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Postby Dickie Dunn » Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:54 am

Both Vandy pitches are overrated bottom of the rotation arms who will still reach free agency before this barren roster is in a window to compete again.

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Postby Orlando Penguin » Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:11 am

Both Vandy pitches are overrated bottom of the rotation arms who will still reach free agency before this barren roster is in a window to compete again.
Bookmarked ;)

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Postby Beveridge » Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:25 pm

They are messing this draft up.

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Postby King Colby » Sun Jun 13, 2021 1:33 pm

I'd still go Leiter

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Postby robbiestoupe » Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:18 pm

It’s a catch 22. They draft one of the pitchers and they’ll screw him up and it’ll be a “I told you so.” They don’t draft one and they become a perennial all star because other teams don’t suck and it’ll be a “I told you so”

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Postby King Colby » Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:19 pm

Sell the team

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Postby King Colby » Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:19 pm

Whatever I'm drunk
sell the team

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:01 pm

The major league team is in the middle of an 8 game losing streak. They have some work to do if they want to pass the O’s and D-backs to get the first overall pick, but the inevitable Frazier trade should help the cause as he is one of the 3.5 grown ups in this lineup.

Anyways, i took around the minor league stats to see if there is anything worth mentioning. Lolo Sanchez is having a good year. He is a guy that is getting less attention this year due to the additions in the offseason, so it was nice to see him putting together good numbers in Greensboro. Priester has some really good starts and some really bad starts. That is a surprise because i cant think of any other pirate pitching prospects that are all or nothing depending on the start. In Curve, PA, Salt Bae is having a tough time.

It is probably time to start playing Cruz in the outfield. I dont care if he can glove it well enough in SS to stick there....outfield depth is so bad that he is actually more valuable to this organization as an OF than an SS, which is amazing.

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Postby Troy Loney » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:05 pm

I was listening to the game on Friday and block was saying that Newman is playing short extremely well, based on some new defensive metric. Good if true.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:22 pm

There has clearly been a directive from Pirates management to hype up Newman's defense. They have been spending a lot of time raving about his errorless streak and whatnot. The problem is that Newman clearly doesn't pass the eye test when it comes to be being a gr8 defender.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:28 pm

I really wanted this Newman factoid to not be true, but Fangraphs has him with the top defensive WAR among SS by a pretty wide margin. Unfortunately his offensive WAR is equally as bad, leaving him with a 0.1 WAR that ranks 22nd amongst SS.

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Postby King Colby » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:00 pm

He has a .497 OPS in 224 plate appearances yet has somehow only struck out 15 times. That is actually incredible.

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Postby King Colby » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:00 pm

Like, do some wrist curls man

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Postby willeyeam » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:01 pm

.497 OPS is Gift Ngoepe territory

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:09 pm

Everyone seems to be forgetting his record setting spring training at the plate.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:22 pm

Everyone seems to be forgetting his record setting spring training at the plate.
I just did the math, his OPS would be right around 600 even if you include spring training stats

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:24 pm

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Postby Troy Loney » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:25 pm

Good thing his defense is gold glove quality.

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Postby faftorial » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:39 pm

My laptop with 7 still runs well.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:43 pm

Newman is so bad at the plate that his WAR is barely ahead of Mr. Vanessa Hudgens.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:46 pm

Newman is so bad at the plate that his WAR is barely ahead of Mr. Vanessa Hudgens.
why isn't this guy an outfielder, too? do we really need to be extra sure that kaai tom (who might be the oldest rule 5 guy ever) cant hit? its time to make sure mr. vannessa Hudgens can't hit, either.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:50 pm

I had no idea Tom was Rule 5. Who the **** takes a 27 year old in the Rule 5 draft?

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:51 pm

:?

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Postby King Colby » Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:47 pm

Oakland took him rule 5. Pirates claimed off waivers from oakland

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Postby King Colby » Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:48 pm

Our rule 5 guy was Luis Oviedo

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