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  1. but...they have a much higher payroll ???
  2. he found a guy who used the term "fringe-average" and has been running with it ever since i think it was baseballknowitall.com
  3. he tweeted Avi Garcia would have been #1 had he qualified
  4. mods, you heard the guy
  5. yeah, let's kill the weeds and then we'll have nothing growing in our lawns!
  6. Alamo Stealth receives Cucamonga's MLB 3rd rounder in the Weaver deal
  7. every time i try to quit Barney, he pulls me back in
  8. http://25.media.tumblr.com/90d1cd301d923287bbe0f2905415efb8/tumblr_mpojpzKJ0E1qhc47so1_500.jpg
  9. i guess Valbuena's getting bored out there and needs more of a challenge
  10. i had meant non-exempt keepers, sorry
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. 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)
  17. 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
  18. i guess if i had no plans whatsoever to compete next year i'd consider it
  19. 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
  20. Lindor's easily the safer bet to post a higher career WAR, which is a sensible way to do one of these lists
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