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  1. Rob
    It sure gets easy if you enjoy making terrible decisions.
  2. Rob
    If Hendry pulls off the Peavy deal, he can have one free night at any brothel in Vegas on me. There are no brothels in Vegas proper (at least not any legal ones). You have to go into the neighboring counties to enjoy that part of the nightlife.
  3. Rob
    # 3 years/$10.5M (2006-08) * re-signed by Angels 1/06 (avoided arbitration as Super 2) * 06:$2.25M, 07:$3.5M, 08:$4.75M Looks like he'll be a FA after this season, and since he spent all of last season at 3B (where his SB totals don't help much for his Elias ranking), he'll probably not be worth much in terms of draft pick compensation at the end of the year, if he's worth anything at all. And he's likely to make 8 mil this season, if not more. I wouldn't play him over Fontenot... I certainly wouldn't pay extra (in terms of prospects or money) to do so, either. Uber pass.
  4. Rob
    I'm not terribly concerned. When it comes to negotiations, both Hendry and Towers are extremely reasonable men. It's not exactly like we're dealing with Wafflin' Andy MacPhail and his mercurial owner here. But I fully anticipate mass hysteria tomorrow on this board.
  5. Rob
    I saw that there was five pages, and it'd only been 20 mins since I last checked the transactions forums... so I figured it was a done deal and got very sad.
  6. Rob
    No offense to Churchill intended, but he seems too willing to pass along whatever he's heard. I'd trust him a bit more if he would try harder to verify things before sending em out to the rumor mill.
  7. Rob
    Yeah, that's what I said BBB. It seems like a big cost for DeRo. To be fair, it's likely that DeRo is a type A after this season, so he'd possibly be worth 2 high draft picks. Have you seen how the Cubs make draft picks. I'll take two bonafide prospects from the Phillies over the future draft picks all day long. Oh, I absolutely agree. But one cheap year from a player like DeRosa who fits the Phils needs, plus two high draft picks after next season might very well be worth Donald and Carrasco. I doubt it, and would think it'd be more like DeRosa + Colvin for Donald + Happ, but it's not inconceivable somebody in a position of power really likes or is really down on certain players. What's the name of that kid the Padres drafted about 3 years ago that has a name similar to Carlos Carrasco (double letters and same letter first and last name). He just had surgery awhile back. That'll get confusing when the two make it to the bigs together. Cesar Carrillo
  8. Rob
    Yeah, that's what I said BBB. It seems like a big cost for DeRo. To be fair, it's likely that DeRo is a type A after this season, so he'd possibly be worth 2 high draft picks. Have you seen how the Cubs make draft picks. I'll take two bonafide prospects from the Phillies over the future draft picks all day long. Oh, I absolutely agree. But one cheap year from a player like DeRosa who fits the Phils needs, plus two high draft picks after next season might very well be worth Donald and Carrasco. I doubt it, and would think it'd be more like DeRosa + Colvin for Donald + Happ, but it's not inconceivable somebody in a position of power really likes or is really down on certain players.
  9. Rob
    Don't know if I should be embarrassed for not knowing who the hell Donald is? Heard of Carrasco, though. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/C/Carlos-Carrasco.shtml http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/D/Jason-Donald.shtml Don't really know what is considered good for college stats, how good is the kid? Top 5 prospect for the Phils... probably falls in somewhere in the 75-100 range on BA's top 100 after the season. A pretty good comp is probably Jed Lowrie a couple years ago.
  10. Rob
    Yeah, that's what I said BBB. It seems like a big cost for DeRo. To be fair, it's likely that DeRo is a type A after this season, so he'd possibly be worth 2 high draft picks.
  11. Rob
    Don't know if I should be embarrassed for not knowing who the hell Donald is? Heard of Carrasco, though. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/C/Carlos-Carrasco.shtml http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/D/Jason-Donald.shtml
  12. Rob
    ... She's deferring to Steve Phillips' knowledge. And that says just about all you need to know about Carrie Muskat.
  13. Rob
    Hendry hasn't done anything wrong. In fact, I don't know that I have even heard him say DeRosa's name once. You haven't heard him say Peavy's name once, either. That would be a violation of the CBA.
  14. Rob
    lol wut? Well DeRosa has hit like .650 against the Reds the last 2 years, I can see why they like him. 2007 - .510/.567/.667 2008 - .238/.385/.500
  15. Rob
    I'm pretty sure they would have liked to not signed Kevin Brown or Carl Pavano knowing what they know now. And they didn't sign Kevin Brown.
  16. Rob
    First awesome joke of the thread. I had a good one 20 or 30 pages ago.
  17. Rob
    She's useless.
  18. Rob
    The formulas are proprietary (though I wouldn't be surprised if Meph has them), but the definitions are all up here. I'd wait on adding them, though. BP just announced that they're completely reworking their definitions of replacement level... raising the bar up to more of a modern definition.
  19. Rob
    Jerry Hairston JR fits that bill rather nicely he can play the outfield and SS/2B. He really hit well last season for the Reds it might have been a fluke but for a utility guy we could do a lot worse. The way the bench shapes out will have a lot to do who platoons with Fontento. He did have a good year last year...but I'd rather light my pubes on fire. Wanna be best friends?
  20. Rob
    fontenot? i'm surprised we haven't heard about more teams inquiring about him. I got the impression Hendry was shooting down inquiries on him pretty quickly.
  21. Rob
    I think it's a great idea, unfortunately the only thing people do these days on this board (not pointing an fingers but everyone knows who) is derail threads. Quite sad that it is allowed, and the same dbags are allowed to do it relentlessly. This is rather obviously an attempt to derail Roast's awesome thread. I'd be willing to pitch in if there's something you need me to help with, Roast.
  22. Rob
    Abreu is a terrible defender. One of the worst in the league.
  23. Rob
    the public matters not to anyone involved Ok, Yoda.
  24. Rob
    This is why Towers has been airing all of these updates... Everybody in the world knew that he had to move Peavy and his only option was the Cubs, so he had no leverage. He's trying to create some by affecting public opinion towards Hendry if the deal doesn't go through. If the public would just calm down and be laissez faire about it, Hendry would probably be able to pull a better deal out of this.
  25. Rob
    There's a 4th year vesting option at 14 mil... and I'd imagine it's pretty easy to vest. You're probably looking more at 4/51 than 3/37.
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