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  1. sneakypower
    http://25.media.tumblr.com/90d1cd301d923287bbe0f2905415efb8/tumblr_mpojpzKJ0E1qhc47so1_500.jpg
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    i guess Valbuena's getting bored out there and needs more of a challenge
  3. sneakypower
    i had meant non-exempt keepers, sorry
  4. sneakypower
    it's a keeper league and HBC doesn't have a single better keeper than either Braun/Tulo i'm not really interested in doing a line-by-line breakdown of the absurdity of each one of these trades, and if you're unwilling to exhibit any intellectual honesty (see bolded above) then this isn't even a conversation worth having
  5. sneakypower
    alright, so i'd been on vacation with no coverage for the last week+ and i'm catching up on things, and ho. ly. [expletive]...are the trades like this every year in this league? the top two teams have added via trade: Troy Tulowitzki Robinson Cano Felix Hernandez Hanley Ramirez Alex Rios Nick Markakis Joe Nathan Ian Kinsler just about every guy there is top-5 positionally or even elite and as far as i can tell, the single best player given up is probably a broken Matt Cain, or maybe Javy Baez's hopes & dreams if this has been a regular occurrence in the past that others have come to accept, then i guess that's that, but i can't find much intrigue in the winner being dictated purely on whomever can bludgeon the doormats of the league (or personal friends who don't care to check their teams except to donate their few remaining studs) to foolishly submit to their constant ridiculous low-ball offers please don't read into this as some kind of a dramatic threat to leave, or that i'm hopping mad over fantasy bb...i'm just filling out a comment card- i can't see this league being all that interesting if this becomes common practice
  6. sneakypower
    you're talking about 4 games here (and he's not even striking out), come on while i've always been pretty down on him, i'm actually starting to think there's a non-zero chance he can become some kind of a reasonable facsimile of Starling Marte if he puts it all together, but obviously the odds aren't in his favor it at least provides some added intrigue in an otherwise kind of boring final 2 months of the season
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    unless things have changed significantly since this study on prospect surplus values came out a few years back (certainly possible), it can be argued a top-10 pitching prospect is worth a little over $20M in surplus value fwiw, Wood's likely to eclipse that in this year alone
  8. sneakypower
    U-M picked up a verbal from ESPN's #3 Jr. WR George Campbell on Saturday and #20 RB Damien Harris today not a bad few days.
  9. sneakypower
    Wood's elite hitting counts, too edit: for an unpleasant reminder of Barney's woeful hitting, in the last 2 seasons, Wood has a .654 OPS (99 PA) and Darwin Barney has a .629 OPS (944 PA)
  10. sneakypower
    he's at 3.1 fWAR, if that's your preference, which still puts him somewhere near a top-15 pitcher i don't care for fWAR too much in Wood's case, since it's readily apparent he won't carry a league average BABIP, as FIP assumes
  11. sneakypower
    he's sitting at 4.4 bWAR right now
  12. sneakypower
    i guess if i had no plans whatsoever to compete next year i'd consider it
  13. sneakypower
    Doesn't seem like there is a fit for us, short of doing a deal around Samardzija. Travis Wood for Bundy? http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/michael_scott/The-Office-gifs-the-office-14948948-240-196.gif
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    Lindor's easily the safer bet to post a higher career WAR, which is a sensible way to do one of these lists
  15. sneakypower
    different FO, but don't look at Archer's numbers to be clear, i don't mind trading him for Garza, i'm bothered that we were given the choice of Archer/McNutt and choose...poorly
  16. sneakypower
    doesn't matter, win
  17. sneakypower
    for the past calendar year, Cespedes has been worth 3.8 fWAR with a 95 R, 29 HR, 89 RBI, 15 SB & .265/.332/.475 and 120 wRC+ line wRC+ over that same time-frame (300+ PA): DeJesus - 107 Rizzo - 106 Soriano - 106 Castillo - 95 Valbuena - 91 Castro - 86 Barney - 65 it's probably fair to argue that Cespedes would be the best hitter on our team had we signed him; i'm pretty comfortable with terming him a miss
  18. sneakypower
    Rizzo comes in at #37 in Dave Cameron's Trade Value Series http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2013-trade-value-40-36/#37
  19. sneakypower
    doesn't seem very often that 5 guys would combine for a shutout
  20. sneakypower
    pulled up lame running to first, grabbing the back of his leg; i think they called it tightness in hamstring or something
  21. sneakypower
    he Holliday'd that one
  22. sneakypower
    so, um, Ilya Kovalchuk retired.
  23. sneakypower
    a solid back-end starter who's 7th in all of MLB in xFIP
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    http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Sandoval_1.gif.opt_.gif
  25. sneakypower
    it really is; i'll never understand how you just flip a switch from replacement-level scrub to mvp like he does
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