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  1. sneakypower
    Yeah. Jeter is baseball's David Copperfield, who performs illusions in front of 50,000 people to trick them into thinking he's a good fielder. Clint Barmes, wow.
  2. sneakypower
    chris paul did?
  3. sneakypower
    i have yet to see a single quote from hendry where the word "untouchable" is ever said, or even implied.
  4. sneakypower
    his no trade clause would have steered them away.
  5. sneakypower
    both. i had already said that.
  6. sneakypower
    why do you assume arod and pujols are dirty, but manny plays clean? It's probably because he likes Manny but doesn't like Arod and Pujols. It seems to be the modus de jour to accuse all great players that a person doesn't like as being a juicer whether there's any shread of credible proof or not. Pujols goes from a 13th round pick out of some obscure JuCo to the greatest hitter in the game, and Arod's involvement with Boras and talks of "extensive offseason workouts" before the best season of his career, and coincedentally, a new contract are what cause me to be leery. Manny has stayed at a consistent level of offensive greatness his entire career and I've seen little reason to expect it was steroid-aided.
  7. sneakypower
    I don't think any free ones exist, but I might develop a web app this summer if I don't get overburdened with other projects.
  8. sneakypower
    Holy God I just realized I omitted capitals too! These are all things which are of vital importance when discussing bas...ket..ball...
  9. sneakypower
    that's a bizarre statement, given that I do not write sentences for a living and nobody including myself ever claims I am good at doing so. relevance?
  10. sneakypower
    I wouldn't be too nervous about it. His K rate will also come down a reasonable amount to lessen the sting of his BABIP regression. i wouldn't expect less than a .280 avg from him this year. a bigger concern is that he loses value after this year after being stripped of 2B eligibility. but by then he'll likely be a 25/40 player, which plays well at any position.
  11. sneakypower
    the question was for clean hitters. i have little doubt in my mind Pujols and Arod are dirty. Teddy Ballgame is the best argument against Manny, but I just don't buy the competition being comparable.
  12. sneakypower
    that guy's an unabashed Cubs fan, it's no wonder he loves Geo.
  13. sneakypower
    I don't know, maybe Meph can help us out here. He seems keen on EqA as the best way to measure a hitter, and Ramirez is at .317 for his career, Arod at .312 and Pujols at .338. Meph is there anyone out there that you know of that has more value than Pujols at the plate over the past 10 years or so? you'd sure be a blast to watch a ballgame with. i can imagine the fun discussions. "I don't have any of my own opinions or original thoughts, I'll have to ask somebody else and wait to hear their judgement in which I will put full faith." Manny Ramirez is the right answer though, and you can probably change "this generation" to "all-time".
  14. sneakypower
    Oswalt's strikeout numbers keep dropping lower and lower every season and he's playing on a really bad team. I go with Hamels every day of the week.
  15. sneakypower
    you're crowning his ass for a good game against Miami?? they've still yet to hit to win their tenth game this season. i think this qualifies as unconditional love.
  16. sneakypower
    Upton and Hamels for sure. Also, this is a little interesting, as a very rough form of keeper rankings. http://www.fantasybaseballcafe.com/2008/player_rankings_mock_1.php
  17. sneakypower
    this is a little interesting, as a very rough form of keeper rankings. http://www.fantasybaseballcafe.com/2008/player_rankings_mock_1.php
  18. sneakypower
    Yeah, I was hearing almost non-stop how Bush rode his daddy's coattails to Washington and hadn't done anything to deserve it. He needed to earn a chance for the White House like Al Gore did. At the time, I liked Bush quite a bit (how things have changed) but admitted I was concerned with his lack of experience. Now, the same people who bemoaned Bush's inexperience are saying Obama's inexperience is irrelevant. Just like with Bush, I'm concerned about Obama not having done much of anything at a national level - especially at such a crucial time. to be fair, bush turned out to be completely unqualified for the job. we don't know that about obama yet. right, that's why I qualified my comment with "however legitimate". i just get irritated that it's the most inconceivable thing to have an unqualified president, unless it's an unqualified president in your party. then it's no big deal.
  19. sneakypower
    I wonder if people will be still be projecting 3.20 ERAs for Hill and 25 HR seasons for Murton five years from now when they've still not yet happened.
  20. sneakypower
    that'd be fine if there wasn't so much uproar from that side of the aisle when W was running for office. his being unqualified, however legitimate, was blown up into a huge issue and there's nary a peep this time around with the two dem candidates. blatant hypocrisy, but there's politics for you i guess.
  21. sneakypower
    wowsers...those 4 guys might be the only way to do poorly in BA whilst having studs Pujols, Arod and Vlad on your team. On first glance, it seems that mix of players would have a ridiculous surplus in HR/RBI and you might suffer in other cats like SB, BA needlessly. But that's purely a subjective reaction, I might be way off base.
  22. sneakypower
    average starter C should be roughly .286/59/15/72/3 average starter 2B should be roughly .284/89/17/76/13 average starter RF should be roughly .290/85/22/90/11 basically a cumulative avg of the projs: mauer .314/73/11/70/9 upton .281/86/18/71/29 vlad .317/94/29/109/8 talking about how these players fare vs. the average startable guys at their positions (i.e. ~pence, posada, kinsler): mauer +0.028/+14/-4/-2/+6 upton -0.003/-3/+1/-5/+16 vlad +0.027/+9/+7/+19/-3 vlad does look like the best bet to be largest upgrade over the midtier guys, though i like upton to have much better RBI totals than the projections.
  23. sneakypower
    i can see Johan being the most valuable player in fantasy 5x5 this year. i'd jump on that right away.
  24. sneakypower
    and , a personal favorite of mine. at least he's got good sportsmanship.
  25. sneakypower
    that's what i argued all along. i just had poor choice of wording i guess characterizing the players ill-suited to play in an uptempo running offense as "lead food types".
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