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  1. sneakypower
    he behaviored his way out of town. obviously i'm aware of his transgressions; it doesn't really justify selling a player at rock bottom value. his talent was still immense and the player compensation was ineffectual so why not give him a shot in RF with the opening there and if he does more knucklehead crap to cause a distraction you can release him with no harm done. it never made a lot of sense. i hate this criteria, because it basically gives no reward to a gm who has built his team cost-effectively through the farm system. i think a more reasonable guideline would be to give the award to the general manager who has done the best job of putting together the 2007 ballclub, rather than the general manager who has done the most in the past calendar year to put that team together. and he still inherited most of their young talent. Garza and Pena were great moves, as well as the reworking of the bullpen, but there have been other GMs who've done even better jobs in that timeframe.
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    How has the LD% looked?April: 21.6% in 28-1/3 IP May: 25.5% in 27-2/3 IP June: 17.3% in 29-1/3 IP July: 11.7% in 26 IP August: 20.6% in 30 IP Sept: 12.8% in 13-1/3 IP 18.4% opp LD since the start of June
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    i think i'll consider this a rare occurrence that i was right about something. back in early May he looked like DFA material, but was a victim of a bloated BABIP at the time. he's turned it around as his luck has better evened out. true to form though, I did also say we'd lean heavily on Hill in the playoffs so win some, lose some I guess...
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    I don't see those 3 comparisons as much because all have considerable value in their superb defense, but what's made sense to me is Garret Anderson with a slightly lesser level of peak production of course that would be assuming all goes fairly well; still, Anderson's milb stats were pretty crummy pre-AAA
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    he's actually hit his worst at 2B 2B: 280 PA - 823 OPS 3B: 52 - 996 LF: 88 - 913 RF: 96 - 896
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    wait why use warp3 for the same season?
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    i'm guessing Derosa's hurt in the VORP comparison by his OF, 3B time roberts 121 ops+ .297 eqa 7.6 warp derosa 123 ops+ .295 eqa 7.6 warp these two guys are twins this year also deserving mention is that we dont seem to be suffering from the void of a true leadoff hitter
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    i don't think that's entirely fair to derosa, as roberts has an 88 PA advantage
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    i don't like the guy who traded Elijah Dukes for peanuts being mentioned for the Executive of the Year Award besides, so much of the core of that team was already in place; the two Chicago GMs are far more deserving this year
  10. sneakypower
    a better point would revolve around Roberts = no Harden
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    Willie Harris leads the Nats in HR Ronnie Belliard leads in OPS
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    soriano makes my balls swell
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    that's fine, let's throw Sewell out of the mix. you're still left with Tony Gwynn at 87 and Pierre at 188 as the only two players in remotely modern time to show up on the list; granted, i just eyeballed the list and i'm not even going to bother with felix fermin. #2 is a non-factor. Pierre's remarkable K avoidance is essentially the only thing separating him from the hundreds of other unemployed track stars like Eric Reed & Nook Logan. there's really no shortage of players who put primary emphasis on contact in practice. look at just about every team's crappy utility player.
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    what the h 114 K in 7132 AB; thats what, 2 months worth of K for Mark Reynolds spead out for 14 seasons. but impressive as that is, i think that really speaks a lot to the kind of stuff pitchers had in those days. yadier molina - 163 k in 1720 ab (9.4%), 98 iso bengie molina - 365 in 3865 ab (9.4%), 135 iso juan pierre - 308 k in 5117 ab (6%), 70 iso joe sewell - 1.6 K%, 101 iso there's just nothing comparable to that right now. juan pierre registers as the 188th best K rate in history, and nellie fox is the only guy within the top 20 who played in games past the early-1950s, retiring in '65. this is one of many reasons i'm convinced pitchers didnt have nearly the movement on breaking balls we're seeing today. really the only other explanation would be umpires having far stricter strike zones on pitchers, uniformly. i also like sewell's 3 for 19 in steals for 1927
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    its about as bad as fans singing a kinda dumb song after each home win
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    and because his glove is stellar
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    SF building for the future
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    maybe he was only comparing just Colletti, Bowden and Sabean and Colletti came out on top
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    first Z then Koyie Hill and now Harden?? get everyone to a safe place Lou! do we have a hidden bunker somewhere?????
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    if nothing else, i'd sneak into the visitors clubhouse and give him a code red
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    thats elijah dukes you dumb bastard Ronnie Belliard and Manny Acta have even been quoted that the team was playing with a sense of complacency in his absence; not having their kids lives threatened if they suck
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    warner lynch and engrams hurt, so obviously other 2
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    your math is forgetting better pitchers who didn't qualify. there were only 80 pitchers in baseball who pitched enough innings to qualify for ERA title. where does that leave him, 43/80? or are we just assuming every pitcher left is awful and wouldn't possibly post higher FIPs to bump him further down the rankings? so if you loosen the innings constraints to 130 he becomes the owner of the 52nd best FIP in the league, out of 112. that may be a bit unfair, but my entire stance was i don't know that there's any way you can slice it where he was "among the top pitchers in the league". unless of course you're looking into his numbers with obvious tunnel vision.
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    43rd best FIP in baseball *amongst qualified starters* doesn't really scream 'elite pitcher' to me that's what, ok #2, good #3? sounds about right
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