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  1. 2 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said:

    He's been arguably the best SS in the game since 2015, particularly if you focus only on his offensive numbers.

    SS stats between 2015 and 2018:

    # Name Team G PA HR R RBI SB BB% K% ISO BABIP AVG OBP SLG wOBA wRC+ BsR Off Def WAR
     
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    1 Francisco Lindor Indians 475 2125 74 294 253 52 8.0 % 14.2 % .190 .312 .293 .352 .484 .355 121 3.9 57.6 54.7 18.8
    2 Carlos Correa Astros 421 1829 76 246 287 31 10.8 % 20.4 % .209 .325 .285 .363 .493 .364 133 6.7 80.2 10.1 15.5
    3 Corey Seager Dodgers 355 1528 54 220 179 9 9.6 % 19.6 % .192 .352 .302 .372 .494 .369 133 6.5 69.6 28.3 14.9
    4 Xander Bogaerts Red Sox 506 2203 47 318 265 39 7.2 % 17.3 % .139 .344 .296 .351 .434 .340 110 18.9 45.0 23.7 14.7
    5 Andrelton Simmons - - - 488 1957 26 217 191 39 7.1 % 8.3 % .106 .296 .281 .335 .387 .314 98 2.0 -2.4 73.1 13.9
    6 Brandon Crawford Giants 502 1988 54 216 272 17 7.7 % 19.9 % .170 .313 .269 .329 .439 .326 106 0.7 13.7 55.5 13.7
    7 Didi Gregorius Yankees 499 1986 65 237 249 23 5.1 % 13.7 % .163 .285 .272 .314 .435 .320 99 12.0 10.0 33.7 11.3
    8 Jean Segura - - - 478 2107 42 284 198 93 4.6 % 15.0 % .133 .337 .299 .338 .432 .332 106 9.5 25.8 8.5 10.5
    9 Elvis Andrus Rangers 479 1979 37 251 224 74 7.0 % 12.7 % .139 .313 .287 .338 .425 .329 101 10.9 14.2 10.5 9.3
    10 Asdrubal Cabrera - - - 477 1903 62 227 213 14 7.3 % 17.7 % .177 .309 .277 .333 .453 .336 113 -11.8 18.8 6.2 8.9

     

     

    I get it, but the injury component cannot be ignored. Volume matters and the adding stats are relevant in the conversation. If you could have Lindor, Bogaerts, SImmons, or Correa for the next 3.5 seasons, how would you rank your desire? It's subjective, but I'd go Lindor, Simmons, Bogaerts, Correa in that order. Correa is going to continue to handle himself with kid gloves in order to reach the next contract, and the other guys seem fine as replacements with either elite skills or better durability.

    Across the landscape of the game, I'm glad we have Correa as a core member and our shortstop, but I don't view him as a the unquestionably best shortstop in the game. Seager's injury and future health have me feeling the same way about him, hence me not ranking him as a top 4 guy I'd want at SS.

  2. I am starting to laugh when I hear talk of Carlos Correa being a $400million man. He’s made of glass and misses 40+ every year and, frankly, his offensive numbers are good, not really great. I’m sure he’ll go on the DL and miss the next month+ just as we face competition we should be destroying. Ridiculous. 

  3. 5 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Assuming A&M lands a top 10 class, it will be interesting to match up their 2019 class against our stellar 2018 class. The way things are going, the only place where they'll have us beat is TE and maybe DL.

    To that point, I spoke to someone involved with covering CFB recently and they’d spent time with the staff since the 2018’s all arrived (except for JA due to his HS finishing later) and they are fucking pumped. They don’t see a reach in the crew and, offline, they’ve been pretty straight previously about guys who show pretty quickly that maybe they ain’t gonna get it done. The staff is fucking raving right now. So yeah, ATM can fill up on all the bread they want. 

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    Well, like Dome Driver I was a 9 year old at the time.  But my thoughts are based on the video that Sleepygrad posted.  Jackson at :11 and the cheerleader at 2:45.

    Got it. Is that really Keith Jackson? I didn’t recognize his voice at all. The cheerleader on the field after the play is insane.  That would be a huge flag in this day and age. I’d never noticed him. 

  5. 1 minute ago, golfclap said:

    Hamm Lite on 2 new 2019 offers :: 

    Appears Robinson may have verbal'd but is not public yet. 

    https://247sports.com/Player/Layden-Robinson-46053124

    https://247sports.com/Player/Ainias-Smith-90304

    How do you finish 1 or 2 in a year in which half the class looks like it is all sourdough or rye? Are they going to buy 20 thugs at the end and have a 35 player class that wins on sheer volume. Bizarre. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. —Satan, Paradise Lost

    That influenced me, anyway. 

    How important is it to be practical, given that we’re on the verge of more people being currently alive than all who have died previously? As such, anything that is written recently can have a truly global impact in ways some of the most important shit from 2,000 years ago simply can not.

    If it helps, to these thoughts, Money In the 21st Century by Picketty, The Black Swan by Taleb, and Zero to One by Thiel are all playing massive roles in the ways leadership of one sort or another thinks about the future, right now. Anyone involved with policy and government anywhere is accounting for Capital; economics and business is on the Black Swan Trilogy; and you can’t fucking talk about start-ups without the principles of Zero To One playing a role, and that’s where true innovation is happening globally. 

    I don’t know, maybe it’s all too current, regardless. I could also be in a bubble and overestimating the impact of any of those books, which highlights the problems with recency in a discussion like this, I guess. 

  7. 25 minutes ago, Mole said:

    Milton, Paradise Lost - does this qualify as a religious text? Hugely influential as both literature and theology. Also extraordinarily dense with literary references.

    Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. —Satan, Paradise Lost

    That influenced me, anyway. 

    How important is it to be practical, given that we’re on the verge of more people being currently alive than all who have died previously? As such, anything that is written recently can have a truly global impact in ways some of the most important shit from 2,000 years ago simply can not.

  8. 1 minute ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

     

    Tell that to scholz who brought that up.   I was just exclaiming my surprise how Young was able to survive academically.  And the fact that you dont like it only makes it better for me. Thanks.  

    I don't care if Vince Young were to be discovered fighting in Syria on behalf of ISIS, I'd still be grateful for what he did at Texas. There's not a thing you can do or say that will bother me when I think of Vince Young. 

    You're a sooner, and you're kind of a run-of-the-mill one in terms of mental capacity, so of course you missed the point. Like I said, you aren't worth the bullet on this kind of silliness, so I'm content to let you think whatever you'd like, as long as you shut the fuck up on this thread about the glories of OU academics.

  9. 25 minutes ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    Makes me wonder how Vince Young lasted more than 2 weeks in Austin. 

    Honestly, man, spare us academic defense of OU talk and general academic smack talk. You are a gnat in our fucking face on stuff like that and aren't worth the bullet. Take that shit up with someone equally as pathetic on the academic front like the okie state guys or KSU people. I click on this thread for actual information, not sooner mouthbreathing. Thanks.

  10. 1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

    This is the recruiting board. You should never feel good about anything. 

    I feel good about:

    -your mom

    -sarvanaash having a bigger gash than your mom

    -utfan87 having a German sense of humor

    -the small of a woman's back

    -the hangin' curve ball

    -the concept that you don't buy a coach for $75million unless you're going to buy the players too

    -Sir Edward Orgeron, IV being a deep state agent who isn't acting alone in the current deconstruction of the LSU football program

    -and Texas ultimately landing a top 5-6 recruiting class in 2019

    Sir!

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  11. 33 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Moving forward - do you know who's next man up at interior OL? (I assume we'll keep recruiting Bragg til the end, but I'm not going to get my hopes up).

    The dude at Waller has a ton of potential. I think there's going to be Christian Jones types every year where they recruit a guy on the OL and then offer during the fall when they like what they see. They'll have 7-8 guys they're working in that fashion, some interior and some project OT types and act upon a few. Early returns on Jones are that he's absolutely what they were hoping he could be coming in, and he's got a chance to really develop at OT. That merely reinforces their approach.

    That all said, Bragg has been number 2 on my wish list behind RoJo in this class since the beginning. It fucking blows that they're possibly going to miss on him, no matter who they're keeping warm in the bullpen.

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  12. 14 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Fantastic on so many levels but mostly the butthurt about Carrington. This info came from direct quotes from the fucking kid while on the Texas campus. Our 9.95ers don't have shit for access with Carrington and he should know that because he's the one that helped EJ and Sayles get the hookups with the 7-on-7 trainers which remain those two shitfucks only sources. 

      

    "He also just said that if Shepherd does not show up for the aggy camp on Friday that they would probably recruit over him because they expect two to three offensive lineman to commit this week end"

     there's the Hamm we know and love. Hedging it by saying that they are going to recruit over Sheperd this weekend. With 2-3 commits. 

     

    Hamm doesn't know shit but please let Turner take another 2-3 guys, hopefully at least 1 more in that 2020 class. (Septs would be ideal - I'd rather Jaylen Garth stay on the board for now). Who the fuck are they going to "recruit over" Sheperd? I'm guessing he means they'd try to get commits from Trainor and Medley? That would be fantastic. 

    It's a poorly hidden secret that they're going to get Trainor. 

  13. 32 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Baizergate 2018 rolls on

     

    EJ Holland is a fucking douche and he doesn't know shit about the game. On top of that, he's a sycophant to the street agents and the players they pimp. He's a gutless bitch who hides behind mod status and can't hold his own for shit when it comes to taking and owning a position that isn't fed to him by someone else. 

    I don't like the sock bullshit or the immature way Baizer played things here with his sock, but he's fucking light years ahead of EJ Holland in terms of knowledge, contribution, gumption, and approach. 

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  14. 5 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    meh. A lot of that news was pretty clearly of the "too good to be true" variety.

    Back to the drawing board for interior linemen, then.

    Not really. Go fuck yourself for being a perpetual cunty wet blanket here. 

    Bragg’s mom has been pro-Stanford from the jump. If he got in, he’s going there. If he didn’t, he was coming here. People reporting the latter isn’t problematic. And there isn’t a need to “return to the drawing board” you dim twit. 

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  15. 2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Your complete inability to discuss anything without being an antagonistic prick about it is certainly sad, but not at all comical.  Why are you so defensive that someone disagrees with your opinion?  

    No, I don't have any desire to travel to Arizona, Utah, or Colorado for a football game.  Perhaps for other things, but not for a football game.  And the only Bay Area school I'd like to play is Stanford, it certainly isn't Berkeley.

    But I'm not going to accuse you of leading a miserable life simply because I disagree with you, because I'm not an antagonistic prick like you are.

    Meh, I was a dick. Sue me, I guess. 

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