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I don't think 172 ab's is enough to come to that conclusion. As for the "not enough contact, not enough walks to stay on a big league team" thing, couldn't the same be said for Soriano? Looking at his MiLB numbers, I find it hard to believe he'll maintain a BA as high as he had last year. I think he'll hit more along the lines of .250-.260 with a lot of Ks, probably no more than 30-40 BB a season, but he'll hit a bunch of HRs. That's something you can live with if you have guys that get on base a lot and take a lot of pitches around him.

Their "World's Best Fans" Come on, get it right. It's TBFIB. :lol:

This is the theory that I don't get. Pitchers were throwing harder, hitters were able to swing faster/harder. PED's don't help a curve ball curve or a slider slide, they allow you to throw with max effort more regularly. They don't help you square up the ball, they allow you to keep up your stamina to be able to have your best possible swing speed for the entire season. If you can hit the ball under these conditions, common sense says the ball will go farther due to increase pitch speed and increased swing speed. I think more HR's were hit and more offense resulted regardless of what anyone may say about pitchers using.

I would rather keep Murton than Pie, too. However, we could find a lot better value for Pie/Gallagher that Brian freaking Roberts. For instance, Pie/Gallagher would be a real nice start on a Khalil Greene trade. I know PetCo is not a hitter friendly park, but why is everyone salivating at the prospect of having a guy who also put up a .322 OBP on the road last year? Because there is a very high probability that he'll have an OPS of .800-.850 with the increase in HR (25-30) he'll see playing half his games at a more hitter friendly park, and that's really good for a SS. Especially when you take into account the lack of production we have there right now.

DeRosa for Tulowitzki, then get Roberts. :lol: :lol: :lol:

hey questionmarkgrace....see above I don't think we should trade Hill for Bedard, but I also don't think it's fair to compare these numbers. Bedard pitched in the much tougher AL East. Um, thats what the stat above debunks (at least for 2007). Tougher by 014 OPS points. Thats not the OPS allowed by the pitchers I'm quoting. Thats the total OPS of the batters they face (ie the OPS those batters have for the year). It shows that Hill basically faced the same quality of hitters that Bedard faced. OK, that does make Hill look better then. It did appear that you were pointing out the OPS against and not the total OPS of batters faced.

At this point, I think they would have to try really hard to finish worse than 4th with what the Cards and Pirates have to throw out there right now. At least Houston may score some runs with a middle of the order featuring Berkman, Lee, and Tejada and some decent filler around them in Pence, Wigginton (maybe decent), and Matsui if he has a decent year. The Pirates and Cards are hurt and just bad with no pitching.

My question is who in the heck are the Padres going to give up to get him? They don't have much in the farm system do they? Sounds like from that article they may just take a bunch of salary that the Pirates don't want to deal with.

6.4 K/9 in AA last year, 1.42 WHIP. Reliever and a pretty big guy too. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/L/tim-lahey.shtml

E. All of the above

That looks to me like the Angels are giving up a bit much for what they're getting and the Cubs aren't giving up enough.

Another example of Hendry bashing. When Hendry dismisses a player, he gets criticized and if he talks up a player, he gets criticized. Nobody is burning up the phone lines asking for Fuld, so what's the matter with building up the kid's ego. As for whether Hendry believes this, I don't think any of us know what he believes. Bruce Miles has pointed out that the Cubs are very tight lipped about what their plans are, but all of us "experts" know what Hendry's inner most thoughts are. how much longer does hendry continue to get the benefit of the doubt? people act like this is his first offseason or something. Well, here in St. Louis you have an opposite situation where everybody thought "Jocketty has always pulled these guys off the scrap heap and had success, no reason to doubt he'll do it again this year" when he signed Kip Wells last year. He ended up with an awful lineup full of guys who couldnt hit and couldn't pitch. Until Hendry does something monumentally stupid this off season, I say cut him some slack. He made some moves last year nobody liked (Marquis, Lilly, and DeRosa) and those turned out pretty darn well for the amount of money spent. I'm no Hendry apologist and think he certainly needs to do a better job and have a little philosophy change, but let's wait and see, because like Bruce said, the Cubs have been tight lipped about their plans, and who knows, maybe the Matsui thing was just a ploy to drive up the price for Houston.

Why? They're the same guy, with Murton not being quite as good defensively and hitting RH.

That seems to be their MO, doesn't it. I fail to undertand why they continue to rush their guys to the bigs when they won't be able to afford them once they are really good and productive. Maybe the new GM will change that.

That sounds like a pretty good description, although he may be better defensively as I think he came up as a 3B and played a few games in CF last year as well as RF.

Do we have anything that would compete with that deal? I guess Lee would be similar to Marshall perhaps and is Shoppach's value a lot higher than Pie's?

Article from Stark today on ESPN that says the Mets are in no way, shape, or form even considering moving Reyes. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3132761

I'm fairly certain the O's are pretty happy with Melvin Mora at 3rd, although he can play elsewhere and hits well enough that he doesn't kill you wherever he plays.

Double post.

I prefer this photo: http://www.fasthack.com/images/weblog/2007/07/kobayashi-reversal.jpg

Baseball made a lot of money in 2007....get ready for some outrageous money to be thrown around on some pretty average players. Baseball makes a ton of money every year and all the talk about GMs holding the line is always bs. The low-budget teams are just pocketing all the profits for the owners instead of spending it on players. It would be almost as irritating to me to see my team spending $30 million in payroll when every team gets almost $50M in revenue sharing as it is to see Hendry piss away the money he does for the results that we see every year.

don't you have your own crappy team to worry about? Jake doesn't have anything to worry about. His GM knows what statistics are and presumably how to use them.

Why would the Nats do this? Is Marshall really appealing enough to warrant taking on all of Marquis' $16.5M obligation? I don't think so. We'd have to send a bunch of cash to make this happen. I think that is Marshall OR Marquis, not both, which would make more sense. That's how I read it anyway.

In other news, Juan Pierre is the same player as Alfonso Soriano (w/ exception of power). Wow. Excellent comparison. Juan Pierre, who might fall into 1 HR a year and Alfonso Soriano who will typically hit 40+ HR to Cedeno who might hit 10-15 HR vs. Greene who will top out around 25 HR. Bravo. Way to go to an extreme to try to make somebody else look bad. U R awesome.