Longgone
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Changeup. Changeup. Changeup
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I think you are putting way too much emphasis on how much he has played. Evaluators are going to base his value on what they perceive his abilities to be, and as far as you and I know, they haven’t diminished, but unlike you and I, the actual evaluators actually know.
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What are you basing this on? He has all the projection he had during the draft process, except he’s now healthy and has been trained in a very good system.
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Hooker hasn’t failed or had his shortcomings exposed like those two.
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No idea
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You are evaluated throughout the entire process, every practice, your work in scrimmages, on the scout team, in preseason, it all matters in evaluating your strengths and weaknesses.
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He doesn’t have an MO yet
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I’m not talking about his college performance, I’m talking about his innate abilities and his training in a professional system. What they do in games is just the tip of the iceberg.
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You are making an assumption based on nothing really. His value is based on his abilities, which were hindered by injury at draft time. That is resolved and he has close to 2 years of pro training. That does not make him less valuable. No rational evaluator is going base judgment on something like the Bridgewater situation.
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He has played enough and practiced enough to see the skills he was projected to possess. Regular season games are only a part of your exposure.
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Hooker went in the 3rd. He’d have gone higher if healthy. He’s healthy now and has been coached in a good pro system. He has shown the requisite skills and he has value.
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Why negotiate against yourself?
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I don’t see it like that. I think Harris is more focused on the player than the money. He has said if they identify a player that fits where they’re going, they will go hard after him. I think if they wanted Bregman, they’d have signed him.
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It’s not that he doesn’t hit the ball hard, he does, he just doesn’t hit it in the air enough.
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None of this is exactly true. He’s shown periods, flashes, of being able to hit major league pitching. He’s also shown the ability to be an average or better fielder, but again, not consistently. He’s also a better runner than you think. It just takes some players longer to figure it all out. Will he? It’s worth waiting to find out.
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English poet
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It gives them options; if Tork kills it, he can still get 400 abs at dh/1b with Carpenter in rf a lot, if not they are covered. Next year they can always move Keith back to second.
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Pretty much every team has the majority of their pool money committed, not only for this year but several years into the future. Reneging on any of those deals would not be well received by the “buscones”, in any case, it’s not going to be who can scrape up the most money who gets him, it’s going to be the perceived environmental factors.
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Why would anyone ever expect that? There’s no reason they can’t provide accurate and interesting information for the edification of their fans.
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Pumping up prospects for what purpose and what audiences? Most of what is known about prospects is well known within the industry and can be shared with fanbases. There may be some proprietary methods and processes that wouldn’t be shared, but that’s all. No team is going to use “hype” for making decisions.
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There’s no reason for a team not to provide accurate information. What, do you think, other organizations are going to base their decisions on anything other than their own staff?
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That’s the best place to get it. They know these players best.
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He had a shoulder injury he has not fully recovered from
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They are not moving Keith to first
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It means Tork is in, and they have options around the infield
