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  1. Rob
    Dunn is not the person I want to see up in this situation with this miniscule zone...
  2. Rob
    An accurate projection would be 1 HR an inning for 162 games. Welcome to cooperstown career home run leader with 1458. He had 7 last year, too.
  3. Rob
    I can't believe how tight this zone is... it's ridiculous.
  4. Rob
    I couldn't stop laughing when his glove popped off...
  5. Rob
    Better odds that he goes to the Yankees. They'll take on some of the Marlins' cumbersome 400k albatross contracts to offer up financial relief that Loria just wont be able to look past. :roll:
  6. Rob
    My God....gotta love this board. At least nobody here criticizes too much or jumps to conclusions. He (gasp) might actually miss a start or TWO!! The horror.... I have Jermaine Dye on my team. I think he's going to hit 1.000 all year long....that should really help the overall average. What on earth are you on about? C.C. Sabathia was anchoring my staff, as it is extremely weak after a few trades to make my offense insane... and now I don't even have him. I find it extremely unlikely this doesn't cost him a few starts, based on the way he was reacting to the injury. So this hurts my fantasy team. I don't see how I'm jumping to conclusions. Though I can certainly see it from you.
  7. Rob
    The look on Jim Thome's face when he saw that thing floating in was pretty good though. He didn't know what the hell was going on.
  8. Rob
    C.C. Sabathia just left the game. So much for my fantasy team...
  9. Rob
    Well Jose Canseco did say he was talking about B12 shots. I say we tar and feather him!!! :twisted:
  10. Rob
    On the other hand, if he makes $13.5 million in 2007 and is healthy, he could be in line for a much bigger payday. And I still believe he has a strong desire to stay in Chicago. His kid will be less than a year old and it would be tough for them to move away from his wife's family. It's a $3 million buyout, by the way. If you take that into account, it's "only" an extra $10.5 million for the Cubs. Yeah, I realize all of that, but I'm still just cynical I guess. It seems like everybody is following Gary Sheffield's mercenary system nowadays. I miss guys like Barry Larkin and Tony Gwynn...
  11. Rob
    Personally, I don't see any way that it happens. It's a 13.5 million dollar mutual option for next season. If he pitches well enough that the Cubs would want to exercise it, he could make more on the market. If he doesn't pitch so well that he could do better on the market, the Cubs wont want to pick up the option. Seems kinda hopeless to me unless Kerry really loves the Cubs more than money. But since his agent isn't Boras, I guess there's a chance of that.
  12. Rob
    Oh, lighten up. It's all in good fun.
  13. Rob
    34, I think. And I'm betting Brandon McCarthy is pretty pissed off right about now.
  14. Rob
    wgncubstvbooth@aol.com Thanks! I was scouring the wgn and cubs websites and couldn't find a thing. You're a lifesaver.
  15. Rob
    Does anybody in here know the email address for Len and Bob?
  16. Rob
    :oops: D'oh! Forgot all about Marshall...
  17. Rob
    So who gives when Wood, Prior, and Miller are ready to come off the DL? The only people I can think of with options are Murton, Cedeno, Ohman, and Wuertz. At least one or two of the people on our 25 man right now are living on borrowed time...
  18. Rob
    His weighted mean forecast is .297/.348/.361 with 49 SB and 16 CS and costing us 6 runs in the outfield.
  19. Rob
    Actually, it's been proven that bunting can increase the odds of scoring in some situations. It simply increases the odds of scoring one run for sacrificing the odds of scoring more than that. So if we REALLY need a run, sometimes it is actually beneficial to lay down the bunt... but pretty much only if it advances a runner to third.
  20. Rob
    Those are the average amount of wins for each team running the simulations, but the playoff odds report based off PECOTA states... "Average wins by position in NL Central: 100.5 91.5 85.2 79.3 73.0 64.0" The standings you were looking at are really only used for figuring out which team belongs where.
  21. Rob
    Being the idiot that I am, I went into my draft with little preparation whatsoever. So when I got a pick and saw Francisco Cordero still sitting there after a huge run on closers had just started, I decided I might as well go ahead and pick him up. Since then, I'm having trouble seeing if he's even pitching right now. I'm checking rotoworld, and the last thing it has for him is pitching in a game on the 23rd after having experienced some shoulder problems earlier in the month. I can't find any record of him pitching since then, but I can't find an injury being reported either. If he's healthy I think he's probably a better bet for saves than Eddie Guardado, who is still sitting on the waiver wire... the only problem is that I have no idea whether he's healthy or not.
  22. Rob
    I just heard on XM that Cox is probably going to keep Brian Jordan on the roster over some younger guy that hit over 400 in st (forgot his name). Because he looks at his bench and doesn't see any veterans there. He must have a veteran fetish? Everybody is going to have some level of faith in veterans over kids. Bobby Cox has enough history of putting faith in younger players to excuse him from occasionally going with a guy like Jordan. I wouldn't be all that interested in that kid's spring training numbers, as opposed to his career numbers as a pro. But for what it's worth, Jordan is having a great spring, so if you want to use that as your excuse, it doesn't make much sense. Plus, what is the kid's storyline? Is he a 22 year old solid prospect who can use some more seasoning playing everyday, as opposed to being on the bench. Would being a major league bench player slow his progress? And I don't know many people who have advocated benches with zero veterans, so if most of the guys are younger and Brian is the sole aged one, that's not that big of a deal. And let's not forget, Cox brought back a 42 year old Julio Franco in 2001, and got 5 years of pretty good production from him. So he's got as much of an eye for the older people as the younger ones.
  23. Rob
    Be on the lookout while you're in that airport, I saw John Cleese in there when I left last week.
  24. Rob
    Did you completely forget about the last few years of Jose Macias?
  25. Rob
    I don't think I would take Billy Butler for Pie... Now if they were offering Alex Gordon, that might be another matter entirely.
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