Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Let's all take about how Jorge Soler is a living God.

I'd join his cult.

Holy crap, that contact.

PS, is Soler even a prospect anymore? He's...what, good? Yeah, he's fucking good.

Oh he's still a prospect. He only played, what, 24 major league games last year? I think he's even still eligible for ROTY. Meaning he and Bryant will split the vote and some undeserving asshole will get it.

That's not what happened in 1989.

You could put Dwight Smith on Jerome Walton's shoulders and you still wouldn't get Jorge Soler.

Just don't put Jerome on to Dwight's shoulders 6 months after he won the ROY.  Pretty sure the 30 pounds JW put on that offseason on his way out of the league in 5 years would've crushed  Smith's shoulders, thus denying us his right-handed-pitching-dominance and circus-like comedic defensive play in Center Field on the whelming '93 Cubs.

[Oleg]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

[PenFoe]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Great, here comes Apex.

[Quality Start Machine]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

Todd Ziele

[SKO]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

Todd Ziele

yeah we can just stop this game now. It sucks.

[PenFoe]

Former FUTUREBONER Arodys Vizcaino popped for PEDs - 80 game suspension. 

La Stella looking awfully good right now.

[InternetApex]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Great, here comes Apex.

I forget how I feel about Gregg Jefferies.

[Oleg]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

Todd Ziele

yeah we can just stop this game now. It sucks.

Not only does this game suck but it's completely irrelevant.  Sabermetrics has changed the way that prospects (and players) are viewed.  Baseball teams have simply gotten better at objective analysis and so has the way that prospects are ranked and looked at.  There is simply more information to go off of when publications do their prospect rankings and new prospect evaluation publications have come along (Baseball prospectus, for one).

Plus, there is a much greater influx of Cuban talent, much of it of the impact variety, which has also affected the prospect landscape.

I look forward to Eli telling me I'm full of shit.

[Eli]

I look forward to Eli telling me I'm full of shit.

You're not. I think I posted something a while back (can't find it now) that took prospect rankings and career WAR and it showed an increasing correlation between the two. They're definitely way better than they used to be.

Edit: Found it. Sorry it's so huge*.



* TWSS.

[Saul Goodman]

Sorry it's so huge*.

* TWSS.

Doesn't ... quite ... work ...  did you mean TWHS?

[Eli]

Sorry it's so huge*.

* TWSS.

Doesn't ... quite ... work ...  did you mean TWHS?

No idea! Please explain comedy to me.

[Quality Start Machine]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

Todd Ziele

yeah we can just stop this game now. It sucks.

Stop being such a Steve Bilko.

[CBStew]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

Todd Ziele

yeah we can just stop this game now. It sucks.

Stop being such a Steve Bilko.

Surely you meant Sergeant Bilko.

[InternetApex]

Man...looking at the 1989 awards is kind of depressing.

But, Lonnie Smith was a 9 win player in 1989.  Who knew?

Brett Saberhagen was a 10 win player.

Gregg Jefferies finished 3rd in the ROY voting in '89.

Jefferies was the 1988/89 version of Kris Bryant. Not saying they'll have the same outcome, but Jefferies was every bit as much of a can't miss.

Todd Ziele

yeah we can just stop this game now. It sucks.

Stop being such a Steve Bilko.

Surely you meant Sergeant Bilko.

Or Steve Biko.