I know it's off the topic, but it's unfathomable that the Giants gave Rowand a huge contract when they could have had Patterson for peanuts. And when Rowand predictably reverts to his old .320s OBP self, what's the difference? Or even Rajai Davis or Fred Lewis.
in fewer than 300 AB? Kemp also had the highest BABIP in all of baseball, whereas Pie's was nearly .150 worse despite putting up the higher LD%. it's so fluky I really don't know you can draw any reasonable conclusions from their brief MLB samples. looking at their production in the minors, Pie had the better BB/K rate but a slightly lower ISO. they should probably be fairly similar hitters, all things considered. it also bears mentioning Pie is the vastly superior defender in CF and is faster.
Another sleeper I really like is Carlos Gomez for the Twins. I know he's fighting with Span for the starting gig in CF but I have to think they'll play him to save face in the Santana trade this year. If he hits .275 he has an outside chance to finish runner up to Reyes in all of baseball for steals. And you can get him on the waiver wire and he'll have more upside than most of the other guys you'd store on your bench.
I don't see what you could be expecting from him. Even .300 30/90/10 is probably his upside this season, and that's a usual year for Jason Bay, who's lasting until the 10th round usually. The Reds will regret this trade though, I'm pretty confident of that.
The Tigers missing the playoffs probably played a factor in the voting, but yeah they were nearly identical in terms of production. Rollins also should not have won.
he started doing this in 05, the year they went to the WS. you just noticed this now? i guess there's the option of hitting Granderson and his .265 obp leadoff.
you can't really be this dense. making completely unprompted inferences of another posters racism wouldn't constitute an attempt to derail the thread? has it been your experience that people usually have no issues with these kinds of allegations?
milledge, mcgowan, kendrick, furcal, a gordon, harden, r soriano, lyon, hafner, kelly johnson are all guys that i've thought to be undervalued this year.