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  1. abuck1220
    ditto but i was first. and most right.
  2. abuck1220
    yep...just like the cubs did to get matt karchner and antonio alfonseca.
  3. abuck1220
    in case anyone forgot, i was touting/defending hill the entire time. just for the record.
  4. abuck1220
    He's also been as good as Meche has ever been. And he's much less expensive. Risk is more than the player's ability, but his cost. Ryan Dempster is Meche in 2 years. Live arm, has shown glimpses, but never put it together. The biggest difference is that Dempster put together 3 straight years of 200+ innings, while Meche never did, and Ryan is far less expensive. When was the last time Dempster was as good as Meche has ever been? 2001? 2000? He last pitched 200 innings in 2002, and he was bad. I understand the spirit of what you are saying, but saying Ryan is no bigger a gamble in the rotation than Meche is a real stretch. I'd wager that someone from the group of Dempster, Cotts, Marshall or Guzman could match Meche's numbers next year. I'm not confident of that. Not remotely. meche's era+ the last three years have been 86, 85 and 97. marshall's was 83 last year. you could say that meche is/will be better, but he's not $9.7 mil better. if meche is $9.7 mil better than marshall, zambrano is going to get a $600 mil contract.
  5. abuck1220
    my goodness, joe crede sucks. he's pushing pierre for baseball's most overrated player.
  6. abuck1220
    if meche wasn't somehow labeled as having good potential and great stuff, he'd be signing a minor league deal somewhere. instead he's going to get $40 mil.
  7. abuck1220
    that's adorable.
  8. abuck1220
    You mean Prior when he's healthy. and ramirez when he sucks.
  9. abuck1220
    no it wouldn't.
  10. abuck1220
    now that's a ringing endorsement! do you think agents go around saying that about their clients? and i agree with you in your assessment of baldelli.
  11. abuck1220
    his best years were very, very good. i remember being surprised at how productive he was during the late 90s.
  12. abuck1220
    i agree. and i'm not so sure i'd define baldelli as front line.
  13. abuck1220
    thought you didn't like hill? :D why would a team have to give up two young, frontline major-league-ready players who are three or more years from free agency to get one such player?
  14. abuck1220
    you may be able to get by with jennings + lilly, but only if either a) prior pitches like he did in 2003 or b) hill pitches like he did in the 2nd half. if either of those things happen, prior/hill would pitch well enough to be your #2 and lilly and jennings could be serviceable as your #3/4. but counting on either of those guys to be your #2 is a bad idea.
  15. abuck1220
    yeah, i think he makes it too. his low win total (low 200's?) hurts him quite a bit, but a bunch of other stuff helps him. like you said, he starred in two of the most remembered world series of the past ten years. and he's also always been very media-friendly and charitable, which i think will help him too.
  16. abuck1220
    No kidding. This is where the throwing around of $2-4m deals to mediocre (or worse) replacable players hurts you. If a far superior pitcher costs only $5m more than the other guy, go with the better pitcher. I agree with both of you, but I think the stiking point is years not money. i'd take 3 typical years of schmidt + 1 year were he completely falls apart over 4 typical lilly years.
  17. abuck1220
    if schmidt is asking for $15 and lilly's asking for $10+ just pony up and get the much better pitcher, please.
  18. abuck1220
    is schilling a hall of famer?
  19. abuck1220
    i thought the reds were building a team entirely out of backup catchers and relievers...
  20. abuck1220
    outstanding!
  21. abuck1220
    man, schmidt + marshall/guzman would be so much cheaper AND better than lilly + marquis/meche.
  22. abuck1220
    A platoon is not a weakness. A platoon is a necessity to counteract the weakness of individual players. A platoon is how you make the most of a less than ideal situation. This is like saying "studying hard is a weakness" if a student doesn't just immediately absord everything he is taught. It is a wekness becuase a team is paying two guy to play one positon. no you're not. you're paying one guy to start and one guy to be one of a handful of bench players. and then those guys switch roles on some days.
  23. abuck1220
    yeah, i'd much rather pay gil meche 4/$40 to put up a 4.50 era than pay marshall $300k to put up a 4.70 era.
  24. abuck1220
    Haven't seen that offer. Gallagher and Guz is definitely too steep. Heck, I think I'd rather trade Rich Hill for Jennings than give up Gallagher AND Guz. so you'd rather have gooz and gallagher in the system than hill? no way. hill's been nothing but durable his entire career, and he's had a long(ish) period of big league success. if you take hill out of the '07 rotation and insert guzman, you're asking for a rotation with tons of potential holes and injuries.
  25. abuck1220
    every thread on the board has to include at least one shot at prior's manliness.
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