Thursday, January 31, 2008

This Week's Links (1/28-2/1)

Breaking down some NHL futures odds, and some Super Bowl prop bets that are actually football related.

"Chris Berman Is Somewhat Perturbed With The Help". Very old, but worth watching.

Our old friend Marty Noble, at it again.

Larry Johnson advises a blogger on how to get rich.

Gasaway with a great analysis of conference play thus far. How is Duke still so underrated? (I understand the answer is that they don't have anyone taller than 6'8", but still- it's the Dookies!)

Scott Van Pelt is a funny dude.

Brian Bannister is an interesting dude.

Keith Law's Top 100 prospects. I miss the days of the Indians having a good farm system.

Lozo gets interviewed.

I thought this was pretty funny (Sheehan on the Twins, pre-Santana trade):
"You can win, in baseball, if you have a donut-hole construction—lots of middle, nothing on the outside. You cannot win as a donut."

4 comments:

NSchaef said...

The White Sox had one (1) prospect in the top 100. Bad news.

I suppose it's a good sign that finally their first round draft pick (Aaron Poreda) has a high ceiling.

NSchaef said...

The White Sox had one (1) prospect in the top 100. Bad news.

I suppose it's a good sign that finally their first round draft pick (Aaron Poreda) has a high ceiling.

Vegas Watch said...

I published your comment twice, I was unaware that is possible.

One of the commenters in the BBTF thread linked below took BP's Kevin Goldstein's rankings and assigned point values to each team based on where each player was ranked. It was depressing.

1. Rays 80.4
2. Reds 54.9
3. Red Sox 47.3
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25. Indians 6.5
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30. White Sox 1.5

http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/baseball_prospectus_goldstein_top_100_prospects/

I don't know who made them, but the following rankings are my favorite, because Miller is somehow 10th.

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/news/top50/y2008/

Vegas Watch said...

Also: "Kevin Goldstein: Even though he's pretty high on their prospect list, and would be a sleeper in other systems -- I really do kind of have a feeling about John Shelby. Call me crazy."

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=423

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