Longgone

I'd be excited if they got Crews or Langford, ambivalent if it's Skenes, happy with Clark or Jenkins, pissed if they pick Teel, or anyone else.

Holding him back! He's 21 with half a season in AA and a week in AAA, and less than 700 total minor league at bats. He has a lot to work on.

He was regularly touching the upper 90's during rehab, and with his extension that gets on you in a hurry, but coming off an injury, you can expect inconsistency as you build up arm strength and settle into a routine.

Nope, he’s gone before August 1

Apparently they didn't think much of any of this years free agent options.

As far as i know, he only missed significant games with injury once two years ago.

They needed a shooter on the wing, and they got one on an expiring deal, and picked up a couple 2nds. The have assets to do other things, if they want.

Shouldn't, take who has the higher grade. If it's a pitcher, fine, quality defender, fine. Trust your scouts. If players don't pan out, get better scouts.

Positional value is accounted for in the players grade. It would be a poor approach to draft based on need or position played, rather than overall grade.

Crews, but it's close, maybe the one who will take less. Any of the clear top five, not Teel, unless he took a huge discount.

Even I don't want to be in any group that would have me as a member.

I thought it was his body double?

Exactly, he acts like there are only two sides, hater or sycophant. Is Harris a good GM? We don't know yet. Are the Tigers playing good baseball? Sometimes, but not consistently. Do they have enough talent to compete in the playoffs? No. Do they have a pipeline of good, young talent? Some, but not enough. Is there hope for the future? Of course, there's always hope.

No one defended anything, except the absurdity of jumping to conclusions based on irrational assumptions.

Correlating that to the practice of calling players up is a non sequitur. Gaining an extra year of control and being thorough regarding developing players can have good baseball value not simply a "business approach". Further we have no track record yet on Harris, so there is no reason to assume any predilection.

What I'm saying is; that opinion has no basis.

Your theory has no basis.

I only see one FCL (a 9-4 loss in which Jobe pitched) and two DSL.

What are you talking about? They used to have two rookie Florida ss teams, now they have one, they've also lost the higher ss team that was in Connecticut. They've long had two latin teams, so they are down two ss teams and have contracted the total number of players.

Since creating RBI is proven not to be a skill possessed by certain players, but rather the result of circumstances, there is no reason to place more "value" on them.

Of course you need results to test your data, but that doesn't make the results themselves predictive. It's the same as always; you watch two hitters for the first time, one bloops two hits off the handle and the end of the bat and k's twice, the other hits four rockets right at the outfielders. One got results, but who would you bet on for the future? It's the same thing with process data, just a bit more sophisticated. You can't just look at results and come to a flat conclusion without looking deeper to see how randomness may have impacted those results.

I believe your skills, which surely fluctuate somewhat, and your opponents, will have an impact on babip, but over time, it's mainly random luck how the hits happen to roll out, and it will even out over time. But tell me this, do you truly believe results stats are more predictive than process data? Because that is what you were implying in your previous post.

BABIP is an indicator of future performance. It was always true that some players would be higher or lower based on speed, power and other hitting attributes. I think what surprises people is that periods of unexplained statistical variability are larger and longer than they expect, and they consistently overreact to smaller samples.

The FACT is, he's hit the hell out of the ball all year, he just hasn't gotten results. That's baseball. He's done his job, just hasn't gotten rewarded.

Torkelson has been hitting the hell out of the ball this year. You can't judge his future production based on traditional stats over a relatively short period.