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Hasn't ever stopped him from posting.

Aren't we tarring and feathering any more?

9x Team Stats They're on a 270 HR pace. Which would be 6th all time.. and could be better if a few guys wake up

Don't blame me... I wanted Norby (ducks under the bar)

I realize that it is a small sample size, but I find it interesting that some players seem to find a bit of a step progression through the minors.. with the rate of development accelerating as higher levels accrue. Particularly pitchers. I'd imagine coaching, catcher quality, maturity, and a lower experimentation rate as they begin to master their portfolio all pay in... And of course not every player responds this way. I think Povich seems to be one that does. I'd imagine some players are more malleable, and some more resistant to input.

All of this makes really good sense. And I think my Reader's Digest version of the Elias critique doesn't really address the greater flaw in the miserly strategy... which was trying to save control years on emerging players by installing Odor and Frazier type players (in addition to holding onto out-year players) instead of kicking the tires on internal guys earlier. But I've already griped about that one enough. I just think this was predictable pain.

He would have to play often enough and well enough to prove that his value is greater than I would estimate presently. Which I believe unlikely at least in the short term, given Cowser's success. And therein lies the problem both in the outfield, and in the infield. The time to have moved Hays, or Mullins, or Urias, or perhaps even Mateo or O'Hearn, would have been before the crushing weight of success from Mayo, and Stowers, and Kjerstad, and Norby made it urgent. And when each was playing at his peak. Now we have a slow motion train wreck of riches converging... and the value we might have extracted out of the former is being diminished by the need to promote the latter. It is my one recurrent criticism of Elias and Co. Awesome eyes for talent. Great strategy for amassing player wealth... but a little too "Scrooge McDuck" on letting go of talent aging out in the arb years.

Are there currently better options in Norfolk than Hays? Yes. Is any MLB team going to offer anything more than a half-eaten sandwich for him at the moment? No.

Son... I am dissapoint

The problem is the push for velocity and the mechanics required to achieve that velocity. The conventional coaching "wisdom" has driven the mechanics of pitching to a compound overhand release with a definitive whip action of the forearm during extension placing stresses on the elbow beyond it's mechanical ability to cope. A 3/4 or even sidearm release reduces those stresses to manageable levels for the elbow, transferring the dominant force vectors to the elbow at the cost of a little velocity. I would guess that there may be a migration away from high stress release mechanics as TJS becomes so universal as to almost an expectation for every pitcher. TJS seems to have become in essence a bio-hack to improve the factory equipment, when successful. But is it reasonable to expect this to be the nature of the game? And if so, will pitchers begin proactively augmenting in this way, timing their surgeries to minimize career disruption? These are all generalized observations of course, offered with the recognition that there are anecdotal observations that do not conform.

Literally and figuratively... and I'd say to some measure true.

Rage against the machine.

This thread is much more fun if you read the OP parts in Macho Man Randy Savage voice. Oh Yeah!

Yeah... Norfolk is tearing the cover off the ball... but on the big club... we've got "veteran presence". So there's that.