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i feel like their GMs deserve at least a little blame if you look at their drafting and player development. despite all that mediocrity they've developed almost no one - since 2011 their most successful draftees have been mike clevinger, CJ cron and david fletcher, and their current farm system...

As others have pointed out, Fangraphs has two different FV scales, one for prospects and one for MLB players. The 80 FV/7+ WAR mapping applies to MLB hitters and not prospects. They definitely shouldn't have used 'FV' for both scales, but it's not hard to tell they're different if you compare...

i did, multiple people thanked me for it, and despite breaking it down in the simplest possible terms, you still don't seem to understand. i won't engage with you on it any further.

slow your roll there chief, i was just explaining to clvclv why someone can ask if you scouted a player without having scouted that player themselves that said it's weird to me that you praise enscheff for his critical thinking, but also post something that goes against what every resource we...

This is why most of the posters here have lost patience with you. You quote zbhargrove's post but leave out the second line, which is the key point: "No substance in any of your posts from then... nothing to back your opinion up besides just saying words. No scouting to back you up, no...

You said: Which is what I was referring to, and my point was that even in a world where Occasional Cortex got her way, the US would still be easily the most profitable place to play. And more to DirkPiggler's point, in the event that Harper/Machado sign a contract for 10/$300 and then the US...

I think the point he's trying to make is that, even in a world where the US passed Ocasio-Cortez's 70% marginal tax rate on income over $10 million, it's not going to be profitable for players to leave for Japan, or any other baseball-playing country because a) the 70% rate is marginal, meaning...

Yeah that deal can't be realistic. If the Mariners are actually willing to include Haniger and $76 million in salary relief just to get rid of Cano, I would hope we'd be all over that.

Freddie Freeman has 69 RBI this year. If he'd been batting 8th all year he'd have a lot fewer than 69 RBI. If he'd been batting leadoff he'd have a lot fewer than 69 RBI. If he'd been playing on a team where literally no one else got on base, he'd have 18 RBI. If RBI were a good indicator of...

Every time I think 'that can't be THE move' I remember Raul Mondesi, Brian Jordan, Garrett Anderson, Chris Woodward, Ruben Gotay, Greg Norton, Eric Hinske, Alex Gonzalez, Rick Ankiel, Troy Glaus, Jack Wilson, Julio Lugo, Paul Janish, Reed Johnson, Emilio Bonifacio, Ryan Doumit, Jonny Gomes...

You're right. I edited my post to remove the more political parts. A mod can feel free to delete the rest of my post if they want, but I'd hope they would do the same to the post I quoted in that case.

As thethe said this is not the forum for politics so I'm not going to argue with you after this, but those numbers are complete bull****. From tradingeconomics: "GDP Annual Growth Rate France averaged 3.19 percent from 1950 until 2017" "GDP Annual Growth Rate in the United Kingdom averaged...

I've got bad news for you...

It is if you get it in your early 20s and don't touch it for a while

I think the point isn't that the "stats people" want to peg every individual prospect to a specific chance of success. The point is that you read these posibraves posts about the farm system, and what they seem to be expecting from it is a pretty significant deviation from the historical norm...

I'd be careful assuming that's the case unless you saw it happening in person. A lot of guys like Touki with questionable command and only two pitches will struggle at that point just because they've thrown a lot of pitches and they're facing the opponent's lineup a third time.

If you think it's insane for a losing team to use meaningless games in September to see what they have in some of their older prospects, I don't know what to tell you.

Oh come on, that is true for players, but it's a massive oversimplification of a manager's role on the team. Should Joe Maddon be fired for giving his starters extra rest after the Cubs clinched home field last year? The fact is that a manager's goals are dependent on context rather than just...

I really think you're overestimating the effect resting the starters would have on attendance. By August in 2015 and 2016 attendance was already sitting well below 50% of capacity for most home games, even dipping down into the 30-35% area for weekday games. At that point you can see...

Not that I'm down on Anderson, but Fried's being held back because of his injury history. If he stays healthy and sustains the stuff he's shown since the end of last season (70ish fastball and curve), he'll leapfrog Anderson no matter how well Anderson pitches this year.