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  1. badnews
    Hey, don't lump me in with "you all," I said as much.
  2. badnews
    Because he's Japanese. Or because he pitches in the AL and it means he'd be better in the NL. Or everyone is sad we missed out the first time and now we want in on Kazuhisa Ishii Mach 2.
  3. badnews
    I don't think Wrigley Field is the best place for an emotional china doll like Greinke to figure out his issues. In any event I don't think Greinke or Blanton would come as cheap as some say. I'd still like an answer as to why everybody hates Jon Garland but Blanton is a similar pitcher (moderate but not great G/F ratio, low K/9 for a righty) who sharpened his control better than Garland's last year, or why we should ignore the red-ass beatdowns Blanton gets when he pitches outside of Oakland. Joe Blanton is an "innings eater." Unfortunately, Rich Hill averaged more innings per start on the road than Joe Blanton did. Oakland A's pitchers are the only ones who don't get the NL friendly ERA drop.
  4. badnews
    I don't understand but I'm skeptical defense can be calculated that precisely. Maybe if I did understand I wouldn't be skeptical. The conventional defensive metrics show that Everett was above average but not fantastic until 2006. Bartlett was a pretty good defender for the Twins this year so I wonder if they'll really gain any benefit from this. Even the best defensive players seem to be, statistically, inconsistent from year to year, and if he posts another sub-.600 OPS next year I'd be dubious his fielding could save it.
  5. badnews
    I don't understand that fancy talk. Let's try something I understand at a very basic level: WARP3 Everett 2003 - 3.4 2004 - 3.7 2005 - 3.7 2006 - 5.7 2007 - 1.6 Jeter 2003 - 4.6 2004 - 7.7 2005 - 11.7 2006 - 11.7 2007 - 8.8 Or the much hated David Eckstein 2003 - 4.2 2004 - 3.7 2005 - 7.3 2006 - 5.5 2007 - 3.8 Maybe we should try trading for this guy: 2003 - 3.1 2004 - 8.8 2005 - 6.2 2006 - 4.4 2007 - 8.7
  6. badnews
    I've been hearing that line for years.
  7. badnews
    To me Freddy Garcia is the best of the rehab class, why all the talk about Colon but none about Garcia? Kei Igawa wouldn't be worth giving anything up for.
  8. badnews
    Most years Everett isn't as good defensively as he was in 2006. From 2003-2005 he was worth no more as a player basically than Theriot was in 2007.
  9. badnews
    Coming into this year, how did Milledge blow away Pie? I don't see it.
  10. badnews
    Pittsburgh could do a lot better than that for Jason Bay. Cleveland could do a lot better than that for Jhonny Peralta. From the Cubs' standpoint though, thumbs up! If I were the Indians I wouldn't be quick to trot Barfield out there again - I never thought he was a great prospect to begin with, I think he deserves the 1 strike and you're out program.
  11. badnews
    A 1.58 G/F ratio isn't that great. Before that it was 1.15 and 1.16. There are a host of concerns I have about Joe Blanton. First of all, that flyball-to-home run ratio that has hung around 7.7% the last two years. Pitching in Chicago, I'd be dubious it's anything under 10.5%. His away from Oakland ERA was 5.11 in 2007 and 5.12 in 2006. How much do you trust do you have in Oakland pitching to stay as good once it leaves Oakland? My answer: not much at all. Joe Blanton reminds me of a better version of Jon Garland. They've both got an okay-but-not-great G/F ratio, bad K/9 for righties, decent control (Blanton's jumped way ahead of Garland's this year).
  12. badnews
    I'd trade Pie in a deal where he was the centerpiece by far for Greene in two seconds. Michael Young lately has been a very good defender but the name seems bigger than the reward. Furthermore how on earth do we have enough to get Brian Roberts and Michael Young, both? Why stop there? Let's get Nick Swisher, Erik Bedard, and Sid Finch too!
  13. badnews
    Why do people say Beane won't take toolsy prospects yet the A's were involved in Milledge discussions for years seemingly?
  14. badnews
    I think he's doing all that can be reasonably expected in this case, I don't think it's just a matter of "Get it done."
  15. badnews
    I'd like to know what means then are sanctioned by you to compare productivity. In this day and age you don't get to simply throw up your hands and say "There is no earthly way we can possibly approximate something like that."
  16. badnews
    Whoops, that's a stat. even better, theriot's obp last season in the 9th inning was an insane .478!!!! i think we should listen to this guy more closely. In "Close and Late" situations Theriot's OBP was .289 and his OPS was .571.
  17. badnews
    America... what a country! In America, Ryan Theriot steals base. In Soviet Russia, base steals Ryan Theriot!
  18. badnews
    I remember disliking the duo of Kevin Mench and Laynce Nix because people always acted like they were better than they were. Nix moreso, nobody probably remembers, but there was a time everybody was "We gotta get Laynce Nix!" and the Rangers were "No way are we trading Laynce Nix" and I don't like that spelling of Lance, that "y" is just unnecessary. As for Kevin Mench, it's hardly his fault, but I got exasperated with the media playing up that stupid story about how he got shoes that fit and then he hit like 7 home runs in 4 games or something, and he basically coasted on that stretch for a long time.
  19. badnews
    If you look at the Padres, I don't think they build a particularly dominating staff, I think they just find guys who can do well there. Chris Young, for example, most people now think of "dominating" but he's built up a crazy shantytown of indicators, if he was a Cub I wonder if his ERA would even be under 4.20, I don't think he's dominating. The Giants could stand a better chance of finding guys like him to succeed in their park than hitters.
  20. badnews
    I don't agree with that potential. After years of crapping on Barry Zito now we're handing him out charity? If Noah Lowry were a Cub we'd be crying to dump him while he still had some value. It's easy to pitch than to hit in that park. A position player can help you win every day whereas a pitcher can help you win every 5th day, add in that pitchers seem more likely to be injured and I think for the right deal it makes some sense for the Giants to trade a starter.
  21. badnews
    Not bad. I don't know if DeRosa has shaken his journeyman tag in some team's eyes though, but as someone else said, if they're looking at Inge...
  22. badnews
    The Cubs had a better starting pitcher ERA than the Giants, despite playing in a much more hitter friendly park. I'm also wondering where the rest of this stud 1-5 staff came from. Noah Lowry - looks like he's on his way to becoming Kirk Reuter. Barry Zito - not a stud. There's Cain and Lincecum... who else? Two studs out of five.
  23. badnews
    As I understand it, the Cubs were looking for fast guys who hit righties and play the middle infield. Most of the attraction around lefties being that they hit righties well. Iguchi is pretty unexciting. $6 million is a bargain? Ugh. These .768 OPS type guys are the sort of guys even this crap system should be able to churn out. Shabby. What a system. His day/night splits are nice if he were going to the Cubs. The fielding metrics make look like a sorry defender though. A career .768 OPS decent but not Matsui-like basestealer of questionable defensive prowess, it just seems kind of pointless to me. How many more wins would be worth to the club to bring in Iguchi and have DeRosa as the super-sub, I wonder? I wouldn't want to be committed to Iguchi for 3 years. If we want a fast guy to play poor defense at 2nd let's throw Eric Patterson out there.
  24. badnews
    Position players seemingly get hurt less than pitchers though. I'm not sure why the point about the Padres is invalidated by the 163rd game. I don't think it's crazy to be concerned about the long term health of a starting pitcher under 6 feet tall, because no matter what his ESPN page says, come on, he's like 5-10. Yeah, that's no reason to give a guy away. If the Giants are serious they should be trying for guys like Markakis or Hermida or such.
  25. badnews
    When they drafted Mark Holliman so high that surprised me because that was really in the era where everybody had be built like Paul Bunyan.
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