bikers appears to be... Dillon Gee!
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David Wright may never be as good, but it's highly unlikely he's done, and I'm not sure what the age of the manager or general manager has to do with anything.
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dgwphotography wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Managers are cheap. Interims cheaper. There's a lot of good and bad reasons not to fire him, but I don't think it's deep pockets. I think he should be fired, because I think he's lost this team. I think he won't be fired mainly due to the extra cost involved, no matter how relatively cheap it may be. I understand.
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Managers are cheap. Interims cheaper. There's a lot of good and bad reasons not to fire him, but I don't think it's deep pockets.
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At least as an infielder, Eric Campbell is an infielder. To put a guy hitting like him in left is... very white-flaggy.
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Wally Backman's got a team five and a half games in front of El Paso. It's a factor.
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Well, my run of IGT success was a cold cup of coffee.
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Gwreck wrote: Wait, what exactly about Murphy is "appealing?" The stupid errors on the basepaths, the mediocre defense, or the fact that he's only marginally better than the minor-league players in the lineup now? Murphy was a valuable player when he was being paid $500k a year. He's definitely overpaid now at $8M, he's on the wrong side of 30 and he's already had injury problems this year. There's no possible justification for bringing him back. You left out his phantom tagging. To be fair, what exactly about anybody is appealing? There's about a dozen scary hitters left in this pitching-dominant era, and 30 teams have to find a way to make up their lineups with what's left.
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Ain't gonna go run-less this series. No, sir.
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Ruben: 0-for-his-last-18. Since the Mets have swapped Tejada with Flores, they are both hitless.
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Because fiction isn't funny enough, the Padres have signed Henry Henry from Banana Baseball Academy.
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Would have been a good day to get Duda a day off. But Campbell in left field... good gravy.
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So now, the best they can do is 16�2.
