Mephistopheles

They knew he had it last season.

rich harden has a mark prior gash.

we're not going to get anyone better than marquis.

good job jim hendry. you idiot.

and his drop in velocity. as a rule of thumb, loss of velocity = shoulder injury, loss of control but not velocity = elbow injury.

Class Act.

You can't be serious. He didn't get the tear after he stopped pitching while jerking his chicken.

Yeah, it's funny how ERA+ is thrown around as an "advanced" stat just because it's normalized. Garland regression will be fun, especially as Steve Phillips and John Kruk wonder what happened to such a wonderful pitcher. This would be a good time to remind everyone that Kruk's BALL+ rating is 50. Garland is what his ERA+ says he is. You're right about ERA+ itself, but you're still wrong.

That's a fair point. For Garland's career he has a 4.47 ERA in the DH league, averaging per 162 games 207 innings, 67 walks, 108 strikeouts, 26 homers allowed, and 219 hits. Marquis, for his career, has a 4.55 ERA in the national league. He has averaged in his career per 162 games 189 innings, 74 walks, 112 strikeouts, 24 homers allowed, and 195 hits. Really a marginal upgrade at best, a few more innings and maybe a marginal peripheral upgrade considering the league difference. Unfortunately, that wasn't my point. I was being ambiguous. My point had nothing to do with the shortcomings of ERA+.

Oliver would still go top ten if he was ineligible. Boras would send him to Fort Worth and he'd face better talent than he would in the relatively weak Big XII, though going to the Atlantic League would be better, though FWC is local. Oliver's from up north, I think.

OU always blows in baseball. Oliver may not even be able to play.

Given how teams have gone bonanza on relief pitchers in recent drafts, I would expect that Jason Stoffel to be selected within the first forty picks if not the first thirty - barring some major injury. Mike Leake should be a second or third rounder, though he could slip out of the third round easily. Anyways, it's not that odd for the two schools not to produce a first rounder. It happened in 2001, 2002, 2006, and 2007 the last of which, where there were 64 first round picks.

AUGIE SAY IT AINT SO http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3840422

ooooh era+ as end-all be-all.

hitting the ball far now isn't a problem for harvey. he still has 70 power.

not KW? goodbye.

well, some of the good 08ers will be back in...and there were a lot of good ones who went to school this year

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man if that is true that's pretty embarrassing for meyer. a coach shouldn't completely revise his offensive game plan to get his quarterback to stick around for one more year, and to pump up that player's nfl draft stock. What if they ran an offense more like the one he ran with Chris Leak. Is that really a revision or was the Tim Tebow offense a revision from the one he ran when he got to Florida. Meyers has proven to be pretty flexible with his offense. I think this is a strength more than weakness. Meyer tweaked his normal offense to cover the limitations of Chris Leak (he wasn't athletic enough to run the true spread option). What he's run with Tebow the past couple of years has been the "true" Urban Meyer spread option. It's not true. Anything like this is just FSU fans being delusional. Tebow may have asked to throw the rock more like they did in 2006, but they're not changing the offense. The offense he ran this season was most similar to the one he ran with Josh Harris (I think he was there, not Jacobs) at Bowling Green. The offense he ran last season was similar to the one he ran at Utah with Alex Smith. Really the two are the same, they just ran the ball more this year because they were effective at it. The only time he and Mullen really adapted was 2005 and 2006. Even then he had elements of the implemented of the other offense when Leak wasn't in the game, with Tebow and Josh Portis. My guess is after Tebow leaves if Brantley is quarterback you'll see the offense take the sky more often than it did even last year.

hours upon hours? definitely not. i'd be surprised if he works out daily at this point. Man the class of 2008 users is quite prolific.

He's going to be a throw-in in the Peavy deal.

Granted, he used a metal bat, but still. It's the longest on record at the Trop now. http://www.baseballamerica.com/images/bharper08540350jh.jpg The x would be where the ball landed. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/high-school/high-heat/2009/267403.html

most journalists are good at being journalists, not thinking about the game which is why they are bad choices for voters. personally i dont care about the hof, good for the guys that get in. but i am waiting for Rickey to be Rickey in a few months.

don't all Japanese players have a gimmicky delivery? no.

B He has his shortcomings. His biggest problem is getting the players his managers want. If that's your GM's biggest problem then you're fine.