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Hank Chinaski

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    So, Univ of Cal Berkeley and aggy are going to work together?  How far apart culturally could two schools get?  Perry did this. What a joke.

    Man, when conference realignment was happening and the prospect of aggy going to the PAC with us seemed possible, I was downright giddy about the idea of aggy taking their freakshow to places like the Bay Area and LA and Seattle and watching the reaction. Sigh. 

  2. 24 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    This man is functionally retarded. I mean that with no value judgement, his brain just doesn't work right.

    https://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2017/12/20/16788192/texas-bj-foster-caden-sterns-jalen-green-anthony-cook

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    Haha is he referring to a play in a game that happened 6 years ago to try to make a point about conference superiority? The best part is. of course, that this reference and their best season in the SEC was their first - with players who all went to a B12 school. JFC. 

  3. 1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

    I think they promote him to Fresno in July and then Houston in August. 

    This is what I am thinking. A few starts in AA, a few in AAA, into the bullpen in Sep/Oct. I know he's a starter long-term, but Scherzer and Sale both started out of the 'pen and were great. 

    And there's no way in hell we are trading Whitley for anybody who will be available this season.

  4. Spoiler

    The Astros have hit it big with high school players -- Carlos Correa, Lance McCullers, and top prospects Kyle Tucker and Forrest Whitley -- so it was a bit of a surprise to see them go so conservative this year, with one high school player in the first 34 rounds. (Their 35th pick was Alex Bregman's little brother, A.J.) They gutted their amateur scouting staff after last season and chose to scout fewer players, using internal models to determine which players to see and consider for the draft.

    Keith Law's brief analysis of AL drafts is up...thought this was interesting about the Astros scouting approach...I'd read a bit about this, but didn't realize the robots were taking over to this extent. Something interesting is going on, perhaps, as they almost entirely selected college players (in addition to the blurb above).

    Law didn't say much about Beer, other than he's a classic/old-school "Moneyball" guy and sees him as a DH only, but with enough power/approach that he was worth a first round pick. 

  5. 4 hours ago, texifornia said:

    jfc

     

    "I don't think it's a stretch to say that we would like to sell a bunch of magazines to aggy so I am going to use lots of hyperbole when talking about our cover subject."

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  6. 37 minutes ago, mycox said:

    Keuchel hasn't pitched that bad other than three outings including last night. His ERA was just over 3.60 until last night. He will be fine if he can work out that 1st inning thing.

    Of his 13 starts:

    5 (38%) have been really bad (4, 4, 6 and 7 ER; plus a game with 3 ER in 4 IP)

    2(15%)  have been OK (3 ER in 7 & 6 IP

    6 (46%) have been good

    He's been good more often than he's been terrible...barely. These are the characteristics of an average, back of the rotation starter - wherein half his starts he will severely limit his team's chances of winning.  

  7. Altuve currently has an ISO of .123. (ISO = SLG-AVG.) 

    The last season he finished with an ISO this low was 2014 (.112). That year, he struck out in 7.5% of his PAs. He is currently striking out in 15% of his PAs. 

    His K% was up the last 3 years compared to 2014 - but so was the ISO (power): .146, .194, .202. 

    So...he's striking out at a career-high rate while also losing the power gains he made since 2014. Not a good combo. 

    Looking more closely - his line drive % is a career high and ground ball % is at a career low. He's hitting more balls to CF than normal and his HR/FB is down from recent year. So...maybe it's just a matter of him hitting more balls to CF that aren't going out of the park and it will even out over the next few months. 

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  8. 10 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    Jesus, Keuchel.

    Just tip your cap to Seager and shut up. If can’t do that, at least stop at speculating you’re tipping your pitches. Don’t throw Stassi under the bus too.
     

    Keuchel is such a bitch. He's not as good as he thinks he is. He whined at the trade deadline last year. His "we're not the Cubs" bullshit. 

    He should really learn to shut the fuck up. 

  9. 3 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Every other year Keuchel is nails. This is not that year.

    Ehhhh...He was great in '15. He hasn't been nearly that good since. He was going pretty well last year but only pitched about 2/3 of a season. 

    He will be elsewhere in 2019. 

  10. 12 minutes ago, camel at sea said:

    Lloyd you keep talking about "the last ten years."  LSU hasn't won a major bowl game in over 10 years.  They've only been to one major bowl in that span of time.  If the Gators don't make a major bowl trip this year, they'll be 0-1 in major bowl games in the last decade, too.  Last year was Georgia's first major bowl appearance in a decade.  Tennessee hasn't played in a major bowl game since the 90s. 

    OSU is 1-1 in major bowls in the last 10 years.  TCU is 2-1.  K-State is 0-1.  WVU is 1-0.  Baylor is 0-2.  

    You can go back a little farther than ten years and find better results for the SEC's 2nd tier, obviously.  Is 15 years the timeframe that matters?  25 years? 

    Yeah if you are going to count LSU and Florida games then you'll need to include Texas' 2 title games and additional BCS game (went 2-1). 

    But I think what you're getting at is that the SEC has more "name" schools, with larger fan bases and more historical football success than B12 schools. That's fine, and few would argue with that.

    What people are arguing about is that the "perceived" quality of SEC teams exceeds the actual quality of SEC teams. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

    Good plate discipline and power.  Sucks that he doesn't have any skills outside of the batter's box besides his arm, but then again, it was a late 1st round pick.

    Yeah, this is how I see it as well. Maybe he can play LF adequately, but even as a 1B/DH-only he could be an asset. If the plate discipline and power translate to pro ball, he figures to be a quick riser. For a late 1st, that's pretty good. 

  12. 1 hour ago, gecko said:

    If I were his father I would advise against this.  His LT future is in baseball, not football.

    It's not even really his future anymore - it is now. He can take millions now and begin an earnest pursuit to make many more millions by diving into baseball now. He's nuts if he ever puts on pads again. 

    Maybe the A's can pay him less (under slot) if they agree to let him play football...might be worth the gamble on their part. 

    It's not like I'm a Murray fan, but I'm not rooting for the kid to fail either. Just seems really dumb to continue playing football - a sport he has no hopes of playing professionally, one that poses a risk to his health and ability to play baseball professionally. We're not even sure if he's any good at football yet. 

    Sign a deal, take the millions, start playing rookie ball this summer and focus on getting to Oakland. You could have done this 3 years ago and who knows how close you'd be now. You get a second chance. How is this even up for debate? 

  13. 1 minute ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    Well at this point they have lost so much ground to the big 10 and sec, that the best they could do is get up to an even point with them.  Yeah a decade ago the big 12 was great,  in fact they had 3 top 5 teams in the big 12 south. we seemed to always have that third real good team to give us balance.  Now it's just OU and occasionally a tcu or osu will win some games and give us a run for our money.  When tx is back it will help but now the sec and big 10 have stellar top 2-3 teams and we will be lucky to be considered equal.   We can do it i guess but it will take a lot of winning to earn that reputation back.  right now we are the conference who had 0 teams in a year ago and sec got in two this year.  We have to defeat this perception with real results

    I disagree that it would take a long time. 

  14. I still think everything you are bitching about is based on UT's recent ineptitude. 

    Recruiting rankings? 10 years ago, when the B12 was considered the best conference in football, what B12 schools besides UT and OU were pulling top-10 classes? They weren't. That didn't prevent OSU, Tech, et al (and TCU now) from having very good programs. TCU mopped the floor with Ole Miss and their high-priced recruits a few years ago. 

    The B12 was perceived to be great because UT and OU were 2 of the 5 best programs in college football. UT slipped. That's it. If UT gets back there, the B12 "perception" is restored. 

     

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  15. 5 hours ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

     

     


    Umm I went to OU. And it’s true that we (the big 12) had been much more relevant ten years ago compared to now. How is the even in doubt? The recruits know it! Just look at recruiting rankings. Sec has 9 teams in the top 25 of class rankings. We have 3. The nfl knows it. 53 draft picks and we only had 20, the worst of all P5 conferences. The next worse was 30. Even the all American conference has 18. We have to do much better if we want to be a viable influential conference because the recruits that are the lifeblood of a program are all looking at sec. he’ll just nabbing a commit from a kid with a Bama offer is a victory anymore. Even those losers in college station have the best class in Texas

     

     

    Nobody is saying the conference is stronger now than it was 10 years ago; what people are saying is that the reason it was stronger is because Texas was consistently competing for BCS games and national titles, as Oklahoma was. That's the difference - not because the conference lost aggy, nebraska, CU and mizzou and gained TCU and WVU. Becuase Texas has been a middling program since 2010. 

    TCU and WVU have been better at football than the programs that left. 

    Also, the other P5 conferences have 40% more teams, of course they'll have more draft picks, etc. Again, when Texas gets its shit together that too will change. Very recently Texas had more players in the NFL than any school. That can happen again. 

    The B12 needs UT and OU to be at the top of their games concurrently to be regarded as a strong conference. That was true 10 years ago and it is true now. 

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  16. 6 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:


    Well We do have occasional help from teams like Missouri and Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. Even KSU and even Kansas in 07. Not every year of course but occasionally those teams did rise pretty far. I think the real difference though is in the Second tier teams in the big 12 compared to the second tier teams in the SEC.

    Um...TCU and Ok St both spent significant time in the top 10 the last few years. KSU, WVU have had their moments recently too. 

    Again, I just don't see the difference. It was UT and OU last decade, with a solid supporting cast. 

     

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