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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    He looks like a ball-in-play guy to me. Doesn't walk or K much with the possibility of average power. Maybe that's the new market inefficiency.
    Which idiot let Willians Austudillo slip away?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CJ9 View Post
    Shewmake at 21 is weird. Questions about him at shortstop. Not much power.

    I can be positive about the Langeliers pick. This one sucks.
    Line to line hitter, where have I heard that before? Best hitting SS in this years draft but may end up in CF, plenty of positional versatility, I love the pick!
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    Quote Originally Posted by CyYoung31 View Post
    Really? I didn't realize they relied so heavily on analytics when scouting amateur talent.

    They rely heavily on trackman data. Maybe the Braves know something others don’t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Reasonable take after the Braves won the NL East, are 1 game off the division lead this year, and haven’t traded away a single prospect of note to accomplish it.

    Lousy!!
    His retort will be that something something...AA inherited a Ferrari...something something.

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    But i guess they are going overslot at 60 or it's an odd pick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CyYoung31 View Post
    Really? I didn't realize they relied so heavily on analytics when scouting amateur talent.
    I’m pretty sure the Astros have one of the smallest scouting organizations in baseball. They fired a lot of guys a few years back and completely restructured their department, IIRC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Reasonable take after the Braves won the NL East, are 1 game off the division lead this year, and haven’t traded away a single prospect of note to accomplish it.

    Lousy!!
    Also didn't acquire any of them. About all you can say is he hasn't hurt the team. He's done very little that has helped.

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    Well, at least we can pair up Langeliers and Shewmake with Jenista and Beck for the next wave.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    They rely heavily on trackman data. Maybe the Braves know something others don’t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    AA is a lousy GM. Always has been.
    Agreed, he got Acuna/Albies to sign for the next decade on team friendly deals. Team won the East last year, and he hasnt touched the farm in a big trade yet, he's an awful GM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    Reasonable take after the Braves won the NL East, are 1 game off the division lead this year, and haven’t traded away a single prospect of note to accomplish it.

    Lousy!!
    And signed their core two players to the two best contracts in baseball, which trumps anything that could happen in the draft in importance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heyward View Post
    But i guess they are going overslot at 60 or it's an odd pick.
    That logic breaks down when you realize they could have just taken that guy at 21, and got a similar SS at 60.

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    If either first rounder is a league average starter I'll be surprised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    Also didn't acquire any of them. About all you can say is he hasn't hurt the team. He's done very little that has helped.

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    Dafuq?

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    Also didn't acquire any of them. About all you can say is he hasn't hurt the team. He's done very little that has helped.
    You say this as if this is a negative. Everyone wanted his head for not trading Riley + for JTR.

    A lousy GM is that dude in NY.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heyward View Post
    Agreed, he got Acuna/Albies to sign for the next decade on team friendly deals. Team won the East last year, and he hasnt touched the farm in a big trade yet, he's an awful GM.
    If he dipped into the farm and traded guys at the height of their value I'd be impressed. He's done very little as the GM except establish financial flexibility. Now he's hired a complete idiot to run our drafts. Don't expect that pipeline of talent to continue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chop2chip View Post
    I don’t like either pick all that much, but I like how we are committed to an analytics based draft approach. If you aren’t willing to trust your models enough to make decisions based off of them then what’s the point of having them?

    Besides, the guys we pick were ballpark of where Klaw had them ranked on his big board so it’s not as if these guys are completely out of left field.
    As I said in an earlier post, it must be a new kind of analytics, because I don't see either of these guys fitting what I would be consider the new thinking on scouting and player development. It's pretty simple to me; they've gone production over projection in the first round. Nothing real earth-shattering or cutting-edge about that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enscheff View Post
    That logic breaks down when you realize they could have just taken that guy at 21, and got a similar SS at 60.
    Well stated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    If he dipped into the farm and traded guys at the height of their value I'd be impressed. He's done very little as the GM except establish financial flexibility. Now he's hired a complete idiot to run our drafts. Don't expect that pipeline of talent to continue.
    Like trade Riley and a pitcher for 2 years of Realmuto?

    I was for a trade, but trade who for who, exactly? You're an idiot.

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