The title says it all. I won passes to the town hall meeting off the Ron and Ian radio show. I am looking for some quality, thought provoking questions to ask Joe. I would love to get a list of questions together that DRaysBay would like answers to. The town hall meeting will be broadcast from 10-11 am commercial free on 620 WDAE Thursday morning. Maybe we can get something together here so any body else from DRB going can have a list of questions to ask from as well.

With 24% of the votes each, Marquis Fleming and Cole Figueroaa win the 35th and 36th spots respectively.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

30. Felipe Rivero (29%)

31. Kes Carter (45%)

32. Grayson Garvin (31%)

33. James Harris (33%)

34. Lucas Bailey (27%)

35. Marquis Fleming (24%)

36. Cole Figueroa

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With 3 of the 11 votes, Lucas Bailey wins the voting.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

30. Felipe Rivero (29%)

31. Kes Carter (45%)

32. Grayson Garvin (31%)

33. James Harris (33%)

34. Lucas Bailey (27%)

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With 33% of the votes, James Harris wins the poll.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

30. Felipe Rivero (29%)

31. Kes Carter (45%)

32. Grayson Garvin (31%)

33. James Harris (33%)

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I did a Pedroia vs Cano on Pinstripe Alley and overthemonster. Someone asked me to do Zobrist vs Pedroia vs Cano on Draysbay. So here it is. Zobrist vs Pedroia vs Cano

Hitting

Since Zobrist came out of nowhere, it is better to use true talent numbers than career numbers. True talent is better anyway, but for Pedroia vs Cano it came out the same anyway and it was a shortcut. The way to determine true talent is each season is worth 80% of the more recent one for true talent like the most recent season is 5, recent season-1 is 4 recent season-2 is 3.2, recent season-4 is 2.56 and it keeps going on.

So for true talent wRC+ Pedroia has 125

Cano has 122

Zobrist has 120

It looks like Pedroia comes on top here. Although Zobrist does have the best wRC+ in a season of any of them, so for that let's do true talent of wRC+ squared to rate big seasons better and then take the square root of the total

Pedroia has 126

Zobrist has 125

Cano has 124

So Pedroia comes on top no matter what, if you're rating them on career value so far, you might take Zobrist, if you want to know how good they are now, you take Cano, but Pedroia wins in every category.

Fielding I know Zobrist plays other positions so this makes it tricky, I will just be using Zobrist at 2B though.

In the Pedroia vs Cano thread, I covered that Cano did make more out of zone plays, but Pedroia was a better defender because he made a lot more in zone plays. Read that if you want.

We can see at 2nd base the career UZR/150s are Zobrist 15.6 Pedroia 9.6 Cano -5.7. Zobrist beats both at DRS despite having 3x less innings. The fans in the fans scouting report say Pedroia, Cano, Zobrist, but I don't it that much. I say Zobrist wins here, Pedroia comes in 2nd and Cano finishes a distant 3rd.

Baserunning

Career Baserunning runs,

Zobrist 8.4

Cano 6.4

Pedroia -1.7

While Pedroia is probably the best or 2nd baserunner of the 3 because UBR ignores stolen bases and Pedroia has a big SB advantage over Cano and a moderate one over Zobrist, wRC+ includes stolen bases so we won't include that here.

Overall

WAR/650 PAs

Pedroia

5.31

Cano

3.81

Zobrist

5.5.

But if we use the same method we did for squaring wRC+ and we use true talent the numbers go like Pedroia 5.9, Zobrist 6.1, Cano 4.6

Overall I would take Zobrist by a hair over Pedroia but it's very close. Cano finishes a distant 3rd

Sorry for getting this poll out a few hours late. With 31% of the votes, Grayson Garvin wins the 32nd spot.

Also, I would like to mention a few rules I forgot to bring up from the 30-50 section. First of all, the leading vote netter wins, no matter how close the voting is. Should the voting be tied among two voters with each having 3+ votes, they will both be added to the list. To determine which gets the top spot, the player to get the first vote (say round 29) will get the top spot.

If you don't like the rules or have any suggestions, please let me know. I'm just trying to speed up the process.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

30. Felipe Rivero (29%)

31. Kes Carter (45%)

32. Grayson Garvin (31%)

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With 45% of the runoff votes, Kes Carter wins the 31st spot. There is no need to (rec) anymore.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

30. Felipe Rivero (29%)

31. Kes Carter (45%)

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The runoff goes between Jose Lobaton, Kes Carter, and Marquis Fleming.

With 5 of the 17 votes, Rivero wins the 30th spot. From this point on, we will be doing one list per day. I'll try to get one up every night around this time. Don't worry if you miss a poll. This section (31-50) is aimed more to be a compilation of names than anything.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

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With 69% of the votes, Riefenhauser wins the runoff. Canzler has been knocked off the list due to his trade to the Indians.

1. Matt Moore (100%)

2. Hak-Ju Lee (100%)

3. Alex Torres (53%)

4. Enny Romero (80% runoff)

5. Tim Beckham (64%)

6. Mikie Mahtook (63% runoff)

7. Brandon Guyer (50%)

8. Chris Archer (65% runoff)

9. Drew Vettleson (48%)

10. Taylor Guerrieri (80%)

11. Alex Colome (75%)

12. Derek Dietrch (40%)

13. Josh Sale (39%)

14. Ryan Brett (50%)

15. Parker Markel (43%)

16. Jake Hager (41%)

17. Tyler Goeddel (43%)

18. Jeff Malm (60%)

19. Oscar Hernandez (48%)

20. Tyler Bortnick (84% runoff)

21. Granden Goetzman (80% runoff)

22. Lenny Linsky (36% runoff)

23(T). Ryan Carpenter (32% runoff)

24. Matt Bush (33%)

25. Robinson Chirinos (60% runoff)

26. Johnny Eierman (26%)

27. Brandon Martin (22%)

28. Ty Morrison (73% runoff)

29. CJ Riefenhauser (69% runoff)

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