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  1. davearm
    It'd be more accurate to say that the Phillies are geniuses for resolving said blockage by trading away Thome instead of Howard.
  2. davearm
    http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070627&content_id=2052129&vkey=news_mil&fext=.jsp&c_id=mil Yost is just being coy here. What he's really thinking is that he needs to keep Gallardo's 21-year-old arm fresh for September and October. Giving one of their 5 best starters less work now seems like a move a team makes when they really like their chances of making the postseason.
  3. davearm
    Buehrle would be crazy to sign for $50 million. Unless something horrible happens in the second half, he is probably going to get offers in the $75-$80 million range. I had the same thought. Seems way too good to be true for the Sox.
  4. davearm
    I don't care if your record is 0-100 and you're scoring a half a run a game, you don't trade a talent like Buehrle for the mediocre value the Sox could've received in trade if Buehrle's willing to extend at such a discount rate. Now if no such extension is possible, then absolutely deal him off and get whatever you can. But let's not make believe that the Sox could've fixed their offense with what Buehrle could've netted them. If you want to trade pitching for hitting, then send off another starter like Garland or Vasquez. They'd possibly have more value than Buehrle (sans extension) anyway, since they're not rentals.
  5. davearm
    Through this entire ordeal, I've yet to hear one good reason why any non-baseball person would be sticking their nose in this, be it Zell or Fitzsimmons or any other bean counter-type within the Trib or the Cubs organization. Assuming Hendry can't get anyone to take a chunk of the salary as a condition of a trade, the Cubs are going to be paying ~$7M to Jones this year and next, regardess of whether he's actually playing for the Cubs or not. From an accounting perspective, the whole money issue is basically a wash, because that cost is sunk. So all that's left to determine is if it's advantageous from a baseball perspective to have Jones around, or if it's better to have him gone and replaced by a league-min guy from the minors. Why anyone above Hendry would try and influence that choice is beyond me. And why Bud Selig would give a rat's patootie is beyond me, too. All the conspiracy theories are interesting, but the only explanation that makes sense is the one offered by Hendry, namely that he himself nixed the deal simply because it wasn't a good baseball move.
  6. davearm
    There is no way Zell squashed the deal. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I agree completely. Even assuming Sam Zell has any sort of authority over this situation (which in and of itself requires a pretty lengthy leap of faith), that guy had darn well better have something more important to do than concern himself with how the Cubs are handling an inconsequential and completely sunk cost in some junk ballplayer. And even if the cost wasn't already sunk, Jones' remaining salary is a trivial accounting detail in the grand scheme of the Trib sale.
  7. davearm
    It may come to that, but such a move would cripple whatever meager leverage he has left.
  8. davearm
    I thought this thread was going to be about Matt Sinatro.
  9. davearm
    Good idea, but Roberts has actually been very good this year, and is popular in Baltimore. They'd be mega-pissed if they traded Roberts for the worthless Jones, a guy who could've been picked up by anyone a few months ago, and a "pitching prospect." Unless that prospect is named Rich Hill, I'm guessing Baltimore would laugh and hang up. Indeed. That's a crap offer for a player of Roberts' caliber. If you put Murton with another highend prospect like Patterson or Fox, and tacked on Fontenot and Jones, that would probably at least get their attention.
  10. davearm
    Fixed.
  11. davearm
    There's no defense for this offensive thread.
  12. davearm
    I hope he's taking advantage of the per diem while he can. so, how much is that these days? For some reason the figure $84/day comes to mind. Not sure where I read that, or if it's accurate.
  13. davearm
    Amazing. With the way guys get hurt or suspended around here, you'd think there would me more appreciation for a guy that can play all over the place and hit respectably well. Obviously anyone's tradeable, and if the Yanks (or anyone else) want to overpay, then that's great. But to send DeRosa out for some marginal prospect just to save a few bucks is asinine.
  14. davearm
    Reds fans can answer that question for you.
  15. davearm
    And the "fake rally" dorks can stick it. :D
  16. davearm
    The fact that everybody and their brother thinks this "fake rally" garbage is really funny and clever, and some sort of ridiculously cool and hip lingo, makes me want to dive headfirst into a woodchipper. Here's a memo: "fake rally" is neither clever nor funny, and you sound like a mindless lemming with no capacity for original thought when you post it. Rant Over. Phew I feel better.
  17. davearm
    Folks really, really need to start getting their heads around this. Murton's fate with the Cubs was sealed the day Soriano signed. If that's really the case and Murton is so bad in right that he'll never be an everyday player there, then the Cubs should be looking to trade for a passable right handed RF or an offensive SS upgrade so they can use the Theriot/Fontenot platoon at 2b and play DeRosa in RF. I highly highly doubt Floyd can stay healthy and perform at his current level the whole year, and Jones isn't going to cut it if the team wants to contend. That's really the case. Murton is so bad in right that he'll never be an everyday player there. The Cubs should be looking to trade for a passable right handed RF or an offensive SS upgrade.
  18. davearm
    Ripping on a young guy like Colvin that's slugging around .500 for a lack of power is really weak, especially considering that oftentimes power is the last tool to develop. We could put together a long list of guys that have hit 25+ HRs in the bigleagues with regularity that hit only 10 or 12 most years in the minors. Better stick to the bb/k stuff.
  19. davearm
    He's got 3/81 remaining. If he opts out and signs a 5/125 he makes $2m less per year for the next 3, but guarantees himself $44m that wasn't guaranteed before. Not to mention he gets to avoid being blamed for everything bad that happens to the Yankees. He'd really be an idiot to not consider the option. It's not like he'll be forced to sign for the minimum if he opts out. Dipping from $27M/yr to $25M/yr is one thing. But what if he's looking at offers in the $20M range? IMO that's much more realistic. Maybe even lower. $20M is a tough nut to crack these days. 3/81 looks pretty good next to 5/100 or 6/120.
  20. davearm
    Folks really, really need to start getting their heads around this. Murton's fate with the Cubs was sealed the day Soriano signed.
  21. davearm
    Judging an owner by counting championships is downright silly. The owner's job is to hire the executives and provide them with the financial resources needed to assemble the personnel (players and coaches) necessary to contend. What happens next depends on all sorts of factors that are completely out of the owner's control (players getting hot/cold in key stretches, injuries, luck, etc. etc.). If anyone believes that Cuban hasn't held up his end of the bargain with the Mavs, then they're simply not looking at the situation objectively.
  22. davearm
    What a loser attitude that is. Yeah, we lost when the score was tied and there were 8 innings left. :roll:
  23. davearm
    Yes.The problem is that unnecessarily spending an extra several million dollars on this year's draft pick will not result in a higher sale price a few months down the road. It'd be akin to dropping a couple grand on insulating your attic before selling your house, even though prospective buyers will either not notice or not care, and thus will not offer more for the house. Why spend the extra money if the return is zero?
  24. davearm
    yeah... and back then, nobody thought Luis Montantez was the second coming of, oh I dunno, Chris Burke? Yeah, Ben Davis, great comparison. Never mind that Ben Davis was drafted straight out of high school, or that his plate discipline was miles behind Wieters. I'd say that Wieters' three seasons with an OPS over 1.000 would argue against an overly inflated opinion. It's not like he's a high school kid who's gotten by on word of mouth; he's played 150 games for a major D-I program. But Ben Davis was a catcher and was an early-round bust, so let's compare the two. If the HS thing makes Ben Davis a poor comp, then wouldn't it also make Joe Mauer a poor comp too?
  25. davearm
    Yes, because Hendry has such a poor track record with trading players There's a difference between trading for a player(Lee, Ramirez, Barrett, Pierre(whoops!), Nomar) and trading away a player(Sosa, Patterson, Maddux). Hendry is awful at the latter, and that's what he'd be doing with Z. Sosa, Patterson, Maddux are terrible examples. None had anywhere near the value that Zambrano has. Both the pro- and anti-Hendry camps should realize that there is no comp for Zambrano on Hendry's trade resume. So using history to speculate about how well he'd do is pretty futile and silly. not really. It's Jim Hendry. As a general manager, he's done a very poor job. Odds are that he'll do a poor job in what he gets in return for Zambrano. Say what you will about Hendry's overall performance as a GM, but on the trade front he's made some terrific deals and some stinkers (not unlike most GMs, actually). But a trade of Zambrano would be unlike any other he's made, so it's silly to use history to speculate whether it'd wind up as another terrific one or another stinker.
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