BigbadB

Newsflash: Recent studies prove the sun rises in the east and that the sky is blue. Corey Patterson batting first for Dusty in '04: .261/.317/.486 in 265 PA's Corey Patterson batting second for Dusty in '04: .260/.310/.403 in 213 PA's Corey Patterson batting first for Dusty in '05: .211/.263/.359 in 139 PA's Corey Patterson batting second for Dusty in '05: .179/.220/.308 in 82 PA's "Gotta have a speedy lead off hitter, dude." Neifi Perez batting 1st or 2nd for Dusty in '05: 403 PA's I'd post the stats for Neifi batting first or second, but do you really need to see them? They are god awful. Freaking Rey Ordonez, he of the lifetime: .246/.289/.310 started 6 games for the Cubs in the 2 hole. While that might not sound like much, he was only with the team for about a month, if even that long. Here's his 2 hole stats: .143/.143/.286 Sure, you can make the argument that there was no one else to bat at the top of the order, but you'd be wrong. Grudz, Walker, Murton, Hairston just off the top of my head between '04 and '05. Dusty wants a speedy lead off hitter and a guy who can bunt the speedy guy over batting 2nd. That's all that matters. Dusty purposely doesn't put good OBP guys in the lead off spot because OBP is a new school line of thinking and bucks his old school way of thinking. He just won't have that. In May, it will be enjoyable to read Reds44 correspondence when Dusty leaves Homer, Edinson and Johnny in blow out games after they have thrown over 120 pitches. In Dusty's eyes, April is to get these guys stretched out. In May, Dusty won't trust his bullpen to hold a lead and he'll let the young starters burn themselves out. Book it.

Right you are. Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter Opp Starter .19 Mon 04/21 New York N - Zambrano Maine .20 Tue 04/22 New York - Lilly Figueroa .21 Wed 04/23 @ Colorado N - Hill Morales .22 Thu 04/24 @ Colorado - Marquis Cook .23 Fri 04/25 @ Washington N - Dempster Perez .24 Sat 04/26 @ Washington - Zambrano Chico .25 Sun 04/27 @ Washington - Lilly Lannan But after this stretch, they shouldn't see another lefty for 2 weeks. That should be just enough time for Lou to have worked out all the kinks in Felix's swing. Plus, Soriano should be back not too long after this Sunday's game.

If we take away all the home runs Derrek Lee hit so far this year, he'd have zero right now. That's appalling. Something needs to be done.

Looking at the schedule, we have 4 more lefties squaring off against the Cubs by this coming Sunday. I hope they keep abusing lefties the way they have. Washington is greeting the Cubs with 3 straight lefties in Odalis Perez, Matt Chico and John Lannan. The 4th lefty is Franklin Morales, who the Cubs face Wednesday, I believe.

Although if you are talking since WWII (1945), you'd be almost correct (Milwaukee, SD, Colorado) I think this is probably what I heard. And it looks like I typed a 2 where I meant to type a 3 in my original post. Couldn't recall the teams, but seemed to remember hearing San Diego in the group.

Why would you want to see that? Very depressing information. I believe I heard the other day that there are only 2 teams that the Cubs have a lifetime winning percentage that is above .500.

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Is that the way it's done in the majors? It doesn't matter to me that much, but I would think that a team that used their waiver claim for a player would then drop to the bottom of the list and everyone else would slide up a spot. Not that you could make that waiver claim and have the number 1 waiver claim again the next week when it reset itself again.

I love what Reed has done thus far. However, he will be overmatched against RHP most of the time. That is the time to get Pie into ball games. Especially a junk tossing righty. Against someone like Peavy or Cueto, I might go with Johnson. But, it doesn't do the team any good to lean on Johnson and have Pie continue to struggle and not get major league at bats. The health of CF depends on the success of Pie against RHP.

I'm crafty like that. I have noticed that a lot of players have been picked up through waivers already, so I would have guessed that I'd be somewhere close to the top of the list. I also thought that the first waiver order was based on either the draft order or reverse draft order. If everyone is 0-0 with zero points to start the season, how can you set a waiver order based on standings/points? If you set the waiver order based on last season, I'm guessing it would either be in draft order or reverse draft order.

I'm dealing with the same problem to begin this season as I had last season. I'm scoring okay, but my opponents always break out the week they play my team. I'm 3rd overall in points, but my opponents have outscored me. I'm sitting at 899.8 points and my opponents have scored 904. Hats off to Eyes Of Texas for the fine week they had this week.

Anyone in the database can be claimed off waivers. I think it lists the waiver order on the add/drop page. The order resets with each waiver claim. Found it, Juan. Thanks. Cool. I'm first on the waiver list. Quick, someone drop Pujols or the like.

Is there a place that lists the current waiver order? And does it change each time someone claims a player off waivers? I didn't want to waste a good waiver spot (if I currently have one) to pick up Kelvim Escobar, so I waited until he was a free agent this morning to pick him up. But, for future waiver claims, I'd like to know where I'm at and if it changes.

An all righty attack.

This is wrong. Sabean has decided this year he no longer likes old guys. Now he likes really bad young guys. He's trying to replace each of the old guys one by one. His list of bad young guys to replace old guys is quite lengthy.

I don't think home/road splits has anything to do with the player. It has more to do with the dimensions/dynamics of the park itself that give these stats value. Someone posted Khalil's balls in play graphs for last year, and a high percentage of his outs were deep fly balls that would likely have left the park if you moved the left field fence in about 20 feet and removed the moisture from the air in San Diego. On the road, Khalil was essentially hitting those same balls over the wall rather than in front of the wall. The stat oriented crowd that hangs out at NSBB was adamant that Jeromy Burnitz would not be a the great signing that Jim Hendry thought it would be because we can read and comprehend meaningful stats. Burnitz spent the 2004 season in Colorado, one of the best hitting parks in baseball. Here are Burnitz' split stats from that year: Home: .322/.386/.670 Road: .244/.327/.448 Burnitz career overall stats: .253/.345/.481 Burnitz 2004 overall stats: .283/.356/.559 If you ignore the park effect of Coors Field, one could make the argument that it would be great to have a guy fresh off a .283/.356/.559 season in the heart of your order. This is exactly what Jim Hendry did. For further proof, look for Hendry quotes where he is excited to add 37 HR power to the line up. Burnitz hit 13 HR's outside of Coors in 2004, making him more of a mid 20's power guy. What did the Cubs get from Burnitz in '05? Low mid 20's HR power with .258/.322/.435 stats that compare favorably to his road stats of 2004. I'm sure there is a bit of a comfort level when playing on your home turf. But, the level of comfort is not measurable considering that the pitching you face has a lot more to do with how well you hit on any given day. If you took out all the dramatic park effects and made each park equal, and weather played no part, I don't think you'd see much difference in home/road splits.

Max Scherzer is throwing smoke on the farm, and he's just a phone call away if their bullpen needs a boost later in the season. This team has everything in place to be a threat to win the NL Pennant. Their bench is about to get a significant boost when Chad Tracy comes off the DL.

Big props to everyone for their plate patience and pitch selection. I hope Theriot continues to hit well. I like it even more that Cedeno is contributing in his limited role.

I'm down big even though I'm having a pretty average week compared to the other teams. Looks like there won't be any undefeated teams in our division starting in week 4. I do expect today to be a big scoring day for me, so I'm not counting myself out just yet. Life sucks when the opposing team collects nearly 70 points between Todd Wellemeyer and Cliff Lee on one start each, no less.

I really need a reasonable explanation as to why 10am games are blacked out on MLB EI when the Fox game of the week doesn't start until 1pm. Absolute stupidity.

It was only a matter of time before this trade rumor returned. Boston is ready to go with Ellsbury full time, and Crisp's value is next to nil at this point. Yet, that won't stop Hendry from getting into a bidding war with himself and way overpaying. Considering Crisp's contract, his production level, injury concerns and his rank on the current depth chart, a fair offer would be Josh Kroeger and NOTHING more. Also, anyone see how crappy Marlon Byrd has been playing. Look out, Texas might lower their demands to "just" Matt Murton and Hendry will feel like he got himself a pretty good deal. :roll:

I don't know who it was, but in one of the NSBB leagues last year, someone would always try and makes trades like that, and when they would get rejected, they'd drop the players he tried to trade. It's like he was planning on dropping them all along but decided to put them out there and see if anyone was dumb enough to bite. And they would always play the hot hand and pick up whoever had a good game and drop whoever had a bad one. In the end they made like 120+ transactions. The trade offer above was made right before my team was scheduled to play his team. My team is beating his team 16-3 as of today. :D

You beat me to it.

NC loves his Wang. :thumbsup: No, I love abuck's Wang. :lol: :shock:

There will be no cursing of my pitchers by anyone but me. [-X Not that I was counting on a two hitter by Germano, anyway.