Nick — you’re right that’s a lefty but I don’t recognize them. . . Hamilton maybe?

Maybe he just means that Cruz is better suited to play C than 3B, hence that is why his “ceiling” is higher. Offensive production was only a part of what Pitts appeared to be considering.

Opportunity cost. That is why people look for production levels or “types” out of specific positions. Conitinuing with Daric Barton as an example, he may indeed reach some threshold of absolute production without ever becoming a raging power hitter….but his production would be relatively easy to find in someone who also was able to defensively handle LF/RF/3B…..thus allowing the Ryan Howards, Prince Fielders, and Mark McGwires to occupy the 1B spot.

If you have no Howard, Fielder, McGwire, then no worries….but as soon as you do, then there becomes opportunity cost.

Did you remember seeing at the beginning of ST how Luhnow, other minor league associates, and even Mo, made a trip down to the Dominican to let all of the agents/players know that they were in the market for serious talent, and going to be bigger players? It was early in ST, but I was excited.

I imagine we’ll see some bigger-named signees this year. The minors sure are getting a lot more fun to watch.

Bring us another IF prospect to watch out for (obviously).

Start to show some promise and ROI for the Latin camps. With as hard as it seems to be at times to get DeWitt to open his DeWallet, we need the players we do sign from the Latin camps make some progress to convince upper management how important our investments in that area can be. (This is my theory anyway)

I’m not an Andrus fan because of his terrible plate discipline, and the line drive percentage he has, but he is a magician with the glove.

The reason it’s called an “inverted W”, as opposed to an “M”, (which would make just as much sense, really) is because there is also a “W” position that you can look for in mechanics.

When a pitcher draws his elbows back toward each other, thus “loading” his scapulas, (shoulder blades) that’s a “W” position, because, from above, it looks like the letter W. See if you can find an overhead shot of Jake Peavey mid delivery to see what I mean.

When a pitcher does that same thing, but with his elbows above shoulder level, you still get a “W”, but now it looks as if it’s been flipped over. This is the position that seems to cause so many shoulder problems among Tom House devotees and Rice graduates, to name a few.

In short, it’s only called an “Inverted W”, and not an “M” because there’s already a “W” position, and the “inverted” form of it is a damaging variation of the same biomechanical action.