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  1. sneakypower
    they were drinking Celebration Ale
  2. sneakypower
    i do really want us to sign Brett Anderson
  3. sneakypower
    I know who Butkus, Sayers, etc. are and I don't really give a [expletive] about them. I'd give you a blank stare too if you started talking about Bears players from 40 years ago for some reason. Greg Lloyd played throughout the 90s. He's not talking about dudes from 40 years ago. he was always a go-to player when building my Sega Madden '96 roster
  4. sneakypower
    i think they'll make a big play for Hamels instead; they've got like 10 MLB-ready arms and nothing to do with half of them except let them blow out their arms and lose all value in AAA
  5. sneakypower
    Lester to Boston rumors seems like agent jockeying to me, more than anything in the spring they offered him 4/70 and he swiftly gave that the Mutombo treatment...what's changed in the ensuing 8 months to cause them to presumably double their offer? it doesn't make much sense
  6. sneakypower
    if he had wielded a bat like Soler, none of the nearby players would have been the least bit concerned over it
  7. sneakypower
    http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2014/11/18/peter-gammons-on-dc-on-jon-lester-i-get-the-feeling-the-cubs-think-hes-going-to-go-back-to-boston/ my nightmares would certainly never involve bidding against Theo Epstein
  8. sneakypower
    i'd do 7/150 without a moment's hesitation
  9. sneakypower
    I have no idea, but I'd love to see if they negatively value Maybin on top of Grandal. Early reports are that they want power hitters so not sure how much of a match is there. maybe they could be fooled into taking Javy?
  10. sneakypower
    last year, he was 6+ wins better than Taveras
  11. sneakypower
    Beef had 412 PA and he somehow only scored 15 runs in which he didn't drive himself in to find somebody with fewer, i made it all the way down to Michael McKenry's 14 runs in 183 PA
  12. sneakypower
    i'd obviously be ok with that, but since week 1 our highest offensive output has been 24 points so i'm not considering it a realistic possibility
  13. sneakypower
    Well, case closed then. I have no problem deferring to the likes of the FO's who value this. Especially when they have much better and much more information available to them than we do. Why did Theo and Jed stick with Castillo for three years? recall that last year there was a lot of reported interest between our FO and Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who has never been considered to be a good receiver...it's actually fair to question if Theo & Jed really do put as much of an emphasis on it as some of the other teams have outwardly shown to (PIT, NYY, SD, TB, MIL, HOU) also, to answer your question, Castillo ranks near the top in blocking pitches, so all his dramatic movements behind the plate do have some worth; this gets factored into his WAR on FG, while framing doesn't, so i'm of the opinion that paints too positive a picture of him
  14. sneakypower
    Seriously, does it not bother people that really, really smart and data driven front offices seem to value it a lot? we've still got this guy http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SamardzijaBall.gif.opt_.gif
  15. sneakypower
    consensus ranking listed La Stella as the Braves #7 prospect 8 months ago
  16. sneakypower
    20 months ago, Brett Jackson was a top-5 prospect for us
  17. sneakypower
    i did keep saying he was getting McCann money btw, FG had 5/90 estimate on Hanley...i'd kinda love to do that and then just make a bunch of weird trades
  18. sneakypower
    http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002208609/2234648392_ffffuuuu_xlarge.jpeg
  19. sneakypower
    Steamer's trashy, but this is still mildly interesting to me nonetheless Steamer 600 PA projections Baez: .226/.280/.420 - .307 wOBA - 1.5 WAR La Stella: .265/.334/.357 - .310 wOBA - 1.4 WAR Alcantara: .245/.295/.391 - .303 wOBA - 1.3 WAR
  20. sneakypower
    cutty never. chip just tells mark where to throw the ball every play and gb's d is not great against actual teams. he'll be fine. bradshaw and jennings KILL KILL KILL
  21. sneakypower
    oh hey our best defensive player was dismissed from the program one week closer to the end of the season http://i.imgur.com/IW5KO6C.png
  22. sneakypower
    it lists Almora over Soler so it must be years old
  23. sneakypower
    Jays have been floating tbe idea of having Dioner Navarro DH a bunch; if i can find it i'll post it
  24. sneakypower
    oooh i quite like this
  25. sneakypower
    gonna have a dilemma i need 2 of: Blue @ CLE CJ Anderson @ StL Bradshaw vs NE Jennings vs SF just need to win this and then have Gordon, maybe Peterson returning and have comical easy choices in most every spots going forward
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