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  1. TruffleShuffle
    in san diego i can understand it because they have generally had good pitching and bad hitting the last few years, and they play in a cavernous ballpark, so a lot of their games are close and low-scoring. when the heart of your lineup features the likes of chase headley, orlando hudson and scott hairston, manufacturing runs might be necessary.
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    i just honestly do not understand how you can't think far enough ahead to realize what's going to happen. the desired outcome is that you have 2nd and 3rd one out, they obviously walk your 1.150 ops hitter to get to your #5 hitter who happens to have an ops below .600. there's also the very real possibility of a bunt into a double play or a pop out, since the guy who's bunting almost never does that in game situations any more. what the [expletive] sveum?
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    hey when did we replace sveum with don baylor
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    Oh look, LaHair just got his third hit. yeah so now all we need is travis wood to start pitching like a cy young candidate (lance lynn), ian stewart to turn into mike schmidt (david freese), soto to keep improving rather than turning into a pumpkin (yadier molina), nd our aging veterans to play like they did during their career peaks (rafael furcal, lance berkman, carlos beltran)
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    at some point things have to stop dropping in for these a-holes right? i mean they're not going to have a .330 team babip in september, probably.
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    teams have given up first round picks in the past 4 years to sign adam dunn, adrian beltre, rafael soriano, chone figgins, jose valverde, billy wagner, orlando hudson, francisco rodriguez, raul ibanez and brian fuentes. i really don't think a lot of teams think about losing a first round pick when there's a free agent they want to sign.
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    he gives out dumb contracts to free agents and some of his own guys, but there's really no track record of him taking on bad players with horrendous contracts. Not sure I understand the difference in handing out hilarious contracts to free agents vs taking on a hilarious contract in a trade. the only really hilarious really big contract he handed out was ryan howard's. papelbon's is pretty silly, as was joe blanton, and there are some other ones like jose contreras that were dumb but hardly crippling. he's given out some oversized deals, but the difference is that howard was still a very good player when he received that contract extension. he tends to overvalue his own guys (keeping around rather fungible players like blanton and contreras is a good example), but soriano is just a bad player and there's no reason for the phillies to try to "upgrade" left field by taking on a guy who's worse than what they have there now, along with his hilariously bad contract.
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    darwin barney had a better OPS than albert pujols in mid-may last year.
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    billy hamilton is on pace to steal something like 150 bases this year. :shock:
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    he gives out dumb contracts to free agents and some of his own guys, but there's really no track record of him taking on bad players with horrendous contracts. But in this case the other team would be paying said contract. ok, there's no track record of him giving up prospects of value for bad players.
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    he gives out dumb contracts to free agents and some of his own guys, but there's really no track record of him taking on bad players with horrendous contracts.
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    6 teams in baseball have an (offense) babip over .300. the cardinals' babip is .327.
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    one of my starters has a sore knee and is being skipped, so i dropped jordan schafer to add a guy who's pitching tomorrow.
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    This X10000000000 And they throw strikes too... johnny venters has the same career walk rate as kerry wood, and craig kimbrel's career walk rate is worse.
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    Remarkable accomplishment given the strikeout rate. Back down to unremarkable given him being 23. You missed the point. When you strike out in ~33% of your at bats, you are extremely unlikely to hit in 21 straight. From a purely statistical perspective, it was a remarkable accomplishment. Kinda like guessing 21 straight coin flips. yeah hoilman is as close to a Three True Outcomes guy as we have in the system... never would have guessed he'd have this long of a hitting streak.
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    I'd prefer to add him yesterday, actually.
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    I'm pretty surprised that all it took was a minor league deal
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    our LF options are so terrible that lahair could probably play jack cust-style defense and be an upgrade.
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    love that this thread was started by da bum.
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    I'm sure he's pitched for multiple teams by now, and if he looked anything like he did in '09 and before someone would have picked him up by now. Since he was with the Pirates, I sometimes forget that he was really good at one point, but so were a lot of former closers in their mid 30's that nobody wants anymore. do you even know what you're talking about or are you just unleashing your usual brain dump onto the page? he didn't even have his best years with the pirates. he still has a very good K rate and had the same fastball velocity the last two years that he's always had. he was terrific in the second half last year, and although RH batters hit him harder last year than they normally had in previous years, he was still very tough against LH batters. the reason he hasn't been signed by anybody is because he had offseason knee surgery and wasn't going to be ready to pitch until at least a couple of months into this season, so teams are waiting to see how he recovers from the surgery. of course all this information was readily available on the internet, but since you never look anything up, we get your usual post replete with ignorance and worthlessness instead.
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    again, nobody is hitting other top hitting prospects who come up. this isn't some dumb-ass rite of passage. the reason harper got hit was because he doesn't "play the game the right way," which is silly, but at the same time harper has to know that acting like an asshat is going to draw the ire of some opponents.
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    in their late 20s or early 30s? barry zito, mike hampton, johan santana, jake peavy, jason schmidt, john lackey, roy oswalt (didn't completely fall off a cliff, but certainly regressed) Johan fell off a cliff? well he certainly hasn't been as good as he was with the twins (K/9 IP: 9.5 with twins, 7.6 with mets) and he's missed a lot of time due to injury, which is a risk you take when you sign a high-priced free agent to a big contract.
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    gonzalez was really good as recently as 2009 and outpitched his ERA the last 2 years. he's the kind of guy you can get a handy return on if he still has good stuff. certainly worth kicking the tires there.
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    in their late 20s or early 30s? barry zito, mike hampton, johan santana, jake peavy, jason schmidt, john lackey, roy oswalt (didn't completely fall off a cliff, but certainly regressed)
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    now wait a minute. waivers weren't on so people complained about that. then i turned waivers on and there were complaints about what day waivers were set for. so i changed the day that waivers run and more complaints come in. and just to remind you, i joined the league just over a year ago and don't really understand how the waiver process works.
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