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  1. TruffleShuffle
    fangraphs weighs in: part 1 and part 2
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    so what if he's not great? for most of his career he's been above-average and durable. plus he's spent a lot of the last five years pitching in front of lousy defenses, so his fielding-independent ERA has been better than his actual ERA. even if he's a #2/3 and eats a lot of innings, that's still a valuable commodity.
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    because a lot of guys do have pretty extreme splits in the real world. obviously with an awesome hitter like manny ramirez or albert pujols you're going to let them it against anyone, but you can take a guy like jason michaels or bobby kielty and make them useful by utilizing the matchups against RHP. it's the same concept as using a LOOGY - you're trying to make your team as productive as possible and sometimes that means a platoon.
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    can you define the group of people who are likely to not have used?
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    i'd still give fontenot some ABs against LHP - even fukudome from time to time. i think if you have a lineup that's 100% righthanded that the pitcher can just settle into a rhythm. like if he prefers to pitch on the outer half, he can just pound the same side of the plate all game long, rather than having to move around.
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    i don't see the point of making special categories. there were no good reasons to suspect f.p. santangelo and he cheated. there were lots of good reasons to suspect barry bonds and he cheated. i don't really think that circumstantial evidence has been very good at identifying who's cheating and who isn't, so why bother guessing?
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    willie warren is good at basketball
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    Depending on your reckoning of prime years, Sosa's came either after them or maybe a one-year overlap. Not remotely the same as Bagwell. Although there will never likely be any hard evidence against him, Sosa remains in limbo as the prototype of what a steroid-aided career looks like. He hit 66 @ age 29. 29 isn't a prime year? It's pre-30. Also, he hit 36 in just 144 games in '95, and then 40 in just 124 games in '96. Ages 26 and 27 are definitely prime years. He would have had over 50 HRs in '97 without the injury that ended his season early, at age 27, a prime year. I'd generally call 25-28 prime years for a hitter, but even if we stretch that to 29, waiting until the last year and then exploding to previously unthought of levels of production is not normal. OPS+ 25-33: 127, 121, 126, 99, 160, 151, 161, 203, 160. You can fiddle with counting numbers and might-have-beens all you want, but there is a clear line to be drawn there, it isn't at 26 or 27. all that proves is that he hit his peak slightly later than most hitters. that's not shocking for someone who took a long time to learn plate discipline and added the toe tap just before he took off. it's not like this is barry bonds, reaching his peak 10 years after most guys do.
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    except dubya left the country in much worse shape than it was in when he started. if selig leaves tomorrow, he's leaving the game about as healthy as its ever been.
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    And they are all Leafs fans. maybe but they can't all get leafs tickets since they sell out every game they play. i'm pretty sure that nobody in ottawa was an ottawa senators fan before 1990.
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    you're looking too much at the size of hamilton and not about how many people live near hamilton. there are more than two million people within a half hour of the city.
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    yeah i think a lot of people don't approve of a-rod's name being leaked, but if they strike to get drug testing removed there would be a massive public backlash against the mlbpa. mlb has money coming out its ears right now and a stoppage would be dumb for everybody involved.
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    biron has been awful this year; the team has been winning in spite of him. i'm tired of the revolving door in net just like everyone else, but i don't blame holmgren for looking around for goaltending help. at this point niittymaki might be the best option in-house and he's no better than average.
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    i'm sure people said the same thing about ottawa when that team was founded; people there were loyal to toronto and the french-speaking people in gatineau were loyal to the canadiens. plus hamilton is less than 50 miles from toronto which is a huge metro area. and hockey is king in canada - if a city like raleigh or columbus or st. louis can support a hockey team then there's no question that a place like hamilton or quebec city could do so. the quebec remparts draw 11,000 a night for God's sakes. 5 of the top 9 teams in attendance are canadian; edmonton is the only team that's outside the top 9 and that's just because they have a smaller arena. basically every canadian team fills up their arena every night. if i become king of the nhl, atlanta, nashville, miami will lose teams and they'll be relocated to seattle, hamilton and either quebec or winnipeg.
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    holy cross lost on the road to american so we'll go into the PL tourney as the #2 seed, and probably have to win in the championship game at their place. we beat them at home and only lost by 6 today, so it's doable but won't be easy.
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    I don't know about the European option. It's interesting, but yeah, definitely not realistic. I agree with all three of those Canadian cities. Actually, if the league took Nashville, Phoenix, Tampa and Miami and put them in those three cities and Hartford, I would be a happy human. As much as I'd love to see more Canadian teams, I really doubt they'd be able to last financially very long. If the league isn't working out in the south, just contract. there's no question that the nhl would work in a place like hamilton or mississauga. question is whether the maple leafs (and to a lesser extent the sabres) would allow it to happen.
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    fixed
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    winnipeg, quebec city and hamilton could each support a franchise. montreal and toronto could probably support a second franchise although there is no way in hell that will happen. seattle would probably be a really good choice as well, especially since they don't have the nba anymore (until memphis relocates there). european expansion into a place like oslo, helsinki or stockholm would also be awesome, but probably isn't realistic given the travel issues.
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    write an article about it it's coming right after the article about how jr towles actually outproduced soto last year.
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    i see that he has the big ten getting 8 teams in. i just don't think the conference is good enough to justify that many teams making the tourney. he has psu and michigan being two of the last four teams in and then has the first three teams out from the big east. there are a lot of marginal big ten teams - wisconsin, penn st, michigan, minnesota, ohio st - and i don't see the conference getting 5 seeds in the 9 to 13 area. i think the big east will end up with 8 teams in and the big ten will only get 7. i also don't know that the sec is good enough to merit 5 teams being selected.
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    i'm not big on that at all.
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    Jake Fox can't play C. I didn't mean Fox as the 2nd C, I meant only as an emergency catcher. If by emergency, you mean we don't plan on winning and want to watch a lot of dropped pitches. ok. That's pretty much what an emergency catcher does. yeah if your emergency catcher has done as much catching as jake fox has, consider yourself lucky. usually the emergency catcher is a scrubby middle infielder who did a little catching back in high school.
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    it's hard to pitch with a fork in your side
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    i would do it just so that we could frequently make the joke "hu's not on first" when he makes yet another out.
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    the devils won their 45th overtime game of the year... that's just an estimate though. kevin weekes - yes, kevin weekes - made about 40 saves in the win. like i said, it doesn't matter that brodeur is coming back.
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