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:lol: seriously. 3 of his best consecutive power years were his ages 38-40 seasons. He's also dramatically altered his swing to try and drop flyballs into the crawford boxes. His power certainly isn't showing up away from Houston.
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12 team standard h2h league with IP and OBP added. In addition, we get four keepers. I've been offered Johan Santana, Jake Peavy, and Carl Crawford for Albert Pujols, Joe Mauer, and Matt Cain. This is my team right now. C - Joe Mauer 1B - Albert Pujols 2B - Howie Kendrick 3B - Alex Rodriguez SS - Bill Hall LF - Manny Ramirez CF - Vernon Wells RF - Vladamir Guerrero UTIL - Travis Hafner SP - Felix Hernandez SP - Rich Hill SP - Matt Cain P - Chien-Ming Wang P - Jeremy Accardo RP - J.J. Putz Bench - Tim Lincecum Bench - Andrew Miller DL - BJ Upton If I were to do the trade, I could slide Travis Hafner to 1B and put Crawford or Manny at UTIL. And Ramon Hernandez is available on the waiver wire to be my new catcher. I'm fairly confidant that this makes my team better this season. But if you haven't guessed from looking at my team, I'm already in first place. And I worry that all it does is slightly degrade my keepers next season. So I have two questions I need help with. 1. Do you make this trade if you're in my shoes? 2. Who on earth would you keep?
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Yeah, I'm down to 285.
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Just for fun, I've decided to make a team that wouldn't be FA eligible at the end of this season, even though we aren't paying attention to the contracts. Joe Mauer Hanley Ramirez Miguel Cabrera Jake Peavy Felix Hernandez (real surprised at the lack of love for him)
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oh for crying out loud....did you even read the article. Yes, absolutely. He makes a point to note that the Cubs waited until Barret's value was at his lowest to trade him, which is completely a hindsight argument. In the offseason, when his value was high, there was no need or desire to trade him. Trading him at his highest value wasn't in anyone's thoughts. So its a nonsensical argument. The other notable names in his article (aside from Sosa) are people who have bounced around baseball, playing for numerous teams, and not sticking with any of them for more than 2 years. How much value do these career journeyman have anyway? Has any team received real value in trading for guys like Walker or Bellhorn? Barrett is a catcher on the wrong side of 30. Given that, there was quite a risk of offensive implosion. While I probably wouldn't have traded Barrett in Hendry's shoes, I would have certainly thought about packaging him with Jacque and Eyre (whose values were certainly about to crash, as they had shown no ability to keep that level of performance up) to see if I could get an upgrade at SS or RF. At any rate, Bellhorn was an extremely valuable part of the Red Sox in 2004. He hit .264/.373/.444 for the team that won the WS. I'd say he has pretty decent value. -
Yeah... Pujols is younger and has a lead of 166 HR right now. I'd say Howard has to be ranked well behind him.
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Who is the other? It's understood to be me.
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My vote has officially been bought.
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Meh. Are you kidding me? What? Those girls are classic examples of "Butterface" syndrome.
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Colour me skeptical after this long...
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Billy Petrick to Chicago
Rob replied to sporrer17's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I know DFAing a player clears their 25 man roster spot... does it clear the 40 man too? -
There are a very few experiences in my life that I thoroughly regret. When I'm by myself and the thoughts happen to wander to those experiences, I always find myself screaming curse words. Thankfully, this doesn't happen often... but I always wonder if the neighbors have ever wondered if there's a guy with tourettes next door.
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While it's not surprising, it's quite disheartening that Hendry doesn't just cut Izzy or Jones already.
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wow that 6 through 9 sure inspires a lot of confidence. DeRosa's .776 OPS hitting #5 isn't exactly up to snuff either.
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My Lineup Prediction: Soriano, LF Pagan, CF Lee, 1B Aramis, 3B DeRosa, RF Bowen, C Theriot, 2B Izturis, SS Marquis, P
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I'd still rather see if he could stick in the rotation than get 3-4 IP out of him a week.
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Good god. Z is looking fantastic. I, for my part, regret ever doubting the man when his velocity was down.
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Elijah Dukes
Rob replied to Soriano12's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Be careful. His six kids with five different women seem to indicate he doesn't like to play safe. -
One could argue that's what the Barrett trade was. That was tossing deck chairs off the titanic, because they thought the deck chairs were weighing the thing down. Very true. Unfortunately, we may have tossed off the wrong chairs. We got rid of the boat anchor, unfortunately the ship has already run aground. Which anchor did we get rid of? Izturis, Jones, and Eyre are all getting paid more than Barrett was, for half the production... combined.
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It's on Fox Sports now.
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Players who have no business being in the majors
Rob replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Puhleaze. I'm moderately entertaining occassionally to people with no sense of propriety, but the second I see your avatar, I know I'm gonna see one hell of a post. Still, it does feel good to be noticed. *swoons* -
My opinion of Ed Lynch just went way up. I think he and Hendry were pretty equally bad as GMs. They both hired idiot former players to manage (Baker and Baylor). They both built the same piecemeal teams hoping over-the-hill vets would return to their glory days. They both got lucky once, and each time it was mainly due to the offensive production of a single player, Sosa, a tremendous contribution from a rookie pitcher, and some overachieving veterans. The 98 team had a lot better offense and the 03 team had better pitching, but neither were, in my opinion a particularly well put together team. The 03 team was better because at the end of the day, great pitching wins more games than great hitting. Studies have proven that isn't true... but whatever.
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Michael Barrett's start tonight in San Diego
Rob replied to RyneSandberg's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Can we blame Hendry for bringing in an inept manager like Lou? Cause that was a pretty horrible transgression.
