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  1. SouthSideRyan
    And I'd rather read Roast's blog than a bleacher report article
  2. SouthSideRyan
    Aramis has now passed Derrek Lee in OPS
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah, isn't Oneri kind of an idiot?
  4. SouthSideRyan
    More than he's worth considering the first base FA class likely to be there in 2011. Dunn is still a great player, but is getting up there in age and will want a contract meant for a young stud in his prime. If we sign Dunn to a deal like that this offseason, we'll miss on the better players in the 2011 offseason. Well, a bird in the hand and all that. If he's looking for 7/120, then count me out, but I don't think he's realistically going to get youn stud in his prime money. Yeah, he just got 2/20 2 years ago, I don't see why he'd get anything outrageous this time around.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    I'm not shy about hating the way Marshall's been treated the past 3+ seasons, but I'm inclined to agree. Not so much that I don't think Marshall can still hack it in the rotation, but he's at best slotted behind Jackson and Cashner at first cracks at a rotation that already has 5 guys signed for next season.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Wright has been better at a pre-prime age and missed a lot less games. He's got a career 137 OPS+ to Aramis's 112, his best years have been better than Ramirez's best years, he's played 160 games a few times and his worst/injury plagued year was essentially a typical Ramirez season as a Cub. I'm struggling to see how anybody could miss the obvious delineation between the two. Meant to mention from their first full seasons with their teams. Aramis had outhit Wright during that time. What time was this? Wright's first full season with the Mets ('05) through '09 vs. Ramirez's first full season with the Cubs through '09. Of course, looking back, I didn't park adjust and was using raw OPS which underrates Wright. I still think it's hard to say a 900 OPS from a 3B isn't a stud.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Soriano's just gonna flip everyone off on his way to OPSing 870 the next 10 years
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Wright has been better at a pre-prime age and missed a lot less games. He's got a career 137 OPS+ to Aramis's 112, his best years have been better than Ramirez's best years, he's played 160 games a few times and his worst/injury plagued year was essentially a typical Ramirez season as a Cub. I'm struggling to see how anybody could miss the obvious delineation between the two. Meant to mention from their first full seasons with their teams. Aramis had outhit Wright during that time.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Yeah, being paid millions of dollars to be a major league player would suck rocks if you were a DH. He's being paid millions of dollars in any event. Being a DH would suck a lot more than not being a DH. i dh'ed in high school and loved it. i just hung out in the cage the whole time, casually taking bp until some wiener junior high kid or whatever came down to tell me i was almost up to bat. That was just cause nobody on the team wanted to sit near you.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Ok let's judge Sandberg on his win-loss records 71-68 60-78 (QUICK!! PROMOTE HIM!!) 71-69 (OVER 500?? PROMOTE HIM AGAIN!!) 51-44 That is a stellar 6 games under 500 for his managerial career. Surely, no other minor league managers are out there with that kind of track record. So why did they promote him? You may not agree with how the front office judges such things, but obviously someone felt he has done a good job. My comment about wins/losses is at the major league level since we all know kids are moved off minor league teams as they prove worthy of promotion, which can impact the final record. Wouldn't the players' talent on the big league level have just as much impact as those on the minor league level? I have no idea what the front office saw in Sandberg's performance to fast track him. If I had to guess I'd say it was a combination of them loving stupid things like small-ball and getting ejected along with the PR side of it. Nobody cares if Jody Davis is managing AA.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I'd rather have Torre than Sandberg. And Torre once batted Alex Rodriguez 8th in a playoff game.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    That's playing smart baseball at the little league level, not the majors.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    By comparison, Jody Davis: 75-64 (Promoted) 57-80 73-59 (Get the hell out of here Davis, it's Ryno's time to shine!) Year as catching instructor 17-14 4 games over 500. Languishing in short season ball.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Ok let's judge Sandberg on his win-loss records 71-68 60-78 (QUICK!! PROMOTE HIM!!) 71-69 (OVER 500?? PROMOTE HIM AGAIN!!) 51-44 That is a stellar 6 games under 500 for his managerial career. Surely, no other minor league managers are out there with that kind of track record.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I'm struggling to see the difference between Wright and Ramirez before this season.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    And building off of that, if position is taken into account, Geo has to be close to qualifying as a stud bat at catcher. And Castro has the potential to be a stud bat at SS
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Dunn doesn't have the worst contract in baseball either
  18. SouthSideRyan
    The problem is we're a lot worse in 2010 than most people expected so we're starting at a lower baseline.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Improving from the start before where he went 4.2 and gave up 4? He has a hilarious 3.9 K/9 all while walking guys at nearly the same rate. He can't eat innings, he can't keep the ball in the park, what is it you think he actually does well?
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Most amazing Hawks moment. I still lose my [expletive] thinking about that diving empty netter in the olympics against Canada.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Soriano's the only 10M+ player playing close to his contract. Just thought that needed to be pointed out You don't think Dempster is? Whoops, forgot him. Dempster absolutely is. There's the funny thing, the 2 guys that people seem to hammer most for being bad contracts are the ones performing up to them.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Right on cue, Randle appears to have trimmed his list to 3. http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=502255
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Soriano's the only 10M+ player playing close to his contract. Just thought that needed to be pointed out
  24. SouthSideRyan
    I thought OleMissCub had cornered the market on girlfriends being stolen by major league pitchers AA-equivalent pitchers
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Seems odd to blame this one on Jeff Stevens
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