Well first of all I admit that my outlook on Smit would fall on the very realistic side,
No, it doesn't.
but if he finishes out the season the way he's gone so far he wouldn't be the first guy the Cubs have pushed fast through the system.
That doesn't make it "right" or "smart".
Guys like Brian Schlitter are getting a few innings on the big club.
Yeah, and look at what he's done with the Cubs this year (hint: bad) after being right around average for the division of the PCL he was in.
It isn't insane to think he can continue his season and build on it. I'm not saying he's going to become a regular major league middle reliever, just that he could grab a few innings in the never ending shuffle.
Ok, but again, that doesn't make it any sort of "intelligent".
Keith Law agrees with me on Smit FWIW
Keith Law is a moron, one that obviously has not taken the time to see that Smit's numbers could very easily indicate he has been benefiting from repeating the same level for multiple seasons.
But nice, "well, I don't have anything intelligent to say about the numbers you have given to refute my claims, so HERE is someone who agrees with me" tact.
And you really low opinion of Wallach who it seems is a legit starting prospect.
The first part of this sentence is just fucking jibberish (no surprise then, that you write for CCS), and no, Wallach is not. He's being
average in
A-ball after being shelled in Rookie ball. Only in the Special person minds of posters on this site would that make for a "legit starting prospect".
The Cubs love high strikeout guys and Wallach is certainly that.
If all you're going to look at is the guy's strikeout rate because all the Cubs look at is the guy's strikeout rate.....I really don't know what to tell you other than "keep breathing", because certainly you must have trouble with that on your own.
It isn't out of the question to talk about the major league potential of any player.
Ok, fine. Yeah, you
can talk about it, but way more often than not it will prove to have been a futile and ultimately stupid endeavor. Kinda like reasoning with you.
Was it dubious to talk about his MLB potential when he was drafted?
Not as much as when that same guy is coming off a season of pitching BP in the PCL and putting up relatively average numbers
in A-ball.
It's what you do when you get a new minor league guy.
Not, it's what morons do when they are incapable of being realistic about a situation and understanding the context of minor league numbers.
It seems that his velocity might not be panning out like people thought, but again even then he still has a chance to make it as a starter down the line.
Wait a minute, just a few lines ago you were trying to say (I think, the jury is still out on that train wreck of a sentence) that Wallach "is a legit starting prospect", but now you're saying he "still has a chance" to make it to the big leagues? How about you make sense of your own thoughts first before you start typing them out for others to sift through.
As for the idea of giving Lilly an arbitration offer, nobody thought they would because they can't afford for him to accept it.
Right, because a 34-year old left-handed starting pitcher coming off his second straight sub-1.2 WHIP season is so going to turn down the offers he will be getting from teams to take a one year deal with a rebuilding franchise.
