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  1. TruffleShuffle
    right. you can end up with 2011 reed johnson if the guy posts a babip over .400, but if he doesn't get really lucky then you can get 2010 reed johnson. some guys you can pretty reliably peg in a certain range, but going after a reclamation project often yields a bad player who shouldn't be a starter any more. unless you're the cardinals, then they turn into 2011 lance berkman and halt their declining production with the best year of their life.
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    nobody has provided one example of a deal between a rule 4 draftee and a mlb club that was rejected by the commissioner's office.
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    i haven't seen him play, but my guess would be that he strikes out more because of his patience (getting deep into the count most plate appearances) rather than chasing bad balls or swinging through pitches. when he does put the ball in play, he seems to make a lot of hard contact.
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    man where the hell did this outing come from for rusin? anyway, i am all for piling up a few low-ceiling back-of-the-rotation options in the upper minors (struck, rusin, beeler, raley, coleman) and then seeing who can stick in the bigs.
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    look he was pretty wildly overrated, but he was a better player than juan pierre. he had way more power (than nothing, which is the amount of power juan pierre has) and played in an era when offense was much harder to come by. but if you're saying that just to troll, then that's fine.
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    No reason to believe that he won't. http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100828054703/uncyclopedia/images/b/b5/Exploding-head.gif
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    another nice start for antigua, 6.1 ip, 4 h, 1 er, 2 bb, 8 k, 1 hr.
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    people? one person said it and everyone disagreed with him.
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    which part has been quite encouraging, the .319 obp or the 21 errors? I was thinking more the .283 BA and .457 SLG. I think we just need to accept that he'll never be a guy that walks a lot and will ultimately end up in the outfield, hopefully with better results than Yonder Alonzo. he's been all right, but i don't know how he's been quite encouraging. he's always going to hit for a decent average because he makes a lot of contact. his slugging is fine, not great but not terrible. i just don't see how it's been "quite encouraging" because his performance is right around what i would've expected, mid to high 700s ops with low obp and bad defense.
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    which part has been quite encouraging, the .319 obp or the 21 errors?
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    or just drive around a tour bus and dump [expletive] out of it onto people cruising around the chicago river.
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    no, you repeated twice that there's no reason he won't keep up what he's been doing.
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    there's also no reason to think he'll continue producing well above his career norms. the dude has 3 walks versus 40 walks in 171 plate appearances and his babip is .409. anyone who trades for him and expects him to keep up the production he's had in 2011 is a fool. Again, if he was under contract through this year, that would be a valid concern for other teams, but we're just talking under 2 months, and there's no reason he won't keep up what he's been doing thus far, especially when you look at the Giants and D Backs who could definitely use an offensive boost off the bench. The Braves are still looking for a right handed bat, and while he might not be what they had in mind, there's not too much left on the market. YES THERE IS, i just gave you some reasons. his babip is .409, he doesn't walk and his power numbers are above his career normals. last year he had similarly atrocious plate discipline and his ops was .657. why do you believe that just because he's been very productive for 4 months that he's apparently guaranteed to continue being very productive for the next 2?
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    bump
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    soooooo.... how's this going?
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    there's also no reason to think he'll continue producing well above his career norms. the dude has 3 walks versus 40 walks in 171 plate appearances and his babip is .409. anyone who trades for him and expects him to keep up the production he's had in 2011 is a fool.
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    three teams make it to the playoffs from each division, correct? if so, there is going to be some battle for that last playoff spot in my division. eyes of texas should be in after winning this week, and NSBB is in really good shape as well, but after that we have quakers, who lost to the linesteppers, alamo stealth (lost to eyes of texas) and fuzzy logistics (inexplicably lost to me), so each of the four teams will be at 9-9 after this week. the other division is not as interesting, though if tootielicious can hang on to beat the hand sanitizers, then he'll still be only one game behind the dealers.
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    i like how the OP talks about all the great sammy memories, and the first one in his list is getting hit in the head with a baseball.
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    HE'S BACK http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2011_08_07_gboafx_hagafx_1
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    i'd rather have soriano or byrd go away and have jackson and colvin playing in the same outfield. you already know what you're going to get from soriano and byrd. this is a pretty good evaluation period for colvin because really, what do the cubs have to lose?
  22. TruffleShuffle
    DL'ed alex cobb and added brandon mccarthy. also, why is there a rule that you can have no more than 15 starting pitchers? i added mccarthy and then got this message (i had 5 SP in the lineup, 3 on the bench, 2 on the DL, and 6 in the minors). i fixed it by dropping one of my DL guys since he won't be pitching again until next season and i wouldn't have been keeping him, but that just seemed like a pretty odd rule.
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    matt moore is continuing to lay waste to the international league... he did allow a pair of runs today to have his ERA shoot up over 1, but he struck out 10 and walked 0 in 6 innings, so he now has 39 K's against 5 BB in 24 IP. for the year he has 170 K's in 126 IP, and just 33 BB.
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    Are you just assuming the acquiring teams will ignore every other year of his career when evaluating him? I'm not suggesting that we're going to get Domonic Brown or Jesus Montero for him just that he's a very cheap 2 month rental for a team looking for a solid bat off the bench. it's 2 months and he'd be coming off the bench. you don't get "solid young high upside prospects" for that.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    wait the guy who throws a temper tantrum every time something doesn't go the cubs' way is telling me to calm down?
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