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2009 BA Hot Sheet/BP Monday Ten Pack

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wskeleton76		#101	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 579 09/18/09 1:18 PM Veteran Member	From BP chat, "Jay (NY): Granted he's amazingly raw, but is there a non-Rocco Baldelli comp for Ryan Westmoreland? I feel like he gets it based on the "athletic guy from RI" the same way that any short white WR is compared to Wes Welker... Kevin Goldstein: You are TOTALLY right, it's one of those cheap comps, like the Dominic Brown/Daryl Strawberry one. I don't have an obvious comp off the top of my head, but I have to tell you that the reports from scouts in the New York Penn League where OUT OF THIS WORLD."
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back2basix3593		#102	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 64 09/18/09 7:40 PM	anyone with a BA subcripition care to tell us who BA thought our Best Player,Best Pitcher and "player to keep an eye on"
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DCRi		#103	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1098 09/19/09 8:14 AM Veteran Member	Kalish, Kelly, Richardson.
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soxcentral		#104	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1033 10/18/09 3:40 PM Veteran Member	Does anyone know why Renfroe would be placed as a 'miss' already? This came from ESPN.com/BP's season recap for all 28 teams not in the LCS (it is an Insider article). It seems like a very premature assessment, unless there is something out there that has already occurred and dropped his offensive potential. Draft recap Hits: Reymond Fuentes, CF (No. 28) and potentially Madison Younginer, RHP (No. 228): Fuentes is a potential difference-maker at the plate, on the bases and in the field, and Younginer touched 98 mph this spring in high school. Miss: David Renfroe, SS (No. 107): Renfroe received $1.4 million and could end up on the mound if his bat doesn't develop, which would certainly delay any arrival in the big leagues. -- Jason A. Churchill
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jspearlj1		#105	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 4902 10/18/09 3:50 PM	The only miss in regards to David Renfroe is that whoever came up with the idea to evaluate a player drafted less than 6 months ago is obviously missing a cerebral cortex as well as Brain Stem, and other gooey gray matter.
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Arquimedez Bozo		#106	[url]	[-]
Posts: 8706 10/18/09 7:46 PM Chris Hatfield Executive Editor SoxProspects.com	That's just brutal. Even setting aside how silly it is to call something a miss this soon, that's just lazily sticking to the first three rounds in my opinion. If you HAD to pick a "miss", wouldn't you have to go either with a) not signing Kline, b) the bonus Volz got, or perhaps even c) Hazelbaker's numbers in the SAL? "They should go to soxprospect so BOZO THE CLOWN and the rest of THE WANTS TO BE will give you some information" - legendary words from a legendary man "By the way I like the Canadian accent of Chris Hatfield" - the other Charlie Zink guy My Twitter / SoxProspects Twitter / SoxProspects on Facebook
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templeUsox		#107	[url]	[-]
Posts: 15016 10/18/09 7:51 PM Veteran Member Podcast Panelist	When Renfroe hits a homerun he will no longer be considered a bust. Until then, in the words of the great JSinger, he is "El Busto."
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Steve Dillard		#108	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1166 10/18/09 7:56 PM	Actually, his first year stats track favorably with Ryan Westmoreland's.
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FenwayTheHardWay		#109	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1584 10/18/09 8:21 PM Veteran Member	Arquimedez Bozo wrote: Even setting aside how silly it is to call something a miss this soon, that's just lazily sticking to the first three rounds in my opinion. If you HAD to pick a "miss", wouldn't you have to go either with a) not signing Kline, b) the bonus Volz got, or perhaps even c) Hazelbaker's numbers in the SAL? They did, and that's the problem. What 2 watch 4: Me canceling my BP subscription. "Jonathan Papelbon, not wasting any time, going to his bread and butter there, and that's the cheese."- Buck Martinez
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jspearlj1		#110	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 4904 10/18/09 8:31 PM	To be fair to BP that part of the article was written by ESPN. Its an intriguing idea to link with ESPN to gain a bigger audience, but it would have been nice if they seperated the article better to illustrate what ESPN thought of the team and what BP thought of the team.
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FenwayTheHardWay		#111	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1585 10/18/09 8:48 PM Veteran Member	jspearlj1 wrote: To be fair to BP that part of the article was written by ESPN. Its an intriguing idea to link with ESPN to gain a bigger audience, but it would have been nice if they seperated the article better to illustrate what ESPN thought of the team and what BP thought of the team. It would have been nice if they'd continue to cater to the paying customers who've supported their business for years rather than shortchanging them in the process of trying to "gain a bigger audience". I mean, if I cared what Buster Olney had to say about anything, I wouldn't pay for BP... "Jonathan Papelbon, not wasting any time, going to his bread and butter there, and that's the cheese."- Buck Martinez
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jspearlj1		#112	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 4905 10/18/09 9:58 PM	It's a business. You still get BP's take on it, its just wrapped in ESPN's unfortunate take as well. Considering they are still delivering everything they used to deliver I fail to see how this is such a big deal.
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USG		#113	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 6 10/19/09 5:16 AM	I can see how it'd be annoying to be reading what you consider a respectable source and all-of-a-sudden having an opinion as moronic as that pop out of nowhere, making you question the validity of the article. I mean, for God's sake, after calling our first rounder a hit for performing good-but-not-great in the GCL, he gives our 3rd rounder (who many consider a better talent than the first rounder) a bust before making his professional debut because he has a backup plan. I'm sorry, but that's hit-me-over-the-head-with-a-brick poor reporting. Like calling Casey Kelly a bust last year in case he had to hit.
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FenwayTheHardWay		#114	[url]	[-]
Veteran Member Posts: 1587 10/19/09 6:31 PM Veteran Member	jspearlj1 wrote: It's a business. You still get BP's take on it, its just wrapped in ESPN's unfortunate take as well. Considering they are still delivering everything they used to deliver I fail to see how this is such a big deal. It's not just the ESPN thing, it's that they continue to bleed writers (for some reason all the ones I really like; what the hell happened to Jim Baker?), and that their (free) competition keeps beating them at their own game. BP writers now quote Fangraphs' stats as a matter of course. It is a business, sure. I'm just starting to question the value of their product. "Jonathan Papelbon, not wasting any time, going to his bread and butter there, and that's the cheese."- Buck Martinez
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