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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3446853 M's fans should be parading in the streets. He was a brutal GM who managed to build a team that is high in payroll and low in talent. The contracts to Miguel Batista, Carlos Silva and Jeff Weaver were particularly egregious, and taking on jose Vidro's salary was stupid. The contracts to Johjima and Ichiro will be ugly too. Brian Sabean and Ned Colletti just lost their primary competition for worst GM in the game.
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people who yell "get in the hole!!!" when a guy is teeing off on a par 4 or par 5 should be immediately ejected from the course, or at least subject to a cattle prod.
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something tells me that lack of work is not a reason for any problems that marmol is having or will have down the road.
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A.J. Burnett really wants in
TruffleShuffle replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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he got hurt last year and still had the best season of his career. How was his 2007 better than his 2004? You could even make a pretty good case for his 2005 or 2006 being better than his 2007. Not complaining, just saying. I think 2004 was certainly his best season. you're forgetting something important... http://buy.lovetoknow.com/wiki/images/Buy/4/4a/BaseballGlove.jpg
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on the other hand, one of those chicks looks kinda like a dude.
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yet he's also on pace to have his highest VORP and highest EqA in a cub uniform, which is a lesson on how overrated OPS is as a statistic. you do realize it could go the other way too ... I hate all the throwing around of stats. No one stat can sum it up. Just look at the body of work and you know rather than OPS or VORP or any other singular statistic. A-Ram's power is down and his slugging and thus OPS is down. What slugging doesn't take into account his whether he improves or not in hitting with runners on. He has this year (or at least I assume) which is why he has a lot more RBIs and runs than normal with less HR's. his numbers with runners on base are excellent, but mostly he's been better this year because he gets on base a lot more than he ever has, and not making outs is the most important thing that a hitter can do.
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they needed a 1960 version of FJM:
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as part of my argument that ted williams could possibly be considered the best hitter of all time: 1941: .413 EqA, 12.5 WARP3 1942: .396 EqA, 14.6 WARP3 1943: war 1944: war 1945: war 1946: .393 EqA, 15.5 WARP3 1947: .383 EqA, 12.4 WARP3 So those three years were right within the time where he was peaking as a ballplayer. he probably would've had another 40 points in WARP3 and an EqA close to .400 for those years. Add the two years that he missed in Korea and he's probably up around 700 HR for his career, and his career EqA and OPS+ are higher than .365 and 191 because he gets more of his prime production.
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then after fighting in two wars, he put up these numbers: age 38: .388/.526/.731 age 41: .316/.451/.645 and i don't think he was getting the same sort of help in his late 30s and early 40s that barry bonds was.
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Doesn't it suck sometimes to be so cynical? actually no. it makes it a lot easier to laugh at golf announcers who say "tiger didn't have his a-game today, but that's why he is so great, he sticks with it." as if the other golfers say "you know what, i'm just not at the top of my game today" and walk off the course to have a drink in the clubhouse. he's a great golfer but if you watch a full round of his, you hear praise heaped on him that is utterly absurd.
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he got hurt last year and still had the best season of his career.
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Yes, it would be fun to sweep both of them en route to the World Series. i'm not thinking about them being our chief rival and the team that knocked us out in 2003, but more as someone who wants the cubs to play teams that are not very good.
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the only way to keep the game alive is to make it official (i.e., a regular season game). baseball is big business nowadays, and nobody wants to risk their stars getting hurt in an exhibition.
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that is amazing, no other golfer on the planet can make a 12 foot putt.
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derek jeter. btw, jackie robinson was able to be drafted to serve in the military, but still banned from playing major league baseball. a proud footnote in our nation's history.
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i would LOVE for the cards (and marlins for that matter) to make the playoffs.
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Throwing this out there: is Fukudome rather unimpressive?
TruffleShuffle replied to badnews's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
he's like francoeur with 100 points of OBP, more ability to hit for average, less power and a weaker arm. aside from that they're pretty much identical. -
yet he's also on pace to have his highest VORP and highest EqA in a cub uniform, which is a lesson on how overrated OPS is as a statistic.
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send a prayer yadier molina's way....
TruffleShuffle replied to bsucubsfan's topic in General Baseball Talk
The collective prayers of the Best Fans in Baseball will be more than enough to get him healthy. -
remember back in 2005 when baltimore and washington had real good records in mid-june? they both made some big-time noise in september and october that year, right?
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sorry that cub fans won't join you in giving the cards a collective reacharound.
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I know. It's not like they've lost their Ace, starting catcher and the best hitter in baseball all in the span of a week. Super Lucky! :roll: Yet they're still winning. That's the point. Today was another game that they had absolutely no business winning and had it handed to them. "Here, have a win" If the Phillies had won would you have said the same thing? No? Why would I? Look at how many baserunners each team had. I guess you could also look at errors and extra base hits. ](*,)
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I know. It's not like they've lost their Ace, starting catcher and the best hitter in baseball all in the span of a week. Super Lucky! :roll: Yet they're still winning. That's the point. Today was another game that they had absolutely no business winning and had it handed to them. "Here, have a win" If the Phillies had won would you have said the same thing? no, because the phillies didn't have 4 LOB versus 15 for their opponent