TOURNAMENT - (6) Treeman vs. (11) Aramis Fan

[TruffleShuffle]

that nomar trade summary was pure genius

[ctcf]

I still remember the Nomar is Jesus thread.

[rocket]

i like both posters. but i love treeman. sorry aramis fan.

[Balsa]

God this one is so hard to choose. I really like the Aramis Fan videos.....

 

But at the same time Treeman is awesome and a fellow collegiate....

[killthegoat06]

God this one is so hard to choose. I really like the Aramis Fan videos.....

 

But at the same time Treeman is awesome and a fellow collegiate....

 

Give AF a sympathy vote. :)

[DCNashville]

Lesser of two evils...I guess I have to vote for the Tree.

[Tracer Bullet]

Aramis_Fan once claimed to have an AOL conversation with Len saying we had signed Furcal. That also created one of the best threads in the history of message boards.

 

Wait, what? Link? How did I miss this?

 

It wasn't me directly - i idiotically took if from someone else and believed it

 

The thread was legendary though.

 

I guess the Floyd GIF is coming back...

 

I do like that we're bragging about Floyd, who is essentially a singles hitter at this point. This great power hitter has 7 XBH's all year (Murton has 8, btw). Woohoo!

 

Yeah I voted for the guy that isn't bragging about the money Hendry's wasting.

[Schwarber Fan]

Aramis_Fan once claimed to have an AOL conversation with Len saying we had signed Furcal. That also created one of the best threads in the history of message boards.

 

Wait, what? Link? How did I miss this?

 

It wasn't me directly - i idiotically took if from someone else and believed it

 

The thread was legendary though.

 

I guess the Floyd GIF is coming back...

 

I do like that we're bragging about Floyd, who is essentially a singles hitter at this point. This great power hitter has 7 XBH's all year (Murton has 8, btw). Woohoo!

 

Yeah I voted for the guy that isn't bragging about the money Hendry's wasting.

 

How is it money wasting? He's the best RFer we have. Jones can't hit a baseball, Murton got sent down. Pagan is solid but Floyd is batting .319, I'll take that in the lineup any day.

[CoolHandLuke]

Lesser of two evils...I guess I have to vote for the Tree.

 

huh?

[Schwarber Fan]

Lesser of two evils...I guess I have to vote for the Tree.

 

huh?

 

Apparently Tree and I are both evil.

[Tracer Bullet]

Aramis_Fan once claimed to have an AOL conversation with Len saying we had signed Furcal. That also created one of the best threads in the history of message boards.

 

Wait, what? Link? How did I miss this?

 

It wasn't me directly - i idiotically took if from someone else and believed it

 

The thread was legendary though.

 

I guess the Floyd GIF is coming back...

 

I do like that we're bragging about Floyd, who is essentially a singles hitter at this point. This great power hitter has 7 XBH's all year (Murton has 8, btw). Woohoo!

 

Yeah I voted for the guy that isn't bragging about the money Hendry's wasting.

 

How is it money wasting? He's the best RFer we have. Jones can't hit a baseball, Murton got sent down. Pagan is solid but Floyd is batting .319, I'll take that in the lineup any day.

 

b/c Murton's shown the ability to put up the same OPS that Floyd is currently sporting. w/o the power that Floyd has had in the past (and is nowhere to be found this year), they are essentially equal.

[Schwarber Fan]

Aramis_Fan once claimed to have an AOL conversation with Len saying we had signed Furcal. That also created one of the best threads in the history of message boards.

 

Wait, what? Link? How did I miss this?

 

It wasn't me directly - i idiotically took if from someone else and believed it

 

The thread was legendary though.

 

I guess the Floyd GIF is coming back...

 

I do like that we're bragging about Floyd, who is essentially a singles hitter at this point. This great power hitter has 7 XBH's all year (Murton has 8, btw). Woohoo!

 

Yeah I voted for the guy that isn't bragging about the money Hendry's wasting.

 

How is it money wasting? He's the best RFer we have. Jones can't hit a baseball, Murton got sent down. Pagan is solid but Floyd is batting .319, I'll take that in the lineup any day.

 

b/c Murton's shown the ability to put up the same OPS that Floyd is currently sporting. w/o the power that Floyd has had in the past (and is nowhere to be found this year), they are essentially equal.

 

Murton's OPS is .667

Floyd's OPS is .807

 

also, you just disregard the difference in AVG and RBIs?

 

Murton: .252, 8 RBI

Floyd: .320, 25 RBI

 

The stats don't lie.

[DCNashville]

Lesser of two evils...I guess I have to vote for the Tree.

 

huh?

 

Do you not understand the figure of speech or is it just surprise that it was applied to these posters?

[Guest]

What's with the sudden uptick in usage of RBI as a stat, as if it actually meant something?

[Schwarber Fan]

What's with the sudden uptick in usage of RBI as a stat, as if it actually meant something?

 

Last time I checked, you need to drive in runs to win games.

 

Maybe I am mistaken?

[DCNashville]

What's with the sudden uptick in usage of RBI as a stat, as if it actually meant something?

 

Last time I checked, you need to drive in runs to win games.

 

Maybe I am mistaken?

 

RBI isn't a very good measure of a player.

[rocket]

this is not the time or place to be discussing baseball

[Schwarber Fan]

What's with the sudden uptick in usage of RBI as a stat, as if it actually meant something?

 

Last time I checked, you need to drive in runs to win games.

 

Maybe I am mistaken?

 

RBI isn't a very good measure of a player.

 

That's why I also mentioned his batting AVG

 

I realize Floyd is getting old and he doesn't have the legs he used to, his bat is still very solid. If we were already out of it this year (like we should be), I would agree that Murton should start everyday. But the fact of the matter is that Murton (and obviously Jones) just weren't getting the job done like Floyd. If we want to win this year, and have a shot at the division, Floyd is the best option for RF.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

this is not the time or place to be discussing baseball

 

Actually, this may be helping a lot of people decide who to vote for.

[DCNashville]

 

That's why I also mentioned his batting AVG

 

This is why I (and probably many others) couldn't bear to vote for you...

[Tracer Bullet]

What's with the sudden uptick in usage of RBI as a stat, as if it actually meant something?

 

Last time I checked, you need to drive in runs to win games.

 

Maybe I am mistaken?

 

RBI isn't a very good measure of a player.

 

That's why I also mentioned his batting AVG

 

I realize Floyd is getting old and he doesn't have the legs he used to, his bat is still very solid. If we were already out of it this year (like we should be), I would agree that Murton should start everyday. But the fact of the matter is that Murton (and obviously Jones) just weren't getting the job done like Floyd. If we want to win this year, and have a shot at the division, Floyd is the best option for RF.

 

Floyd 07: .320/.381/.426/.807

 

Murton career: .294/.363/.441/.805 (which is basically identical to his 06 #s)

 

One of these guys is old, on the sharp down side of a somewhat injury-plagued career, and is less likely to keep up his .320 AVG (esp since he has only 3 HRs and 4 doubles - it's all been singles for Floyd).

 

One of these guys is young (25), inexpensive, and entering his prime. History would suggest that he's likely to improve on last year's #s with regular ABs. But at the very least, it's not likely he'd drop much below last year's #s.

 

If we want to win this year and in the future, Soriano is the best option for RF (with Murton in LF). Either way, Murton should be playing every day over Floyd.

 

As TT hinted, your arguments here are helping people decide how to vote...

[Guest]

Floyd has outplayed Murton this season (and I have to think part of that is Murton's sporadic play time and shift in defensive position), but either way, RBI is useless stat to measure an offensive player's value. Avg isn't that much better, but at least you recognized OPS.

 

Either way, Soriano should be in RF and Murton or Floyd in LF.