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Posted: September 22, 2012 at 02:40 PM | 16 comment(s)
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1. Mark Edward Posted: September 22, 2012 at 04:27 PM (#4243081)No, but there is a scene where Billy Beane throws the President of the United States across the room.
That's absurd. I don't see the phrase 'overrated reliever' anywhere near that sentence.
To be fair to the Movie on this point, Timberlake told the Sawx not to take the kid because Eastwood told him the kid sux, Eastwood also told him that the Braves wouldn't be taking him - so of course Timberlake tells the Sawx that, they pass and the Braves take the kid... So yes, it would certainly look to a neutral observer like Timberlake got taken.
The "hot" prospect is played as a selfish egotistical jerk, a complete one note role, I think it's based upon some negative reporting regarding Bryce Harper's makeup prior to that draft...
One problem (among many) is that you have a posse of scouts trailing this kid, but it doesn't look like any of them ever try to, you know, get to know him, talk with him, his friends, his family... What's really odd is that the movies simultaneously points out that scouts do try to get and know the guys they're scouting- that was the basis for Eastwood's and Timberlake's relationship, pl;us it was the basis of a minor plot thread regarding a failing prospect who'd been scouted by Eastwood.
I think the prospect was supposed to be a mash-up of Brown and Bryce Harper...
But yeah, no one pays attention to HS stats, I assume every HS hitter drafted batted .450+ and the pitchers are drafted mostly on MPH anyway...
How could you draft a HS guy on stats?
1: Sample size- worse than college
2: Quality of competition, probably more variable than college
3: park factors- ludicrously variable- I mean you have parks with no fences- no grass, crab grass and bushes, rocks...
4: umpiring- again ludicrously variable
absolutely ludicrous, there is no way, there is no way a stathead would suggest it either (well I'd hope not)
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They don't think that we're smart enough to notice, or that we're interested enough to care even if we pick up on it.
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