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  1. TruffleShuffle
    the smokies are being no-hit by matt moore through 6 innings... he has 9 K's while allowing 1 walk. he's at 84 pitches so it would be hard for him to go the distance, one would think.
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    well you've got the first one on the board
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    jeez really? guess they must like him quite a bit.
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    nobody is going to give up anything of value for darwin barney. his minor league numbers scream utility infielder, and his ops is .668 this year... plus he's been a bad hitter aside from his .801 ops in the first month. people seem to be under the mistaken impression that winning mlb teams are led by morons who would love nothing better than to give up valuable commodities for a middle infielder who can't hit much.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    since i've made like 90 trades this year, i'll just post what picks i have acquired/traded away to keep this in one place: acquired: NSBB's 1st round pick in 2012 draft NC Cubs' 3rd round pick in 2012 draft Habitual Linesteppers' 4th round pick in 2012 draft Bazingas' 6th round pick in 2012 draft Ron Washington's Dealers' 7th round pick in 2012 draft Bazingas' 1st round pick in 2012 prospect draft Bazingas' 3rd round pick in 2013 draft traded away: Experiencing Turbulence's 6th round pick in 2012 draft (to NC Cubs')
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    experiencing turbulence gets habitual linesteppers' 4th round pick in the markakis/pavano deal
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    plus how much can hendry really screw things up in the next few months? his trade chips, assuming that aramis doesn't waive his NTC and the clause that his 2012 salary becomes guaranteed if he's traded, and assuming that wood doesn't want to go anywhere, are 2-3 months of guys like pena, fukudome, baker, reed johnson, etc. let's be honest, the best GM in the world isn't getting a big-time haul for those guys, and basically the quality of the return will depend on how much money the cubs are willing to eat, which comes from the owner and not the GM.
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    the tough part about projecting him is that he was so abysmal with the bat the last 3 years. he hit well in 2007 but the last 3 years posted an OPS of .632, .596 and .628. now all of a sudden he's got an OPS over .800? He's younger than Soto was when he exploded out of nowhere. i'm not saying it can't happen, but with soto you had a truckload of power showing up. the biggest change for gonzalez is that he's making more contact and his batting average is way up, maybe a few more doubles too. i have a hard time getting too excited about him because his ceiling is probably darwin barney, and we already have one of those.
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    the tough part about projecting him is that he was so abysmal with the bat the last 3 years. he hit well in 2007 but the last 3 years posted an OPS of .632, .596 and .628. now all of a sudden he's got an OPS over .800?
  10. TruffleShuffle
    willengton cruz: 4 ip, 4 h, 0 r, 3 bb, 4 k. szczur was 3-4 (all singles) with a walk. rhoderick: 1 ip, 0 h, 0 r, 3 bb (1 intentional), 0 k beliveau: 2 ip, 1 h, 0 r, 2 bb (1 intentional), 2 k. DSL teams were rained out for a second straight day.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    isn't firing hendry for some place-holder from another organization (and who is really going to leave a job with another organization to be a 3-month GM who isn't allowed to do anything?) also really freaking stupid?
  12. TruffleShuffle
    what's funny is that i used to work with a bunch of people who identified themselves as die-hard steeler and penguin fans but they all claimed that they had given up on the pirates and didn't care about baseball any more. looks like a lot of those types are back on the bandwagon again.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    When was the last time the Pirates were 4 games over .500 and 1.5 out of first in July? Not that I know how many people will actually show up, but this is hardly a typical season for them holy [expletive] i just saw they've had 4 consecutive sellouts in a row... i assumed that even though the team had reached average-ness after like 20 years of being awful, it would take a while for them to start showing up.
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    yeah because pnc park is so frequently packed to the gills.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    home run and a walk in b jackson's first two PA's
  16. TruffleShuffle
    jeez harman is throwing batting practice tonight.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    i don't know who to draft now that the football know it all website is defunct.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    well if he had explored those GMs and you knew about it, then they wouldn't exactly be "back channel talks" now would they?
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    for 50 points of slugging and like 5 points of obp? not really.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    jin-yeong kim gave up 2 hits (both homers) and 2 walks in his first inning of work. he's been pretty awful so far, though he's just 4 outings into his season.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    lousy manager, lousy team. frankly they deserve each other.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    they aren't.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    no the point was that he was only marginally ahead in OBP, which is much more important than SLG, so it's not at all surprising that superior defenders/baserunners could still have been as good or better than him in the first half.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    you know what the point was.
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