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  1. TheLeviathan
    It's a lot of risk to play Polanco and Sano on the left side, but I see 2017 as a year to shake out this roster before we take a big stride forward. We can't shake things out until we give those two kids a long rope to play and let them struggle at times while we work with them every day to improve. Having Polanco at short and Sano at third helps this team tremendously. Plouffe isn't worth sacrificing any of the other bats for. Deal him, cut him, move on.
  2. TheLeviathan
    After a few hours of that we'd have a write-in candidate win.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I believe and appreciate your consistency on it. I feel pretty much the same. I wouldn't do it, but i won't be awake tonight angry about it. But let's be real, the vast majority of anti-Trump people would absolutely destroy anyone who showed an equally aged, deliberately in your face statue of Hilary's body.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, that's not the case when you deliberately make the appearance part of your gag. If anyone did the same thing about Hillary and pants suits or something else....wouldn't all of you be tarring and feathering them for misogyny? If this really had been an "Emperor had no clothes" thing and they had stayed on that point I'd be more ok with it. But they strayed well down the "let's rip the old guy for being old" path.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Good lord, why is there even a consideration of keeping Plouffe? Undo that mistake as quickly as possible. Give Sano some run at 3B next year and Vargas at DH before we make a decision on either. And get Plouffe the hell out of the way of that.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Just to be clear, I wasn't arguing it was the most athletically demanding. Just that, in the context of team sports, they are the most capable of dominating the outcome. It was more a tangent inspired by the goalie comments earlier. I'd say my vote for most athletically demanding would be between gymnast and hockey player.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Goalies are athletic in a way that most people can't fathom. I always marvel at what they can do. The peripheral vision, anticipation, flexibility, hand eye coordination, the mental acumen and focus necessary. I always wished I could play it. No position in sports allows you to dominate in quite the same way as a freaky elite goalie.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Is stamina an athletic thing? I ask that in all seriousness, because it doesn't seem like a skill. I can train myself for stamina, but no matter what i do I'm not going to be able to outrun most professional athletes. or throw anywhere nearly as hard as them. I really think how we define these things makes a major difference. I would agree that stamina is less necessary in baseball, but hand-eye coordination is off the charts more valuable in baseball than anything you do in a decathlon. So how do we weight those things?
  9. TheLeviathan
    I guess I'm not sure why a decathlete is one we should listen to. Pick any sport and you can probably break it down into far more skills than 10 that are required to play it. There are a lot of definitions within definitions at work. Personally I think baseball and hockey require the widest range of athletic attributes.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Well, I must've missed the guillotine prep. Where was that? The point was that he should be shopped. I'll gladly land young, even marginal prospects for guys we didn't even guarantee money to.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I think it's doing damn well for a minor league invite. I'll take that stuff all day and twice on Sunday.
  12. TheLeviathan
    You keep arguing "let the new regime work with him" - yes? How old will he be, at the absolute soonest, when such fruits would bear? Right. So 27. And that's if you're on some kind of really powerful stuff and think it's going to do a complete 180 in the next calendar year. I don't care what level he was at several years ago, his track record is one littered with "meh" results and lots of injuries. He's a 27 year old. He hasn't even demonstrated the ability to master AAA. Or master the ability to pitch an entire season. I'm not looking at him with frustration. I'm looking at him with resignation and acceptance.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I'm letting the reality of him being 27, with an ok career minor league track record, and a history of shoulder issues color my opinion. I hope he makes a good teacher. Seems like that was something he was passionate about.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Well, it might be less meaningful. It seems to me that it would for a few reasons that Dozier is good evidence for: 1) When you're absolutely awesome for stretches, the team starts to rely on you to be that. They build the lineup around you for that. They bat you in certain positions for that. So when you suck horribly for long stretches it has an amplified effect. 2) Dozier binging for a few weeks may be enough to win you a couple games you wouldn't win otherwise, but how much of that binge goes wasted in lopsided efforts? Compared to weeks and weeks of being a blackhole hurting the offense? I don't know, but it seems plausible. Maybe reality is counter to what I assume it would be. I'd love to see that. As a general rule, I'd rather have guys that can keep their bad streaks to short periods of time and keep their production regular as opposed to long binges of either terrible or productive play. I just think it gives you a better day-in day-out advantage.
  15. TheLeviathan
    That's a fair argument, there may be some salesmanship necessary in this trade. It may even be something that forces you to walk away from trade talks - teams try to lowball you because of his erratic production. I only sell if I can sell high, but I'm damn sure shopping to see if it's out there.
  16. TheLeviathan
    That's a fair point, I just think given his age this is less likely than my scenario. But worth pointing out. It's hard to really peg Dozier with any kind of trend, which for me is part of the problem. I don't know what to count on him for.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Yeah and I've held on tight to the hope that he'd eventually pan out, but this just not the kind of guy that I'd target from another organization. He's too old and there isn't enough track record of success. Plus the medical issues. Meyer hasn't even played well enough to be called a AAAA player.
  18. TheLeviathan
    2014 was two seasons ago. He's yet to do anything but stink in AAA and this is his third year. He's 27. At some point throwing a fastball hard is not enough.
  19. TheLeviathan
    At times we do look like we treat defense like your average T-ball coach for 7 year olds.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Someone else's? Sure. That wasn't happening here, for good or bad. And some new FO was going to magically get him re-aligned either. Not to mention, Meyer has long been more about hype than production. If we're going to grab someone else's reclamation project I sure as hell hope they've been more productive players. I want to help guys figure it out, not rebuild them Bionic Man style at age 27.
  21. TheLeviathan
    That would be highly valuable, if anyone knows how to draw such a distinction. You almost have to feel that a consistent player is better than a wildly erratic one, but I wonder if you can derive that from his stats.
  22. TheLeviathan
    This guy is so feast or famine it's crazy. He was borderline DFA material for 130 games and now he's on an insane binge. Trade him. I don't care what the end of the year stats say, you can't march a guy out for half the season when he's that putrid and hope he'll eventually binge again. Some modicum of consistency is absolutely necessary. One of these times he won't binge for a month to recoup value. Sell high this offseason.
  23. TheLeviathan
    I'd chalk it up to something people seem to forget about scouts - they have to know a little bit about so many players that they tend to do things an inch deep and a mile wide. That question was for someone an inch wide and a mile deep.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Sure. But if the argument is (and it was) that they traded for cost controlled service time, Busenitz and Meyer are equal. There is slightly more potential in Meyer, but it's mostly shadows of what once was. Based on what he's actually done we should probably just bury that potential and stop pretending it's still around.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Right there with you. What is the point of that? Because what was said above is that 6 years of team control is valuable and that's what the Angels traded for. I guess, if their spit in the wind hope that he'll ever be anything other than a chronically injured, erratic player ever reverses, than that could be a relevant point. It's just unlikely because A) his chronic injuries have frequently involved his shoulder (pretty much the worst thing you could have as a pitcher) and he'll be 27 by the time next season starts. I understand not liking Santiago. But let's be honest about who Alex Meyer is as of August 2016. So, yeah, "6 years of team control" is about the most valuable thing you can say about him at this point. And it's a terrible argument.
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