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  1. sneakypower
    savages?
  2. sneakypower
    neither teams worry me the slightest bit the Nats have Morse, Werth, Harper, Rendon all slated for COF/1B work, and Morse is unplayable anywhere but 1B, with a career UZR/150 worse than that of Adam Dunn in LF; they'd be a perfect fit for Jose Reyes, though the Jays have Snider, Bautista, Thames, Gose/Rasmus, Lind all slated for COF/1B work, and Lind is unplayable anywhere but 1B with a career UZR/150 identical to that of Adam Dunn in LF; but they'd be a great fit for Sabathia or Wilson
  3. sneakypower
    Marvin Austin, too
  4. sneakypower
    For a SS having a slightly less valuable season than J.J. Hardy in 1/3rd more playing time. is that a bad thing? Hardy has more HR than Miguel Cabrera and Joey Votto at 21 years old, he's slightly less valuable than a good SS who's having a career year offensively- the horror!
  5. sneakypower
    Castro is a nice piece, but he is nowhere near the kind of player you worry about "wasting" his cheap years. Why not? He's already about a 4 win offensive player right now at age 21 and should only increase his power in the next couple years (and already has taken a step up from last year). I'm not saying he's for sure going to be a superstar, but given what he's done so far, it would be stupid to say he is nowhere near that kind of player. If by "4-win offensive player" you mean "on pace for less than 3," sure. And his defense is still a problem. Edit: Well, let's say "on pace for about 3," depending on what site you use. bb-ref's WAR is so [expletive] weird; Dante Bichette slugged .620, finished 2nd in MVP voting, and they have him at 0.3 WAR for that season. he OPSed .900 and was -2.8 WAR!
  6. sneakypower
    I like to this of this job as a dream job, I just wonder if Rosenthal isn't overstating a little how much allure it has to GMs of other teams. I don't think so. Huge market. Great sports town. Chance to make history. And, above all else, very deep pockets in a division full of teams who don't have that luxury. Should be an easy division to own if the team is run competently. Depends on how deep those pockets are. Friedman will think he fell into Scrooge McDuck's room full of gold coins if he took this job, but Cashman wouldn't. http://i51.tinypic.com/24kwll2.jpg
  7. sneakypower
    the correct characterization would have been 'off-the-charts measurables but questionable NFL skills'; i don't really know what the hell you're talking about
  8. sneakypower
    he looks like a character from Guess Who?
  9. sneakypower
    Coletti threw Carlos Santana into a trade to save a few bucks in salary
  10. sneakypower
    at least he didn't pop his [expletive] achilles. :(
  11. sneakypower
    http://www.gifbin.com/bin/032010/1269259657_omg_cat.gif
  12. sneakypower
    ah, Hoopz, the pride of Brownstown
  13. sneakypower
    The fact is, if this team is going to compete next year, wholesale upgrades are necessary. 1B is one of the best places to do so with the best available options, unless we want to spend similar money on a perenially injured Jose Reyes or a bit less on a 35 year old Carlos Beltran. Sabathia would also be an intriguing option, but a very expensive one, but The Tigers have shown us how valuable it is to have one shutdown ace no matter how meh the rest of your pitching staff is, of course we don't have the Tigers offense. I know, Penas a great clubhouse guy, but 10 mil is a steep price for a youth mentor. - The Tigers' offense has 5 of 9 starters currently posting above average OPS'. It's built around one superstar bat (Cabrera), a couple solid vets (Martinez, Peralta), and then a couple of upstart young guys (Boesch and Avila). I think the 2012 Cubs can pull that off if they added a superstar bat. There's talented bats in this lineup (Ramirez, Castro, Soto, and to a much much lesser extent nowadays Soriano), but no one to spearhead the operation of destroying other teams' pitching. you forgot to mention a closer who's been perfect, which helps them out-perform their pythag by quite a bit i guess what i mean to say is, i'm hoping for even better than a team that shouldn't even be .500
  14. sneakypower
    how completely asinine is it to harp so badly on a guy's low-babip-fueled low OBP like that in limited AB entering a new level; seriously, what a raging dick did anybody get a Dillon Maples question in there, is he going to sign?
  15. sneakypower
    very lazily - http://mlsplits.drivelinebaseball.com/mlsplits/mlecalc i don't dispute they're a bit flawed, but it's a good way to get a quick and easy estimate of a player's immediate potential
  16. sneakypower
    i think you guys have got it all wrong with the LT/RT fixation correct me if i'm wrong, but Cutler's not a QB where you worry about blindside hits, because he's usually pretty parallel to the LOS with his shoulders, and even with pressure coming from his left he can still step into a throw. also consider the two best pass rushers in the division he'll face (Matthews and Avril) come from the right side of the field, and i'd probably consider putting my better pass protector over there
  17. sneakypower
    two extremes- DeVoss is hitting .004 pts higher than Vitters, but has an OBP .130 pts higher Brett Jackson has a .248/.324/.454 MLE in Iowa right now. if he can provide average CF defense, that's a 3 win player
  18. sneakypower
    Bears 2011 Preview
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    Jacoby Ellsbury alone has more HR than that lineup for the season
  20. sneakypower
    the ever-important Madden ratings for the Bears
  21. sneakypower
    hadn't seen this site before, but scouting grades and player comparisons for the top 122 players who were in the draft 14) Baez: Julio Lugo, Felipe Lopez, Todd Walker - good approach, power, athlete, move to 3B likely 50) Zych: Kyle Farnsworth - 93-99 fb, avg slider, decept, iffy mechs, dazzled in cape cod league 52) Maples: Scott Linebrink, Chad Billingsley - 90-95 sink fb, above avg cb fut plus, fringy fb cmd, incons mechs 95) Vogelbach: Jack Cust, Nick Swisher - plus-plus raw power, good approach, bad athlete, soft body no Dunston, Jr.
  22. sneakypower
    it's times like this i miss google realtime
  23. sneakypower
    this cracked me up, too http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/12/cris-carter-calvin-johnson-is-great-in-video-games-not-in-real-football/ [expletive] TECMO BOWL
  24. sneakypower
    obviously he's a pretty crappy player right now, but i'd have liked to give him a try (also note in this fantasy world where my GM wishes were to come to fruition, we'd also have an organizational philosophy pressing him and other free swingers to adopt a somewhat more patient approach [doubt the Tigers are the team to cure him of his bad habits, though])
  25. sneakypower
    with the schedule, i think there's a good chance they start 0-3
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