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  1. sneakypower
    you've gotta give the caps credit sooner or later, that's a really good team.
  2. sneakypower
    well he certainly had artificial help
  3. sneakypower
    I can picture a situation where Matt Cain becomes available this July, after Sabean's reign of lunacy finally comes to an end. Sadly, we may be lacking in the young offensive firepower to offer them, but I'd sure as hell love to try. I probably empty the farm for this guy.
  4. sneakypower
    i'm guessing O-Dog's agent is an avid BP reader and loves the fact that WARP considers him a superior value on the field to miguel cabrera. but 15m - only a emoticon will suffice: :rotfl:
  5. sneakypower
    Ethier was the Texas league player of the year and Youkilis had an entire chapter written about him in a NY Times bestseller. The best examples I can think of are Holliday, Atkins, Uggla, Santana, Chris Duncan, Mark Reynolds, Jason Bay, McLouth, Willingham, Melky Cabrera, Pujols and of course our very own Ryan Theriot! Soto too. Pitching wise there's really a lot of guys, since it's impossible to predict very well. Both Zambrano and Hill come to mind. Similarly there's Bannister, Wang, and Shields.
  6. sneakypower
    "what's best for Hill" that language makes me uncomfortable. Hill should be glad though, Pignatiello basically only got eight pitches to prove himself before getting the ax in Lou's reactionary world. And Pie got just three games.
  7. sneakypower
    i think wellemeyer puts up very similar stats to ted lilly this year. 40m vs. 300k...
  8. sneakypower
    which upton?
  9. sneakypower
    theres a joke that certainly hasn't been made before.
  10. sneakypower
    it was nice having him as a prospect while it lasted. Lou is hell bent on destroying his confidence. i thought a game winning hit would buy him more than 2 PAs of good will, but i dont know what i was thinking.
  11. sneakypower
    maybe rich hill is the new jeremy bonderman and needs to give up 2-3 runs in the first to get settled down.
  12. sneakypower
    i can't get enough of that clip. brantley's worse than mccarver.
  13. sneakypower
    bj upton. mostly personal preference, but he won't be a very big step down from any of the other names on this list. and where is chase utley? you could also make an argument for josh hamilton, esp. if he's in CF.
  14. sneakypower
    C kendall 1b aurilia 2b kennedy 3b castillo ss pena jr (considered luis hernandez) lf pierre cf kotsay rf monroe sp eaton sp andrew miller
  15. sneakypower
    THANK GOODNESS
  16. sneakypower
    lol at ryan harvey leading the team in hitting
  17. sneakypower
    forwards: henrik zetterberg pavel datsyuk alex ovechkin evgeni malkin joe thornton alex kovalev marian gaborik johan franzen sidney crosby marian hossa i left off alfreddson, spezza, iginla because i think they'll be kicked out in the first round. defense: nick lidstrom brian campbell sergei gonchar mark streit brian rafalski mike green goalie: evgeni nabokov js giguere substitute MA fleury or carey price for nabokov if you want more upside.
  18. sneakypower
    poor mike wuertz gets no love
  19. sneakypower
    he is just toying with the league
  20. sneakypower
    somebody tell him you cant pull pitches 5 feet away
  21. sneakypower
    are you referring to matt laporta? if so, no they didn't. porcello the previous two posts were discussing him
  22. sneakypower
    i'd need to know your 3B and OF but i like the Atkins-McLouth side a little bit more. Atkins is always really solid and McLouth will be 20-20. Honestly, I don't see Hamilton being much more than Brad Hawpe numbers this year. I think he's overvalued right now.
  23. sneakypower
    I don't think you've seen his away numbers. you'd be mistaken So...what don't you like about a .840 OPS? that he only has that for half of his games. there's so many intellectual allowances that people are making with the home/away splits for him. murton OPSed .260 points better on the road last year. so why isn't every team trying to get him out of wrigley field, where his production is obviously being thwarted? oh wait, he was +210 pts for his home OPS in 06. for what it's worth, derrek lee slugged .632 at home last year and sub .400 on the road. you look throughout baseball, and you don't see a whole lot of consistent year-to-year consistency in the splits. it seems most people have drawn the conclusion from no consistent year to year patterns in the BABIP and clutch hitting splits that they're flukey things. this has little difference. petco being a cavernous park helps people see past the inconsistencies evident in the splits though. and if we're to assume that the splits are legit, then we should trade the world for likely 60 2B & 40 HR slugger adrian gonzalez first and foremost. and there's the whole money thing. a gross misunderstanding of correlation vs causation is present in the khalil infatuation and road stats. josh barfield's certainly didn't translate.
  24. sneakypower
    I don't think you've seen his away numbers. you'd be mistaken
  25. sneakypower
    man oh man am i glad the cardinals passed on that guy for pete kozma
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