Mephistopheles

Just some random oddities using BR's similarity scores (which are fairly useless) Guess who is #1 on Alfonso Soriano's: Soto's ones are interesting. The best comp for him is Bill DeLancey. DeLancey was a part of the Gas House gang who was pretty much done with baseball at age 24 due to lung problems. Most similar at his age is DeLancey, number two is Victor Martinez. Plz return to hitting Soto. Let's look at some of Derrek Lee's most similar hitters at age 32: #1 Kent Hrbek (out of baseball at age 34) #3 Will Clark (out of baseball at age 36) #4 Raul Mondesi (out of baseball at age 34) I'm jes sayin'. Hal Trosky is one of his top ten overall. He played two seasons after he turned 28. I'm jes sayin'... Apparently Ryan Theriot and Homer Bush are long lost baseball brothers along with Sy Sutcliffe. Now that's an awesome name. About half of Theriot's comps are dead ball players. That's not good when you're in the live era. Let's Look at Milton's #1 Wally Judrich (out of baseball at age 32) #2 Jeff Hammonds (out of baseball at age 34) #3 Hank Lieber (out of baseball at age 31) #4 Ellis Valentine (out of baseball at age 30) - If only he could throw like EV could... His comparisons through age 30: #1 Ivan Calderon (out of baseball at age 31) #2 Carl Everett (out of baseball at age 35) #5 Rip Ripulski (less than 200 PAs after age 30) I'm jes sayin' again.... Rich Harden's #1 Comp is Mark Prior. That sucks on so many different levels. #2 is Mickey Hughes...who never pitched after age 23. I'm sorry, I'm jes sayin'... We've got some great names for Z #1 Teddy Higuera (done at age 31) #2 Pete Vuckovich (done at age 29) Most similar at Z's age: #1 Ramon Martinez (done at age 30) #2 Dan Petry (done at age 30) #3 Jim Maloney (done at age 29) #4 Sandy Koufax (done at age 30) #5 Ray Culp (done at age 29) #6 Alex Fernandez (done at age 29)

http://www.hollywoodcollectibles.com/autographed/memorabilia/sports/collectibles/authentic/Baseball/8x10%20Photos/Alfonso_Soriano_Photo3_MID.jpg lets move him back to ss!

Eww Twitter. The problem with any max effort guy like Marmol. If he's in the game and his knee is bothering him, he's going to try to overcompensate. This will lead to additional stress on his elbow and shoulder - which could lead to more significant injuries unfortunately.

This is incorrect. Baseball Prospectus' replacement level is a replacement level hitter and fielder, position be damned. In other words they're saying that a replacement level shortstop is a .230 EqA hitter who fields over thirty runs below average. Replacement level players are not nearly that bad. In the case of a second baseman their replacement level second baseman is a .230 EqA hitter who fields about thirty runs below average. Even Alfonso Soriano wasn't that bad defensively. It's an incredibly stupid the way they do it, and if you cornered the folks at BP and asked them to defend it, they'd buckle. In reality a replacement level middle infielder will have an EqA between .220 and .230, but can easily defend at an average to above average rate. League average defensive players grow on trees. The distribution of defensive talent is more or less a traditional normal bell curve for the major and upper minor leaguers. The majority of them are in the middle. The distribution of offensive talent isn't the same. It's obviously more or less a traditional bell curve in the majors, but all the players in the minors would tend to fall on the below average side. That's not true on defense.

My Real Concerns: Geovany Soto Chicago Cubs Depth Kevin Gregg Carlos Zambrano Rich Harden My Whatever Concerns: Mike Fontenot Ryan Theriot Our Bullpen Ryan Dempster Derrek Lee Aramis Ramirez Things I'm Not Concerned About: KF Ted Lilly Sean Marshall Milton Bradley Alfonso Soriano Milwaukee Brewers St. Louis Cardinals In reality, I'm going to get worried about making the playoffs when one of the following go out for an extended period of time: {Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Zambrano, Kosuke Fukudome, Alfonso Soriano}.

Man our depth blows. Wait until Harden and Zambrano go down. *sigh*

I posted that before they ran him out for the ninth inning.

Zack still hasn't given up an earned run this season. The guy had a terrible outing today though. He gasp, gave up an unearned run in 8 innings 3 hit ball.

im sorry again.

You shouldn't think of soonernation as an addition. More like...a replacement. farewell, CubinOk, we hardly knew ye BTW Holy crap I also live in Norman! im sorry.

Ewww sooners.

Good, never want to see a guy get hurt, even if he is a Cardinal*. *Pujols and Braun excluded.

fwiw. lee's sops+ was over 100 last june. and july. and august. and september.

This is just dextermorgan trying to make me look bad. That's all he does around here. It's quite pathetic. I'm pretty sure that the fact I said "likely torn ACL" coupled with him "hearing a pop" means I'm connecting the dots and inferring that most likely cause is a torn ACL. Call it speculation if you want. I call it being logical.

so how many times do you hear a pop in your knee and not need some kind of surgery? or at the very least a month off? ask Yovani Gallardo. or Ryan Harvey. or Corey Patterson. or Milton Bradley. or Rocco Baldelli. or Lance Berkman. or Carlos Guillen. Alright I can't think of any more off the top of my head...

Tomy, lmao.

Too bad. He hard a pop in his knee today. Yeah if you hear that and you're running that's not good. It happened when he was running to cover first ala Crapperson.

God that Samardzija guy sucks. He's even worse than Cotts! Get him outta here. Now.

Can we have Grady too? We'd love to have the Ladies in the bleachers for fan cam in the summer.

He's a better GM than you. We'd criticize you more than we would him.

I can't stand him. He's so wrong I break my computer sometimes.

If you go 8-6 over every stretch of 14 games you're going to win 93 games.

I'm a Jim Hendry apologist myself. I like having him.

What happened? I didn't watch the game.

Hit. But seriously, around here this guy gets a free pass while Lee hits better and gets slammed. Ditto for Fonty.