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  1. Outshined_One
    I like.
  2. Outshined_One
    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.
  3. Outshined_One
    Rich Hill in Coors doesn't bring up any comforting images. Ouch.
  4. Outshined_One
    I wonder how much they'd value Eyre, Dempster, and Howry?
  5. Outshined_One
    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.
  6. Outshined_One
    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.
  7. Outshined_One
    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.
  8. Outshined_One
    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.
  9. Outshined_One
    Really? I was under the impression they had Barret signed through 2008.
  10. Outshined_One
    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!
  11. Outshined_One
    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!!!!! ;)
  12. Outshined_One
    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.
  13. Outshined_One
    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.
  14. Outshined_One
    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.
  15. Outshined_One
    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.
  16. Outshined_One
    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.
  17. Outshined_One
    Probably not, but I'd have to think long and hard about it.
  18. Outshined_One
    Eh, I'm ambivalent towards this trade. The Cubs didn't give up much and they didn't get much. *Shrugs*
  19. Outshined_One
    The fact that Hendry's list does not include Zito or Schmidt does not bode well.
  20. Outshined_One
    Only for questionable home runs and really close calls at 1st, imo.
  21. Outshined_One
    Williams went into the crapper this season, which is a crying shame considering he looked like he had turned it around at the end of last season.
  22. Outshined_One
    Actually, there have been studies done on that. Essentially speaking, very few pitchers have shown the statistical ability to be able to control and sustain their BABIP against for any meaningful length of time. Those that can do it have only been able to do that over a relatively short period of time. Moreover, those pitchers are the best pitchers in their prime (Maddux in the mid-90s, Pedro in the late 90s). Pretty much all other pitchers are at the mercy of BABIP. The bottom line with BABIP is to say that everyone eventually regresses to a certain mean. That doesn't mean every .350 hitter is eventually going to become a .250 hitter or whatever. You can have a high average and still have a BABIP within that mean.
  23. Outshined_One
    Problem is, Lou Pineilla and Jim Hendry might think otherwise.
  24. Outshined_One
    Red Sox won the Matsuzaka Sweepstakes, the Devil Rays won the bidding for Akinori Iwamura. To my knowledge, Igawa's bidding has yet to commence.
  25. Outshined_One
    ...wow. That's an insane amount.
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