Comments on: Ryan Sweeney: We’re Selling Jeans Here

By: Kristi @ Apple Bottom Boutique

Kristi @ Apple Bottom Boutique — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:34:15 +0000

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By: Kristi @ Apple Bottom Boutique

Kristi @ Apple Bottom Boutique — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:16:07 +0000

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By: Club Penguin pin tracker

Club Penguin pin tracker — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:38:39 +0000

I might get one of these…

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:45:26 +0000

The fat scout was “kind of” right, in that Jeremy Brown wasn’t very good.

In fact, the draft that moneyball is largely based around was pretty appalling for Oakland, given that they had (I think) 7 picks in the top 40 or so. They got a genuinely very good player (liked by scouts & sabremetricians alike) in Nick Swisher, a guy who has turned into a slightly below-average LF/3B in Mark Teahan, a league-average pitcher in Joe Blanton, and a bunch of guys that didn’t make it to the majors or sucked when they did.

I guess it’s hard to draft 7 stars, given a very restricted budget for bonuses. I suppose you could say “good process, bad results”. But it’s somewhat difficult to ridicule scouts JUST for saying that Jeremy Brown or Brant Colarmino or whoever wouldn’t make it in professional baseball, when, ummmm, they didn’t make it in professional baseball.

By: Irregular Joe

Irregular Joe — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:03:21 +0000

Good article. I’m left with one question:

Did I catch a “Clone High” reference at the end?

By: PL

PL — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:47:47 +0000

I think Beane took one look at next years FA market and saw it consisted entirely of Crawford & Werth and figured there would be more CF holes than players available, thus increasing the value of Crisp, Hairston, Sweeney, Davis, Buck & Cunningham (all mlb or thereabouts CFs).

He “cornered the market” on CFs if you will, and while its going to give Oakland an awkward OF of Davis-Crisp-Sweeney with Hairston hitting against lefties, so going forward if any team needs a CF they are going to have to go to Beane, and overpay what they would normally if there was any kind of a market for CFs.

By: joser

joser — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:19:53 +0000

He’s also got the pants-with-no-room-for-a-cup market covered.

By: BX

BX — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:34:48 +0000

The women would LOVE that.

By: BX

BX — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:33:46 +0000

I don’t know if he said that. The draft may be the one place where that may make sense.

A guy who can hit but only field passably is more likely to make it than a guy who can’t sniff a .600 OPS at the MLB level probably won’t make it as a starter in the show regardless of his glove ability.

I mean, besides drafting the best player available, of course, That’s usually the best draft philosophy IMO.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:15:54 +0000

His time at those positions is data we can use to project his ability as a RF going forward.