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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Most managers would break camp with Hill as the backup catcher. Most general managers would have signed him back as the backup based on the "good with the pitchers/popular with the team" reputation, too. If you want to pretend otherwise, feel free. Most front offices and managers and coaches aren't going to break a sweat over the backup catcher.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    They'll fill those holes. With what? Aren't they up against the cap? That leaves the draft and trades besides James, Wade and Bosh what do they have to trade? They have the mid-level and bi-annual exceptions they can use to sign more players even if they're up against the cap. They can't sign any stars, but they don't need stars. Thanks I was unware of the cap exceptions nevertheless, I'll take the Bulls. Brave man. The Bulls are damn good, and should be for a while, but that Heat team is going to be beast so long as Wade stays healthy.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    His nickname is Short Hops.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Come on, mods. I'll make it worth your while.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Because Reed Johnson made a couple of amazing catches.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Oh good. Can this be the new Short Hops thread? Because that book is a lock to be one of the dumbest things ever published. A LOCK. Let's let have Ken Tremedous have the final words/Tweets: * Bolded for incredible awesomeness.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Just spare yourself this time. Just once.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    So what?
  9. Sammy Sofa
    No, because I like baseball and basketball more and want to live vicariously through their glories.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Thank you, gentlemen.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    You are the child all of us dread.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    You rarely disappoint, my boy.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Just do a count. For fun.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Oh, Kyle.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    No one's claiming that. Even if his elbow had blown up, it still wouldn't justify one side or the other. I was just pointing out that it wasn't just his elbow that was a concern at the time. How many times does the issue of Peavy's shoulder come up in that thread?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    And a passing mention of his shoulder really doesn't mean much. The focus was, by far, on his elbow when it came to talking about injury risk. You yourself are focusing almost completely on his elbow the very next page of that thread when discussing injury risk vs what it would take to get him.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    Kyle, you do know what his injury actually was, right? I don't give a flying [expletive] if people were "worried about his shoulder" in 2008. Nobody was "worried" about what actually happened. If I say "there's a decent chance you'll wreck your car" because you live in an area where a lot of accidents happen and then an elephant falls on your car I'm not some kind of genius or prognosticator.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Wait, what? Your checkmate is to say that a coach would pick the player he coached over the player he didn't coach?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    That sounds like a challenge, Backtobanks. PROVE HIM WRONG.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    [expletive]. Really, people are going to be knocked for really, really wanting Jake Peavy on the Cubs 2 years ago? And the people with injury concerns are now validated because of what happened to him? They do realize exactly what happened to him, right? Nobody was calling anything like that. They were, rightly so, concerned about his elbow more than anything else. But you're not "right" if you're worried about a player having, say, back issues and then they blow out their knee.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    Defensive metrics. Check out BaseballReference.com. Better range, too. We're not talking a world's worth of difference here, but Perez likely has the advantage at this point simply due to the difference in age between the two. Plus you're going to see a lot more errors in spring training games (and especially a lot more than usual from outfielders), so using a single one usually isn't the best way to judge a player's defensive capabilities.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, it's this catch-22 situation where, naturally, anyone would want someone better than Hill, but it's ultimately improvement for a roster spot where ideally the player is essentially just taking up space. Castillo is, hopefully, way too good to be a backup and Ramirez is indeed still young and has a lot of potential. I'd much rather see Ramirez in a situation like TT proposed than being dumped into the backup catcher role.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    If Geo is injured then call up Castillo. This isn't complicated.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    I didn't. I've stated numerous times he's really bad offensively even by backup catcher standards. The point is that is replacing him with anyone short of damn good player isn't going to make much of a difference in the limited PA a backup should get (ideally 70-90).
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Not sure how you're expecting Ramirez to get all that better if he's only getting like 90 PA at best if things go as they should. He doesn't have to. If he gets on base like he always has, you're already ahead of Hill. If he does get better, you've to a really good backup catcher. And I'm assuming more than 90 AB until Soto makes it through a full season. 2008 doesn't count? You're really limiting Ramirez' future if he's just the backup. See TT's post for a better scenario if you truly think that Ramirez still can come anywhere near meeting his potential.
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