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  1. well, that was a grotesque play call
  2. Burke Named MWL Pitcher of the Week http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=4420087
  3. May: .125/.222/.125, 1 BB, 7 K, 1 SB in 18 PA June: .395/.477/.711, 3 BB, 9 K, 6 SB in 43 PA he's definitely hitting his stride now
  4. that's probably the most absurd suggestion Olney's ever made, in a career full of absurd suggestions since 08, there've been seven players in baseball more valuable than Greinke...and he's still just 28 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/zack-greinke-will-get-paid/
  5. this is still a bottom-5 offense in baseball that's conjecture. but the giants skate by with worse. it's not conjecture, it's projection; that's ostensibly the same 2nd-worst-in-baseball offense we're running out there right now the Giants have arguably the best bullpen in baseball and a park that also suppresses offense; they're only the 10th-worst offense in the league, park adjusted
  6. if you don't extend Garza, then he needs to be moved almost immediately and hamels & greinke is still about $300M in commitments, to two pitchers...that's certainly a pipe dream with this FO this alone is like $400M worth of commitments or 1/3rd of the annual payroll. which is why it's a good thing we develop our position players. that's definitely being overstated; there's two guys in the lineup you posted we can expect to be 3-win players
  7. this alone is like $400M worth of commitments this is still a bottom-5 offense in baseball
  8. wow, he got it; pretty cool to see that, glad i stayed up for it
  9. he chased down a sure XBH from Castro in the gap and jumped at the last second to plant his foot on the wall
  10. Jackson lucky he didn't [expletive] up his ankle there, that could have been pretty ugly
  11. i had a friend ask me recently what i thought best-/likeliest-/worst-case scenarios were for Castro, and i came up with Robin Yount/Renteria/Templeton
  12. full list: 1 Ty Cobb 765 2 Buddy Lewis 753 3 Robin Yount 717 4 Mel Ott 715 5 Al Kaline 710 6 Freddie Lindstrom 689 7 Ken Griffey 652 8 Alex Rodriguez 648 9 Vada Pinson 626 10 Cesar Cedeno 618 11 Edgar Renteria 611 12 Sherry Magee 605 13 Ted Williams 563 14 Mickey Mantle 561 15 Jimmie Foxx 560 16 Orlando Cepeda 549 17 Stuffy McInnis 545 18 Ed Kranepool 543 19 Dick Hoblitzell 538 20 Arky Vaughan 524 21 Hank Aaron 520 22 Bobby Doerr 520 23 Claudell Washington 519 24 Travis Jackson 513 25 Frank Robinson 512 Castro's ZiPS ROS has him due to finish with 543 career hits by season's end, which should comfortably position him within the top-20 of this list
  13. http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb73/moonlightj/crawl2.gif
  14. best interview response of the year (non-Wood division): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbhjzsyvGk
  15. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FZVvgFCIxXM/TD5qPdtzViI/AAAAAAAAABE/Ht-VwGQ6bjY/s1600/confused-full.jpg
  16. 438 ft i'm partial to this HR; "he just took one of the best relievers in the league the other way- who does that? "
  17. he's top-5 amongst SS in just about every advanced fielding metric, and he has just 3 errors in his last 46 games
  18. Rizzo's 650 career AAA plate appearances: 49 2B, 46 HR, 154 RBI, 63 BB, 131 K, .343/.411/.678
  19. that was a really good play Castro made look easy
  20. I can't find 2011, but separating 2010 from what I posted above, 116 PA, .222.276/.370/.636, 28 K in iowa (2011), he hit: .283/.340/.529 vs. LHP .354/.441/.720 vs. RHP
  21. M's got a fortunate call on that potential IF single by Gordon; i think he was safe there
  22. more on Votto: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/tom_verducci/06/05/joey.votto.reds/index.html?sct=mlb_t11_a0
  23. sure they are, if you completely ignore speed, which provides significant value for him just factoring in SB (with wOBA), you see that his .616 OPS the last two seasons has actually been (ever so slightly) more productive than Barney's .687 OPS and Soto's .690 OPS
  24. stumbled upon this the other day (from last october) Dan Szymborski: Going through Castro's Prime: Year BA/OBP/SLG WAR 2012 301/343/432 3.5 2013 308/352/464 4.4 2014 310/356/475 4.8 2015 311/359/479 5.0 2016 310/359/487 5.2 2017 309/360/483 5.1 2018 304/357/479 4.8 2019 304/357/479 4.7 2020 302/354/471 4.3 2021 300/351/466 3.9 ZiPS likes Castro. Going down Castro's comp list: Derek Jeter Robin Yount George Brett Paul Molitor Hanley Ramirez Steve Sax Alan Trammell Garry Templeton Troy Tulowitzki Carney Lansford Zoilo Versalles Roberto Alomar Jim Fregosi Adrian Beltre Edgar Renteria Chris Speier Cecil Travis Robinson Cano Joe Thurston Buddy Bell Lou Boudreau
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