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  1. abuck1220
    but if you allow it during the season you're not benefitting "stacked" teams...you're benefitting "sellers" or teams that aren't in competition. if you say i can only get a 2nd rounder for peavy in june, you're only helping the "haves" and hurting the "have nots."
  2. abuck1220
    but i'd be fine with a rule barring the trade of 1st round picks after the 7/31 trading deadline.
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    i think you should still be able to trade them in season. that way the teams that are presumably sellers (ie not doing so hot) will have the opportunity to better themselves in the next year's draft.
  4. abuck1220
    once the season is over, they're not your assets until you make them a keeper. and i realize juan got something in the trade. but you didn't give anything up because you didn't "own" santana. I sure as hell did. If I hadn't traded him I guarantee he'd still be on my roster. but then someone else wouldn't be. if this doesn't get changed, i'm probably not going to trade anybody within the season. why would i? why trade teix or peavy for the 14th pick of the 1st round when i can just wait and trade him for the 3rd pick of the 1st round after the season.
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  6. abuck1220
    once the season is over, they're not your assets until you make them a keeper. and i realize juan got something in the trade. but you didn't give anything up because you didn't "own" santana.
  7. abuck1220
    it's not really a "trade" though. you're not giving up anything, as you don't really control the guys you are trading...it's like trading guys whose contract has expired before they file for free agency. you're getting free draft picks.
  8. abuck1220
    i mean, besides the fact that you do it. like an argument as to why you should be able to dump players you have no intention/ability to keep for a handful of draft picks.
  9. abuck1220
    any particular reason why?
  10. abuck1220
    of course the other benefit of doing this (besides taking away what seems like an obviously unfair situation) is the vast improvement of the draft.
  11. abuck1220
    what are we going to do about this? i know it was discussed a little bit at the end of last year. i think it's a problem (not saying that i haven't done it a couple times). allowing trading after the season like this is essentially trading free agents, which you obviously can't do in real baseball. i propose either a) not letting people trade their 1st round picks past the 7/31 deadline or b) limiting the number of points you can "dump" after the season. thus, you could maybe trade 600 points worth after the season for draft picks/exempt players, but you can't go dumping half your roster and scooping up 5 draft picks in return. say i trade peavy to don for a 1st round pick. he'll finish high in the standings, so that 1st round pick will be like 14th overall. after the season, don can go trade peavy to a team that finished next to last or something and land the 3rd overall pick in the 1st round. he essentially gets peavy for three months and not only did it literally cost him nothing, he actually improves his standing in the draft. that's not right. can we reach a decision on this now so i know how i want to approach my potential fire sale?
  12. abuck1220
    what exactly is lou saving the decent ph options for?
  13. abuck1220
    hey, no need to ph for terrible hitters like hill and blanco...we've got plenty of time to come back.
  14. abuck1220
    he slides into bases headfirst for crying out loud, what do you expect?
  15. abuck1220
    Okay, everyone. Isn't it worth letting me have Strasburg just for this? you'll end up with him anyway...someone will give him to you for zach duke or something.
  16. abuck1220
    yeah, the standings at the time of the minor league draft will probably be different than the standings at the end of the year (on which we base the draft order for the '10 draft).
  17. abuck1220
    i think it's only fair that teams at the bottom get the first picks. yeah, the same team may be picking toward the top in the 2009 minor league draft and the 2010 big league draft, but the guy they get in the minor league draft isn't likely to help their team any time soon. it's not like they're going to be getting two arod's or something. maybe you have to an nba-style lottery or something to stop people from tanking to get strasburg, but if they're picking first in the '09 minor league draft, the '10 regular draft and the '10 minor league draft, they suck anyway, so who cares if they get to keep drafting first. whoever has the worst record/least points/whatever at the time of the draft should be picking first.
  18. abuck1220
    because if tim or don somehow end up with strasburg i [expletive] quit this league.
  19. abuck1220
    i think the fairest way is to do it by reverse records like every other draft we've had.
  20. abuck1220
    i think he meant abortion.
  21. abuck1220
    let me get this straight, you hate andres blanco with all of your heart, but you want the cubs to sign shea hillenbrand? i'd like to say something clever along the lines of "who's next, [some washed up 3b that hasn't played professional baseball since 1999 or so]," but shea hillenbrand would be the name i would use for that joke.
  22. abuck1220
    there's no way that's true. sorry. you're essentially saying that pitchers KNOW they can get soriano out by throwing sliders in the dirt, but their cockiness (?) for some reason, leads them to throw him fastballs that he hits 400 feet. come on. You got it wrong. Pitchers believe in their fastballs. pitchers believe in paychecks and job security. if it was truly as easy as throwing soriano breaking stuff, they'd do it, even if it meant sacrificing their manhood in whatever way you've imagined.
  23. abuck1220
    If Soriano goes on one of his hot streaks during October he could carry a team to a World Series title. I'm not convinced that Soriano has "hot streaks" so much as he has streaks where pitchers are giving him a lot of good pitches to hit. That won't happen very frequently in the playoffs, so the chances of him getting on a "hot streak" are very slim. so if all you have to do to get him out is not throw him "good pitches to hit," then why doesn't every pitcher do that to him all the time? Because pitchers are cocky bastards who believe their stuff can get anybody and they can't necessarily put it where they want it every time. there's no way that's true. sorry. you're essentially saying that pitchers KNOW they can get soriano out by throwing sliders in the dirt, but their cockiness (?) for some reason, leads them to throw him fastballs that he hits 400 feet. come on.
  24. abuck1220
    If Soriano goes on one of his hot streaks during October he could carry a team to a World Series title. I'm not convinced that Soriano has "hot streaks" so much as he has streaks where pitchers are giving him a lot of good pitches to hit. That won't happen very frequently in the playoffs, so the chances of him getting on a "hot streak" are very slim. so if all you have to do to get him out is not throw him "good pitches to hit," then why doesn't every pitcher do that to him all the time?
  25. abuck1220
    shane did that last week too. i say one more and he gets a beatdown.
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