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  1. Tim
    I've got the video and audio coming through the same source on windows media player. Ron's sounding good. :thumleft:
  2. Tim
    It's up. Go to milb.com and click on live video. mms://a1235.l1086932077.c10869.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1235/10869/v0001/reflector:32077 Thanks, Jon! I've got it. :D
  3. Tim
    What do you do with Chipper after '06? He's got a 15 million dollar option with a 5 million buyout. If the option gets picked up, he's got the same thing the following year. Someone else said a while ago that Atlanta has money set aside so they can pay Hampton without needing to cut payroll or other such measures. I think ltb. I guess you pay the buyout. The biggest problem with the plan is that Chipper hates the OF and partially blamed it for his poor performance last year.
  4. Tim
    Trade for Chipper Jones, put him out in LF. Braves get to play Marte in 2006, save a whole bunch of money, keep Andruw and afford the bump in Hampton's contract.
  5. Tim
    here's something sportscenter addicts probably wouldn't realize: Hunter has been a below average CF for three of the past four years. According to BP, his FRAA numbers have been -17, -5, -1 and 7 from 2002-2005. His overall WARP3 numbers are: 5.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.0. In that same timeframe, Corey's fielding numbers are: -14, -2, 3, 0. His WARP3 numbers are: 1.5, 3.2, 5.2, 0.7. Corey's 2004 season that people like to rag on so much was better than Hunter's best season out of the past four years. Now, where Hunter has a huge advantage is in consistency. But I don't really want to pay $6-10M for consistency. I'd much, much rather take a chance on getting good production from one of our existing CF's and invest in RF or LF. FWIW - I'd look into a Mike Cameron trade and accept that for a year while waiting for Pie. But not in lieu of upgrading RF.
  6. Tim
    so what you've seen w/ your eyes over his 25 major league innings is more valuable than all the numbers he amassed in the minors? sorry, but i don't trust your eyes that much. So what, did your eyes see him throw either a changeup or a cutter? Z got by just fine with two pitches for quite a while. Was one of them an at best league average fastball? No, but Hill's curve is also better than Z's slider was at that point.
  7. Tim
    Yeah, if they really cared about winning they would've kept Sosa! That way they could've had an even greater sinkhole in the OF and had a 100 million dollar payroll. Then they'd care about winning to you, and that's all that matters. Good point. People who say paying off bad contracts shouldn't count on payrolls should consider the alternative. What alternative, that we kept Sosa and his salary? While I acknowledge Sosa's massive decline, Jeromy Burnitz didn't lead us anywhere to speak of. The organization's obsession with moving Sosa was an obvious distraction to bettering this team. While the club fielded an $87M team with respect to the "talent" under contract, it is unfair to blur the line and call it a $100M team that is inflated due to bad business decisions. Their may be $100M in expenditures toward the 2005 budget, but their isn't close to $100M in talent on the team. That is why its a lie in the context in which it has sometimes been used. It is an $87M roster, but there's no denying that it is a $100M payroll. And I would hazard a guess, to someone else's point, that the Cubs spend at least as much (or more) on minor league player acquisition and development than the Cards. The "bottom line" is that the Cubs aren't chintzy, they just also not wise.
  8. Tim
    that's what i was thinking, too. tim, your OBP projection [-X was a bit low. There are an awful lot of examples I could trot out of players whose minor league IsoD didn't exactly hold up during his rookie year. Especially when they're trying to break into a lineup managed by Dusty.
  9. Tim
    so what you've seen w/ your eyes over his 25 major league innings is more valuable than all the numbers he amassed in the minors? sorry, but i don't trust your eyes that much. So what, did your eyes see him throw either a changeup or a cutter? Z got by just fine with two pitches for quite a while.
  10. Tim
    I think you'd be looking more at .255/.310/.370 from a rookie Greenberg. He might eventually put up the numbers you list, but I don't think that's a realistic year 1 expectation. Admittedly I didn't look at Greenberg's numbers before I posted that line, and the nature of my post was hoping that he might be able to do that. I think you're line sells him a bit short. I'd think he'd be able to make a .700 OPS at a minimum. .250/.330/.370 maybe, Adam has always had a near .100 IsoD. I think you're underestimating how difficult it is to hit at that level in the bigs as a rookie. I love Adam's game, but he has struck out a bit too much in the minors and has too little power for me to think he could hit .270 in a full season in the majors in his first year. I also doubt he'd carry his full IsoD to the bigs.
  11. Tim
    Oh, just to respond to the thread... No way am I interested in Hunter at $10+M. Not even a little bit. I'd rather go with Corey than Torii.
  12. Tim
    hunter is not a stopgap, nor a long-term opportunity. his numbers are mediocre, even if he looks good being mediocre. Sad thing is that Hunter is pretty good as far as CF's go offensively. i'd rather put a non-CF in CF than overpay for hunter. Oh I agree, that's I why I said it wasn't worth it to get Hunter. Thing is though, there just aren't that many decent CFs out there. It's bad enough to make someone wonder if Patterson could return to previous norms, or even if Greenberg could hit .270/.350/.400 in CF. I think you'd be looking more at .255/.310/.370 from a rookie Greenberg. He might eventually put up the numbers you list, but I don't think that's a realistic year 1 expectation.
  13. Tim
    Am I the only one that got JC's joke? Sellout ---- attendance figures??? I think many only saw one entendre. :D
  14. Tim
    Spoken like a sellout. Good one. Just as a point of note, I don't think there was a good answer for MacPhail to give to that question. Should he have replied that he was proud of the overall losing record? Building a great farm system and having it slowly deteriorate? No answer he could have given about on the field activities would have been satisfactory. He gave about the only legit answer he could have to the question. Now, he could have pushed back on the question and said something along the lines of: "I can't be satisfied with the job I've done to this point because we haven't yet brought home a championship to the city of Chicago" or some other such platitude. But even if he said it, I imagine he'd still receive criticism at that point for his actions not meeting up with his words or some such thing. No-win.
  15. Tim
    Welly, too.
  16. Tim

    Keeper rules

    Tim replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    Sounds like something somebody who's trading for first round draft choices would say. :DYeah, my whole position is something somebody with five exempt players on his list of keepers would say. Plus Bonds with just about zero points, plus chipper & Berkman who only played half a season. Pujols and Abreu are my only expensive keepers. Wright, Weeks, Barmes, Bonderman + Gomes are free. By my calculation, I'll be right around 2000 points with those 10 guys. I'll have nine positions filled, with just catcher being open. I'll have one veteran pitcher I'll be keeping, but I'll have Cain, Liriano and Reyes moving into their teams' rotations next season. Hansen might be closing for the Sox next year, too. With three first round picks, two thirds and two fifths, I should be able to round out my roster in an okay manner. ;)
  17. Tim

    Keeper rules

    Tim replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    You can take it down to 2200 and I'll be thrilled. :D why the change? I don't know about things from Juan's perspective, but I can see a few good reasons for doing so: 1) With the changes in exemption rules, there are a lot more players that are points-free this year than in past years. Therefore, not as many points are needed as a limit. 2) It more closely mirrors MLB in that it's easier to keep low-experience players and places an even higher premium on them when compared with arby-eligble or FA players. 3) Our draft this past year was really weak. There were very few impact players available and the top-level talent ran dry well before the end of the first round.
  18. Tim

    Keeper rules

    Tim replied to Tim's topic in Fantasy Sports

    You can take it down to 2200 and I'll be thrilled. :D
  19. Tim

    Keeper rules

    Tim posted a topic in Fantasy Sports

    Juan, Are the keeper rules going to stay the same as last year -- with the chnages in exemptions from this season merged in? About 2800 points total, 10 roster spots, etc.? Thanks!
  20. Tim
    On the other hand, with his family issues behind him, he could also get back into shape and start throwing 95 again. In which case he'd be a heck of a pitcher. Very possible. If he hits 95 with consistancy would you still want to trade him and player X for Quentin? Maybe. But at that point, you've got a 23 year old pitcher who has learned to pitch over the past couple years who then can pump his fastball at 95...that's a pretty attractive player. But given that it's only a "slim" possibility of that happening, I'd go ahead and make the trade.
  21. Tim
    On the other hand, with his family issues behind him, he could also get back into shape and start throwing 95 again. In which case he'd be a heck of a pitcher.
  22. Tim
    No, I said reasonable improvements readily available. I'm not sure how anybody can be certain this guy would be a reasonable improvement, meaning there's no way to tell what he would do next year. And I don't think he's readily available, meaning a cost efficient acquisition (no more expensive than Barrett). Well, there's more than one way to be cost efficient. If a team were willing to trade an impact rookie OF to get an impact offensive catcher, the Cubs could be saving a whole bunch of money $4-5M on an OF by trading Barrett. In which case trading Barrett and signing Johjima could be a very efficient allocation of resources.
  23. Tim
    So now you don't think he should be replaced? You can live with him as catcher? I don't get where this debate is going. I guess everybody is close to agreeing that Barrett isn't perfect, but there probably aren't any reasonable improvements readily available. Except Johjima. 8)
  24. Tim
    Modzilla asked me if he could change your name to something other than what you asked for and I vetoed!
  25. Tim
    Blow that save, Braden!!! Let Livan off the hook and set up a save for Cordero. That would be a huge swing for me.
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