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  1. Mephistopheles
    of course he didnt have a dropoff. He's been using them in summer leagues since he was a freshman in high school
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    1-1) Albert Pujols 1-2) Jose Reyes 1-3) Johan Santana 1-4) Alfonso Soriano 1-5) Alex Rodriguez 1-6) Carlos Beltran 1-7) Ryan Howard 1-8) Miguel Cabrera 1-9) Carl Crawford 1-10) Chase Utley 1-11) Derrek Lee 1-12) Chris Carpenter 2-1) David Wright 2-2) Lance Berkman 2-3) Grady Sizemore 2-4) David Ortiz 2-5) Vladimir Guerrero 2-6) Manny Ramirez 2-7) Mark Teixeira 2-8) Travis Hafner 2-9) Derek Jeter 2-10) Carlos Lee 2-11) Matt Holliday 2-12) Carlos Zambrano 3-1) Jake Peavy 3-2) Aramis Ramirez 3-3) Justin Morneau 3-4) Joe Mauer 3-5) Paul Konerko 3-6) Miguel Tejada 3-7) Jason Bay 3-8) Hanley Ramirez 3-9) Jimmy Rollins 3-10) Roy Halladay 3-11) Brandon Webb 3-12) Dan Haren 4-1) Garrett Atkins 4-2) Ichiro 4-3) Vernon Wells 4-4) Brian McCann 4-5) Roy Oswalt 4-6) Felix Hernandez (don't let me down big man) 4-7) Rich....Ben Sheets
  3. Mephistopheles
    I played with Mark for two summers. He's got impressive batspeed. As for Samardzija it's just he's so raw. He wasn't able to dominate Big East hitters with his fastball, and he's not going to dominate High A or Double A with it unless he has a lot of work. He's not advanced at all.
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  5. Mephistopheles
    Honestly, I'd be shocked if cracked Iowa's rotation before August 2008.
  6. Mephistopheles
    1-1) Albert Pujols 1-2) Jose Reyes 1-3) Johan Santana 1-4) Alfonso Soriano 1-5) Alex Rodriguez 1-6) Carlos Beltran 1-7) Ryan Howard 1-8) Miguel Cabrera 1-9) Carl Crawford 1-10) Chase Utley 1-11) Derrek Lee 1-12) Chris Carpenter 2-1) David Wright 2-2) Lance Berkman 2-3) Grady Sizemore 2-4) David Ortiz 2-5) Vladimir Guerrero 2-6) Manny Ramirez 2-7) Mark Teixeira 2-8) Travis Hafner 2-9) Derek Jeter 2-10) Carlos Lee 2-11) Matt Holliday 2-12) Carlos Zambrano 3-1) Jake Peavy 3-2) Aramis Ramirez 3-3) Justin Morneau 3-4) Joe Mauer 3-5) Paul Konerko 3-6) Miguel Tejada
  7. Mephistopheles
    1-1) Albert Pujols 1-2) Jose Reyes 1-3) Johan Santana 1-4) Alfonso Soriano 1-5) Alex Rodriguez 1-6) Carlos Beltran 1-7) Ryan Howard 1-8) Miguel Cabrera 1-9) Carl Crawford 1-10) Chase Utley 1-11) Derrek Lee 1-12) Chris Carpenter 2-1) David Wright 2-2) Lance Berkman 2-3) Grady Sizemore 2-4) David Ortiz 2-5) Vladimir Guerrero 2-6) Manny Ramirez 2-7) Mark Teixeira
  8. Mephistopheles
    nilo picks david ortiz
  9. Mephistopheles
    We really don't have any room in our pen... Fine then he becomes the right-handed platoon with Jacque Jones.
  10. Mephistopheles
    fine hes in next go
  11. Mephistopheles
    Unfortunately when Marquis does start to suck I don't think there would be a significant trade market for him given the contract and I am pretty certain JH would be too stubborn to eat the contract and release him. I guess he could be a decent MR albeit an expensive one.
  12. Mephistopheles
    Well we can cross off David Price and Michael Main. I don't know about Andrew Brackman.
  13. Mephistopheles
    I don't remember Prior getting out of the low 90s at all in 2005 and the results speak for themselves. He had an ERA in the mid threes and his pERAs were right around that area as well. His biggest problem was finesse command (ie HR and BB) not K's. Then again we should have noticed that losing finesse control but maintaining Ks and decent velocity is often a precursor to an arm injury.
  14. Mephistopheles
    They didn't align for the Pats with Reche Caldwell, Jabar Gaffney, Chad Jackson and Kevin Kight. What is it with the Pats and former Florida receivers? That's most of their receiving corps. Well Rex is one of the faces of the Gators and Bears. And austere beauty such as the YOTG can only pick one team. Having NE vs CHI would have blown up Florida.
  15. Mephistopheles
    Yes but for one day one night the stars will change.
  16. Mephistopheles
    Oh I did not! There are a couple others too. I dunno of they're on the active roster or not though. The Colts though have ZERO Gators. They can't win.
  17. Mephistopheles
    A Volunteer versus a Gator, it's almost too much to have on my mind. It's the Year of the Gator. Bears win. Big.
  18. Mephistopheles
    Nah Sean's thinking "Why don't I have thick red hair. This is proof girls love it"
  19. Mephistopheles
    You ought to fly out to Iowa then Tim. I'll try to catch a couple of his starts in Round Rock.
  20. Mephistopheles
    really the stats show that very very few right handed hitters have any platoon splits whatsoever. THe theory goes that all the righties who cant hit righties never make it passed double a or so because so many of the hitters they face are righties. Lefties on the other hand can make it through the minors without hitting lefties.
  21. Mephistopheles
    Matt Murton seems to be enjoying it as well. Marshall is just like whatever.
  22. Mephistopheles
    give him through atleast tomorrow evening. He may only come here at work or something. Id say tomorrow 8 CST, that's 48 hours
  23. Mephistopheles
    i dont know who plays fantasy baseball a lot around here, so just pick one
  24. Mephistopheles
    Kyle Farnsworth was *probably* a guy who was projectable but didnt throw real hard after HS. The Cubs figured he'd develop so they took him as a draft and follow pick, he enrolled at Abraham Baldwin College spent one season and the Cubs signed him before he re-entered the draft.
  25. Mephistopheles
    Yeah, that's 300 at-bats. I'll take the career numbers over those any day of the week to compare. Really? I'll take 350 PAs over the last 3 years over 1100 PAs over the last 9 years as far as using experience to project future performance. Except there's too much variance from it. It's not like he's a young player developing, it's the other way around. Not really. I am not taking them equally into consideration overall - I am taking the platoon difference into consideration. A players not going to "forget" how to hit righties and "learn" how to hit lefties. There's usually a pretty consistent split throughout a players career. Of course for a righty versus lefties there's a lot more year to year variance because the sample size is pretty low.
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