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  1. sneakypower
    Moral of the story: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it...
  2. sneakypower
    \:D/
  3. sneakypower
    Trading him for a career .254 hitter with uninspiring ISOs who's already at arbitration with FA upcoming in 09 is what I consider very little return. It's also been suggested we relegate him to AAA next year to give Mark Derosa fulltime RF duties, or to trade him for Roberts. There's not much support for Pie, but endless praise for Cedeno on here.
  4. sneakypower
    Felix Pie. I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. His situation is analogous to Cedeno's, only with far fewer chances to prove himself at the MLB level. He obliterated AAA as a 22 year old, yet people want to ship him out for very little return.
  5. sneakypower
    Felix Pie.
  6. sneakypower
    Those two should probably trade defensive positions.
  7. sneakypower
    The thought of Derosa as a starting RF for this team makes me nauseous. Displacing Pie to do so would surely make me heave.
  8. sneakypower
    So is this serious or "over-the-top-conceit-aren't-I-hysterical?"
  9. sneakypower
    i wasn't arguing with you in that post. my comment didn't quote you, didn't follow yours, didn't mention you by name. i merely threw their projections into the discussion, despite my skepticism of Hill's line, which i explained. all of my opinions are objective. what you're saying makes for a stupid argument. "he's a good baseball player for reason A, B & C" "that guy sucks." "oh, i guess i overlooked something. better go see where i'm wrong." "my work here is done." that's lazy and presumptuous.
  10. sneakypower
    Or perhaps your comment was much too vague.
  11. sneakypower
    Tell that to Chris Capuano.
  12. sneakypower
    Bedard is better at inducing groundballs, but then again practically everybody in baseball is. For what it's worth, Bill James projects Hill to have a 3.50 ERA next year, but he's always creamed himself over Hill. 3.70 for Bedard. Having superlative OF defense of Sori, Pie and Fuku would help, especially if he is lucky with his HR/FB rate, but I don't see him with a 3.50 ERA. He was only under 3.95 in one month last year.
  13. sneakypower
    Izturis' name was noticeably omitted.
  14. sneakypower
    http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/9E04A758BD1CF235862573AC0018F0A8?OpenDocument Let's hope they do. They'll win 75 games instead of just 70, and have an even more bleak future. Mozeliak is oblivious.
  15. sneakypower
    I've liked Baseball Between the Numbers so far, but some of the chapters are a bit of a stretch.
  16. sneakypower
    This is more of a list of trades that were big deals at the time, rather than teams ripped off the worst. Otherwise, the list would be filled with trades like the Drese/Diaz for Hafner, Eaton/Otsuka for Young/Gonzalez, Hill/Bruback/Hernandez for Ramirez/Lofton deals. AJ Pierzynski, the biggest name involved in that trade, wasn't exactly a star at the time of the trade.
  17. sneakypower
    Could have been another HS hitter we failed to develop into a useful player.
  18. sneakypower
    I'm guessing that it's common knowledge amongst the GMs that Tejada's been a juicer and don't want to be associated with the bad pub when that fact comes out, Angelos included. It would make more sense that "they are dying to get rid of that guy", a Burke/Everett/pitcher deal is actually being considered, and that Hendry and other GMs are using the salary excuse. Salary is a red herring, nobody would consider Tejada's salary prohibitive while Jose Guillen gets signed for the same money.
  19. sneakypower
    Nice reasoning. I guess this argument is over. im pretty sure its the perfect logical connection. if you assert that a guy sucks and your reasoning for saying he sucks is that he sucks and he in fact does suck, then it's not circular reasoning. it's simply stating the facts. Sickels ranked Pie 22nd in his preseason prospect rankings, and Maybin 16th. Not exactly a different universe. Perhaps he's not privy to the "facts". oooooh SICKELS OMG I AM CONVINCED NOW he pulled the sickels card out on me. lol. Sickels gives reasons for his opinions. Are you always excessively obnoxious?
  20. sneakypower
    I like Guillen. He would be a good upgrade offensively. I don't know how his defense is at SS, I know he's had some injury issues. Not good at all. A move to 1B was necessitated by poor defense and various recurring injuries and ailments. He might be able to handle 3B better, but that doesn't help us out much.
  21. sneakypower
    Nice reasoning. I guess this argument is over. im pretty sure its the perfect logical connection. if you assert that a guy sucks and your reasoning for saying he sucks is that he sucks and he in fact does suck, then it's not circular reasoning. it's simply stating the facts. Sickels ranked Pie 22nd in his preseason prospect rankings, and Maybin 16th. Not exactly a different universe. Perhaps he's not privy to the "facts".
  22. sneakypower
    Nice reasoning. I guess this argument is over.
  23. sneakypower
    I'd love to hear a reason for this. Nearly identical numbers at the same stages of the minors, similarly outlandish comparisons from scouts, comparable skill-sets.
  24. sneakypower
    Kerry Robinson couldn't even slug .400 in AAA at age 26. irrelevant to your initial point son One can also say that Maybin is a Kerry Robinson at worst, I guess, and he's getting traded for far better return than Greene. You didn't really make much of an argument. Son? Give me a break.
  25. sneakypower
    Wasn't Bradley a Type A free agent?
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