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  1. Jazz
    You're really being asinine here. Show me a stat that shows that he isn't forcing ground balls "like he used to". Fine, you don't want to use G/F, but he is on pace to to force 336 ground ball outs this year. His career in that stat 2004 - 356 2005 - 350 2006 - 288 how about groundball percentage? 55.5 in 2004 52.3 in 2005 49 this year he's not getting ground balls like he used to. I'm of the opinion that 2004 was a career year, and 2006 was a terrible year., and 2005 was per average for him. is 3.3 % really that huge a margin?
  2. Jazz
    so you ignore last year, his first year as a full time starter, because it was a "career year", but when he duplicates those numbers, it doesnt mean anything because hendry bought high? derosa was signed to a 3/13, compare that to the 2/14.5 deal of durham, and the 1/3.25, and I really don't think he overpaid. hendry cant see the future. there was little reason to think that DeRosa would continue his hitting. Durham would have been expected to add more bang for your buck. No one can see the future, but as a GM, you have to be able to guess whos going to a better value for what hole you need to fill. At the time of the signing, Derosa had come off a great year in his first year of starting and was 31 years old, and had shown he can play great defense at 2B, 3B, and RF. Ray Durham was pretty much only a 2B who had been consistent in the past, but was 35 years old and was going to command a much higher salary.
  3. Jazz
    You're really being asinine here. Show me a stat that shows that he isn't forcing ground balls "like he used to". Fine, you don't want to use G/F, but he is on pace to to force 336 ground ball outs this year. His career in that stat 2004 - 356 2005 - 350 2006 - 288
  4. Jazz
    so you ignore last year, his first year as a full time starter, because it was a "career year", but when he duplicates those numbers, it doesnt mean anything because hendry bought high? derosa was signed to a 3/13, compare that to the 2/14.5 deal of durham, and the 1/3.25, and I really don't think he overpaid.
  5. Jazz
    jason marquis G/F 2003 - 1.61 2004 - 2.17 2005 - 1.59 2006 - 1.16 2007 - 1.57 obviously 2006 was a down year, and 2004 was a career year, so his GB rate this year is pretty much average for him.
  6. Jazz
    darn, tie game :(
  7. Jazz
    His k/9 has been declining every year since hes come into the league. His stuff has been diminishing, and he no longer ace starter IMO, but hes getting payed like one.
  8. Jazz
    I don't really believe this. Yeah, maybe he could've gotten slightly more elsewhere, but how is $15M per year a huge discount. That price would put him 10th this year in salary, and while he's certainly a very good player, he's not at the elite level of guys like A-Rod, Bonds, Miggy Cabrera or Pujols. There have been reports that Ramirez would get anywhere from 100 million to one report that said the Angels were ready to offer Ramirez 130 million dollars. He's a big discount on last year's market where players like Soriano and Carlos Lee (both probably worse players and both older) got bigger deals. yup. if aram was an FA this coming year, he would get at least the contract soriano got.
  9. Jazz
    Don't Suck Jason.
  10. Jazz
    I find JJ Hardy very easy to hate for some reason.
  11. Jazz
    wow, fielder mashes one into centerfield, but comes up short. second hard hit ball of the inning.
  12. Jazz
    gwynn makes a sweet catch to end the inning.
  13. Jazz
    blister on his finger. things are going badly for the brewers. edit: i guess it's not a blister, but more serious?
  14. Jazz
    I'm in a rough spot when it comes to making my judgement on Hendry. Because of how well ALL of his acquisitions this year have played, and the fact that he did sign Aram to a huge hometown discount, i'm leaning towards him being kept around for this next regime. If he can get Z locked up, get rid of one of the bums, and make a trade for a starting position player, then ill be completely sold.
  15. Jazz
    Well, the vibe around the situation recently has been pretty positive. Hendry has been quoted as saying he talks to Z's agent at least once a week. And with Z pitching extremely well, and the team winning, it just feels like more good things are just going to come with it......like a Z extension =).
  16. Jazz
    what's his stuff look like nowadays?
  17. Jazz
    Rebuilding? maybe retooling wass better word.
  18. Jazz
    CUBAN FOR ALL TIME GUEST CONDUCTOR!
  19. Jazz
    i hate this. i have mlb.tv blacked out, and fox won't show the game.
  20. Jazz
    woulddnt it be funny that in a rebuilding/transition year with not a real owner we broke through?
  21. Jazz
    This isn't surprising. Roy Oswalt's strikeout rate has been in a perpetual decline since he broke into the majors. You think there is a reason for it? Is he just trying to pitch to contact more? He could just be losing his stuff as he gets older. I know he isn't really at the age where people think of players as declining, but K/9 tends to peak early in pitchers' careers, if I remember correctly. I haven't looked at his stats, so I don't know if how much more significant his decline is than the average. Your exactly right. In fact, you could probably say that as he has gotten older, Roy has become more of a groundballer pitcher, as his k-rate has gone down almost every year since he's come to the bigs. His season high for K's is 10, but I've noticed that in almost every game this year, he has gotten into the double digits for groundballs. I wish i had some stats that could show his average velocity, because I fully believe that he has lost some of it on his fastball, and because of this, hasn't used his curveball as much as his punchout pitch because it doesnt have as much of a difference from the fastball.
  22. Jazz
    Colangelo+Cuban???
  23. Jazz
    Ben Maller has some interesting "rumors" about A-Rod I don't know about how credible he is (i'm assuming not very), but well here you go: also:
  24. Jazz
    Alright it's official now: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2935612 5 years/90 million. I had a feeling that the 100 million rumors were a little sketchy. I guess thats not overpaying to much, since its about the average salary Soriano is getting, but for less years (but theyll be the same age at the end of both deals).
  25. Jazz
    And the rally bitch is happy. careful now, don't want to get 5 pages of flack for that ;)
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