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  1. i was using the numbers from the MLB experience last year.
  2. Keeper. Sleeper. Keeper as in a player that may not be an awesome fantasy player this year but has a good shot of being one in the future. Sleeper as in a player that not many people would expect to be good and thusly would be available via the waiver wire. right, and that doesn't change what i said. i can't really imagine barton ever being fantasy relevant in a 5x5 and miller's a long ways away from even being startable. love him.
  3. i really wish aramis would have hustled out that HR instead of picking up his paycheck
  4. I don't think Beane would have much say in whether a sequel gets written or not. Of course, I was kidding. Out of curiosity, what about Moneyball do you think set the organization back? Giving away business secrets, for lack of a better term. He revealed his strategy and lost the OBP undervalued market, having to resort to the whole sinkerballers and superlative defenders strategy which hasn't really worked so well. He's bright and he'll find a new niche to exploit, such as AAAA guys, but Depod and Towers are hitting that one hard too. Right now he's left to the Beinfest model. Which will be impossible to succeed with if he's not getting superstars in the draft, which has been the case the past few years. Just a lot of solid unspectacular contributors. But recycling the Swishers and Harens he drafts should allow him to float around .500 or a little better every once in awhile, which might be a good achievement given his payroll.
  5. it's the same idiocy, different manager. it's like the time where piazza's arm was so bad he couldn't throw guys out on pitchouts and dusty tried bunting over corey patterson with piazza behind the dish. the other team plays a horrible, horrible catcher and you don't run. it's as stupid as swinging at the first pitches daniel cabrera gives you.
  6. i can't really see the reason for writing a Moneyball II unless Beane craves the extra further admiration wants the organization set back again.
  7. What do you see in Miller and Barton that I don't? Miller won't soon have the wins, Ks (and probably WHIP) to make him fantasy relevant and Barton probably won't ever hit 20 HRs and he's in a nasty lineup that will inhibit runs created. From my perspective it seems youre confusing their fantasy value with real life value.
  8. i have little doubt it'll hold up, but the cards are going to be so awful the FO will just say screw it and theyll do the surgery in august to get him ready for 2009 when they wont contend either but they think they will
  9. thats the line im trying to get from him in my dynasty mode of mlb 2k8
  10. awesome
  11. this is bizarre timing after the 93 win prediction from BP or whatever
  12. tigers fans realize their bullpen will be nasty until zumaya returns to full health
  13. pie has a higher strikeout rate - 22.73% to 24.39%. that's marginal. hits balls hard less frequently - pie had substantially better LD% has had no success at the major league level - small sample & .273 BABIP. kemp should send some luck (.417 babip) felix's way and we'll think he's great. and has not shown the ability to consistently hit for a high average like kemp has? like hitting .300 in the minors, with a better BB:K?
  14. utterly ridiculous. a high school half pitcher-half right fielder. yeah, we wouldn't have had any problems developing him into a useful major leaguer...
  15. fuku really got down the line in a hurry
  16. if i'm rostering a player in a keeper league it's going to be one that has top-35 draft pick upside for next year. i don't know of any regularly-available FA who has more upside. if upton, bruce, longoria or maybin are available then sure-pick one of them up. but since he's talking about keeper sleepers i assumed they weren't. i don't see why gomez isn't capable of having a rookie year mirroring that of jose reyes or carl crawford.
  17. i wish this team didnt draft so poorly
  18. carlos gomez. off the charts bat speed and a faster runner than jose reyes. really raw at the plate, but could be fantasy gold- esp. in keeper leagues. give him 550 ABs and he'll easily steal 50 bases, and double digit HRs isn't out of the question. probably not a BA asset though. .265-.270 seems right. and with his speed- mauer, young, cuddyer and morneau should drive him in 95 times or so.
  19. man i hated hollandsworth and how dusty called him "holly"
  20. WS - tigers over mets in 6 nl mvp - santana al mvp - m cabrera nl cy - santana al cy - papelbon nl roy - maybin al roy - a ramirez al moy - maddon nl moy - dusty
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