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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.

I don't have enough info to address the rest of this, but it seemed to me that a lot of the time a Cub (especially Lee) struck out looking last year, the ball was on the outside edge of the plate and there were a lot of times when it looked like there was a huge outside corner (ie 4-6 inches off the black) that the Cubs pitchers weren't getting in the same game.

I really like the idea (I think it was yours) from the other thread where we sign Fukudome for CF, put Murton in RF, and trade Pie to SD for Greene and a prospect. That seems like a pretty realistic scenario that would help both teams if we included Cedeno and they sent back whatever decent guy(s) they've got in their system.

Here's some 2008 projections James J.Loney .302 /.359/.465 /.823 CHONE J.Loney .284/.347/.431/.778 James M.Kemp .322/.365/.508/.873 CHONE M.Kemp .289/.337/.467/.804 Yeah, it'd totally suck to have those two hitting 3 and 5. Absolutely awful.

One would hope. What in the world are we talking about here? Garwilly's comment on the possible breaking news.

What are reasonable projections for Kemp and Loney for the next couple of years?

Hopefully he was referring to XM and not being a jerk and referring to you.

It's his hitting, not defense, that's the problem. Moving him to first would be nuts. That was my question, is it hitting when he has pain or throwing? It's the left shoulder I believe so the problem is with swinging the bat. He's still a well above average 3rd baseman.