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  1. 1908
    Something's totally messed up with your link, but I can't tell what.It's javascript, not a URL.
  2. 1908
    How do you figure average? Jay Jaffe ran some numbers today at BP that suggests they've improved the defense but are still a below average defensive team. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7093
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    http://eastwindupchronicle.com/early-yahoo-mockery/#more-1269 Nice draft, my friend. Keep us posted.
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    http://homerderby.com/archives/1776 Fun stuff.
  7. 1908
    Correction, a fractured left index finger suffered on a hit-by-pitch is what knocked him out in 2004.
  8. 1908
    Me too. Everything I've read suggests he'll be 100% by the time the season starts.
  9. 1908
    He was dealing with injuries in both 2004 (leg) and 2007 (elbow).
  10. 1908
    That's selling the level of play across the Pacific short. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=1330 Clay also addresses the size of Japanese ballparks in that article.
  11. 1908
    This is courtesy of Jim Albright at BaseballGuru.com. YEAR G AB H 2B 3B HR BB AVG OBP SLG 2003 162 611 178 34 20 24 73 .291 .367 .529 2004 108 411 106 22 13 16 45 .258 .332 .494 2005 158 571 175 42 10 19 83 .306 .394 .515 2006 144 550 180 51 9 21 68 .327 .401 .565 2007 91 303 83 24 0 9 62 .274 .398 .441 Averages are .295/.379/.518 over the five years and .308/.398/.520 over the past three. The methods he uses to arrive at these numbers are here. Not Gospel, but interesting.
  12. 1908
    The Nomo loophole Soriano used (retiring from NPB and then signing an MLB contract as a free agent) has been replaced by the posting system. Either the Carp released Caridad, or his contract expired and it called for him to be a free agent.
  13. 1908
    Japanese? He can barely speak English. He no berry berry goo. How many languages do you speak? English, Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi (basically the same thing) , Spanish. I can also read Arabic. Huh, in that case, I would've expected you to be more tolerant of the challenges involved in learning a non-native language.
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    Japanese? He can barely speak English. He no berry berry goo. How many languages do you speak?
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    2008 Zips Name Age ERA W L G GS INN H ER HR BB K Sean Gallagher 22 4.91 6 9 29 24 143.0 144 78 16 79 104 Jon Lieber 38 4.72 9 12 27 27 166.0 181 87 26 35 106 Sean Marshall* 25 4.97 6 8 22 21 116.0 124 64 17 49 75 Jason Marquis 29 5.06 9 14 30 29 176.0 189 99 28 66 96 Lieber looks to be an improvement over all three to me.
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    Check the link; the projection is for Lieber on the Cubs.
  17. 1908
    Don't feel bad for Roger. Even the greatest of the greats don't have their best seasons after age 40 without help.
  18. 1908
    He produced the best ERA+ of his HOF career at age 42. He can't convince me. So you were convinced he was on the juice before anyone accused him of it. Yeah, it seemed more than likely to me.
  19. 1908
    He produced the best ERA+ of his HOF career at age 42. He can't convince me.
  20. 1908
    Hyperbolic dismissals aside, I honestly can't see how predicting a .353 OBP for Fukudome is being optimistic.
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    The optimistic (PETCOTA) projection for Fukudome is .289/.401/.504. Hart's numbers his first full year in the majors were .295/.353/.539. PETCOTA predicted .288/.349/.514 for Hart in 2007, and predicted .285/.354/.517 for him in 2008. A 50-point difference in OBP is significant.
  22. 1908
    I'm not as encouraged by the pursuit as you are. MLB teams weren't interested at all pre-Ichiro, so any push now would be bigger than that. Until they start signing players successfully, I'll remain skeptical that MLB teams are serious about breaking the unwritten rule.
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    Not a large enough push apparently. If they're serious about signing a player, an MLB team is going to win almost any bidding war against an NPB team. Besides, I remember reading about some interest, but I don't remember that much buzz about it. Do you remember where you read about this large push to sign these players? Assuming he signs with an MLB team before the NPB draft that year, yes.
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    Three of the four -- if the four are Nakata, Sato, Saito and Darvish -- signed with NPB teams, and the fourth, Saito, didn't sign with either an NPB or an MLB team. Not that much has changed. Like I said, I wouldn't be surprised to see an MLB team sign a big name high school prospect out of Japan in the near future, but they have not signed them with any frequency or success in the past. That leads me to believe MLB teams aren't serious about it yet, and I suspect that has something to do with not wanting to step on NPB's toes.
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    That's certainly MLB's party line at the very least. Yeah, high school baseball is huge in Japan. The best players at Koshien are all but guaranteed large signing bonuses and a spot on an NPB team roster right out of school. That said, I'm sure every MLB team would've been happy to have Ichiro for the first six years of his career. I wouldn't be shocked to see some MLB team break the unwritten rule in the next few years and take a flyer on a top high school prospect from Japan.
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