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  1. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Guess which one of these lines is Soriano's 2005 away line, and which one is Neifi's 2005 line. A) .274/.298/.383/.681 B) .224/.265/.374/.639 Hint: It's B This had better be like the Prior's shoulder is hurt rumor. i.e. absolute bs.
  2. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Only if I was Team B, although Cabrera is going to suffer from having a Neifi-like leadoff hitter in front of him this season. Drew could be solid if healthy. Mussina isn't good for much. Giles would be great if you had a league scoring OBP. :lol:
  3. MeatampPotatoesMan
    None of them are worth that much. They were both overpaid and Lee would certainly be overpaid at 15 a year. That's the market now. Do you refuse to pay big money to big stars because the market's inflated? I'm not saying we should be the Yankees, but we also shouldn't be Kansas City. Is he a "big star?" He had one stellar year.
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    Except for the fact that Zambrano is already better than Buehrle and that he didn't pick a #5. Buehrle vs Zambrano is up to debate. The difference in leagues can skew some of those numbers. You're right. Buerhle has pitched in what over the last few years has been the worst division in baseball. That really needs to be taken into account and held against him. I dont know the stats so if i am wrong i apolozige, but It seems as if The Cell has also been a better hitters park the last few years then Wrigley. I think Zambrano is a little better but they are very very close and its not that absurd for anyone to say they would take Buherle. What he said. ;) And it really doesn't matter because neither one of them is better than Carp. ...runs and hides. =; puh-lease
  5. MeatampPotatoesMan
    It's better than a clean cut Neifi, that's for sure.
  6. MeatampPotatoesMan
    No doubt he'd get the money from someone else, but it would be their bad contract and not ours (unless DLee has really stepped it up to another level).
  7. MeatampPotatoesMan
    You mean 2003? (For the most part) Someone once pointed out that God must have been taking a nap that season until the LCS rolled around.
  8. MeatampPotatoesMan
    No reporter who is actually in Mesa has written that. Whew. Thanks, Mr. Miles.
  9. MeatampPotatoesMan
    That seems pretty fair. BP is supposedly working on Databeast, which should attempt to evaluate just how effective managers are. It will be interesting to see where Dusty ranks among his peers. I don't think it's been released yet, but I could be wrong. I really doubt that he helps his teams score runs with all the bs he pulls. I think we're sitting at 85 wins or so right now. If Wood/Z/Prior all stay healthy we might be looking at 90-95 assuming the offense doesn't fall off a cliff. Even that doesn't assure us of a playoff spot, but it's a good deal better than last season (I aim low, lol).
  10. MeatampPotatoesMan
    8) That was so sweet. I wonder if people are going to be more willing to charge the mount on him now that he's slimmed down. I'm just concerned about the batter's widow. No harm could come to Z, the Man of Steel.
  11. MeatampPotatoesMan
    I'm sorry guys, but Adrian Beltre should be the foremost example on Hendry's mind come DLee contract talks. One great year doesn't mean he's suddenly elevated his game to an all new level and is there to stay. I love Lee, but he's not worth $15M if he reverts to his average year form. It's like Hendry wants me to be mad at him. One stupid move after another. I can't wait to see how many years Lee gets.
  12. MeatampPotatoesMan
    I hope that report/rumor is false. Please, God, have mercy. Just one season of healthiness.
  13. MeatampPotatoesMan
    This would be mind blowing though. If we're going to draw on past experience, not only is Murton far better than Dubois, but Grissom (at this point in his career) is far worse than Holly was last season. Dusty scares me, but not even he would start Grissom everyday over Murton. That's just insane. OK, it is Dusty. Point conceded.
  14. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Yep, and they haven't learned, so he's slated to hit 2nd also. :shock: Well, that's slightly better than leadoff.
  15. MeatampPotatoesMan
    I have to disagree. Like so many things in the 2004 Cubs season, suffice to say there were multiple mistakes at several levels: the media for making a mountain out of a molehill; Baker for not keeping it in the clubhouse; Walker for publically dissing Z and of course Z for throwing the tantrum in the first place That Z-Walker incident is precisely the sort of thing that should never leave a professional baseball clubhouse. We have no idea, of course, what (if anything) Baker said to Z and Walker, but if it didn't include something like "Nobody talks to the media about this, even if asked directly, are we clear?" (under an implied penalty of death) then Baker didn't do his job and control his team. I thought it was an unspoken rule in baseball that you kept that garbage in house. Z lost it in the heat of the moment on the field. Walker lost it post-incident against the rules. I really don't have a problem with Z or Walker in the incident. As long as there wasn't bad blood going forward, no harm, no foul.
  16. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Because if you read further down, you get to this: It's not much of a fallback when Grissom hit .267/.299/.396/.695 against righties over the last 3 seasons. If Murton tanks so badly that Marquis Grissom can take his spot everyday, then he doesn't deserve to be in the majors. Murton has far too much plate discipline for that to happen. I read that part of the article, and basically it says that if X, Y, Z, XX, YY, and ZZ all occur, then Grissom may be an option in LF over Murton. You took the worst case scenario that the article just spent 500 words debunking as highly unlikely and made it the centerpiece of an argument. edit: sorry, you weren't the OP. :oops:
  17. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Thanks for the link. From what I've read, he's always had problems keeping his breaking stuff consistent (even in college) and his fastball hovered around 92 mph, which is scary for someone wanting to be a closer. Losing a few mph in that case is huge. Oh well, at least we got Williams. I wonder who scouted Aardsma for the Cubs. They should have seen this. Maybe they knew it and he was included in the deal just as a gamble on our part.
  18. MeatampPotatoesMan
    How did you get that out of this article? That's after all the lengthy talk about him not being able to play every day anymore b/c his body probably wouldn't let him and he'd embarrass himself like he did in Atlanta.
  19. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Ausmus is as close to worthless as a baseball player can get w/o starting drama. I agree, it really isn't enough to have 1-2 good starting pitchers. No, it's not going to be fine, Mr. Ausmus, even if Oswalt and Pettitte are legit #1 and #2 starters.
  20. MeatampPotatoesMan
    His stuff has gone in the crapper, he has lost mph from his pitches since his days in SF and his offspeed pitches aren't as effective. Where does this info come from? Not that I doubt it, but looking at the numbers (blindly), he doesn't look to be suffering from a lack of velo and movement. His k rates are in line with his career as is his batting average against. The only thing that really jumps out is his walk rate. He also pitched 86.2 innings this year, quite a jump from what he's used to. The lack of velo could be due to conditioning if it just showed up post-trade.
  21. MeatampPotatoesMan
    I don't think his stuff went in the crapper so much as he could find the plate. His k/9 was pretty decent (for him), but his BB/9 was indeed crapola. His h/9 was pretty normal for him, but his WHIP skyrocketed thanks to all the walks. I think he's overrated anyways, unless he pulls a Wuertz and starts dominating hitters (~7.5 k/9 in AA and below to ~11 in AAA and MLB). He really doesn't look like much of a closer. I think Williams is the best piece in the Hawkins for Aardsma/Williams deal. Of course Wuertz didn't look like anything special (numbers wise) until he hit 24, so who knows.
  22. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Grissom's 3 year splits (2003-2005): vs. Left: .322/.359/.567/.926 (335 AB) vs. Right: .267/.299/.396/.695 (951 AB)
  23. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Barry is a great hitter, but he is one of the world's biggest whiners. "Oh poor me" gets old after a couple of years.
  24. MeatampPotatoesMan
    Edmonds is drooling over that pic right now, thinking "easy pickins."
  25. MeatampPotatoesMan
    when has he shown up his teammates? :? there was one over-publicized incident against the Astros in June 2004: Z threw a tantrum on the mound when Todd Walker missed a play on the field. Walker called him out on it in the press after the game, which was a mistake: Dusty should have been settled that in the clubhouse, and besides that the Cubs won the game. Z apologized the next day and everyone put on a nice public face after that. Ah, I'd forgotten about that. Didn't he also get a little pissed after a botched play in the OF (Murton?) last season? I think he immediately apologized to whomever it was.
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