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    CabbageCage2

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Trey Cabbage hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    ParkCage

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Byung Ho Park hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    ABWalkerOFedit

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Adam brett Walker throwing to home in Spring Training 2/12/2016
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    CabbageCage

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Trey Cabbage hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    ArciaCage6

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Oswaldo Arcia hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    ParkCage10edit

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Byung Ho Park hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    ABWalkerCage12

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Adam Brett Walker hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    ABWalkerCage16

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

    Adam Brett Walker hitting BP 2/12/2016
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    Right there is what I have a problem with. Many of us, regular people, think of how this is a GAME we played as children and how privileged these players should be that they get paid to play a game. Yet we often completely ignore the other aspect of this GAME in that teams/owners are making profits hand over fist. We no longer live in the times that teams can cry poor because nearly all of them have huge television deals and/or receiving financial aid. Teams are spending 100+ million on their major league roster. If each MLB club were to actually give their players a "living wage" it would only cost a club another million or so which is a drop in the bucket. In the long game of things, isn't it worst paying your young developing players so they can afford to eat better, live better and thus produce better in the future? It might be just me but many MLB clubs are short changing themselves from their own players growth and development.
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    Useless stat? I don't think you understand the stat at all then. Batting Average of Balls In Play which is literally what it means is the players batting average when walks, strikeouts, homeruns (BABIP = (H – HR)/(AB – K – HR + SF)) are taken out of the batting average calculation. The average BABIP is .300 and the best way to look at it is a measurement of luck or unlucky. Only the really good hitters are able to carry a BABIP of .300 or over sustainably. So anyone who follows BABIP would know that Danny Santana's 2014 .405 BABIP meant he was REALLY LUCKY and wasn't going to repeat or come close to those numbers that he posted.
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    Well as someone who frequents Perfect Game events and SEC college baseball, I've seen a good deal of the top HS players and college performers in person. That Florida team is loaded, you mention Logan Shore but he's not even regarded by scouts as the best pitcher on his team that honor goes to lefty AJ Puk. To me Shore reminds me of Kyle Gibson at this point, command is his calling card, clean mechanics. Florida's CF is Buddy Reed who has blazing speed, raw power (his BP is impressive), plus D and arm, his contact tool is average at best. On Cody, no his talent level does not warrant a #16 pick especially as a college senior with no leverage.
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    Bill James Data from wayback: What a Batted Ball is Worth (in terms of a run): Line Drive: .356 HBP: .342 Non-Intentional Walk: .315 Intentional Walk: .176 Outfield Fly: .035 Groundball: -.101 Bunts: -.103 Infield Fly: -.243 Strikeout: -.287
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    Arcia gets a bad wrap for his "attitude", kid got down on himself last year and it just snowballed from there. He's grown up over the offseason, "learned alot about me" and is out to prove that he can play everyday in the outfield. Of the three out of options guys, he's the most likely to make you say "crap, I can't believe we let him go for a bag of balls." Left handed power bats don't grow on trees...
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    I've become somewhat of a baseball podcast connoisseur due to my hour ride back and forth each way/each day and I heard Gleeman on either Fangraphs or Effectively Wild (BP) and really loved his banter and insight, all while finding myself agreeing with him often. Since then I've listened to a few of a recent of his Gleeman and the Geek podcasts, and am quite entertained even with Bonnes' homerish views.
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    Not just a blurb but a whole article!! As for Tommy, he knows how to get a hold of me if he wants to talk. Football pics aren't my ideal but still ANYONE can take video or pictures of the guys just playing around on the backfields. The only thing I think of being an issue is possible CBA rules of "sanctioned" practices and workouts but still it was players playing around and having fun on their own down time. Sidebar, not the first time I've had Twins personnel try telling me what I can and can not post on backfield observations. In the past, I've been asked by front office personnel and coaching staff not to talk about certain prospects trying out at the facilities, take pictures of scorecards, record pitchers' side sessions, report about injuries, etc and I usually acquiesce. The Twins try to keep a tight wrap of everything under their umbrella and definitely aren't used to much to any press on their facility especially backfields. While in stark contrast, the team down the road, the Boston Red Sox, broadcast their players' pitch/fx stats (RPM, VEL, LOC) on the big screen for GCL & Instructs, allow full access to stat sheets, and absolutely relish in the spotlight of fandom. So Tommy better have a good excuse for not wanting me to post pics of the kids having fun before the season starts.
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    LOL, I know, I told the photographer he made him look really good because it wasn't a pretty sight, of course it was one of his first days official in the outfield. Makes Arcia look like Mike Trout out there. Still giving him a month to basically learn the position, Miggy should be "fine", I mean the Cubs use Hulk Schwarber (6' 240lb) in LF but even they gave him 30 games in the minors and regular reps out there before calling him up.
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    Pictures from Sano in the outfield taking flyballs. Early reports are quite comical, bad routes, getting turned around, balls dropping in front but it seems like Sano is having fun with it. So there is at least that... courtesy of Bill Parameter
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    Sanocatch5

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    Football PreSpringTraining

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    Football PreSpringTraining

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    Football PreSpringTraining

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    Football PreSpringTraining

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    Sanocatch4

    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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    From the album: 2016 Spring Training

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