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  1. Careless
    probably just trying to make hendry bid more (and yes, this is pure bitterness and not an attempt at rational analysis)
  2. Careless
    Wow. Really? Did you even bother to do any research before writing that? Now, I am not weighing in at all on whether or not you have to spend to win... but I find it humorous that you are ripping another poster when your facts are a little off. You assert that the Mets, Orioles, and Dodgers support your argument that teams who have spent money in the past 10 years win FAR more games than they lose. In reality, those three teams have a combined winning percentage of a whopping .505 in that span, with the Orioles being well under .500 and the Mets being just below .500. So, in the span that you suggested, only the Dodgers have a winning record. Since 2000, the disparity is even worse, with the teams mentioned having a winning percentage of .484. The poster who used those teams as is example did a pretty fair job of selecting teams. You did not do as fair a job of research, or else you just chose your words carelessly. :oops: should have remembered me better. The teams were the mariners, dodgers, orioles, and red sox. 3127-2710, a 54% winning percentage. that's an average of an 88.2 win season.
  3. Careless
    That's a wldly superstitious and irrational thing to ask to be taken seriously
  4. Careless
    Yes, the orioles, dodgers, and mets are examples of teams that win far more games than they lose by spending a bunch of money. thanks for proving the opposite of what you intended. And the "winning ballplayers wins championships" is a 100% retroactive designation, and, as such, is 100% worthless
  5. Careless
    So you're inferring spending money doesn't directly relate to winning? :shock: edit: I'm not being sarcastic! If that's what you think, you're wrong, btw. I'm not going to do the numbers on this again, but the top 5 payroll teams over the past 10 years have a well above average record. High payrolls do equal winning. that doesn't mean they guarantee a world series or even a playoff berth
  6. Careless
    Even if none of the transactions here turn out to happen, I hardly find it a "stretch". All the players mentioned have also been mentioned in other more respected publications. this might be the most ludicrous signing/trade proposal ever mentioned on this website. Maybe by a large degree. iF hendry made this, not only would he be fired soon, he would never be hired for a significant position by anyone who wasn't a good friend. These deals would be incredibly harmful to the team, and it doesn't even take a good understanding of baseball to see it.
  7. Careless
    that article gets more ludicrous as it goes along. soriano looking for a deal similar to 6-$100?
  8. Careless
    You must have forgotten, the most important stat for judging a player's value is AB's
  9. Careless
    Totally agree. Stone opens his mouth and everybody runs with it. It's like becoming left handed after being a righty your entire life. Well when Wood hurts his arm again next year, you please come back here and tell me why, besides bad mechanics/throwing slightly accross his body, what else is it? Not to get into what the probable reasons are, but you can always come up with alternative reasons. He could simply have a genetic/developmental defect resulting in poor tensile strength in ligaments, for example. If I sawed your arm into 8 pieces, all the perfect mechanics in the world probably wouldn't be enough to keep you healthy
  10. Careless
    How about Adam Smith instead? :D Well, I'm not that mean. Or maybe I just don't have "Wealth of nations" at home.
  11. Careless
    Going back to the OP, I've got to respect jocketty's method more than hendry's. I mean, what has hendry done for starting pitching recently? Maddux, rusch, estes, and williams. rusch and maddux are low upside aquisitions getting paid somewhat more than I think they should be, and williams is a pretty good deal given that it was a hawkins dump job. Yes, the cardinals have had good luck with their gambles, but they weren't bad gambles and they weren't blocking a lot of pitching in the minors (please, correct me if I'm wrong on your minors). And stocking up on gb pitching then getting good infield defense seems perfectly logical to me. Play to your strengths.
  12. Careless
    Love the fact that a catholic univerrsity has a demon for a mascot.
  13. Careless
    I'm having a hard time picking a category. I like wtf names, but the knicks is a terrible name. No problem with animal names, but Colby's "The white Mules" might be the worst.
  14. Careless
    Another baseball team in Texas?? It is the second most populous state. Of course, florida is or soon will be the third most populous.
  15. Careless
    League minimum? I know at the least the Rockies and Royals wanted to sign Neifi to a 2 year deal to be a starter before we signed him for 2/5. So you believe that neifi chose being a probable bench player for the cubs at 2/6 instead of starting for another team? You think that another team wanted him to start but couldn't match $3 a year?
  16. Careless
    Why do people keep saying that neifi is getting $2.5 mil? At the absolute minimum, neifi will make $6 million over the next 2 years. Signing bonuses aren't free money, people
  17. Careless
    A) Even if this wasn't going to happen, people here would be interested in knowing what GMs are thinking about as reasonable trades. a lot of people would like to know about trades/signings that almost happened, but didn't, so they could have a much better idea of what the market and various teams think players are worth. B) this trade did, in fact, happen. As did the Howry signing, and the various free agent signings we heard were about to go down this offseason.
  18. Careless
    Yes, but only because I'm bitter because of his past greatness
  19. Careless
    Borowski was better in 2002-2003 than eyre has ever been over 2 years. Hawkins was better in 2002-2003 than howry has ever been over 2 years. Remlinger was better when he signed than eyre or howry are now. This is EXACTLY what tim is worried about. you sign hawkins and remlinger to the same contracts as eyre and howry after even better seasons and what did we wind up with? Not a top-flight bullpen, certainly.
  20. Careless
    There's sure to be lavish thanksgiving feasts in the houses of eyre and howry tonight!
  21. Careless
    The angels were 4th in the majors in runs. Marlins were 17th (not sure how much their home park affects that, but they'd still be someplace in the middle) and the white sox were 13th. So 2 top 4 teams and 2 in the middle. For pitching, sox tied with cleveland for 1st in AL, boston was 11th in majors, florida was 7th in the NL (wow, how did they win so many?) and the angels were 4th in the majors in pitching.
  22. Careless
    There was a LOT of talk about hawkins being the closer immediately after he was signed and for the rest of the offseason and early in the season right up until he actually became closer. It was something that everyone gave thought to, unlike this time where at least one of us (me) isn't thinking about it.
  23. Careless
    this thread gave me a dream last night that hendry had signed a reliever who looked like mossi. Disturbing.
  24. Careless
    Get over yourself and your armchair opinions. Lol, thats probalby construed as a personal attack, but I agree with you. You can't act like you know more than a GM in baseball, the guy has his job for a reason. GM's are smart, smart people, with degrees from great universities. I know Epstein is a Yale grad. Having your opinion is one thing but just keep at that, an opinion, don't try to make it fact! edit - grammar You two crack me up. We're here on a baseball board in a forum called "transactions" which is made for reacting to actual transactions and discussing hypothetical transactions. In other words, there is literally no purpose for this forum but to be an armchair GM.
  25. Careless
    Did fearthecubs make a reference to patterson's 2003 that was in support of signing eyre, or is that my ADD acting up?
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