srsly best ever . 

We need to contact this guy and get him to start a minor league blog. I want/need top 30s for every team.

Where Alonso. 

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never lol'd so hard from a youtube vid. 

i did do a  quick search for 'koshien' here and found only one thing relating to a stadium [i'd guess in hapan].  

so unless this was vaguely discussed in an ottotd or something, i don't think many / any of u have seen it

this is one of the top 10 funniest things i;ve ever seen. and i seen a lot of funny things. many funny things. i don't want to build it up too much for u, maybe this just hits my sense of humor sweet spot, i d k. but this srsly rules hard. can't believe i've never seen this before or even been discussed before on a baseball blog. so very worth yr 2 minutes. / love japan. / want this game. 

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Been working on this list for about a month now, tweaking/reading up on these guys. I was going to wait til the AFL was over to finalize it, but I think not much will change between now and then. I mostly just wanted to get reports on Strasberg, Scheppers, and Castro. the way K Law talks about Castro, it sounds like he might put him top 20. while i am not going that high on him, I am pretty impressed by what's been said about him. 

I used 130 PAs instead of ABs as the cutoff.... by accident at first, then by choice [it just seems weird to me that a couple walks determine it] ... so thats why Gamel and Escobar aren't here... I don't feel strongly for or against their statuses, so i guess if i were to list them, they'd be about where other people would have them.

I approach my lists as though I am a GM drafting for my team. 'Take the best player available' approach. Until proven, they are all prospects, so I do tend to value upside more-so than others. Parker and Scheppers would both be top 20 if not for their injury concerns. 

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I did enjoy the smackdowns... but I think it'd be cool to include more than just a couple names. 

My "top" tier is Posey, Montero, Santana, Norris, and Flowers. So I'm including the next 10 names at the C spot. Fact-based discussion strongly encouraged. 

My 2010 Top 100 list is almost done, but I have to admit that catcher is the hardest to gauge, so I look forward to seeing the results/discussions out of this one. 

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I approach my lists as if I'm an MLB GM at a draft. I do of course take advanced leagues and ARL into account, but I lean heavily towards a "take the best player available" approach... So I often have younger/high upside players ranked higher than most. This is just something to keep in mind when you see an 18-year-old pitcher in low-A ranked above a 23-year-old slugger in AA.
One other thing I tend to favor is body-type. yes, there are always exceptions [the Lincecums, Oswalts, Pedroias], but it is not the norm, so I often tend to favor the taller/bigger/projectable types. 

None of the players on my list are in MLB as of 8/6/09 when I started double-checking rosters. So don't cry foul when you don't see Feliz, Matusz, and Tillman top 10, because they would have been.

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I don't know of a site that lists them. just from looking up several possibilities on baseball-reference stats... I see that A rod and Ted Williams both did it in their age 20 seasons [Ted did it again in his age 21 season]. Pujols did it at age 21. Are they it?

Not saying Justin is a lock to keep up this hitting, as I'm sure he's gonna hit another rough patch before the season ends... but its fun to speculate. he and Mauer have been keeping me real excited in May. I don't know about Mauer hitting .400... but I think Justin has a legit shot at OPSing 1.000 this season. 

whoa now.

found this on imdb:

via i25.photobucket.com

Has there ever been a movie where a baseball GM was the protagonist? [Especially starring someone of Pitt's celebrity] I can't think of one, though my baseball movie history isn't the best. And this makes me wonder when "A Ray of Light: The Andrew Friedman Story" starring Clive Owen will get picked up. ?? I'd work for free to make that a reality.