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  1. Rob
    The Yankees were not trying to cost Pavano money, they simply wanted to clear his roster spot and wash their hands of this disaster. Pavano's reason for not accepting this (according to his agent) was that accepting the minor league deal would affect his MLB service time and thereby cost him some of his pension! I find this laughable am thankful that Carla Pavana will be pitching elsewhere next season. That's a legitimate claim. He is entitled to that pension fund. Did the Yankees offer to cover the difference?
  2. Rob
    I'm talking about so that you don't see them. For instance, there are threads in social with 5 billion posts in them that I couldn't care less about. I'd think that, like other forums, there would be something you can click to make it not visible. It might even save bandwidth, and in turn, money. That seems like it would hurt bandwidth, or at least slow us down. Forcing the board software to analyze each individual thread to see which one it should or shouldn't show depending on which person made the request..
  3. Rob
    I don't want to be part of any organization with judgement so bad that they would have me, and yet, here we are...
  4. Rob
    Do you ever stop espousing archaic and disproven philosophies? Oh, and please stop pretending hypothetical examples are a substitute for logic.
  5. Rob
    The fact of the matter is that your opinion has less basis in reality than the facts that people here are using to refute your opinion. If that doesn't bother you, you should probably be a politician, not a message board poster.
  6. Rob
    Bah, I only held things up six hours.
  7. Rob
    13. Grady Sizemore 14. Prince Fielder 15. Jake Peavy 16. Troy Tulowitzki 17. Victor Martinez 18. Carl Crawford
  8. Rob
    The way I see it, Samardzija is such a unique case that we'd be doing a disservice to ourselves to try to put him on a schedule right away. Besides, nobody really thinks of him as a prospect... he's more of a pet project of Hendry and Wilken.
  9. Rob
    Meph, 16 days ago you accused me and/or my source of fabricating a story. You should know this: I will continue to post rumors from sources, who I believe to be credible based on my history with them regardless of how unreasonable or unrealistic you think the trade scenarios are. I am not in the business of fabrication. I am always very clear on this board differentiating between deals I've heard vs. deals I am suggesting. And considering that Bruce Miles (who I think we can all agree has an absolute stellar reputation for facts in addition to being very generous with his time here), has chimed in twice in the last 7 days that there may have been/may be some discussions going on, at least now I feel good for my source, who you unfairly through under the bus. The information that the 2 teams had or are having discussions was not only credible, it was real and confirmed regardless of what your stamp of approval may or may not think. 1 pt. for Hoops.
  10. Rob
    That's the best news so far this season. Guzman could end up coming in very handy if he can make it back for the tail end of the season.
  11. Rob
    Yeah, he's gotta end up getting somewhere around $20M per year. There is NO WAY CC is going to get $20 mill, unless it's the Yanks. And IDK if the new Yanks are going to break the bank on a lefty who isn't even in Johan Santana's class. If Johan can't break the $20 mill barrier, then I doubt CC (who has YET to win a Cy Young) gets more then say $15-17 mill per. Santana is getting over 20 mil per year.
  12. Rob
    Still, he's pitched well in excess of 200 innings in five of the last six seasons, his highest ERA in that span being a 3.49. Hamels can be much better, but Oswalt has a lot less variance.
  13. Rob
    I love Hill as much as the next guy, but he has no business being on that list for this coming season. His ADP is somewhere in the 120's. (Whereas the first round of your redraft is gonna essentially start at 72, assuming you have 12 teams) Definately keep Upton, but Hamels and Oswalt is kinda a tossup. I'd lean Hamels, personally.
  14. Rob
    http://www.picturethisgallery.com/Artists/Bullas,%20Will/Porcelains/Hogwash.jpg
  15. Rob
    When asked if he thinks PA will sign off on it: Enjoy 8-) Has BigBird verified this info? He was the one who asked Belkast if he thought PA would sign off on it.
  16. Rob
    I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable throwing the years and money at him that it'll take to sign him.
  17. Rob
    I was really hoping to see Lou report in shape...
  18. Rob
    1. Alex Rodriguez 2. Albert Pujols 3. Hanley Ramirez 4. Jose Reyes 5. Ryan Braun 6. David Wright 7. Chase Utley
  19. Rob
    Nevermind, I solved my problem... I traded Vlad for Crawford and there was an exchange of draft picks... I'm now going 12, 37, 42, 55, 60, 61, and 66. That works fine for me, as I always overdraft guys I find underrated. Now I can just take them around where they're likely to go. Pujols Arod Crawford Rollins That's a pretty good start.
  20. Rob
    Since when has Peace21 provided info?
  21. Rob
    wowsers...those 4 guys might be the only way to do poorly in BA whilst having studs Pujols, Arod and Vlad on your team. On first glance, it seems that mix of players would have a ridiculous surplus in HR/RBI and you might suffer in other cats like SB, BA needlessly. But that's purely a subjective reaction, I might be way off base. I did the math... I'm a pretty sure bet to place 1st in R, HR, RBI... mid-range in BA, and even in the top half in SB. If I can put together at least an average pitching staff, I'm in real good shape as far as making the playoffs (yeah, this is a H2H league).
  22. Rob
    average starter C should be roughly .286/59/15/72/3 average starter 2B should be roughly .284/89/17/76/13 average starter RF should be roughly .290/85/22/90/11 basically a cumulative avg of the projs: mauer .314/73/11/70/9 upton .281/86/18/71/29 vlad .317/94/29/109/8 talking about how these players fare vs. the average startable guys at their positions (i.e. ~pence, posada, kinsler): mauer +0.028/+14/-4/-2/+6 upton -0.003/-3/+1/-5/+16 vlad +0.027/+9/+7/+19/-3 vlad does look like the best bet to be largest upgrade over the midtier guys, though i like upton to have much better RBI totals than the projections. I like Upton too, but I think he's gonna be overrated in most drafts. Considering I'm gonna have to start from scratch on pitching, I think I'm gonna try to save most draft picks for that... If all goes according to plan, I should get one of Soto/Towles at C, Weeks at 2B, Dunn in LF, and Swisher in CF... plus the random best hitter still available for UTIL. Hopefully, I can use some of my earlier picks to grab Felix, Hill, and Lincecum... and I'll feel pretty good.
  23. Rob
    Who says "dag nabbit" nowadays, dawg gonnit?
  24. Rob
    I think this is an excellent question to ask and what could be the first step to quantifying situational hitting. Instead of weighting all ABs the same, you could weight a BB with no one on base the same as a 1B for that particular AB. Maybe a HR will have a proportionally greater coefficient applied than a 2B or 3B when there are two outs as opposed to no outs. Baseball players DO change their approach at the plate depending on the score of the game, the inning, the number of outs, whos hitting behind them, what the count is, and so on. I'd imagine how effectively someone changes their approach could also be accounted for in a catch-all WINS created stat (as opposed to runs created stat) with enough data...and an insane amount of number crunching and research. It's probably more effort than it's worth, in all honesty. We'd be talking about pretty slight variations. I usually feel fine just looking at EqA and WPA when I'm trying to evaluate those sorts of things.
  25. Rob
    I would like to point you towards my sig.
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