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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though
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Now that Nady is signed our outfield looks like this: Soriano, Byrd, Fukudome - Nady, Fuld, Hoffpauir (probably not making it)

 

With Belliar signing for only 865k, why not use Fontenot and mid level prospect(s) to acquire the reliever and attempt to shoot Hudson a 1 or 2 yr offer at what is showing to be market value. I have heard speculation on Gregorson or Frasier. I also like the idea of Chad Tracy on a minor league contract.

 

I dont know about you guys but I would be stoked going into the season looking at a line up like this:

 

vs right.

 

RF Fukudome

2B Hudson

1B Lee

3B Ramirez

CF Byrd

LF Soriano

C Soto

SS Theriot

 

vs. Left

 

SS Theriot

2B Hudson

1B Lee

3B Ramirez

CF Byrd

LF Soriano

RF Nady

C Soto

 

Bench:

Nady/Fukudome, Tracy, Blanco, Hill, Fuld

 

Rotation:

 

Zambrano

Dempster

Wells

Lilly/ Marshall to start season

Gorz/Silva

 

BP:

 

Marmol

Guzman

Gray

-acquired reliever

Gorz/Silva

Grabow

 

One or 2 more small moves and this team could shape up fairly well.

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This is from BR Bullpen about TJS...

 

"The chances of a complete recovery after the modern surgery are estimated at 85 to 90 percent. Rehabilitation takes around 12 to 15 months for pitchers and about 6 months for position players."

 

Nady's elbow should be fine by the start of the season as it's been 6 months already. I look at a couple other sites and it has the same timeframe as this one so I imagine it's reliable.

 

 

 

I like this signing though. I had a feeling it would be between Nady or Dye. Fangraph prediction for Nady in 2010 is basically an .800 OPS player and a touch below average defense or his 2007 season. I'll take that for the 4th OF/backup 1B.

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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though

 

where you been lil buddy

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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though

 

where you been lil buddy

 

Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman

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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though

 

where you been lil buddy

 

Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman

 

Having said that......I've been working at my current job for like 7 months so I don't know why I haven't posted to just would browse from time to time

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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though

 

where you been lil buddy

 

Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman

 

Having said that......I've been working at my current job for like 7 months so I don't know why I haven't posted to just would browse from time to time

 

that's coo

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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though

 

where you been lil buddy

 

Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman

 

Having said that......I've been working at my current job for like 7 months so I don't know why I haven't posted to just would browse from time to time

 

that's coo

 

o and welcome back~!

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o and welcome back~!

 

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

 

I would have to think Nady was the best sign of the other options out there...He probably was the cheapest too. Even with the limp arm hes a better fielder than Gomes and Dye. He's younger than both of them. He's a better hitter than Ankiel. Damon may be a better hitter, but he's older and not as good of a fielder. I think it was a very solid sign.

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The fact anybody in this thread still supported Jermaine Dye is horrifying.

 

Defense aside, would you take Nady over Dye based on hitting alone? I wouldn't even if Nady was healthy, let alone coming off a second TJS surgery. Now I realize Dye is horrible defensively, but I hold firm to the position that you sign bench players for their bats, not their gloves. The only time this is not the case is when you're talking about backup catchers or defensive specialists like Blanco or Fuld. Nady is neither.

 

With an injury prone guy like Soriano in left and older players in center and right, having a guy on the bench who isn't a liability in the field is important, though. With the signing of Nady, if Soriano gets hurt for a month, we won't have to rely on only Fuld to replace him. If we had signed Dye, then we would have had the choice of starting Fuld every day or starting a DH in left every day.

 

Nady is the superior option for this team.

 

Should I post the math yet again that proves that if they have to play the field Sam Fuld is a better player than Jermaine Dye?

I know you're smart enough to recognize the enormous flaws in that proof.

 

Extrapolating bench-role production to starter-role production? Check.

 

Unresolved park and league factors? Check.

 

Strong dependence on suspect defensive metrics? Check.

 

Small sample size issues? Check.

 

Yeah I'd not put much stock in that one.

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Did anyone post projections for Nady in this thread?

 

zips .275/.326/.454/.780 .344 wOBA

CHONE .271/.326/.448/.774 .337 wOBA

marcel .280/.338/.470/.808 .349 wOBA

 

I'd take any of those.

Those could also be expected to be a little higher, if the majority of the roster stays healthy and he isn't required to play everyday for a month+ and sticks to pretty much just being in a full-time platoon player/pinch hitter/spot start against RHP once a week. But yeah I take those regardless of the extent of his playing time.

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He fits the bill of everything we needed in the off season. He's an above average hitter who can play left or right. He can also play a little first base and is the power righty we needed. I pray he stays healthy though

 

where you been lil buddy

 

Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman

 

Having said that......I've been working at my current job for like 7 months so I don't know why I haven't posted to just would browse from time to time

 

that's coo

Ha. your coo

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I remember Tyler Colvin had some issues coming back from Tommy John Surgery early in the 2009 season, which limited him mostly to DH and bench duty in Daytona at the start of the season. Sometimes guys can be a bit rusty or sore in coming back from that surgery.

 

Tyler Colvin had his surgery much later in the year, after leaving the AFL. Plus, he sucks, so any talk of being rusty and a slow recovery is probably just covering up that fact.

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In case anyone was wondering, the answer is yes. Rudy Jaramillo will make a superstar out of Xavier Nady.

 

 

It would be nice for the Cubs to get a guy to come off serious injury and blossom, and not the Cards.

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