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  1. SouthSideRyan
    No, 10man, upon reviewing my Dusty handbook, the reason Gerut isn't playing is that he's from the AL. You need at least half a season in the NL to adapt to NL pitching before you can start getting PT. It works the same way as the rookie rule in that the player must sit on the bench to learn the new pitchers, but after that half season is up, they don't have enough in the batter's box experience to handle them, thus they're sent out or sent down to get some regular PT.
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    As long as they're ahead of the Cubs in the standings the Cubs are chasing them. Just because they're slumping now doesn't necessarily mean they can't right themselves and go on another hot streak. The Cubs themselves are proof of that; they've had a couple of bad stretches this year and managed to rebound. I whole-heartedly disagree. I fully expect the Nats to finish under .500. We're 1 game back.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I assumed Meyer wasn't injured as you didn't say he was when dime suggested he may be injured. Regardless I'd be leary of Braves pitching prospects, and it really seems that Beane didn't get enough when the Brewers were able to pick up Capellan for Kolb, and the A's only got Cruz and Charles Thomas in addition to a similarly ranked prospect in Meyer.
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    you gotta be kidding me. I know you some of you have an allegiance to billy beane, but this is a ridiculous series of implied conclusions. - Tim Hudson's career ERA+ is 138. He is an established pitcher who supplies a lot of quality innings at the top of a big-league rotation. - Juan Cruz is "dominating" AAA? HE'S TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD! His ERA in oakland this year? 8.49 - Dan Meyer is either injured or just not a good pitcher: 55 IP, 67 H, 27 BB, 12 HR to date I don't see how you can suggest Beane didn't get the worst of this deal. They'd give Cruz and Meyer back for Hudson in a heartbeat...but at this point I don't think they'd get anything more than a AAA reliever for either of these guys. $$$$$$$$$$$$$ if you're only spending 55 million, you can't keep everyone. it'd be awesome if they could've kept everyone who's come up through their system that they wanted to, but this is not the reality the a's deal with. Agreed, but lets call a spade a spade - the Hudson deal was underwhelming in terms of what Beane got back. only if you insist on evaluating the deal right now before dan meyer even pitches for the a's Why not evaluate now on what Meyer is projected to do based on his AAA numbers?
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Lee Smith would've loved to have a WHIP aroudn where Jobo's was in '03. Or Dempster as a reliever's.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Social posts less than a day old never really seem to get bumped from the front page, doesn't seem like a problem to me.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Mora whatever, he must be on steroids. He'll probably start to become unproductive when he becomes an old man too. CHEATER.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Sammy Sosa says hi.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    How are the Cubs desperate for a closer?
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Saying the reason Nomar wasn't offered a nice long term deal because of injury concerns isn't completely accurate. 1. It's reasonable to assume that Nomar wasn't happy with the 4/32 offers, and wanted the 1 year deal to make good and get the long term deal for more dollars the next year. He had reportedly turned down 4/60 from the Red Sox, so that's a big ego strike to lose half the money on your long term deal. 2. Some idiot GMs thought he was a clubhouse cancer as they saw Nomar traded = Boston wins World Series. Oh and how does PECOTA project injuries? Just curious.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Nomar played 81 games last year. He missed half the season. He put up OPS+ of 132 and 121 the 2 years before last in 156 games both years. Nobody's expecting him to put up a 372 AVG again, but he must be one hell of a gamer if he managed to put up those #s in '02 and '03 all while only taking 6 games off due to those nagging problems.
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    Okay, maybe I'm wrong. I was probably the only one who thought he had a good chance of missing a lot of playing time in 2005. Crazy me. Damn, you're fast on the replies. You're right, you're far from the only one who thought he was gonna miss time this year, I just still can't figure out why. At the time of the season starting there wasn't really any overwhelming evidence IMO that he'd get injured. You turned out right after the fact and everyone seems to have jumped on the "shoulda seen this coming" bandwagon, but I really don't see why we should've seen this coming. Should we stay away from anyone coming off of a half season from now on because they're injury prone?
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    You can call Nomar's injury new, but to call it unpredictable is intellectually dishonest. Nobody could have thought Nomar would play all year. There was a pretty good chance he'd get hurt, and a decent chance he'd be out a long time. Based on what? The greatest predictor of future injury is past injury. Nomar has been a wreck for the past 4-5 years. Anybody who felt confident that he would make it through 2005 unscathed was either Nomar himself, or somebody who made a conscious effort to ignore his past. A wreck? He had his injuries last year and was hit by a pitch in '01.
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    You can call Nomar's injury new, but to call it unpredictable is intellectually dishonest. Nobody could have thought Nomar would play all year. There was a pretty good chance he'd get hurt, and a decent chance he'd be out a long time. Based on what?
  15. SouthSideRyan
    The Yankees never had great defense or speed. The Angels won based on an offense that went insane in the playoff. The Red Sox had Manny Ramirez as a regular defender last year along with one speed threat, that being a guy that didn't start. There is no set formula for winning in the playoffs, it's no different than the regular season, it's just like winning a longer regular season series.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    This thread needs some urine jokes. Those are really funny.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    My emotions have ran the gambit while reading the thread. I originally thought it meant Macias was on his way out assuming Dusty had some weird rule about Burnitz and Holla not being allowed to be his backup CFs, so Hendry went out and got one. But now I just think Dusty will use it as an excuse to put Jerry back in the corner for no apparent reason.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Something the Marlins coulda said to themselves before the 2003 season.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    So how long will Mabry's hitting streak last?
  20. SouthSideRyan
    DING DING DING!!! I don't remember if this was brought up in the previous thread about the trade on this board or on another board, but this is a great point. Sammy had no reason to waive that clause to be traded, and without the waiving of the clause, we're picking up a lot more than 13M.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Yes, in the form of Scott Podsednik, Tadahito Iguchi, Jermaine Dye, and A.J. Pierzynski. Yep, it's a real murderer's row. Completely compatible with Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, anyone. Those 4 combined lines (assuming my math was correct) 271/333/418
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Did the Sox acquire an offense?
  23. SouthSideRyan
    No one else wanted Glendon Rusch. No one else wanted Joe Borowski in '03. I just really hate that line of reasoning, that because 29 idiots passed on somebody that he's worthless.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I don't think Dawson ever got along with Grace. IMO because Dawson wasn't a jerk.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    And mroe annoying than the awful jokes about the Cubs training staff that aren't relevant this year are people who continue to harp on Nomar for being injury prone when the 2 years before last he played full seasons, and the only other injury he suffered before last year was a freak one on a hit by pitch IIRC. But no, he's injury prone and the Cubs were stupid to give him 8M. Thanks doc.
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