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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Being out for the year (or should've been out for the year) vs. the continued nagging injuries he's had in '10 and '11 are 2 different things. 2 wins a year certainly hurts at 18M, but it does mean he has some value, and if we have to eat the majority of his contract as we all assume, it makes it difficult to replace that on the free market.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    It's really misleading to talk about how much Soriano was worth the past 2.5 years when he obviously was injured for the majority 2009. That and your numbers aren't true. Fangraphs has him with -.1 WAR in his injured '09, 3.0 WAR in '10, and 0.6 WAR in '11. Even including his injured '09 as relevant, AND for some reason averaging that 0.6 as if it's a full season in the average, you still don't get 1 WAR per year.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    When was the last time The Pirates were in 1st, or even had a winning record this late in a season? 1993 I'd guess They had a winning record on August 15th, 1999. (59-58) In 1997, they had a winning record as late as August 26th (67-66) and were tied for 1st as late as July 17th. (Only 1.5 games out on September 2nd with a losing record!) They sucked in 1993, 1992 is the last year they finished above 500, en route to the division title. This was also the year that Jim Leyland killed Tim Wakefield, and big shocker, the last Pirates season for Steve Buechele.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Mercy for the other team.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Bulls announcers said "Michael" for years Michael is Michael. Brandon is not Brandon. Yeah, Brandon's a lot less common of a name, makes more sense.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I don't see how you qualify a top 100ish type prospect as VERY useful. And your plan if we miss out on Fielder and Pujols is to just try and be as terrible as possible?
  7. SouthSideRyan
    There's nothing wrong with keeping Barney around as long as he's kept around as a utility IF, not a starting 2B
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I'D PLAY FOR FREE, HE SHOULD PLAY FOR THE MINIMUM, HE'S PLAYING A GAME FOR A LIVING!!!!!
  9. SouthSideRyan
    And Sosa's OPS is inflated due to his 2007 when he wouldn't have been under contract to us, while Fontenot's is deflated based on his numbers with the Giants. Plus the nonzero chance Crawford can become a 5th OF.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    So you think we'll be dropping our payroll about 40M
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Just came back from being out for 3 months with strained groin.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Prior was only a bad choice because he turned him over to Bruce Kimm and Dusty Baker. That's double counting.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Trading him or signing him? Both. And I hated the signing at the time.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Jacque Jones probably belongs on a good moves list. Castro and Lee weren't drafted by the Cubs. Neither were Choi, Chirinos, Archer, or Nannini.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    FFS
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I hope you're right and I would add in one of Dempster and Zambrano. Why would you want to trade Dempster? Who's going to pitch next season? Because we're not competing again til 2022 at the earliest.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Bulls announcers said "Michael" for years And we know Red Kerr wasn't a homer.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I hope they don't hire Sandberg because it would signal to me that the "change in direction" isn't a change in direction at all.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    I'll bet 100 million dollars he will not be the Astros GM in 2012 according to wikipedia he's from houston. that's the only reason they'd have any shot, i think. that being said, he's gotta be a hot commodity and if he wants to move on from tampa, one would think there are higher-profile positions that will be open. not to mention that the astros are a bad team with a moribund farm system. And their next owner isn't going to spend any money. While I agree with the sentiment (Friedman seems unlikely to head to Houston), ownership not spending money wouldn't be anything new to him. Separately, I can't think of too many "small market" type GMs who've had success transition to a big market, big money club. I'm not saying they don't exist, but only the disastrous ones (like Minaya) are coming to mind. The point is seemingly the only negative to Tampa is that they won't spend big money. So to remedy this, he's going to head to the biggest [expletive] organization in baseball that also won't spend money??
  20. SouthSideRyan
    It's going to take at least 10 years to revamp the organization? I could make an obvious joke... No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that, because the org will be going through a revamp, you'd like to have the guy who led that revamp be in charge for an extended period of time AFTER the revamp. Otherwise, the changes/attitudinal shifts/etc. could just fall by the wayside after the guy leaves. So you think Gillick will overhaul the entire organization, bring in his guys as GM, assistants, coaches, instructors, and players, and once he leaves they'll say, "boy we really pulled the wool over that old guy, now let's some grinders in here!"
  21. SouthSideRyan
    It's going to take at least 10 years to revamp the organization?
  22. SouthSideRyan
    "best interests of baseball" = "best interest of owners" Selig is an employee of the owners, and the owners want salaries artificially kept down. The MLBPA isn't in the business of protecting its future members, only its current members, so worrying about draftees being delayed in signing is way down their list of items for negotiation.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    I'll bet 100 million dollars he will not be the Astros GM in 2012 according to wikipedia he's from houston. that's the only reason they'd have any shot, i think. that being said, he's gotta be a hot commodity and if he wants to move on from tampa, one would think there are higher-profile positions that will be open. not to mention that the astros are a bad team with a moribund farm system. And their next owner isn't going to spend any money.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I'll bet 100 million dollars he will not be the Astros GM in 2012
  25. SouthSideRyan
    It's AAA.
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