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Originally Posted by Slyder
Im a reds fan and this is from a Dedicated Braves fan from the site I follow asks:
Andruw Jones' power at 80? C'mon, the guy's had 30+ HRs 6 of the last 8 years. Not to mention the whole, leading the league in HRs thing last year. In comparison, A-Rod's HR power is 105. A-Rod plays in Yankee Stadium, and before that, Arlington.
60 speed for LaRoche? This guy is the slowest baserunner I've ever seen, and I've seen Mo Vaughn play, in person. I'd say 35 would be better off.
64 contact for Chipper aint doing him justice, either. Career .303 hitter, who hit .296 last year. C'mon, he's gotta be up in the 70s at least. Since I can't see it, I was wondering what Francoeur's arm was, as its the best on the Braves and I am including Druw.
68 endurance for Smoltzie aint doing justice to a man who averaged 7 innings a start last year and had 3 CGs, 6th highest in the MLB.
Another guy who got robbed was Blaine Boyer, who will most likely be our closer in 2006. He's got tremendous stuff and good control.
Chuck James and Lerew got lowballed on the stuff aspect, but otherwise they're fine.
Reitsma regularly throws 95.
Francoeur and Betemit are extremely fast, your speed aint doing them justice.
Elvis' contact and power could use a bit of a boost (I'd say 74 and 80, respectively) as he's the best SS prospect to come along since Alex Rodriguez (you might have heard of him).
Langerhans has a good eye, 75 or so, but his power isn't 67. I'd say 60 at best, as he's a 25-HR guy at best.
And Salty Dog...how you disrespect the Salty Dog! (Saltalamacchia). He's a .315-40 HRs prospect. He's 2 years away, but he has more potential than you gave him.
Oh, and switch Hampton and HoRam's stuff ratings and we'll be fine.
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Actually I forgot to go back through and edit Andruw and Smoltz, all the ratings are from '05 at default, and I go back through and edit them, they'll both be fixed.
Chipper hasn't hit .300 since '03, I'd say that giving him a 64 contact coming off a .240 season and a .290 season with a potential for 70+ is about right.
Disagree on Lerew and James, James especially who doesn't have very good stuff at all. If anything, scouts are saying that his stats are very very impressive, but he doesn't project well.
Dealing with speed is a tough one, as I have no way of evaulating guys outside of what their #s say. 3 SB, 2 CS isn't very impressive for Francouer, but hopefully I can figure these out more as I go along. Since speed itself only effect speed on the basepaths, it looks pretty accurate right now.
There's no WAY Elvis or Saltalamacchia are that good, Elvis is still 17, and I have yet to see a scouting website call him the best SS in baseball (although he is among them) let alone the best since A-Rod. If you really think Salt is going .315-40 in the future I would love some of what you are smoking.
Stuff effects strikeouts, so I'm not really sure why you would want Hampton (27 K in 69 IP) and Ramirez (80 in 202 IP) switched, but they are pretty close anyway.
Hope that explains things.