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I guess the universe agrees w/ me that all Rockies and Braves of any value really belong in my clubhouse!
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With four auctions down and just a couple to go, looks like I was wrong about Gravy looking to fill an empty roster spot or two. Just made too much sense to me that Bryce Wilson would have been his nomination. Ida would have been about my last guess. With Bryce, I'm 2 for 2 on coin-flip auction wins.
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With Severino out until May, thought about nominating Tanner Roark. PPI numbers indicate he is better in real life than fantasy, despite the nice spring he is having. Now in hitters park too.
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I suspect at least some of those nominations are coming from Gravy. He has empty roster spots and reasonable available cap space.
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Im going too see Liz Phair and Julianna Hatfield in june at a microbrewery beer garden , full band concert too
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Brew, I loved softball leagues with those mats. I could bring that ball almost straight down. It's brutal (though fun).
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So, is Capped FC our version of the Atlantic League? Because if it is, we aren't being nearly bold enough. I want to change the point value of HRs allowed. The HR penalty for pitchers is simply too severe. Would messing with the point scales be like moving the mound back 2 ft.?
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Having two strikes on you with unlimited arch is doom
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I was in a softball league,,unlimited arch, and there is a matt behind home plate, its a strike if ball touches any part of the plate. We play 16" here, barehanded, and i have the fingers to prove it.
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MLB should emulate softball beer leagues, can't wait for the double base at 1st and the no slide rule at home plate. But most important, the 55-minute time rule that a lot of municipal softball leagues operate under, no new inning may start after 55 minutes.
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They say Jesus is coming, he must be walking, he sure ain't running
Who can blame him, look how we done him.... The Devil Makes Three (lyrics from the song, Hallelu)... and here we were too timid to mess in any way with our old league. MLB can't wait to start tearing at the fabric of the game. Of course the true fabric of the game is based on a specific mixture of cotton lint fiber and the color green.
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In one of my softball leagues i used to play in you started out with 1 and 1 count, and foul balls count as strikes even after strike 2.
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Braves-Marlins are 5-5 after 8; Marlins starting the 9th with a runner on 2nd. The end is apparently near.
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I bet its Henry and/or Drew starting all the auctions
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And thank you whoever has been starting auctions. It's nice to have something to watch.
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And thank you whoever has been starting auctions. It's nice to have something to watch.
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OMG!! Opposing pitchers just showed up! We're almost there!
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Looking at my squad, I do have a couple of guys that I am not certain how I ended up with. I blame it on being in way too many leagues this year.
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I'll admit to looking at my roster and thinking, "oh yeah, I forgot I have that guy." But I do actually remember drafting him. I didn't drink that much during the draft.
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Has anyone else looked at their roster recently and been like βwhen the hell did I draft that guyβ?
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Back to the hobbit comparison, I would say pretty spot on, except Kevin's harrier.
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Pretty much impossible to slip anyone by you guys anymore
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A compliment to this league really. Prospecting has extended that next lower level to A, and R . Just looked up George Valera and Hook already has him !
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I have an open roster spot , but am terrified to nominate anyone lest the Eye of Sauron becomes aware of him. In this case 11 eyes. Usually (the past two years) , early on, everyone is fat and happy with their rosters, and or out of money, so easy to add 1$ guys.
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A smarter version of Merry and Pippen
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Kevin is Hobbit like, fun loving, tankard of ale, full larder, jolly disposition.
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With a sweet tattoo of your back to back titles on your back
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So your not a chiseled demi god??
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And chuck - you gotta realize Iβll be a disappointment. The reality is so much less than the myth.
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Chick you gotta text Brent. He is my host and guide.
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I'm sitting at Lariat Lodge in my gaudy purple Rockies cap: Dahl needs to represent better! Good for you guys taking in a game!!
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I wanna meet the man, the myth, the legend of otto
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Kevin your in AZ and didn't tell me
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David Dahl looked bad v Bieber just now. Brent and I in row 6 behind home plate.
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You should pick him up, you'll win another championship!
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Good call on the Sano drop. With that heel injury, we won't contribute till May at the earliest. It doesn't make any sense to roster guys with that kind of timeframe. :)
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$7?!
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Happened to catch about an inning of the Mariners v. Reds spring training game last night, including Senzel ripping a rope to LF for a single.
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https://redlegnation.com/2018/05/14/spinning-in-place-what-to-know-about-nick-senzels-vertigo-wesley-jenkins/ Author of this article says not to worry about it and that a Nick Esasky comp is less relevant than a Brock Holt comp. If that doesn't put your mind to rest Kevin, Scott Boras says it's nothing to worry about... so there you have it, Boras' medical opinion should be good as gold.
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Henry, do you remember Nick Esasky? He had that, and i think contributed to his early retirement.
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I agree. That vertigo he suffered from is very worrisome, since it seemed so inexplicable. But if that doesn't reoccur he could be a big bat this season.
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I am anxious to see how Senzel does, and where he plays this year. That dude is a hitter, sort of gets lost in the eloy- vlad craze.
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Hoskins isnt my problem one anymore, i am all things Bellinger . Hopefully someone can light a fire under Bellingers ass. Bellinger looks like one of those dust bowl depression Oakies you see in old photos (who got the crap kicked out of them just because they wanted to work)
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Brew, You predicted Hoskins way better than I did, I don't think I've ever said any different. So let's move onto our respective predictions for Cozens, Moniak, and Kingery. Don't actually want to discuss those, they were my Phillies wins vis-a-vis your positions. Hopefully, Hoskins progresses beyond his best season being sub-best-season for Smoak because I'm 100% behind a Sacramento State Hornet making it big!! Just a tiny bit behind my rooting for Descalso and Varsho.
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Brew, I remember well our discussions about Hoskins. My main point during those discussions was that he was too far down the list of Phillies top prospects for me to have much interest since I was able to populate my prospect roster spots nearly universally with guys who were the #1 or #2 prospects in their team's system. To this day, I don't view Hoskins as anything special due to his career batting average below .250.
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One more bit of KATOH lore: both guys made the pre-2017 all-KATOH teams (Cozens 1st team, Hoskins 2nd team). These are made up of guys who make the top 100 in KATOH but donβt appear on other top-100 lists (BA, Pipeline, fangraphs, KLaw, etc). So in this context Hoskins looks like a win for KATOH, with the model identifying a potential breakout that the professional evaluators missed. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-2017-all-katoh-team/
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KATOH (I miss it!) certainly liked Cozens better than Hoskins. This is from before the 2017 season. Cozens #1 overall on βpure,β stats-only KATOH, with Hoskins in the 50s. KATOH+, which incorporates info (including BA prospect rank) besides pure results, was less kind to bothβCozens was #26, Hoskins off the list. A rare fail for KATOH, but otoh it really liked Vladito even back then. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/katohs-2017-top-100-prospects/
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Acuna was Braves 18th ranked prospect in 2016 http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=atl
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Ruf has proven he can crush left-handed pitching. Whether Hoskins can be more than a similar platoon partner remains to be seen.
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Here are closing excerpts: As Cozens hit the upper levels of the system full-time, he was showing the improvements he made in 2015 were sticking, a good sign that the Phillies were right to be patient.
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