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  1. TruffleShuffle
    QFT
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    Hey Phil - welcome to baseball in 2006. Rafael Furcal is making twice what Cal Ripken made in any season. Edgar Renteria and Orlando Cabrera's contracts easily surpass Ripken as well.
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    This guy wouldn't make a good GM, unless maybe he went to the Yankees. This thinking is how teams like the late 90's Orioles happen. No, they threw big contracts at marginal players. This is a marginal player who is getting a contract that will prove to be less than average for guys past the point of unrestricted free agency.
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    Again, it's a pattern: $4.15 to Izturis $4.5 to DeRosa $3.25 to Rusch $2.5 to Blanco It's $14.4 million. It's not the "littlest thing" You're assuming that those four positions on the team would be adequately filled by people making $0. You have to assume that the people there are at least making something. 4 players at an average of $400,000 each, combines to $1.6m. Make one of those guys a millionaire veteran and the total cost is $2.2 million, leaving $12.2 million on the table for somebody, or somebodies, who can actually help the team get better. So you're going with Cedeno, one of the worst hitters in all of baseball, over Izturis next year. And you're going with Theriot, very possibly a one-year wonder, over DeRosa. yeah, b/c if anybody is not a one year wonder, it's definitely derosa. In two of DeRosa's other five seasons in the majors, he had an OPS+ within 8 points of what he did last year. Meanwhile, Theriot has been a mediocre hitter his entire career in the minors, and all of a sudden has a 134 OPS+ with the Cubs - helped out by a .363 BABIP.
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    :D :D :D :D It's not worth much to me. Baseball people love to compliment one another. Scouting directors don't think about cost effective roster moves (see Jim Hendry), they think about finding diamonds in the rough. They don't mind failing on almost every guy as long as a couple do something. A GM, or anybody concerned with the makeup of a major league team, can't affort to think like a scout. They need more hits than misses. Did you consider that maybe the scouting director wasn't evaluating it from a scouting standpoint, but from a baseball standpoint?
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    Scouting directors don't think about cost efficiency. They are excited if they find an unknown nobody who winds up having one decent season in the majors. yes, people on internet message boards are much better sources for determining the quality of a signing
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    gotta say, this is the funniest trade suggestion i've seen in quite some time. Unless you're talking about Manny Aybar. Boston might want to end the Manny saga and the Cubs are one of the few teams that have the money to absorb that contract. Dempster fills there hole at the back end of the bullpen, Iztuirz fills the role Alex Gonzalez did last year all glove no bat. Maybe the Cubs toss in a prospect it could happen. Boston looks to building there future on pitching and defense. looks like they'll be waiting another 86 years for a world series victory then
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    Good idea, pay $9M per year for a guy who has been below average in 4 consecutive season. WHIP over 1.40 for someone who pitches half his games in one of the best pitcher's parks in all of baseball? No thanks. Go with Padilla or Wolf.
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    Considering the way the free agent market is looking this year, $20M per year isn't looking that outrageous any more.
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    gotta say, this is the funniest trade suggestion i've seen in quite some time. Unless you're talking about Manny Aybar.
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    unless the logo is a complete disaster, i think i'm going to have to do the same. Definitely a great name.
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    Again, it's a pattern: $4.15 to Izturis $4.5 to DeRosa $3.25 to Rusch $2.5 to Blanco It's $14.4 million. It's not the "littlest thing" You're assuming that those four positions on the team would be adequately filled by people making $0. You have to assume that the people there are at least making something. 4 players at an average of $400,000 each, combines to $1.6m. Make one of those guys a millionaire veteran and the total cost is $2.2 million, leaving $12.2 million on the table for somebody, or somebodies, who can actually help the team get better. So you're going with Cedeno, one of the worst hitters in all of baseball, over Izturis next year. And you're going with Theriot, very possibly a one-year wonder, over DeRosa.
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    Furcal's OPS+ in the two years preceding his contract: 96, 100 --Furcal's contract: 3 years, $39M ($13M per) DeRosa's OPS+ in the two years preceding his contract: 98, 106 --DeRosa's contract: 3 years, $13.3M ($4.33M per) Now, which one sounds like the better allocation of resources to you?
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    Again, it's a pattern: $4.15 to Izturis $4.5 to DeRosa $3.25 to Rusch $2.5 to Blanco It's $14.4 million. It's not the "littlest thing" You're assuming that those four positions on the team would be adequately filled by people making $0. You have to assume that the people there are at least making something.
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    ok, can't say i really get this one
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    Ben Johnson? Never heard much about him after they stripped him of the gold medal. Good to see he's back in sports.
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    way to go ronny
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    This would NOT be a .500 team.
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    I hope that the people who have said that Theriot would probably be just as DeRosa in 2007 aren't the same people who said that DeRosa will regress significantly because he had an abnormally high BABIP last year.
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    Looks like we are getting Izturis and Derosa next year up the middle. Better be getting a LOT of offense from the outfield if that's the case. i.e., signing an OF who can get on base and hit for power
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    btw, how'd PECOTA do with DeRosa's stats in 2006?
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    (b) yes, Drew wants to play CF. There was controversy in LA when he was signed because he wanted to play CF and Bradley was already playing that position. © PECOTA projects Derosa will be worth $650,000 in 2007, $575,000 in 2008, and $500,000 in 2009. That's more than $1 to $1.5 per. what does that even mean??? I'd like to see this stat for myself to understand it, if possible.
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    (a) we don't even know if the cubs have any interest in drew (b) we don't know if he wants to play CF full time, or if the cubs think he could play CF full time © they overpaid by maybe $1-1.5M per year. that's unlikely to prevent them from signing any of the small # of big-ticket players.
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    I already have and I'll be happy to be wrong. I will fully admit it. It took me a long time to turn, but this signing is dumb. http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/4894/jumptoconclusions2xk.jpg
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    never mind the power and the ability to get on base
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