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  1. abuck1220
    you're sooo negative...yikes!
  2. abuck1220
    he's got moxie, heart, grit. he chews tobacco and slides headfirst into home plate. he doesn't use daggum computers. he can pick the next sammy sosa out of a group of 100 lanky 13 year-old dominicans just by shaking their hands and staring in their eyes. he doesn't write books about himself.
  3. abuck1220
    Because they would rather have Jacque Jones in CF than Taveras. and so should the cubs.
  4. abuck1220
    ops+, eqa, vorp, qdlzor3;40}|2, whatever...he sucks.
  5. abuck1220
    It didn't really impact me that much. I have a philosophy against spending too many of my keeper points on pitchers. I much prefer to see who is healthy and looking good in the spring. Hitters are simply more reliable bets. guys like gary matthews jr. outscored brandon webb last year, so not only are pitchers more likely to get injured, they weren't really worth all that much even if they were healthy AND awesome.
  6. abuck1220
    i'm not going to be happy if the cubs sign floyd and start pie in cf. because if they do that, there's going to be a lot of days where murton sits while pie plays, and that just doesn't make sense.
  7. abuck1220
    why is hendry doing this again?
  8. abuck1220
    this actually helps me quite a bit. sheets only went up a little and hill and papelbon are exempt.
  9. abuck1220
    pfft. You're going to have like three guys on your team! they'll just have to be three really good guys, i guess. :D
  10. abuck1220
    yep, you've got yourself primed to make another run at 2nd place. :twisted:
  11. abuck1220
    And then we would have had about 100 pages on what a jerk Hendry is for letting someone outbid him on Soriano. I'm not happy about the contract, but Hendry (and Piniella) decided he was the man that they needed and he went out and got him. It certainly doesn't look like the money has hindered him from signing other players. unfortunately.
  12. abuck1220
    ahh...i was wondering what the "he lead the NL in hitting for two months" and "he was third in batting average with runners in scoring position among guys with 150 strikeouts" was going to be this year.
  13. abuck1220
    those guys were all very highly thought of prospects, and any iffy numbers they put up in the minors were when they were playing at levels high for their age. soriano was jacking 40 hrs when he was pagan's age, and reyes and cano are still 2-3 years younger than pagan. pagan is not good. he wasn't good in the bigs last year, he wasn't good in the 2,500 minor league ab's that he had, and he's going to be 26 next season. what leads you to think otherwise?
  14. abuck1220
    please provide me with a better predictor of future performance thanks! Why? Do you think minor league stats can be equated to major league performance absolutely? If so, you have your opinion already. great answer. you've really provided a lot of support for your position. Be reasonable. It wouldn't matter what he or anyone said to you. Your opinion won't ever change. Thanks for keeping an open mind! give me something to keep an open mind about. you're saying that bad minor league players can turn into good major league players...throw some names at me.
  15. abuck1220
    please provide me with a better predictor of future performance thanks! Why? Do you think minor league stats can be equated to major league performance absolutely? If so, you have your opinion already. great answer. you've really provided a lot of support for your position.
  16. abuck1220
    i agree that some good minor leaguers end up being bad major leaguers. but that sure as hell doesn't mean that bad minor leaguers end up being good major leaguers.
  17. abuck1220
    also, just because some guys have good minor league numbers and end up not being good major leaguers does NOT mean that some guys with bad minor league numbers end up with good major league numbers. it doesn't work both ways. i can't even believe you're trying to make that argument.
  18. abuck1220
    i would love to see a list of guys who had a .700 career minor league OPS and ended up being decent big league players. please do list the myriad examples of this. i have a stat to show that he's not. career minor league OPS (2,500+ PA's): .705 career major league OPS: .701 funny how that works out. It's pretty frustrating when you intentionally misread what I write and regurgitate what I didn't say so you can attempt to prove your point to yourself. I said there are a myriad examples of players who had minor league numbers that didn't translate, not .700 OPS guys who ended up being decent big league players. I pointed out that there are ballplayers who the stats guys find that scouts don't and ballplayers that scouts find that stats guys don't. Pagan is an example of this, IMO. Why on earth would Pagan's minor and major league stats be a counter to this argument? BECAUSE THEY SUCK AND SO DOES HE. your argument is that pagan is some kind of diamond in the rough who had bad/mediocre minor league stats, but the scouts found him anyway and now he's a contributor. except he's not. to make your argument, pagan would have to actually be, you know, good.
  19. abuck1220
    i would love to see a list of guys who had a .700 career minor league OPS and ended up being decent big league players. please do list the myriad examples of this. i have a stat to show that he's not. career minor league OPS (2,500+ PA's): .705 career major league OPS: .701 funny how that works out.
  20. abuck1220
    wow. how can pagan be said to have "done his time" in the minors yet still be considered an unknown? he had 2500 mediocre at best minor league ab's...i think it was pretty clear what he brought to the table (not much). Pagan spent 6 years in the minors. That's "doing your time." He never made it to the show, meaning it was an unknown how he'd perform at the ML level. That's all I meant by calling him an "unknown." actually a guy's minor league numbers can be a pretty good indicator of what type of major league player he'll be. he was quite "known". and what a surprise...pagan's big league numbers were right in line with his career minor league numbers...terrible.
  21. abuck1220
    thanks for the explanation.
  22. abuck1220
    yeah, i remember that one time when rothschild begged with him to change his mechanics and wood told him to shut his stupid mouth and then he punched him. i think it was like the day after hendry turned down a trade offer of dunn, ken griffey jr., the 1970 version of johnny bench and $150 mil for rich hill.
  23. abuck1220
    wow. how can pagan be said to have "done his time" in the minors yet still be considered an unknown? he had 2500 mediocre at best minor league ab's...i think it was pretty clear what he brought to the table (not much).
  24. abuck1220
    Hendry subcribes to the "earn it" policy. Some guys don't get it done in ST, others step up. Pagan stepped it up bigtime. IIRC, the Cubs players were rumored to have really lobbied for Pagan to make the roster. Let's blame the Cubs players for Pagan. Personally, I like Pagan. Good speed. His injury kept him from beating out a lot of infield singles (raising his BA). His defense is fine. His speed makes up for a lot of his indecisions, giving him average range. That's fine. You can learn to read the ball better. You can't learn speed. Pagan showed a some pop last season, which scouts long predicted even if the numbers weren't there. He'd out OPS Pierre in a full season, but that's not saying much. I'd rather have Church, but Pagan in CF is a better option than dealing Jock and putting some runtown vet out there for several million. Pagan isn't high on my list for the CF job, but he's better than some options out there. so he's in the 'earn it' business except you 'earn it' by having a lucky two week run of 20 ab's in spring training? and nevermind the thousands of previous terrible at bats? that's a pretty stupid way to evaluate players. and pagan is brutal defensively. worse than murton, worse than jones.
  25. abuck1220
    pagan shouldn't be a starter on a team with a $20 mil payroll, let alone one with a $120+ payroll.
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