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  1. Is that chick having butt sex with a cat? Oh, sure, take the cuteness out of the picture why don't you!
  2. http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9865/1161549551837sc2.jpg
  3. Guaranteed that you are wrong. :P
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  7. This is a big budget team. Eating a few million dollars a year shouldn't be an issue for them, especially considering how effectively this team has wasted its money in the past.
  8. I think we have $20m left to spend.
  9. Wow...I like the fact that this team signed Soriano. They got the big bat they needed. Problem is, 8/$135m is crazy. Let's hope that there are option years on that deal, otherwise this contract will be dicey in a few years once his production begins dropping off.
  10. Rich Hill in Coors doesn't bring up any comforting images. Ouch.
  11. I wonder how much they'd value Eyre, Dempster, and Howry?
  12. no, they have to have played in the minors for a certain number of years. also, a player on the 40 man starts to use up options - once added to the 40 man roster, a player has three option years where they can play in the minors without being exposed to waivers. Also, this has the added benefit of allowing a team to send a player back and forth between the majors and minors during those three option years. The Rule V draft is relatively simple. After being drafted and signed, a team has a certain number of years before they are required to add that player to the 40 man roster (I can't remember how long exactly since the new Collective Bargaining Agreement changed it). If that team does not add that player within that time period, that player is exposed to the Rule V draft, where other teams follow a draft format and can pick up any players put in this pool. In order for a player to remain with his new team, that team has to keep him on the 25 man roster for the length of an entire season. If the player is put on the DL, he has to make up those days with the team. If the team decides to remove the player from the 25 man roster, he is sent back to his old team.
  13. I still maintain that Dusty's complete and total lack of accountability led to that. It was NEVER this team's fault when something went wrong! It was always something else, be it the fans, the announcers, or the grass.
  14. Unfortunately, Hendry has to. This team will have touble competing if the rotation is Z/Hill/Prior/Miller/Marshall (or whomever). If everyone is healthy, then that could be a good rotation. However, three of those five guys missed noteworthy time due to injury last season. That's a bit problematic.
  15. Really? I was under the impression they had Barret signed through 2008. I could be wrong and just misinterpreting some statements I heard somewhere on the board here. Barret signed a 3 year contract in 05. That makes 07 his last year under the current contract. Hm, there you go.
  16. Really? I was under the impression they had Barret signed through 2008.
  17. Gonzalez isn't an above average defender. spare me your frar crap and all those bush league stats that i dont care to look up. Gonzalez is a winner. Who cares about his ISOD i care about his HEART. I hear he had surgery because he had an enlarged heart. WHAT A GAMER!
  18. If the Cubs could substitute Jock for Murton, I'd absolutely love this deal. Which tells me the Red Sox probably wouldn't go for it. Actually, they might be stupid enough to do it. After all, they traded Murton away in the first place, and plus Jock is an established major leaguer.... :P Plus, Jock can play CF!!!!! ;)
  19. If the Cubs could substitute Jock for Murton, I'd absolutely love this deal. Which tells me the Red Sox probably wouldn't go for it.
  20. This season: Wells: .303/.357/.542/.899 Barrett: .307/.368/.517/.885 Three year splits: Wells: .282/.338/.493/.831 Barrett: .289/.349/.494/.843 How much of an improvement would Wells over Barrett be? I understand that Wells would play more games than Bare, but Blanco/Soto would not provide comparable production to Pierre. Blanco is just bad offensively and Soto is unproven without much of an upside. Plus, Wells would only be under this team's control for a year unless he gets an extension.
  21. Guys who hit .200/.300 won't last long in baseball. You don't see many veterans who who manage to stick around long with those numbers. Those who do are an anamoly and will almost certainly be relegated to the bench unless they make up for it with incredible defense or power. I can't exactly think of many players who have a career batting average between .200 and .220 and still have an IsoD over .100. Even Adam Dunn has a career BA of .245 and his IsoD is freakishly good.
  22. it is helpful for all players, but it loses meaning on the extremes. noone complains when a player has a .400 obp but has a .040 IsoD. similarly, there are ligit complaints if a player is batting .213 but has an IsoD of 100. No statistic is a pure measure of just how good a player is. IsoD is a specialized stat meant to measure plate discipline. That's pretty much about it. However, as we all know, plate discipline is one of the most important things any hitter can have. Odds are, if you have a .100 IsoD, you're going to be a pretty good hitter.
  23. Westbrook is 29 and in the last year of his contract, iirc. There's no way I'd trade Murton for him unless the Cubs got something else in return.
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