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  1. sneakypower
    well as long as you are admitting you're ignoring significant pieces of the equation i'm fine with that
  2. sneakypower
    I would still take Milwaukee's. Mat Gamel is way better than anything the Pirates have, at least until Alvarez plays some professional games I also like Caleb Gindl, Cole Gillespie, Alcides Escobar, Angel Salome, Jeremy Jeffress, and Jonathan LuCroy. They are still pretty stacked. Oh and Tabata sucks. What has he slugged for his career, .350? No thanks. Gamel is not better than McCutchen, much less "way better", unless you're treating this as purely an OPS ranking while taking absolutely nothing else into account Tabata hit .300 in the FSL at 19 with a bum wrist; i'd gladly have him
  3. sneakypower
    i wonder what they could have given the Padres that was equally as valuable as Izturis
  4. sneakypower
    it's deep and i don't think it's playable
  5. sneakypower
    stupid nicknames for Curveballs yacker, hammer, bender
  6. sneakypower
    I know that I'm in the minority on all of this admiration about Dunn, but I would never call Dunn a "great hitter". A "great hitter" would be able to make contact with the ball more often than Dunn does. He has a .904 OPS and a .305 EQA. I would say that's a great hitter. I consider players like Bonds, Pujols, Manny Ramirez, ARod, Gwynn, etc. great hitters. Dunn is a great slugger, but not a great hitter in my book. As I stated earlier, the new emphasis on stats rewards sluggers and devalues non-sluggers. It is important to have some sluggers on a team, but it is great to have some players like Theriot, BRob, Ichiro, etc. on the team too. so you're saying that you'd rather have a team with a few theriots or ichiros on it rather than 8 Dunns? I bet I know which team would win i've gotta say i absolutely hate this argument
  7. sneakypower
    in the interest of full disclosure, i only know what team he played for because i looked at the T206 tobacco card on my dresser
  8. sneakypower
    AJ Burnett's probably going to opt out too I'd imagine, which could serve to distract the Yankees away from Dempster
  9. sneakypower
    Ted Lilly has a better K rate than Santana hell, so does Randy Wolf Webb's going to win it almost unanimously
  10. sneakypower
    The Mexicutioner is a better closer than K-Rod just on nickname alone
  11. sneakypower
    i think he'll probably get Pavano money
  12. sneakypower
    any CF with a halfway decent arm can play RF
  13. sneakypower
    i don't think we'll be in the bottom 10 for farm systems like it had looked like in May
  14. sneakypower
    i'm a big fan of the Brazilian volleyball team and the shorts they're wearing
  15. sneakypower
    in the grand scheme of things none of it really matters to me, even who wins i was really just making a point of the writers erroneous judgments in considering those players less valuable because the team they played on was crappy why is that hard to understand?
  16. sneakypower
    and all this time people were waiting for Theriot to crash hard Fuku and Lee are playing that role
  17. sneakypower
    he'll probably be a good value on the FA market, but what does he provide that Felix couldn't, other than malfunctioning mitochondria?
  18. sneakypower
    as an experiment, some team should use the BA draft top 200 as a checklist, go like 6-7% under each draftees initial demands and just restrain themselves from signing Gary Matthews Jr or Jason Marquis/whichever reliever they plan on signing that offseason and see where that gets them. probably set up pretty nicely for a few years down the line, is my guess.
  19. sneakypower
    then you restrained yourself better than i could
  20. sneakypower
    i dont know why 6 million is fair market value for 37 year old piece of trash Mark Loretta but not for a kid with great talent who could be a superstar if i own a club, i'm allocating a really reasonable part of my budget to the draft; just keep selecting the best talent each round, signability be damned
  21. sneakypower
    and if we keep winning at the same clip we've been (.615), the Brewers would have to finish 30-9 to tie us in the division
  22. sneakypower
    similarly, BJ Upton has been pulled from a game twice in the last week or two for lack of hustle. i know of a young CF who hustles that we could exchange for him
  23. sneakypower
    this looked like an idea to consider around this time last year, before Lee went on a power surge in September to the tune of a .365 avg and 16 XBHs whatever happens, I don't think I ever want him sitting on the bench for home games; give him a break when we're away
  24. sneakypower
    how about just moving him down in the order? there are worse things in the world than having a 820 OPS gold glover on your team
  25. sneakypower
    Bagwell's injury-plagued last season also dropped him under the .300 threshold In another episode of "what were the writers thinking?", we look at the 1999 MVP awarding: Sosa hits 63 HRs, 141 RBI and McGwire hits 65 HR, 147 RBI and they finish 9th and 5th place in the voting, respectively. This would all be explainable if the writers valued different skills that year, like players with a high batting average or pitching aces, but the list is just littered with other HR hitters who were half as good as these two. Matt Williams with 30 fewer HRs than Big Mac and he finishes with 154 more points? It's not as if he brought a whole lot else to the game. The same hold true for Greg Vaughn. This is as glaring an example as any of writers wrongly deeming players on non-playoff teams as valueless.
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