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  1. Mephistopheles
    http://rivals100.rivals.com/teamrank.asp?SID=880 :lol: zook definitely outrecruited meyer at florida....oh wait
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    a guy who throws it most of the time
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    Uh, yes. The five most important statistics affecting WHIP are 1. Defense 2. Infield Fly Rate (a repeatable skill!) 3. Groundball Rate (a higher GB rate = higher BABIP!) 4. Knuckleballness. 5. Park Factors League BABIP runs around .300 each year, but for the Cubs park/league it should run a little lower than that. Really the only guy who statistically does fine BABIP wise is Mr. Zambrano. He appears to be one of the rare few who controls it decently. Lilly, Hill not so much. especially not marquis
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    Perhaps not making the 2003 would have been the best thing for the Cubs, in retrospect. This is false.
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    The Cubs don't make the 2003 playoffs without that trade.
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    thats because steals are worthless.
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    I know all that, it doesn't mean it's a good financial decision right now. He's played 1 year. It's the largest extension given to a player with less than 2 years of service. His OPS was down 100 points after the AS break. No reason to give him that money without seeing if he can do it again. um, no. his ops went up 100 pts after the asb. I Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip sOPS+ tOPS+ Split +-+------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------------+ 1st Half 82 82 356 315 50 90 13 3 9 38 32 3 69 4 4 1 4 6 5 3 .286 .358 .432 .790 .340 112 90 1st Half 2nd Half 73 73 326 294 54 87 20 2 15 61 25 0 61 5 1 1 3 8 2 3 .296 .360 .531 .891 .329 129 111 2nd Half
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    Yay Rice! Oh well not really.
  9. Mephistopheles
    its both.
  10. Mephistopheles
    alright... im only going to use ZiPS and PECOTA. I may include Chone and Marcel. I dont know of any place to get ones from fantasy sites. I might as well include them if someone (or me) finds them. Ill wait until its all released.
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    I love you Tomy so all is well in the world.
  12. Mephistopheles
    kazuo matsui homered in his first AB too guys
  13. Mephistopheles
    The Orioles Hangout site is talking about Greene because he wants to be on the East coast. The Cubs need a SS more than a 2B, but maybe a deal could be worked with the 3 teams to send Roberts to the Cubs and Greene to the Orioles. Padres get: Cedeno, Murton, Patterson Orioles get: Greene, Headley, Marshall Cubs get: Roberts, Payton, plus cash Follow it up with the Dempster, DeRosa, ???? for Burnett. Roberts leads off and pushes Soriano down in the order. Payton backs up all 3 OF positions. Rotation would be Zambrano, Burnett, Lilly, Hill, Marquis/Gallagher/Hart. \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ Wed better just to keep Greene
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    Well it's better than Matsui
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    Drafting pitching early is a smart(er) strategy than you'd think. Meph decided to post another draft plan for you kids using mostly other players: 1 Albert Pujols, 1B 2 Vladimir Guerrero, OF 3 Lance Berkman, OF 4 Cole Hamels, SP 5 Francisco Rodriguez, RP 6 Chone Figgins, 2B (if not eligible in your league Kinsler is essentially the same value wise) 7 Miguel Tejada, SS 8 Roy Halladay, SP 9 Paul Konerko, 1B 10 Kenji Johjima, C 11 Juan Pierre, OF 12 Yovani Gallardo, SP 13 Matt Capps, RP 14 Josh Fields, 3B 15 Kevin Gregg, RP 16 Troy Percival, RP 17 Brian Wilson, RP 18 Jason Schmidt, SP 19 Mike Mussina, SP 20 Rafael Betancourt, RP 21 Greg Maddux, SP Based off James: 225 HR, 835 Runs, 838 RBI, 135 SB, .299 AVG, 106 Wins, 156 Saves, 1348 K's, 3.39 ERA, 1.20 WHIP
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    You can do that with several teams. Other notables the Cubs drafted: Micah Owings, Adam Everett, Jeff Larish, Taylor Teagarden, Landon Powell, Eli Iorg
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    Let's see.
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    Heh.
  20. Mephistopheles
    anything east of the mississippi is east coast.
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    I knew we did.
  22. Mephistopheles
    No, not Piazza. I know this one only because it essentially mirrors a trivia question asked earlier in this thread. Your spoiler is incorrect.
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    yep
  24. Mephistopheles
    Looking at ADPs. Then figuring overs and unders. Then just random testing out. Like when I realized the dropoff from Santana (my wannabe second pick) to curt schilling (my pot'l 16th pick) was slim, it allowed me to work around and slot some guys. Plugging and chugging afterwards. I did another fake idea loltastic draft thing. this draft right here, would be expected to WIN your league. 1. Jose Reyes, SS 2. Jake Peavy, SP 3. John Smoltz, SP 4. Cole Hamels, SP 5. Roy Halladay, SP 6. Rich Hill, SP 7. Juan Pierre, OF 8. Matt Cain, SP 9. Todd Helton, 1B 10. Matt Kemp, OF 11. Jacoby Ellsbury, OF 12. Placido Polanco, 2B 13. Mark Reynolds, 3B 14. JR Towles, C 15. Pedro Martinez, SP 16. Eric Gagne, RP 17. Brian Wilson, RP 18. Todd Jones, RP 19. CJ Wilson, RP 20. Troy Percival, RP 21. David DeJesus, OF Looks like crap? You'd be expected to win all 5 pitching categories. You'd easily finish first in runs, steals and batting average while dead last in HRs and RBIs. Thats 12*8+2 = 98 pts. You'd actually finish with 95 predicted based on the two drafts I've done. Still, you're winning your league with that hilariously bad looking draft.
  25. Mephistopheles
    pitchers an easy one (too easy) for catchers, who has the longest consecutive games w/ a walk?
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