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  1. TruffleShuffle
    http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/trade-central/2010/2610442.html http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/trade-central/2009/269313.html http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/trade-central/2009/268800.html http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/trade-central/2009/268653.html http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/trade-central/2008/267390.html http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/trade-central/2008/267167.html
  2. TruffleShuffle
    Yonder Alonso tried it at Cincy and it was a circus. hey his OF play did give tony campana his first professional home run and one of the few memorable cub highlights of 2011.
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    well what the hell are they going to do that for? "hey if you move starlin Castro to first base all of a sudden his bat doesn't look so hot."
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    adblock plus is your friend (sorry tim)
  5. TruffleShuffle
    Uh I'm pretty sure the Yankees would do the trade if the cubs ate soriano's entire contract and took on Burnett's deal as well.
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    i think we should probably stop caring so much about impact "hitters" and focus more on guys who are impact players. the original report was that the m's were acquiring a "young impact hitter." bj upton is not someone that really leaps to mind when i hear that.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    that may be true, but it's pretty damn hard to consider a guy who's posting a line of .240/.325/.425/.750 to be an impact hitter.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    why the [expletive] are people booing crane kenney? if i ever go to a cubs convention in 20 years and crane kenney is still working for the cubs, i'm going to give him a standing ovation while everyone else is booing.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    I think your wrong here. Im pretty sure his numbers last year put him in the top ten AL dh's. (Im on my phone so i cant tell right now, but take a look) There were 16 DHs in the AL who had 300+ PAs last season. Soriano's .325 wOBA would put him tied for 12th with Bobby Abreu. and there were 14 teams in the american league, so even if he had made the top 10 (which he didn't), that still wouldn't have necessarily meant that he was league average.
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    They pretty much get the ball across half court and then one of their dumb players isolates against a better defender and they take a dumb shot. At least they did this against the Bulls, I'm assuming it's the same against everyone else. yeah their offense looked terrible but their defense was also embarrassing. i get that the sixers are better this year, but nobody should be giving up 120 points to them.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    i dunno, aren't there stories out there about the yankees not wanting their payroll to become too bloated? according to cot's their payroll is already $178m, add kuroda that's $188m, and doesn't include raises to russell martin, phil hughes, joba, boone logan, david robertson and brett gardner. that probably puts them over $200m and they still don't have a DH. and andruw jones is already signed as an extra outfielder. don't really see them being interested in much besides a DH.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    soriano wouldn't even be league-average as a DH, why would the yankees want him?
  13. TruffleShuffle
    coming back to where, the cubs? if anything the cubs should be giving up money/prospects in the deal. burnett pitched better than his ERA last year and only has two years left on his deal; soriano has three. at this point i'd be happy to have burnett eat up 150-200 mediocre innings each of the next two years and be out from under soriano's 2014 salary.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    the better question is whether it's really worth giving up anything of value for phil hughes. he's got 4 years of service time and he sucked last year. at some point potential and former prospect status don't really matter any more.
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    yeah i understand the deal from the m's perspective. their offense was awful last year. God-awful. last in runs, last in batting average, last in obp (292 team obp!!!), last in slugging. ichiro is old and while ackley is going to be a nice player, he's not a real slugger like they desperately need. montero should become that.
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    montero is tough to pencil in at catcher any day, regardless of league.
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    the wizards are [expletive] terrible
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    Good God, I hate this thing. yeah i actually liked "do whatever the hell you want." it was fun to hope that your team would grab a high price tag guy in the 15th round. wish they hadn't monkeyed around with the draft.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    jeez i didn't even realize the yankees resigned garcia. so they actually have 7 starters now: sabathia, burnett, garcia, nova, pineda, kuroda, hughes. gotta think hughes will be moved to the pen. they don't really have any needs left except for DH, which they may try to fill with someone like carlos pena. i guess the other possibility is dealing nova for someone who can DH, or for prospects.
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    the blue jays are an AL power?
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    can't believe he couldn't get a better deal than that, at least multiple years. all of a sudden a rotation with multiple question marks has become sabathia, kuroda, pineda, burnett, i. nova. who knows where phil hughes fits in at this point.
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    if "slash" means the yankees would have been willing to trade those three plus more, i definitely would have gone that route and kept pineda. but it's not clear from that tweet.
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    rizzo is far from a sure thing. i like him, but i can easily see him being a bust. i definitely don't view him as a sure thing where you don't consider fielder if his price comes down.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    i think campos is a better prospect than noesi, so i'd lean toward the yankees winning this trade, but it's close. probably a good deal for both sides given their needs.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    whoa... this would be kind of like that garza for delmon young trade. don't see those kinds of trades very often. on the one hand i think i'd value pineda just a bit more because he's already performed at a high level in the big leagues for a full season, but all signs are that montero will rake. the m's starting pitching really isn't that great right now - there's king felix obviously, but vargas/beavan/furbush is pretty lousy. but they do have hultzen, paxton and taijuan walker in the pipeline with the possibility of all breaking into the bigs by mid to late 2013. wonder what the m's do with smoak and montero... smoak isn't proven but wasn't terrible last year. or are they really the one team out there that thinks montero can catch? pineda should be good for the yankees, though his numbers will take a hit because he's fly ball-heavy.
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