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this guy is clearly not one of the Best Fans in Baseball

attaboy roast

he traded delmon young, who's been mediocre, for matt garza, who has been good and filled a big need (starting pitching). they signed carlos pena off the scrap heap last year, stole dioner navarro from the dodgers in 2006, shored up the bullpen with a few guys, and picked up some nice role players like gabe gross. it really shouldn't be an award based on what you did last offseason, but what you did to build the team on the field in 2008. Garza was the only one of those that happened in the last year. Hendry has done much more in the past year to improve his team. It's like Kendall and Trachsel got the awful out of his system, cause everything since then has been golden, with the possible exception of Kosuke(but that's nitpicking). yes but again, it's not (or at least it should not be) an award that rewards a general manager for the moves he's made in the past year. that would basically result in organizations with very good player development not being rewarded, and instead you'd be rewarding organizations with a lot of holes in their player development, forcing the general manager to go out and spend more money to acquire players. and really, what has hendry since the end of last season? soto, fontenot and samardzija don't count; they're player development. spent $12M a year on an outfielder who's OPS'ing below .800, sign a platoon CF that's been productive and acquire a very good starter and versatile reliever. so a few really good moves, but mostly this is the same team as last year.

True, but Rose has as much of a case to be in the HOF as Santo. Look I am on board with the "Get Santo in the Hall" bandwagon, but I also believe Rose should be in the Hall, too. But Rose isn't held out of the HOF because of his statistics, so it's a poor argument. Especially when you have a guy with perfectly legitimate numbers that is held out of the HOF for no reason at all. Rose has as much of a case as anyone to NOT be in the HOF. rose bet on baseball. there are signs in every major league locker room in the game that say (in effect) DON'T BET ON BASEBALL. he did. i'm not saying that rose deserves to be in or doesn't deserve to be in, but everyone in the game knows that MLB is very, very serious about its players not gambling on games. rose chose to ignore that.

I don't think they do, I could be wrong though. If so, Hendry is the obvious choice in the NL and deserves it. it's just MLB - voted on by two execs from each organization in the game. last year mark shapiro won it; the year before it was terry ryan.

he traded delmon young, who's been mediocre, for matt garza, who has been good and filled a big need (starting pitching). they signed carlos pena off the scrap heap last year, stole dioner navarro from the dodgers in 2006, shored up the bullpen with a few guys, and picked up some nice role players like gabe gross. it really shouldn't be an award based on what you did last offseason, but what you did to build the team on the field in 2008.

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i actually made a thread praising hendry for turning the cubs around after their piss-poor 2006, but i'd have to give it to andrew friedman. he's always been heavily involved with player development, which is how the devil rays built the very good team that they have now, and he's done it with a small payroll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_(baseball) i'm too lazy to explain

http://www.baseballamerica.com/chat/chat.php?id=2008080801&rnd=21 :x i still say that if he gives you a good bat at SS, leave him there unless he's really bad. 11 errors in 30 gamews already and he has poor range. i guess 2B it is, then.

p.s. no more plesac ever plz

line drive, just out of izturis' reach.

with how bad fuku sometimes looks against LHP, i would've gone to a lefty against him, then if you can get the K there, walk blanco and pitch to edmonds (probably reed johnson) with the bases loaded and one out.

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i wish soto was up :cry:

half of their bullpen is their bob howry.

Len is searching for a noose. haha, it's like in the movie "airplane" when ted stryker wouldn't shut up and the passengers next to him kept hanging or poisoning themselves rather than having to listen to his stories.

he's still been pretty good when he is able to keep putting that fastball on the outer half. the problem is that he's been missing too much, and when you're trying to paint the outside corner with a straight fastball and it drifts a few inches toward the center of the plate, you've just thrown a low 90s BP fastball against guys who are probably sitting on the fastball.

howry throws strikes. wuertz and eyre didn't do that consistently enough for lou's liking.

for God's sakes, shut up plesac

eff you, ump

http://www.baseballamerica.com/chat/chat.php?id=2008080801&rnd=21 :x i still say that if he gives you a good bat at SS, leave him there unless he's really bad.

let's hope howry is locating that fastball, and by locating i mean not throwing it where he threw it to carlos lee.

too high

fatty hasn't been hitting much lately.