Reader Mailbag, Part 1: What's wrong with Noot? What's wrong with Helsley? Plus trade-deadline talk and more

Readers have questions, writer has answers, some of them possibly even coherent and correct

Thanks for the abundance of mailbag contributions. So abundant was that abundance that I’m breaking up my responses into two posts. Part 1 starts now …

Eric writes:

Lars Nootbaar’s career has been a great success for an 8th round pick. Over time he has received breakout predictions from well respected baseball analysts (i.e., Joe Sheehan) that just hasn’…