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Problem is, Bradley really hasnt been struggling lately. He hasnt lived up to expectaions, but hes been doing fine for himself. He's 0-10 with 4 K's in his last 10 PA

I believe Pocius still has another year of eligibility. He announced that he was skipping it and graduated this spring, I believe

If New Orleans sells its first round pick again, I will swear them off. George Shinn is just a terrible person and the management has screwed up a lot. I can't take any more moves just to save money at the expense of getting younger or better. I should have jumped off of them when they left Charlotte, but I had to keep with them. Any suggestions for teams I could jump to? I want to rule out any team that won a championship in the last ten years or won over 50 games last year. That takes out the Pistons, Spurs, Lakers, Celtics, Cavaliers, Magic, Nuggets, Blazers, Rockets, Mavericks. If a team's best player is over 30, they are out. Bye-bye Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Washington, Phoenix, Golden State, and the Clippers. That leaves me with 13 teams. I don't want any more terrible owners. See ya- Knicks, Sacramento, Charlotte I can't myself becoming a Utah, Miami, Toronto, Memphis, or Minnesota fan. I am left with the Nets, Thunder, Bulls, Hawks, or the Pacers. I am thinking either OKC or Chicago. Anybody want to sway me?

We only had two shots on goal. Wow.

HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Elliot Williams is transferring away from Duke to be closer to his home (Memphis). The reason is an undisclosed family medical reason. This is a shame on a lot of levels. One, he was my favorite player on the team last year and seemed like a great guy. I hope everything ends up well for him. This leaves two scholarship guards on Duke next year: Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith. Singler is going to have to start at the 3 and maybe even see some time at shooting guard (!). Smith has a problem with picking up cheap fouls so it will be interesting to see. Duke really needed to get Wall or to keep Henderson, even before this news. The 2010-2011 team should be really good, but next year will be very down. Duke has played small for the last several years and Singler had been the starting center in a lot of their games. It will be an interesting team to watch this year, with 6 players that should play as a power foward or center and only two guards. I really wish Seth Curry was eligible this year. Lineup PG: Smith/Scheyer SG: Scheyer/Singler SF: Singler/Kelly PF: Thomas/Mason Plumlee C: Zoubek/Miles Plumlee

He might. Blown saves can happen in either the 7th, 8th, or 9th innings. I believe 3 of Heilman's 4 blown saves so far were before the 9th inning. Besides, two of Heilman's 4 blown saves are really Gregg and Marmol's fault anyway. The 5/16 game (where Gregg left with a 4-2 lead, bases loaded and nobody out) and the 06/07 game against the Reds (where Marmol left him with runners on 1st and 2nd, nobody out) were both games that Heilman got charged with the blown save because the runners scored on his watch, but he really didn't pitch badly in either outing. Wow, for some reason I had no idea that a save could be blown in the 7th or 8th innings.

Also, there is no way in hell Heilman gets four more save opportunities the rest of the season.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/eqa2009.php I knew that BP gave the data, but I figured you had to be a subscriber or something, thanks

Kansas City probably wouldn't do that

If we want to take a cheap risk that could pay off, the Twins DFAd Luis Ayala. He is replacement level. I'm going to quote Fangraphs real fast.

Just curious, where would you put Wells on this list? 7? Yeah, 7. And he wasn't in my top 30 to start the season. I like your top 10 a lot. I might switch up the order of 4-6 a little bit, but that is about it.

The only reason I use OPS (and UZR) is because I can easily access those statistics. If I knew how a website that gave me up-to-date EqA data, I would use it.

Just curious, where would you put Wells on this list? 7?

Yeah, but Fukudome's LD% for the season is over 22%. Now, in the recent stretch it is probably lower, but not low enough to account for that BABIP. Soriano has just been awful

As I've posted before, I think Hendry is perfectly willing to ride out Ramirez' injury with current personnel and use his trade chips after assessing what the Cubs need and analyzing the moves made by other teams. The Cubs haven't hit diddly in the last month and are only 2 1/2 games back. If the Cards and/or the Brewers make a big move (Holliday, Peavy, etc.) and start to pull away, Hendry would be forced to pull off a big deal. Hendry's history has typically been more reactive instead of proactive, wouldn't you say?? IIRC, the Harden trade went down the day after the Sabathia trade

That press release says that Jackson was recommended by scout John Bartsch. I looked up what other players he has signed Player Name Position High Level Signed Year Signing Team Region Michael Cooper P AA 2006 Chicago Cubs California Jordan Latham P A+ 2006 Chicago Cubs Idaho Mark Pawelek P A 2005 Chicago Cubs Utah Andrew Rundle OF A+ 2006 Chicago Cubs Oregon Luke Sommer P A- 2007 Chicago Cubs California Yuck

Any case you can make for hitting Fukudome & Soriano anywhere other than 7th & 8th right now is just plain lame. 05/23 - 06/22 AB R H 2b 3b HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BABIP P/PA IsoD RBI% Fukudome 67 8 11 4 0 1 4 12 20 0.164 0.288 0.269 0.556 0.217 3.84 0.123 0.111 Soriano 105 10 17 5 0 2 5 11 25 0.162 0.241 0.267 0.508 0.192 3.93 0.079 0.103 That BABIP shows that they have been extremely unlucky and could hit higher than 7th, but OK.

I really wanted Westbrook and Lilly. 1-2 isn't bad.

Henderson's not the guy I'd target if the Bulls traded up. Homer alert It would be a high risk, high reward move. But, Henderson has tremendous upside. He is an OK defender and improved a lot from his sophomore to junior year in that aspect. He could develop into a very good defender. On the offensive side, I don't know how well his game will play in the NBA. He is a tremendous slasher, but can't go to his left very well. His drives are almost exclusively to the right. His jumper improved a lot in the second half of the year last year. If he could add a little range and consistency to his jumper and improve his defense a little bit, he will be a very good player.

Robert Kendrick has looked great against Andy Murray early. He was up 5-4 and had 0-30 on Murray's serve, but lost the set. However, the American came back to win the second set in a tiebreaker. He gave Nadal a tough match a couple years ago at Wimbledon. An upset wouldn't surprise me here.

He's one of my favorite prospects to come through in a while. Part of it may be his twitter. From June 19th.

Exactly. If he hits anything on the ground it's an instant DP. And it may come as a surprize that Albert is not the Cards' best clutch hitter....that would be Molina. ha ha ha ha ha

The guy that seems to have figured out the formula has him as a 2B. They are thrown in with the third basemen, though. Also, some dumb stats are used for the rankings. A little bit of the rankings Bottom 5 Type A's Mike Lowell ----- 79.29 Jason Bartlett Orlando Cabrera Scott Rolen Melvin Mora ----- 69.29 Top 10 Type B's Adrian Beltre ------ 68.57 Placido Polanco Chone Figgins Mike Aviles Aaron Hill ----- 64.6 Jose Lopez Howie Kendrick Robinson Cano Mark DeRosa ----- 60.25 Brendan Harris The data was last updated on June 11. This should be taken with a grain of salt, but he seems to have gotten it right the last two years. Does that take into account a strong end to the season? I don't know how the numbers can change, but if DeRo ends the year with numbers similar to last year that may be enough. I don't know how the system works, though, so I could be way off. If he's not a Type A after the season, that changes what we'd likely have to give up in a trade - if we are, in fact, interested. DeRosa could end the season really well and get Type A status. The Elias rankings take the last two seasons into account. These are the stats used for 2B/3B/SS. PA, AVG, OBP, HR, RBI, Fielding percentage, Total chances at designated position. If he gets 1B/OF/DH designation, fielding percentage and total chances are not used. The only thing that I could find about what designation he would get is this: Position is designated as the position at which the player appeared the most over the last two seasons. That isn't too helpful, but I would think it means he gets infielder designation