He deserves his own thread. We would not be where we are today in the standings without Pollock. At 25 years of age, this former 1st Round pick (17th overall) is a Gold Glove candidate this year and potential All-Star in next few.

G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+
31 93 81 8 20 4 1 2 8 1 2 9 11 .247 .315 .395 .710 88
47 174 165 23 46 16 0 4 17 6 2 7 34 .279 .306 .448 .755 102

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What a joke; Team. Manager. GM. CEO. Cindy Brunson. Todd Walsh. Steve Berthiaume. Polo shirts. Entire organization. I want to insert that 18-inch corn dog into each one of their a$$es...slowly. Then re-sell the corn dogs to Dodger fans.

FWIW, Pollock leads all NL center fielders in total zone runs (second for all outfielders. Parra leads all NL outfielders (second in rf). j. Uption is first in left field (5th all outfielders).

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagu ... ders.shtml

Fangraphs hates J. Up D and has him negative. Pollock is second at fangraphs for cf's and Parra 5th.

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Rawlings is creating yet another fielding stat and that stat will be sent to the voters for Gold Gloves (managers and up to 6 coaches for team). The linked article also says that the voters can only vote for qualified candidates. I don't know what "qualified" means but I assume it is based on some inning at position requirement so as to avoid the embarrassment of a dh being given a gold glove (which has happened).

http://sabr.org/latest/rawlings-gold-gl ... onent-sabr

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BTF Discussion Link Here in case you are interested.

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

Thanks. It was interesting.

Has BTF gone down hill (your posts excepted of course)? It seems mainly political (even this thread with the proprietary issues fall into this category) or hackney rehashes of topics already discussed to death (mainly issues where the MSM has it "wrong'). Even this thread devolved into that with several posts on Jeter's fielding.

BTF used to have discussions about current moves. That seems to be mainly a thing of the past.

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I bet the Angels wished that Pollock had dropped to them at #25 so they can draft him instead...

http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft ... ype=junreg

Do you think the Angels wish they hadn't traded their 40th and 80th pick from that same draft?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft ... ranch_year

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#Dbacks #Math

2013: #Grit > #Power + #Strikeouts
2014: #Grit < #Power + #Strikeouts
2015: Y = ???
2016: X = #Profit
2017: #Hall = #Commissioner

Dan Zymborski used to run the transaction oracle, but he took a paying job behind the Insider wall at ESPN. Somebody else was supposed to keep that going, but without Zym's projections and wit, it wasn't the same, and it died quickly.

Very much missed. Zym was the best thing about BTF. He still posts once in a while, but pretty much has disappeared since joining ESPN.

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

Great links, guys. And discussions/explanations. Thanks!

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What a joke; Team. Manager. GM. CEO. Cindy Brunson. Todd Walsh. Steve Berthiaume. Polo shirts. Entire organization. I want to insert that 18-inch corn dog into each one of their a$$es...slowly. Then re-sell the corn dogs to Dodger fans.

Has Dan traded an S for a Z?

He was good, but there also articles that generated discussions on trades, moves, etc. BTF doesn't seem to be much about baseball any more except as a starting point for trashing MSM and baseball people and politics

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He's a Z after S! Best of both words.

I haven't been a regular poster on BTF for years. Partly, Mets have been awful so there hasn't been a reason to bait Mets fans there. Partly, the site has become less about baseball and more about politics, religion and basketball or whatever the hot event is currently.

The days when you could learn something about baseball on BTF are long long long gone.

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2013: #Grit > #Power + #Strikeouts
2014: #Grit < #Power + #Strikeouts
2015: Y = ???
2016: X = #Profit
2017: #Hall = #Commissioner

A ha! That's the problem.

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That's too bad. I didn't visit it much but it was a great place to learn.

And of the solution!

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#Dbacks #Math

2013: #Grit > #Power + #Strikeouts
2014: #Grit < #Power + #Strikeouts
2015: Y = ???
2016: X = #Profit
2017: #Hall = #Commissioner

Pollocks comps thru age 25

1.Shane Victorino (975)
2.Leonys Martin (974)
3.Jerry Lynch (973)
4.Hal McRae (973)
5.Jake Stahl (972)
6.Alex Ochoa (969)
7.Liz Funk (969)
8.Leon Roberts (968)
9.Pat Tabler (966)
10.Rick Miller (966)


Age 26 on, 8 Years, 2914 AB, 11.7 WAR .279/.347/.418 106 OPS+

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

Those are interesting. There are two guys (Lynch and Tabler) who were known as good hit no field guys. Lynch would up being a ph specialist. Maybe Table too but I think of him as a singles hitter.

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I would put McRae in the good hit no field category too.

Victorino is, or rather was a switch hitter up until this year.....but he is a promising comp.

Rick Miller was considered a top flight defensive CF in his day, less power but better on base skills that Pollock has shown so far

Of course we all know these BB-Ref comps have a lot of limitations, but they are still interesting data points.

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

Alex Ochoa once led all of baseball in spring training home runs. So that has to be encouraging for AJ's career.

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#Dbacks #Math

2013: #Grit > #Power + #Strikeouts
2014: #Grit < #Power + #Strikeouts
2015: Y = ???
2016: X = #Profit
2017: #Hall = #Commissioner

If AJP developed into a Victorino-type, that would be great.

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http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=LklqR

Pollock comps out well to aaron round statistically thru age 25

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Good depth often has to come from within, in the form of younger talent. Depth is hard to build overnight, but it’s easy to deplete. Jeff Sullivan

Player A: .317/.368/.559
Player B: .315/.364/.546