Connor McCaffery Baseball Prospect

99topdawg said:
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember him not wanting a large salary so they could use the money to continue to keep/bring in top talent around him and he would make his millions branding his name in shoes, etc.
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It was. He was pretty much doing what Tom Brady is getting credit for doing now... What I wonder is if he'd do it again or not. With todays NBA crazy 'max deal's and all it's just tough to see him not playing for one. But who knows. Other QBs have said they hate that Brady is doing what he is because it empowers owners to do what they do in tryin to be cheap on QBs. Dak Prescott has said he's not taking any team friendly deal. He's up for one soon I think after this year. He's spoke about how Brady doing what he is doesn't help the players.. But to each their own I suppose
 
ibahawkeye said:
How good is Connor at baseball? Is there a chance he doesn't finish his basketball career to pursue a career in the MLB?
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I've always thought baseball as his main focus. I think that sport comes the most natural to him. I think he's trying basketball while he plays baseball at Iowa, if this makes sense. I think he was always going to play baseball first.
 
Northside Hawk said:
And where Dave Winfield played? And Barry Larkin? And Steve Garvey? And Joe Girardi? And Kirk Gibson? And Jim Sundberg? And Mike Boddicker?
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Exactly. People act like the midwest is totally void of baseball talent which is just stupid. Yes, the lower states get more talent but there are very good players that stay home as well to play so that family can watch or they just like the schools. There are talented players in the BIG and the gap is very slowly closing now that players practice at least 9 mo out of the year and now with prescription turf. That has helped as well.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Baseball is a cruel sport that will weed out the weak. No matter how athletic or entitled you are, you can't be a "specialist". You have to hit the pitching. You have to field and throw the ball.

If he has the chops to be a major league prospect he will probably get around 1,000 minor league at bats. Those pitchers will help him make his mind up as to how good he can be. As for his speed, baseball hasn't been less speed oriented at any time since the 1950's. The steal, the hit and run, an even hitting behind the runner are all skills that are on life support as teams try get as many boppers as possible in the lineup and get them uppercutting. And it's not just at the college or pro level. My eighth grader, who won't even play baseball in high school because of track and field, played for an academy team last spring. The first indoor practice the coach was teaching the kids launch angle. I spent all subsequent practices finding a place to go jogging. When AAU basketball started in April he started missing too many baseball tournaments to justify being on the team. The baseball coach nicely refunded us a pro rated share of our team fees. My son's swing wasn't so lucky. It was July before he finally went back to his short, level, compact swing.
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The bold above. This is what it really comes down to and having the ability to hit the curve or slider, etc.. If you are a .300 hitter a team will find a place to put you and even live with some errors.

You could be a 1.000 fielder, but if you hit .200, you aren't playing.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
The bold above. This is what it really comes down to and having the ability to hit the curve or slider, etc.. If you are a .300 hitter a team will find a place to put you and even live with some errors.

You could be a 1.000 fielder, but if you hit .200, you aren't playing.
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Yeah makes you wonder if a player like Ozzie Smith would even make it to the big leagues nowadays. Baseballs changed quite a bit in 20-30 yrs
 
Hawkfnntn said:
To me speed is great if you use it. I mean not many teams are emphasizing stealing bases or station to station play anymore. Besides that it's nice to have fast outfielders for sure. MLB is all about the long ball pretty much. How often does anyone bunt for a base hit? How many infield hits are there compared to past yrs I'd be curious about that as well.
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Anthony Rizzo will adjust to a team shift and push a bunt down the 3rd base line. This is when the 3rd baseman is pretty much playing the shortstop position in the shift to the R side of the field.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
Anthony Rizzo will adjust to a team shift and push a bunt down the 3rd base line. This is when the 3rd baseman is pretty much playing the shortstop position in the shift to the R side of the field.
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As well guys like that should. This is the time of year for them to coach em up. What are all these managers and hitting coaches getting paid for anyway?
 
Northside Hawk said:
Also, the playing dimensions different on field to field. And many parks, especially Wrigley Field, play different at different times of the year and when the wind shifts, sometimes inning to inning.

The only other major sport that has different dimensions from arena to arena is hockey, and even there they don't differ much. Many fans don't even notice that one NHL or USHL hockey rink may be slightly larger or smaller than the next.[/QUOTE]

No shit. I thought they were all a standard. Why wouldn't a professional hockey league have a standard for the size of the ice. Seems rather odd to me. I get the baseball and stadium configuration differences, but one would think all rinks in a professional sport would be the same.
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DDThompson said:
Yep. I love home runs and bashing the ball, but I love "poor man's" ball, too.

I'm wondering if the steroid era tilted the love for OPS and WAR to an extreme. Of course, pitchers' delivery time to the plate had a big role in cutting down on SB, but the play you described above.... just don't see that kind of ball very much.
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I enjoy watching teams with .285 - .300 contact hitters. The ball is in play.
 
mopkins said:
I believe the players also want to bring the DH to the NL to extend careers of aging vets, and thats a fight I think the NL is going to lose...sadly
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Man I hope not. I like that the manager's in the NL have to manage and it adds to the mystique of the game. If they do go to the DH, I'm prob done watching.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
Man I hope not. I like that the manager's in the NL have to manage and it adds to the mystique of the game. If they do go to the DH, I'm prob done watching.
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No kiddin why not go the other way around. Make AL pitchers hit... All these pitchers growing up as kids used to hit. It's not like they can't. They just stop doing it when they get to college or minor leagues. Keep doing it and they'll be plenty good enough at it I would bet.
 
I’d wager Connor is going to play BB and BB four years at Iowa.
 
ssckelley said:
Just 1, Bobby Dernier and that was all we needed.
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Bobby Dernier, not Ryne Sandberg, was the key to the 1984 Cubs. He plugged all the gaps on those NL East artificial turf mausoleums. Cub teams in the 1970's and early eighties gave up tons of runs because they had guys like Jose Cardenal, Rick Monday, Dave Kingman and Bobby Murcer trying to play those outfields. Dernier could run down everything. Because the Cubs had Dernier in center they could play Gary Matthews in left and Keith Moreland in right and get more offense in the lineup. Matthews and Moreland could also cheat a few feet toward the foul lines.

I would wager Dernier saved more runs and potential runs than Sandberg scored and drove in combined
 
Not only are the rinks different sizes, the angle as the boards curve behind the goalie nets can vary as well. Some are more oval shaped, others are more egg shaped, and can affect how pucks bounce off the boards from rink to rink.

The sizes don't differ too much. Maybe fifteen feet in length and ten feet in width. But they do differ.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
Leon Durham - Ron Cey - Shawon Dunston - Jody Davis - Ryne Sandberg -- Lee Smith

You can prob guess who is my team.
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And when you played, you'd hit the ball, and as you ran out of the batter's box, you knocked off your helmet like "Sarge" Gary Matthews, didn't you?



Didn't we all?
 
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