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  1. biggentleben
    He'd join an interesting group - the last two Braves to win a batting title were 3B as well.
  2. biggentleben
    I'm happy with either of the top 2 at this point. It'd be great to see a Brave win it, but I've always been a fan of Cuddy as well.
  3. biggentleben
    And that's opposite his point in 1991 on the same issue.
  4. biggentleben
    Nah, what's gold are the comments to the video!
  5. biggentleben
    I have a bunch of teams, and most of the names are fairly lame, but I'm good with that...some of the collection: Leather and Lacy Cutler That Meat! The Fifth Manning
  6. biggentleben
    What baseball "needs" is to teach fundamentals. The runner absolutely had poor fundamentals in that there was an obvious slide and obvious alternative way to dislodge the ball seen by the naked eye of many here. He may have been playing hard, but he was also playing without control in that he could have done multiple things less harmful to the catcher. I played college football, and in the moment of a move like that, it should absolutely go through your head the best way to make an effective block/hit where you can pick yourself and the opponent up at the end of the play and come back for another shot.
  7. biggentleben
    Yeah, because I was talking about LAST season.
  8. biggentleben
    First, thank you for your service! Second, I think we can stop voting for the post of the year with this one...
  9. biggentleben
    Weapons?! You're serious? I am a big fan of AD, but what else? Don't tell me about a rookie receiver or a TE who only exceeded a measly 40 yards 5 times the whole season. Greg Jennings I'm not convinced on as the Packers don't exactly let guys go with significant value left to give. You cannot judge Ponder whatsoever based on his "weapons".
  10. biggentleben
    Exactly this. I cannot stand the way collisions have been vilified, but it's a play like this that gives ammunition to anyone against collisions. You can drop a shoulder at the ball with the same effect, don't go for the head. It's akin to football in that so many went for the highlight hit that good fundamentals went away and the only way to reel things back in was over-regulation. That's absolutely coming to baseball with plays like this as fundamental plays for the purpose of scoring a run go out the window for a "big hit" that makes a highlight reel.
  11. biggentleben
    For me, it's all those years that the Sunday paper listed every qualified player in baseball, sorted by batting average. I remember pouring over those stats and the corresponding HR, R, RBI that were listed. Once I got into things like Baseball Weekly when I got a little older, I got to see a lot more stats and saw that a .330 average with a 40/80 bb/k rate wasn't quite as impressive as the same .330 average with a 70/80 bb/k ratio. While we know that batting average can be swayed greatly by outside influences and isn't the greatest measure of true hitting skill, it's still one of those numbers that has been tallied since the beginning of the game, and with appreciation to .401 and .440, we pay attention each year to see how the best of this year matches up with the greats of the past.
  12. biggentleben
    I wrote a piece on Chris Johnson on Tomahawk Take and how he fits long-term into the Braves plans, and it's interesting how he was a "throw-in", and here he is possibly the Braves' MVP this year as really their only consistent bat throughout the season.
  13. biggentleben
    He had shoulder stuff after his first year. He kept pitching through it despite the Braves telling him to get surgery. They kept re-upping him rather than offering him something more long-term. He was going to leave in free agency, so they made the move to get Walden this year for him, which looks pure genius now.
  14. biggentleben
    He's toast. Complete toast. I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole.
  15. biggentleben
    Red is an easy one Johnny Reder was on the Red Sox Billy Redmond was on the Reds Todd Redmond made his debut for the Reds
  16. biggentleben
    Wait, the Nationals are a contender?
  17. biggentleben
    First round, perhaps, though the Royals showed how BPA's not even true anymore in the first round. After there, it's simply not the same draft, no matter how many years worth of data you can pull up from the way the draft was run for the first 45 years of its existence.
  18. biggentleben
    They seem to have the same hair stylist.
  19. biggentleben
    It's up there with the Jason Kendall injury. Shame for Tim as he's perhaps not a Hall of Fame pitcher (thought I would bet he is on the ballot for a few years as he's a borderline candidate), but he's absolutely a Hall of Fame person.
  20. biggentleben
    Wow. Really?
  21. biggentleben
    The problem with this is that all drafts prior to 2012 are basically null and void for providing viable comparative evidence for the current draft. Guys who would have been 39th round picks in the old system are now 3rd and 4th rounders on teams who are looking to save bonus pool money, so that will drastically skew the success rate by round of players because we don't know the motive for drafting those players where they were drafted. A team with 3 picks in the first 35 may start making money-saving picks as soon as the second round whereas the next team may make round-appropriate picks for 4-5 rounds before going cheap, and finally, the next team may make all round-appropriate picks. The draft has fundamentally changed as we once knew it.
  22. biggentleben
    Bob Casey was the one who was laying it on the mic that night. I do not recall a single battery involved. It was a giveaway baseball night, and multiple baseballs made it onto the field along with the dollar dogs that were offered that night. Bad combo to have college IDs reduce Left Field bleacher tickets to $3 and have a $1 hot dog evening all when one of the team's most recent shipments to the Yankees returned. I was sitting about 5 rows back from the left field wall. A woman ahead of us was struck by a baseball, which is when the police came down to the bleacher section and began hauling away fans who threw anything at all.
  23. biggentleben
    http://25.media.tumblr.com/374cb75666f90ce71061b495aab5db79/tumblr_mpllbluKzy1ro5xweo1_400.gif The play is just incredible! Somehow he continues to go under-recognized. If I was starting a team from scratch, and I was to pick one player under 2 years of experience to start that team with, I might have trouble picking anyone but perhaps Mike Trout over him (and yes, that means I would take him over media darling Bryce Harper.
  24. biggentleben
    This. Especially since Parks said on his podcast before Sano was bumped up that the top 10-15 were already done for his midseason list, it was just the next 35-40 that he needed to iron out with his writers. I doubt the AA start factored at all.
  25. biggentleben
    My baby brother does live blogging for the SDSU student newspaper from games, so he was able to travel with the team a lot this year. He's a big fan of Wolters' skillset, comparing him with a shorter Mike Miller, another guy with South Dakota roots whose had a nice NBA career, on the shooting side, but the ability to run the point as well.
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