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he's just not as good as people on here think he is. although i'm not sure hanley ramirez is even as good as people on here think khalil greene is. he'd present an upgrade at the position of course, but no point in doing so if you're going to make the team worse in other areas. but seeing as i don't own all of his baseball cards and daydream about his long blonde locks i must hate the guy.

yeah, let's include $75 million in the trade, which isn't even permitted within the rules of baseball, just so we can bring back the magical khalil greene. oh man i'm so excited just thinking about him right now

worst slump of all: matt kemp you know its bad when youre benched for juan pierre

gee i wonder if i can trade in my 93 buick for an 08 viper

looks about right- that's an appalling offense.

gio gonzalez and adenhart when they're called up in a month. kuroda, westbrook, baker, lohse, wellemeyer, villanueva, petit, jon sanchez, jurjjens, eveland are all guys i like to varying degrees if the league is deep enough. and i stress deep here. if you have innings limit in 12-team league, they're probably not worth starting. and of course mark prior! :D

i doubt he'll be that good, but let's say he is. helton was a 10th round pick this year, would a player with similar performance warrant keeping? of course i'm assuming it's the usual 5-6 keepers allowed.

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Nice Pittsburgh blast there at the end. I don't know what their TV announcers are like because I don't live there anymore, but the radio PBP guy, Mike Lange, is widely regarded as one of the best in the business. I can understand your bitterness towards Pittsburgh seeing as how we swept you last season and worked you last night. I really hope we draw the Flyers in the first round. i really don't care about the pens. their fans are the ones who hate the flyers; the pens fall a distant third on our hate chart. aside from cindy crosby - who, the other 29 teams in the league realize, is very good at starting battles and letting other people finish them for him - i don't really hate anyone on that team either. as for last season, you helped us be bad enough to get the #2 pick in the draft and open the organization's eyes that they were sorely lacking in speed and offensive talent. so thanks for sweeping us last year; it really did us a favor. there have been studies done saying that certain markets like "homer" announcers and certain markets like more unbiased announcing, and pittsburgh definitely falls under the cities that prefers homers. i thought mike lange knew what he was talking about, but when you're bitching about "spearing" when he's clearing try to dig the puck loose from between a player and the boards, i don't know what to say. a guy who has called the game for that long should know the difference. i don't know why you'd want to play the flyers in the first round. we're as talented (albeit poorly coached) as any team in the east, and we've had good success this year against the pens. the craps are a much easier first round draw. i can't think any team would want to face the capitals right now.

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. It's a 20 team keeper league. .340, 18, 75, 75, 0 is certainly relevant. Miller, well, IT'S A 20 TEAM LEAGUE. .340??!?

That's just silly. Once Toronto falls out of playoff contention, they'll be itching to get rid of Burnett. If he's healthy and pitching well, he'll opt out of his contract at the end of the season, and they wouldn't get any compensatory draft picks for that. If he's not healthy at the end of the season, he wont exercise the opt-out, which puts Ricciardi (whom has already publicly traded jabs with Burnett) in the situation of having an injured ace making twelve million for each of the next two years. Burnett's contract is going to screw Toronto one way or the other. Letting Ricciardi name his price would be utterly foolish. Play hardball in negotiations and walk away with a good chunk of your top-tier talent still intact instead. i know what you're saying, but there's going to be plenty of interest from other teams for him come july. i'd be sure to come out on top in the sweepstakes, he means that much. and besides that, we don't have too many prospects i'd hate to lose.

if we've got designs on the playoffs come july i'd really let ricciardi or beane name their price in prospects for Burnett or Harden. we only have 1 guy in the rotation who can be overpowering in a playoff atmosphere. i know Hill has flashes of brilliance, but I don't feel good about having him as the #2 in a short series. Burnett and Harden inspire a lot more confidence and that's worth a whole lot to me. it's not like we don't have a full stable of pitchers who can start if one gets hurt.

sure i'll do it

yeah they're really going to regret having him under their control throughout his prime. lord knows years 26-31 are when players start to really suck and make you regret signing them. i'll give you a break though, i'm sure you just read others opinions on contracts and tried making your own conclusions. Breaking News: Cubs sign first round pick to a 6-year ameteur contract "wow 6 years is a bit much..."

i was using the numbers from the MLB experience last year.

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.

THANK GOD LOU

i really wish aramis would have hustled out that HR instead of picking up his paycheck

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.

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.

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.

Ricciardi is very smart?

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.

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

thats the line im trying to get from him in my dynasty mode of mlb 2k8