Swordsman78

LTBU!!!

Pretty much, and I also thing but has hurt the system has been the fast promotions. 
I do think the fast promotions have hurt the system more so than helped the system. For example, if Rada had started in A+ instead of Double-A and done well, he could have cracked a few top 100 lists. Schanuel, who was already in the top 100, could have started in the minors and then moved up. Dana finally made it to a few top 100 lists. With these adjustments, we could have had at least three top 100 prospects and drawn more attention from evaluators to our system.
I also think there's a bias in the evaluations. Our system isn't considered a main focus by top evaluators. They might watch a few games at most and base their evaluations on that limited view. At the being of the system, I've read so much mis-information just regarding Dana. I still remember one of the reports grade his fastball at lows 90s, when he basically has been in the mid 90s, past year and this year. 
Honesty if I were to divide our young players in a tier system it would this;
1. Tier !: potential All-starts
      1. Dana
      2. Rada 
2. Tier 2: Above-Average players 
      1. Fontenelle
     2. Kent
3. Tier 3: the Average player
     1. Adrien P
     2. De Jesus 
     3.  Paris 
     4. mederos 

So much for Washington being a good instructor?

ROTFLOL! There's nobody in New York reviewing calls.
It's a ploy they use, to assume calls are being done to the highest official order/standard..

This could be describing me

More celebrations like that please. 

Are we blaming the umps this year?  Now that we're out of mgr ideas?

There another guy not taking responsibility and it's not a player.

Strickland takes responsibility. Good to see. 
 
 

That was a fun series to watch! They actually looked like a veteran team who knew how to hold a slim lead tonight for once. Made some nice plays-especially Moore's in the 9th. Nice jobs by Joyce and Cimber to get out of jams in the 7th and 8th. Obviously too far out in the standings at the moment to start getting excited big picture for me, but nice to see some of these guys learn to win and that was a fun series to watch. Plus I'm sure anyone who is at the game will attest, while they are nowhere near as obnoxious as say Dodger fans, I'm sure it felt good to win those games when a SoCal neighbor brings a lot of their fans with them. 

Pitching really made the difference. No melt downs or bad innings. They kept the score down and allowed the offense to scrape up enough runs.

Sweeping the Tier 2 Padres!  Good baseball, great pitching.   
 
Playing at potential finally 

Sweeping the Tier 2 Padres!  Good baseball, great pitching.   
 
Playing at potential finally