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Not sure if I'm on board with a fire sale but I think we should trade Barrett if we can find a good deal. He has value and I'm not really interested in signing him to an extension.

wow

Balk?

God, Izturis is completely worthless.

Ho hum.

WOO!

I am on Barrett b/c he is responsible for the lack of production in the middle of the order this year and is a horrific defensive catcher. You've been hell bent against Barrett as long as I can remember. It's pretty obvious you'll hate him whatever he does as you bring him up in 95% of your posts and grossly exaggerate his deficiencies.

Wow this chick is brutal.

Yeah, we'd be so much better off if we just had Freddie "Boom Boom" Bynum back to play right, and Blanco to catch... they'd never be on base to get thrown out. You heard him. They'll run us out of a COUPLE of innings.

The lack of power is just part of his game. The ripping is about lack of walks and too many k's at the same time. How is lack of power part of his game when he's top 10 in the FSL in slugging? I get that he's going to have to move to a corner, most likely, and that would diminish the value of his current slugging. But then again his slugging might continue to increase as he develops. That's certianly not out of the realm of possibility. There are plenty of things to be critical of Colvin for but I think you are being overly harsh here by calling him "light hitting". Slugging is more than power. Colvin may be 10th in SLG, but he's 22nd in HR. And he's in 1 of 3 high A level leagues. So, unlike being 10 in SLG or 22nd in HR in the majors, he's more like 30th and 66th, and that's just in A ball, not even AA or AAA. If he was top 10 in HR and top 5 in SLG, I might change my tune, but it's pretty clear to me he's not much of a power hitter. I did forget about the other leagues but I'm not sure how those compare across the board or if you can compare numbers cross leagues. Can you? Comparing a pitching dominated league to a hitter dominated league is going to skew things, no? I just think your being a little premature here in saying he's a light hitter in that he's early in his devlopment and slugging well for his league. I'm just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here as it's early and I find it more fun that way. His bb/k ratio is atrocious though. I am with everyone there. Edit: It also seems that you are refering to HR power when you say "power" which I didn't really grasp the first time around. Not sure about the Carolina League but the California League is a hitter's paradise. Just looking at it now and the top 8 in slugging in the California league would still be the top 8 in the FSL.

When the difference is as drastic as it is in this instance, it's not worthless by any means. Sure it is.

The lack of power is just part of his game. The ripping is about lack of walks and too many k's at the same time. How is lack of power part of his game when he's top 10 in the FSL in slugging? I get that he's going to have to move to a corner, most likely, and that would diminish the value of his current slugging. But then again his slugging might continue to increase as he develops. That's certianly not out of the realm of possibility. There are plenty of things to be critical of Colvin for but I think you are being overly harsh here by calling him "light hitting". Slugging is more than power. Colvin may be 10th in SLG, but he's 22nd in HR. And he's in 1 of 3 high A level leagues. So, unlike being 10 in SLG or 22nd in HR in the majors, he's more like 30th and 66th, and that's just in A ball, not even AA or AAA. If he was top 10 in HR and top 5 in SLG, I might change my tune, but it's pretty clear to me he's not much of a power hitter. I did forget about the other leagues but I'm not sure how those compare across the board or if you can compare numbers cross leagues. Can you? Comparing a pitching dominated league to a hitter dominated league is going to skew things, no? I just think your being a little premature here in saying he's a light hitter in that he's early in his devlopment and slugging well for his league. I'm just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here as it's early and I find it more fun that way. His bb/k ratio is atrocious though. I am with everyone there. Edit: It also seems that you are refering to HR power when you say "power" which I didn't really grasp the first time around.

The lack of power is just part of his game. The ripping is about lack of walks and too many k's at the same time. How is lack of power part of his game when he's top 10 in the FSL in slugging? I get that he's going to have to move to a corner, most likely, and that would diminish the value of his current slugging. But then again his slugging might continue to increase as he develops. That's certianly not out of the realm of possibility. There are plenty of things to be critical of Colvin for but I think you are being overly harsh here by calling him "light hitting".

Catcher's don't pitch? Edit: Not meaning to come across as snippy. But obviously the biggest factors in a pitcher performance are, obviously the pitcher, but also the team he faces. What good is a stat that doesn't account for the fact that people are pitching against completely different teams?

Large variations and almost zero consistency. IE, Z was better with Barrett two seasons ago, almost dead even last year, and much worse with Barrett this season. I would like to see Z's stats broken out for the phases of the moon so we can pitch him when he really thrives.

I have no idea if he is a good fullback or not. Anybody?

Conveniently left out the .429 SLG He's sitting at a 91 OPS+ right now which is a little below average but he also has an .892 OPS in the month of June, so he's coming around. He's without a doubt our best option at catcher, unless you want to base your decision on worthless garbage like catcher's ERA.

Catcher's ERA is completely worthless.

10 pages? Wow.

His stuff tonight was very very good. Everything he threw moved and he had great control.

All of the sudden Z is flawless?

We could use Dunn's speed on the basepaths.

So basically they gave arbitrary values to various stats and complied them in a way that makes sense to nobody. Interesting!

Magic powers of different colored tshirts?

Is this vote really a vote about Sammy Sosa?