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  1. CoolHandLuke
    Even if Linebrink matches his best numbers over the final two months, how many marginal wins is a setup man worth? This deal is absolutely terrible for the Brewers.
  2. CoolHandLuke
    I would be a full bore Brewers fan. Call me a bandwagoner if you want, but I could not have continued rooting for this team if they were stupid enough to resign him.
  3. CoolHandLuke
    DKWG, Why do you break down the comparison as every starting pitcher in the majors vs elite catchers? And why do you imply Salt is in the elite category? Sure, he has had a pretty decent one hundred thirty something at bats this year (currently his ops is only about .750 though) but last year he hit terribly in AA. He is certainly no guaranteed stud. sincerely, CHL disclaimer- I love Salt, he has been one of my favorite spects over the last couple of years, but I think it would be ridiculous to trade Rich Hill plus for him.
  4. CoolHandLuke
    IT WAS IN AAA DUH
  5. CoolHandLuke
    I doubt many of us would care if Pawelek was traded for Linebrink.
  6. CoolHandLuke
    yuck :?: Vazquez is a good pitcher with a below average contract given the market. Too bad we couldn't take him on with the ownership situation, because I'd deal for him and use Marshall as a chip to get a big bat. Vasquez isn't exactly "below average" when it comes to money. He's making $13 million this year and $11.5 million for each of the next 3 years. All this for a sub-.500 pitcher with a .286 BAA and 4.30 ERA. The contract is ot totally outrageous, but certainly not below average. ESPN's stats page has his career BAA as .286 but that can't be right. Looking at his year by year BAA there is only one year as high as .286 and it was exactly .286. Something is wrong there. And who cares about his W%? He has a history of k'ing quite a bit of batters and not walking very many, all the while not getting hurt. His last few years his ERA was up but his periphs. were still pretty good, and I would take him in a second.
  7. CoolHandLuke
    Would you expect more, less, or the same for Dunn prospects-wise? Less. The Reds have done an excellent job of rebuilding Griffey's trade value after all the injuries and his dissapointing season last year, and it's time to cash in. Definitely. It would be stupid for the reds to hold on to him past the trade deadline. His value will never be higher than it is right now for the rest of his career. (IMO)
  8. CoolHandLuke
    awesome, thanks!
  9. CoolHandLuke
    People care because you don't say inane things about Matt Murton. Even in this post, you refer to him as the Savior in an extremely condescending way, which tends to make the people who actually think he could be decent a bit angry.
  10. CoolHandLuke
    Am I the only one who misread Jersey's reply to IMB as continuing on the hilarity in a way to satirize the ridiculousness of the whole thing?
  11. CoolHandLuke
    Maybe eventually they will realize that stealing isn't usually worth the risk for a one base advance?
  12. CoolHandLuke
    The bigger picture cost is that the move blocked a young guy who could possibly perform pretty well from starting a majority of the games the rest of the season. Monetarily and in number of players the cost was very negligible but the cost should also include the production difference between Kendall and Soto (which obviously we don't know but it certainly seems like Soto would have put up tolerable numbers compared to what we have gotten from the catcher position since Barrett's departure)
  13. CoolHandLuke
    Sean you said something about Dunn's bat would be worth it even if he played in the OF with his back to the plate (paraphrasing). Still feel that way, after seeing how Dunn has hit down the stretch the last few years? Is there any predictive value to before/after all-star break splits?
  14. CoolHandLuke
    you can't both have the same user name!
  15. CoolHandLuke
    How many times to people have to say this isn't the case? Calm down, it's a figure of speech. "I'm not yet going to buy into the idea that Murton is a lock to be an everyday, productive outfielder for many years until I see more." Happy? How many people are saying that though? Everytime somebody makes a post with the thought that there is a chance that Murton could outproduce the crap we are running out there now (because ya know, he did put up very respectable numbers in almost full time duty last year as a 24 year old) someone claims that everyone thinks Murton is the next Barry Bonds and will carry humanity single handedly on his back to Nirvana. And I am sorry but every single one of Diamond's post in this thread is driving me absolutely crazy!
  16. CoolHandLuke
    Which is what you should do. So you are confirming that you haven't heard anything about this? I would be absolutely shocked if this actually happened. Trolls start trade rumors on blogs at every trade deadline. Did anyone check whether this was the blogger's first post (or one of them)? It was his first post. It's not a surprise. Thank god we have Bruce here to keep us in check before we get too rumor crazy. To be fair, I am very impressed with the restraint shown by everybody here. I half expected this thing to balloon to 30 pages inside of 4 hours. I think with LF pretty much filled (unless they jerk Soriano around even more, which I can't see happening) even the Dunn contingent have cooled a bit on him.
  17. CoolHandLuke
    You hear anything about Preston Clark or Victor Sanchez? I don't think there is any question that Clark won't sign. Here's to hoping though.
  18. CoolHandLuke
    No steroid allegations + magic number 3,000 = HOF. I don't see how being the best player on your team matters. He was one of the best 2B in the business for a long, long time. Plus, come on. Mazeroski got in on .260 BA, .299 OBP(!!), .367 SLG. Nobody can tell me Craig's .282/.365/.434 doesn't blow that out of the water 6 ways to Sunday. Bigs played longer, too. Without commenting on Biggio's qualifications, we're not really using Maz as the baseline, are we? He's in, isn't he? It's a 2B comparison, Maz is in and Bigs will be voted on. How is that not a valid comparison? Not my fault the voters put Maz in. The vets put Maz in, not the BBWAA. Biggio should be in easily, and Maz shouldn't have to come into the conversation to prove it. Whatever. In is in, who cares which voting body put him there. I never said who would vote him in, or when, and it doesn't matter in any event. Just because he got in somehow, doesn't mean they should make future mistakes by using him as the baseline. I'm pretty sure Biggio is in pretty good company statistically among second basemen. Bill James ranked him as the fifth best 2b of all time in his Historical Baseball Abstract as of his 2000 season.
  19. CoolHandLuke
    This is good news. I was under the impression that he was a long shot signing.
  20. CoolHandLuke
    Not to derail the thread, but Grudz produced very well during his time with the Cubs. Hindsight being 20/20 there is no way that any sane person would argue Hill would have been a better option. And to say that Dubois was a better option than Hollandsworth is like saying that Neifi was a better option than Macias. They both sucked. you must not have been around here back then. DuBois was the 2nd coming of Babe Ruth to some people here.... Dubois deserved to at least get a majority of the starts at the time though, because he had the potential to be pretty good, whereas Hollandsworth had over 2500 pa's of meh production, mostly as a part time player.
  21. CoolHandLuke
    I'd do that deal in a second. As would I! I think it has moore to do with the fact that I don't see much in Nady. He's just a fairly average corner outfielder (which admittedly would be an upgrade for RF)
  22. CoolHandLuke
    anybody else heard this? Or is it possible that CSN reported wrong that Fox was demoted instead of Moore? If fox is demoted as well I would have to imagine Murton has been called back up. Either that or a trade. The article in the Trib also said Fox was the one likely to go down. If true, then this is further evidence against Hendry's ability to manage a 40 man roster.
  23. CoolHandLuke
    So are you saying that Ronny Cedeno's basement level of productions is something close to the .291/.352/.486 that Lopez put up in 2005? Huh? Where did I say that? I have no idea what that post meant. You won't be getting 2005 Lopez in a trade. "At best a lateral move" means the best possibly performance from Lopez would be the same as the worst possible performance from Cedeno, doesn't it? (Cedeno vs. Lopez was the comparison that was being discussed) Since Lopez has already proven that he can put up those numbers, then we consider that the best case scenario, and since you said it was a lateral move at best, then What we currently have would have to produce at least as well as Lopez did in 2005(since that would be his established best case)
  24. CoolHandLuke
    Absolutely true about RF. And DeRosa doesn't inspire much confidence out in RF, either. We're talking about a guy who two tweeks ago misplayed a ball in RFK so badly that Dmitri Young ended up with a stand-up triple. DMITRI YOUNG. That takes serious effort, folks. And yea, good luck dealing with Bowden. He'll bring up Hill, Gallagher and probably Patterson just to get talks started. Guy has no clue to the value of his own players relative to the major league market. That game plan works well when dealing with Wayne Krivsky.
  25. CoolHandLuke
    I will be on the edge of my seat.
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