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  1. 70charger
    Good notes. For what it's worth, this: doesn't bother me much. When we got him, he had never pitched above single-A, and while we all knew the talent was there, I think we realized that he was still a project. I don't really see a major league promotion until late next year at the earliest. He's too important to the future to rush him, and frankly I'm not sure that the relative difference between AA and AAA is going to make too much of a difference at this point either.
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    I lol'd.
  3. 70charger
    Rochester puts up 7 runs in the first inning with Richardson and Clement both 2 for 2 in the top half of inning 1. Clement goes yard.
  4. 70charger
    Roundup: Round 1: Kohl Stewart HS LHP 2: Ryan Eads, College RHP 3: Stuart Turner, College C 4: Stephen Gonsalves, HS LHP 5: Aaron Slegers, College RHP 6: Brian Navarreto, HS C 7: Brian Gilbert, College RHP 8: Dustin DeMuth, College 3B 9: Mitchell Garver, College C 10: Charles Irby, College RHP
  5. 70charger
    In round 10, I think he's clearly a reliever.
  6. 70charger
    Charles Irby 6'01" 200lbs DOB: 05/06/92Irby is an accomplished two-way player at Samford. He was the Bulldogs' closer and DH last year, but moved into the starting rotation this spring. Irby's fastball sits around 90 mph as a starter and in the mid-90s as a reliever, with good movement. He mixes his fastball with a plus curveball that generates a lot of swing-and miss. His aggressiveness on the mound and lack of a quality third offering make Irby a better fit as a reliever. He is polished enough to move quickly through the Minor Leagues if a team returns him to the bullpen.
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    Another catcher!
  8. 70charger
    I blame Joe Benson.
  9. 70charger
    Speaking of, how is Rich Harden doing these days?
  10. 70charger
    Aaron Slegers: 6'10" 250lbs DOB: 09/04/92 That is a very large person...
  11. 70charger
    True and true. But now he has to play for the Mets.
  12. 70charger
    They consider his floor​ to be a backup catcher? I'll take that in the third round.
  13. 70charger
    Ciuffo's gone.
  14. 70charger
    Well, the Twins picking Kohl Stewart after the big three are off the board is almost anti-climactic. Not that I'm displeased, but this was more or less drama free save for the minor Bryant-to-Cubs blip.
  15. 70charger
    Yes and no. For an undrafted free agent to make the big leagues with his home town team is an incredible story. I'm glad he did. On the other hand, I don't think he'd be a starting pitcher on any other team (poor 2012 Twins). Maybe he has a spot in the bullpen, in which case he needs to just keep grinding it out.
  16. 70charger
    You mean Saturday, June 8? Good to know. I was considering Sunday. Any word on that game?
  17. 70charger
    Sano hits another one out. That's 14.
  18. 70charger
    Here's an article: The effect of amphetamines on selected ... [Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1980] - PubMed - NCBI Here's one on caffeine: http://www.acsm.org/docs/current-comments/caffeineandexercise.pdf It appears as though muscular endurance and strength are increased due to the stimulant's ability to mask fatigue. Of course, like I said before, I think swimming is a fundamentally different sport than baseball, and I'm not exactly sure how stimulants would help a pitcher.
  19. 70charger
    Good stuff. I would read more recaps like this.
  20. 70charger
    Stimulants do improve athletic performance; there is ample evidence for this. Back when I was a swimmer (Pac-10 college), we were routinely drug tested for stimulants, including methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine. Regardless of prescription, they are illegal in top-level swimming. Most of the guys I swam with (and I) just got all hopped up on coffee instead. That said, an endurance/aerobic sport like swimming is fundamentally different from pitching. Certainly it's useful if you get tired after 110 pitches instead of 90 pitches, but while swimming is a game of hundredths of seconds, pitching is a game of hundredths of inches. Command, control, placement, whatever you want to call it, it's more important than aerobic endurance. I actually wonder what kind of advantage a pitcher would get out of it. I'm not sure it'd be much. And while I don't think it beyond the pale to think a pitcher would take it for performance reasons, I'm not ready to draw any conclusions about Gray's use, or even to conclude that it hurts his draft stock.
  21. 70charger
    Or maybe the QB that committed wanted to undercut his possible competition. Sounds more likely than the school retaliating against a potential player who hasn't decommitted yet.
  22. 70charger
    Beat me to it...
  23. 70charger
    Pretty sure it's a sarcastic call-out to those people who were disappointed with the Buxton pick because they wanted Gausman for the pitching need.
  24. 70charger
    I have to say that I originally came down on the "tough ****" side of things. It's hard to have much sympathy for someone making a relatively large amount of money for doing things relatively not-very-well. But I've come around to thinking that you may be onto something here. Teams gaming their 40-man to get organization filler while violating the spirit of the waiver claim doesn't seem very fair to the people involved. I like your solution; maybe allow two designations per season, but I think you're arguing your point well.
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    The "greater risk" of LHP in and of itself makes me skeptical of the usefulness of this study. Unless there's something inherently riskier or more injury-prone in a lefthanded delivery (seems ridiculous), then stats are probably just showing a lot of randomness; i.e. the correlations are not nearly as high as we'd like them to be. Given that, it could be that any other category of pitcher is overrepresented or underrepresented with regard to perceived risk. We don't really know, and that's the problem.
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