Mephistopheles

you can find random splits in everything.

these splits are fairly irrelevant

I have 27 points riding on Utah's ass in this game. Other people who care for this game's results. 31 Utah - Wekse 27 Utah - The Voice of Reason 27 Utah - poolboybob 25 Utah - ISUCubsFan 23 Utah - Flames24Rulz 18 Navy - Sethuel 17 Utah - deutschra

Spreadsheet when I filled it with copy and paste from a BA table.

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Carl Everett!

The correct answer has played on the Cubs recently.

That's what I thought

i might be changing my opinion on these of the guys listed who (without looking) do you think is good compaison for Pie on offense?

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That will be sliced up for Felix Pie's downfall. Abraham Nunez Adam Dunn Alex Escobar Alex Ochoa Andruw Jones Austin Kearns Ben Grieve Bernie Williams Bob Abreu Brad Wilkerson Brian Hunter Brooks Kieschnick Carl Crawford Carl Everett Carlos Beltran Chad Hermansen Chad Mottola Chin-Feng Chen Choo Freeman Cliff Floyd Corey Patterson Darnell McDonald Dee Brown Dernell Stenson Derrick Gibson Earl Cunningham Geoff Jenkins George Lombard Jackson Melian Jay Payton Jeff McNeely Jeffrey Hammonds Jeromy Burnitz Joe Borchard Johnny Damon Jose Cruz Jr. Julio Ramirez Karim Garcia Kenny Lofton Lance Berkman Manny Ramirez Mark Kotsay Melvin Nieves Michael Cuddyer Michael Restovich Michael Tucker Midre Cummings Mike Kelly Nick Markakis Nigel Wilson Peter Bergeron Preston Wilson Raul Mondesi Ray Lankford Ray McDavid Reggie Sanders Rich Becker Richard Hidalgo Roger Cedeno Rondell White Ruben Mateo Ruben Rivera Shannon Stewart Shawn Green Terrell Lowery Tim Salmon Tom Goodwin Trey Beamon Trot Nixon Vernon Wells Vladimir Guerrero Wes Chamberlain Willie Ansley

A. The only thing grammatically incorrect about my sentence was the lack of one comma because I just don't give a crap about it. B. Completely untrue. ML ready pitching prospects are significantly undervalued in the trade market. You are completely wrong on this one.

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they both have japanese ties, who knows if they speak the language at all What are Soriano's Japanese ties, out of curiosity? he played in japan

I. No, no it isn't. There are better things that are just as readily available. V. All of them summed up, duh. X. I didn't say that it wasn't obvious, I was just making sure you knew that 95% of the time, they're useless and pointless. Only tie games in the 9th and extras, every other situation it isnt worth the tradeoff for most players XI. Ironic. I before E except after C. How is about learning? Nice grammar. XIII. False. You're better off drafting hitting prospects and trading them for ML ready pitching prospects -- one's who have already passed the injury nexus. XV. I'm a bit of a draft expert, don't even try to debate about the draft with me.

they both have japanese ties, who knows if they speak the language at all

I'm not your bitch. Google it. There have been dozens upon dozens upon dozens of studies that have been done on this. One of the better ones is actually in BP's between the numbers, surprisingly considered how pathetic most of that book is. They do make some mistakes, but they're not large enough to discredit the results. I really should do an anti-between the numbers thread. i get sick every time i read that crap. almost everything done is stupid in there. Protection is nothing but a myth.

lol trust me hes right I repeat, I'd like to see the source / factual support for this. The BBTN chapter MPrior was alluding to I've read, and I'll express the flaws in it as soon as I get a few free minutes. 1. Not entirely. 2. Agreed. 3. Depends on what the relevance you're conceding they do have is. 4. Doubtful. 5. Define "relatively worthless" 6. Didn't stop people from complaining about Neifi and Corey at the top of the order. Or Soriano. Or Pierre. Batting order doesn't matter for different reasons that you're assuming. 7. Didn't you argue Tulowitzki deserved the ROY? 8. See 4 9. Agreed. 10. Disagreed. 11. Wrong. Hitters with decent strike zone awareness who use all fields generally have good success in clutch situations. But the "choking" aspect is a non-factor. 12. Agreed, but I wouldn't mind having Clayton Kershaw in our system. 13. Semantics. 14. See 8. 1. Yes they are. 4. Um, yes. 5. The disparity between good and bad catchers is pretty slim relative to the disparity between say good and bad shortstops. 6. People aren't smart, I should not have to tell you this. 7. And I was not basing my argument on errors...for him or Braun. 8. See #4 10. This is true except for a tie game in the 9th inning. 11. Wrong. You're not factoring out third variables brilliant. I am because I'm quite brilliant. 13. Semantics? Do you like not follow the draft or something? Or do you think I know nothing about the draft? 14. See #8

well, if i'm wrong, imb or someone will come in with evidence to show me.

How's this loyalty: He knows he will never be healthy again and he wanted to make sure the Cubs did not waste another dollar on false hope, so he made sure he was non-tendered for the better of the team. He could have done that for all we know...

Even if they did offer arbitration, there's no possible way Lofton could have been on the "A" list, could he? He was a type b fa

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So Meph calls a poster's opinion "[expletive]," someone asks if he's elaborated, I give Meph's "I could but I don't want to" beaut and I'm warned for personal attacks? For quoting a facetious smart alec poster and giving my facetious opinion of the mindset? OK. It was my (correct) opinion that his (inaccurate) comparison was [expletive]. Who cares? It wasn't even you so let's not get our panties in a bunch over semantics.

1. We'll screw ourselves in the draft again. 2. The amount of draft picks we have should NOT have an impact on our draft class, well at least if the Cubs were smart... 3. The Tribe did not offer arbitration to Lofton.

Kosuke Fukudome should be the centerfielder, but of the options he is the best - although that does not say much. The dropoff in talent between him and Colvin is small (basically defense only) so trading him then signing say Lofton to a one year deal for CF is a pretty goood move if we move Pie for a guy like Greene. Fine 7th tool!