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Draft Features Rarest of Prospects: Redheads
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Read More...The issue of redheadedness and athletic performance took center stage before the 2011 NFL draft, when Sports Illustrated’s Peter King interviewed an anonymous head coach who questioned Texas Christian University product Andy Dalton’s ability to lead a team from the quarterback spot. The scout’s objections were based less on Dalton’s arm strength, pocket presence and his Wonderlic score than his hair color.
“Has there ever been a redheaded quarterback in the NFL who’s really done ...
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1. Willie Mayspedes posted on March 12, 2012 at 05:13 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Oh good lord, the missed opportunity for an epic thread: They're 7th! Booooooooooo!
DAMMIT BOBM
They added about 80% of the prospects this offseason.
The Mike Adams trade actually helped more.
I'm very excited about the outlook of San Diego. Even as early as this year they might be competitive.
This pleases me.
(Though looking at the descriptions, I don't see that anybody except Toronto has a clearly better system. On the other hand, the teams that are not Toronto have good major league players on the field now.)
What's worse than this mediocre rating is that the Orioles had a pretty highly rated system not long ago. And those players are now in the major leagues, and just about every one is underperforming expectations. Under the circumstances, it's hard to get too excited about Bundy and Machado.
But I do, becuase despite everything, the Orioles are an exciting team to watch and I love rooting for them, and while they always end up being bad, it's never in exactly the way you expect.
Unfortunately it was Luhnow's work, and he's now with the Astros. Here's hoping Mozliak knows what to look for in a farm director and didn't just get lucky.
Under the new CBA, scouting is going to be at the highest premium of anything in baseball.
Yes, depending on whether the Dodgers new owners hire a saber GM, the Padres could dominate the NL West for most of the decade. I'd think the Dodgers new owners would be hiring a saber GM, though
What makes us think they won't trade their good players as soon as they become arb-eligible like the A's do? They traded A-Gone with what two years left on his deal, and that's when they were reasonably competitive. Latos was gone with several years left before free agency. Now their ownership seems up in the air. Save for a brief period in the late 90s, the Pads have been running things on the cheap ever since Ray Kroc died.
Because the city built them a new stadium so they wouldn't have to!
In the meantime, 4 of the AL Central teams are in the bottom 9. Go Royals!
The AL West has 4,6 and 7.
And 23 and 26.
That Astros thing is this year already? I have been watching way too much soccer.
And four of the five between 12 and 16. Talk about clustering.
Is a saber GM so armed to protect fans in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium or fight off hostile sports columnists?
If the reference is to a GM who uses statistics to help make decisions, is there an organization who does not have such a person, or, more likely, a room full of such people?
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