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Tennessee's newest commitment is an offensive lineman from south Florida named Jose Jose. And that name is accurate.

Depth?

This is a good point.

39 I believe. Ouch. Keep making him work. What's the Padres bullpen like? Heath Bell in the closer's role is their best reliever. Nobody else is very impressive. Luis Perdomo is the only reliever with an ERA+ over 100 (save for Bell) and he did that in 12 innings.

I keep hearing that Towers killed the deal, but all the news reports I've read have it that Hendry was the one who walked away. From Carrie Muskat's Tuesday recap posted today on MLB.com: If he did it was primarily because of our murky ownership situation - meaning there was nothing he could do about it.

Jim Hendry is a moron for not trading for me Hendry basically did trade for him. Kevin Towers changed his mind at the last minute and decided he didn't want to trade Peavy after all.

Cubs.com says Friday against Houston. Brian Moehler will be opposing him. That should make Berkman happy. Tejada and Pence will somehow go 10 for 10. And Carlos Lee has been pretty quiet this year hasn't he? There goes Lou's delusional view on Wells. The game will be at Wrigley, so Wells will have more room for error than at MMP. But, the top of that lineup does have the potential to rough him up.

yes, I know. ;) For what it's worth, he has a .265 BABIP. I know you put a disclaimer on it, but I'm not a big fan of BABIP as an excuse. He could deserve that BABIP for rolling over easy grounders. I guess a low BABIP with a high LD% might catch my attention. His LD% is 13%. It's the lowest of his career and 5% below last year. I'm not refuting that he's struggling, but if he gets that BABIP up at all those numbers will start to look better. If he wants to be relatively close to as good as last year, though, he'll have to start hitting the ball more solidly.

yes, I know. ;) For what it's worth, he has a .265 BABIP.

Cubs.com says Friday against Houston. Brian Moehler will be opposing him.

I got 96/120. Some I just spelled wrong (I put Golden Flash instead of Golden Flashes, for example), and some others I just blanked on I missed ULL because I kept trying Raging Cajuns instead of Ragin' Cajuns. I also thought for sure UNLV was the Running Rebels and not just the Rebels.

I thought I would ace it too, but I just locked up on some of the obvious ones I listed. And I couldn't get Indians out of my mind for Arkansas State either.

If he was our only option in RF, I would agree. But he's a solid bat to bring off the bench if your regular RF is injured. If Bradley were to go down for the year, I'd want another RF other than DeRo. But as long as it's just shorter DL stints for Bradley, DeRosa would have been a good option.

I've found another tough one. Name 120 D1 school nicknames. I got 110 of 120. Missed Ark St, Bowling Green, Kent St, Louisiana Tech, ULL, ULM, Miami (OH), New Mexico St, Northern Illinois and UNLV.

I'm not talking about straight up production though. DeRosa's value was that he could be productive and fill numerous positions on the field (obviously not at once . . . ). That would be even more valuable this year with Bradley being added. We've already seen the defensive hit we took when Aramis went down and Fontenot had to play there (though he seems to have improved somewhat). Already Miles and Freel are getting at bats that we didn't know they'd be getting (with Aramis out til August) and DeRosa could have filled that void. DeRo could have gotten plenty of at-bats in the supersub/first off the bench role. He probably wouldn't have started every day, but he would have gotten plenty of starts between having to rest Bradley and Ramirez. And as for Tim's argument, yes, sometimes it is best to sell high, and DeRo's value wasn't going to get any higher. If you pull the trigger on that trade, Hendry did it at the right time. However, he didn't get anything close to what DeRo was worth. And also, sometimes the best trade is the one you don't make. We're really missing him now when we really could have used him. It's not like it was a huge stretch to foresee Bradley or Aram missing significant time with an injury. Exactly. When choosing to sell high, you must be certain that what you're getting in return is more valuable than the player you are shipping out. DeRosa's value is just too high for a pretty good reliever and two high risk/high reward starters to make up for. The only real exception to this is if you feel the player's production is going to completely collapse. I saw no evidence in the offseason that DeRosa would do that. He's back up to a .751 OPS, by the way. And he had a .242 BABIP in April. I think he'll come around.

If trading him was a possibility (i.e. no NTC or 10/5 rights) then the key would be to wait for a hot streak. If he could put together 10 or so straight games of really hot hitting, some GM would be convinced he was back to form and give something decent up for him.

We couldn't trade him in the offseason. Lee has a no trade clause that he appears unwilling to waive and until he does, we can't trade him. He also has 10/5 protection (10 years in the league and 5 with his current team) which allows him to veto any trade. That's true, but if a guy knows that his team/fans want him gone, alot of times he isn't gonna force the organization to keep him against their will. That's not a desirable situation for a player to be in. Did we ever try to trade him and have him invoke the clause? I never heard anything. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing that he was on the block in the offseason, but was taken off when he informed Hendry that he would not waive his NTC. I think he's happy and settled here with his family and just doesn't want to move. As far as a deal actually being in place for him, no I don't believe things ever got that far.

It's definitely hard to quantify defense - which is why I qualified my last post with the fact that I don't put a lot in the fielding metrics. They can be highly flawed, but it's true that it's about all we have to go on.

Octavio Victor Rojas, according to baseball-reference. His nickname was Cookie. He was primarily a 2Bman and finished with a career 83 OPS+. Cookie played for the Phillies along with shortstop Bobby Wine. Togerther, they were a great double play combo, although neither could hit. In fact, in Philadelphia, they marveled at "the plays of Wine and Rojas" !! Hey, didn't they make a movie by that name ???? You'd know better than I would. I wasn't even alive then. :wink:

They really seem to be talking about him as a non-catching [expletive]/tight end combo. I thought this was going to be Lance Louis' role. Looks like they are undoubtedly making him an OG. That may be the role they want him in, but want him to develop first behind Gaines.

Wasn't there a crazy stat about Orton not having hit a 40yd+ pass at all last season or something? ESPN has his longest pass last year as 65 yards. He only threw the ball 40 times in a game twice last year, though. That's a catch and run pass, though, which could be different than an actual pass thrown beyond 40 yards. That's entirely possible.

Wasn't there a crazy stat about Orton not having hit a 40yd+ pass at all last season or something? ESPN has his longest pass last year as 65 yards. He only threw the ball 40 times in a game twice last year, though.

I'm just dumb sometimes . . .

Haha, I didn't even realize that until you pointed it out. I was trying to figure out what goony was talking about . . .

Octavio Victor Rojas, according to baseball-reference. His nickname was Cookie. He was primarily a 2Bman and finished with a career 83 OPS+. Mel Rojas had a -32 career OPS+. Though he did OPS .875 in 1996 with Montreal. In 8 plate appearances.