You tell us since you think it's special.Originally Posted by thethe
You tell us since you think it's special.
Not the same point but sure why not. Join in. I enjoy it
New comparison for Cristian Pache: Garry Maddox, AKA The Secretary of Defense.
Maddox was a 9-time Gold Glove winner for the Phillies who would hit around 14-15 bombs and flirt with .300.
He was a 5-6 WAR player at his peak.
I feel very good about this comparison.
JohnAdcox (05-30-2018)
And that’s just the first layer of non-sense; because, even if the numbers of Acuña and Albies (and Pache somehow? even though he didn’t hit stateside ball until 2016, after the rebuild was well under way ...) in the Appalachian League were so extraordinarily unprecedented as to portend near-certain superstardom, then you still have to argue that I was both (i) a good idea and (ii) the actual idea to plan the entire rebuilding strategy around those two (or somehow three?) teenage prospects, which sounds like a swell strategy for an NBA roster, but is ludicrous on its own merits for an MLB team.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
LOL, I'm sure you are Taylor.
A 5-6 WAR player would have everyone doing back flips.
You better get in position.
Pache is going to be the Jayne Mansfield to Ronald Acuna's Marilyn Monroe.
What an outfield with which we are going to be blessed!
Sometimes I think Taylor is a fake account created just to make our very own Sue Heck appear to be a rational fan.
Who gets to be Sophia Loren?
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Freshmaker (05-30-2018), GovClintonTyree (05-28-2018), JohnAdcox (05-30-2018), Tapate50 (05-15-2018)
It's still luck if Riley and Pache pan out as quality role guys or higher for a winning club. Position player prospects work more than pitching but not everyone is supposed to work out even if they had X and X production in a lower league.
What's crazy is I think it's not improbable, even taking a more reasonable outlook. It doesn't look like anybody is busting yet, even if some guys aren't stars. The way things are going, it looks perfectly reasonable for a guy like Riley to come up and be a .250/.330 type bat with great power. And on the other hand in 2020, it looks perfectly reasonable that Pache would come up and at least be an average hitter with star caliber defense.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
Pache 1-2 with a BB vs Sixto Sanchez.
Pretty good article on Pache.
“He can go to the big leagues now and be a Gold Glover in center field," Salazar said. "He's got great instincts in the outfield. He's got tremendous speed, and he's got a really good arm."
https://www.milb.com/milb/news/fsl-n...icle_277674080
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For what it's worth, I'm encouraged with what I've seen from Pache. If anybody is expecting Acuña 2.0, they'll be disappointed. I'm just looking for any reason to think he can hit at a Major League level. If so, he's likely to be an impressive player given his defense.
-Enscheff quotation from another threadWith the new ball, anyone who can make consistent contact is now a power hitter.
Pache has never hit below .281 (currently at .283) and his ISO has doubled this year at 19 years old in A+ ball. The big question with Pache has always been "power"
I may have actually damned faint praise upon Pache when I deemed him The Dominican Garry Maddox.
Maybe, but I've seen him more than I saw Albies at a young age and I can tell you, he will make us all appreciate defense. He's that good. Secondly, his alter or tinker with his swing has looked great. Decent lift with continual gap power is huge. If he hits you 10 homers he's more than legit.
Pache is a good prospect.
I’m mocking Taylor’s attempt at taking tehteh’s tired act of relentlessly pimping every single Braves prospect and turning the dial up to 11.
Why is there no thread on Rileymonium.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Pache FSL All Star
https://www.milb.com/milb/news/taylo...icle_279151834
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