Rob

I absolutely would love to see an ace. I just don't want to pay huge money for an old one.

Depend on him for what, exactly?

If you really feel compelled to move an OF to 1B sulley, Colvin should be the one you're looking at. Note that in no way do I endorse such a move.

We'd be better off signing Branyan for 1B next year than moving Sori, whose defensive skillset is a disaster in waiting at 1B.

I still think this would have been a fun game. Babe Ruth This one is too easy. Career OPS in wins - 1.332, losses - .959. That's nearly a 400 point spread. What a choke artist.

His career OPS against the Cubs (which we know is the only clutch stat that matters) is nearly 100 points lower than his normal OPS. Oh, and for his career, which inning does he have the worst performance in? Oh yeah, the 9th. When the pressure is really on, that's when Pujols falls apart.

I still think this would have been a fun game.

This. This is a salary dump, where the money hopefully goes back into the system. That's about it.

But he was an All Star... We've had Omar Infante. He just never played a game for us.

Okay, here's a challenge for you. Name a player that I can't cherry pick stats for to show they wilt under pressure.

This would be comical if it weren't so sad.

I know it's generally frowned upon to send big leaguers down there, but I'll be real interested to see if they let cashner head down there to get some extra innings under his belt. If not, we can be pretty certain he wont be getting a real starter's workload next year, and his fate is probably sealed.

Confirmation bias. For more information about this phenomena, talk to CubinNY. Not because he's a psychologist, just because all of his posts are extreme examples of it.

They should be able to. They shouldn't be required to pay him another penny (at least for the rest of this year) when he can't play due to his own stupidity. Aint gonna happen. Players Union wont allow it. Even Denny Neagle, who hadn't pitched a game in two years due to arm trouble, got a buyout on his remaining contract (thanks to a grievance from the union) and he was busted for a DUI and soliciting oral sex from this http://www.deadspin.com/sports/neaglehooker.jpg

Now I'm hearing 2.55 mil.

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Seriously... Before the break .212/.290/.234 Since .324/.397/.555

A 24 year old first baseman who hits for average, is developing patience, and is placing near the top of the league in doubles? I'd definitely want to be on board when some of those doubles start going over the fence as he hits his prime.

Is Gonzalez not selling high? It depends on the rest of the package. I'd certainly be willing to put Wells in an Adrian Gonzalez trade though, just not as a throw-in.

if the Cubs put him on waivers, I don't think he'd fall that far. He absolutely would pass through waivers. Name one team (non Yankees division) that probably has enough room to add Aramis's contract without first finding a way to shed payroll?

Obvious troll is obvious.

That would depend on the gap defensively.

Guyer with a couple HR through the early going. McNutt out after 3 IP, 6 R, 3 ER, 7 H, 2 BB, 6 SO Wallach with three hitless innings so far, 2 SO, 1 BB. Not a whole lot worth noting just yet.

Think about turning the DP in a hurry. Momentum is taking each player in different ways, requiring not just the use of different major muscle groups, but different stabilizing muscles, tendons, ligaments, etc... Think about it this way. If MLB came out tomorrow and said that the order of all the bases had been reversed, that everybody now goes from home to 3B to 2B to 1B and then back around to home... how many people do you think would blow out their knees and ankles in the first couple weeks? Every big fat right handed batter who has to run backward would. 99% of all such injuries would be as a result of baserunning in the opposite direction that you have done all your life. I think you are greatly dramatizing the danger. It's different, sure, but it's not asking a LF to play catcher or a 3B to play CF. Middle infielders routinely play one or the other position. I don't want him switching midseason if possible. But if it comes down to it and he starts spring training at 2B, and then the next season has to move back to short, I think the risks are extremely minimal. I'm not trying to dramatize the danger, I was just using an analogy to make sure the point got across. Something so functionally similar does not mean in any way that your body can handle the different strains placed upon it. So there is certainly at least some degree of danger. Hell, if it played out like you just described, with changes being made in the offseason (and a workout program that can be designed to help with that), I'd have no problem at all. I just don't want the nightmare scenario popping up where Castro is moving between positions every 3 weeks while they decide to give Lee another shot, then send him down, then bring him back up. We need to be pretty damn confident Lee is going to be a ML caliber hitter to justify moving Castro... and that's without even bringing up potential trade value changes and whatnot.

If it's clear that Lee is the better defensive SS and Castro's offense wouldn't be adversely affected by a move to 2B, then having Lee play SS would clearly be the best move for the team. If Lee struggles offensively after being called up, there's no reason why they couldn't just move Castro back to SS and send Lee to AAA. Changing positions does carry with it a heightened injury risk. So if you're gonna make a move, you only want to make it once. There is no reason to move castro off short, move him back when Lee struggles, move him off again when Lee gets another shot, and so on and so forth until we know whether Lee will be a ML caliber hitter. I guess I can buy some of what you are saying, but there can't be that much injury risk of having Castro go from short to second and back to short. Think about turning the DP in a hurry. Momentum is taking each player in different ways, requiring not just the use of different major muscle groups, but different stabilizing muscles, tendons, ligaments, etc... Think about it this way. If MLB came out tomorrow and said that the order of all the bases had been reversed, that everybody now goes from home to 3B to 2B to 1B and then back around to home... how many people do you think would blow out their knees and ankles in the first couple weeks?