I think that one of the more accomplished statisticians here could calculate Beltran's park adjusted numbers. The best I could do was, in a neutral ballpark he puts up about a .790 OPS. So Beltran was a bad random example to use. Look, I'm not trying to get angry, and I apologize if I'm coming off as ultra defensive. It's been a real, real bad couple days for me. The only points I was trying to make (and admittedly I did a bad job framing it) was that I'd rather the Cubs overpay good to great talent, than overpay or setlle for mediocre to bad talent. As far as Mazzone goes, I tried to clarify my initial reaction by saying that I am concerned about another offseason of relative inactivity followed by settling for what's left on the market, rather than taking control of the situation and being intelligently aggressive. Am I jumping the gun by crying doom about this winter already? Maybe, but it unnerves me that Burnitz's option hasn't been declined yet, and Macias is on the team, still. Delroy, I hope we're cool. After all, soccer fans have to stick together. Of course we're cool, we may have a difference of opinion, but it ends there. And gray skies will clear up, my man (although maybe not in regard to the Cubs).