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Sox = Red Sox Sox = White Sox Sox is stupid, just like Cards or Flubs or Scrubs or whatever unclever play on a team's name that can be concocted. All it's going to do is rile people up.

Viva Nolasco!

The seats had plenty of butts when Maddux wasn't here. the people that have the discretionary income are more likely to see a superstar and spend more at the game than a shcool teacher. If you had a choice of Maddux or Jerome Williams and you had that type of time and income I will save it for the Maddux game That's not the question though. The choice is between Williams or not going.

Can't we just use Sox?

Eric Patterson shows no command of the strike zone? Tied almost entirely to average? That's not true.

If this kid is truly an "Amazing hitter", then why is he 27 yrs old, and still can't get an everyday job? This kid would be perfect as 1B/DH for clubs like Detroit, Tampa Bay, Baltimore, etc...yet..no team has seem to be iterested in acquiring him. And save me from the rhertoric of "The Rockies are asking to much for him", or "Clubs don't know who Shealy is." All that is...is rhetoric speak. Scouts know who this kid is...and yet there is few nibbles for Shealy....why? Maybe because his is a AAAA guy....or his swing isn't nearly as good at the ML level as it has been in AAA. I would take Shealy, but I don't think he is a better "prospect" then Dopirak. Don't be fooled by the 27 years old thing. It's not like he's been toiling in the minors for 6 years waiting to get his shot. He was old for his grade adn then went to school all 4 years. This year(mainly because all-star Helton is at 1B for the major league club) is the first year he's played at the same level, BA ranked him Colorado's 8th best prospect this year, and McKamey ranked him 9th, and he put up a nearly .900 OPS in his MLB time last year. He's not a AAAA guy.

They don't even deserve that.

Bullpen Rest Dempster Eyre Williamson Howry Ohman Novoa Rusch Ryu May 15 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP May 14 DNP DNP .2IP/17p 1IP/17p DNP 1IP/23p DNP 1IP/27p May 13 1IP/20p .2IP/6p DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP May 12 1IP/17p 1IP/10p 1.1IP/15p 1IP/19p DNP DNP 1.2IP/40p DNP May 11 DNP DNP 1IP/14p DNP 1IP9p 2.1IP/31p DNP DNP May 10 1IP/9p DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP

Neifi replaced Macias who replaced Lenny Harris as the guy who does some crazy handshake/dance routine with other players that actually know how to play baseball. Seriously.

Tearage is my new favorite word.

Cedeno is kind of a pre-steriod, pre-Arod/Tejada/Nomar/Jeter throw back. I think he will be a good-not-great SS for a long time. Both He and Murton have more than held their own so far in their first full season. It's about the walks right now for Cedeno. His BABIP is pretty high, but not completely unsustainable. He put up a .050 IsoD for his minor league career, if he gets it up to .040 he should be around a .330 OBP and around a .740 OPS, which would be pretty fine for his rookie season. I would love if Ronny developed more selectivity at the plate. He is still young but I don't know if he will ever develop much patience. That brings up a question I've had for a long time. Is it out of the ordinary for a player to develop plate discipline in their first few years in the bigs? I'm just talking about Cedeno returning to his previous minor league performance in terms of discipline, or something similar.

FWIW, when Lee went down, there was speculation on the Scout Rockies board about Williams or the like for Shealy. In other threads, Shealy was the prospect that spearheaded a lot of trade rumors, similar in value as we put on Hill/Guzman/Williams.

Cedeno is kind of a pre-steriod, pre-Arod/Tejada/Nomar/Jeter throw back. I think he will be a good-not-great SS for a long time. Both He and Murton have more than held their own so far in their first full season. It's about the walks right now for Cedeno. His BABIP is pretty high, but not completely unsustainable. He put up a .050 IsoD for his minor league career, if he gets it up to .040 he should be around a .330 OBP and around a .740 OPS, which would be pretty fine for his rookie season.

Jerry Hairston, Mike Fontenot, David Crouthers

Sing and Hoffpauir? Hoffpauir will be lucky to ever see the big leagues, and Sing has the ceiling of a platoon player, or maybe a poor everyday OF on a terrible team, which brings up the fact his future is probably as an OF. Neither of them is anywhere near Shealy's caliber. If you're referring to Dopirak, he was several years away even before the broken foot, and he was coming off an awful offensive year.

He barely has 100 PA's against LHP in 3 years. That's what's called a self fulfilling prophecy. A guy gets labeled as someone who can't hit LHP(even though in Choi's case he hit them fine and never got a chance to prove it at the MLB level), and then sees so few of them after that he never gets a chance to show his abilities.

Your eyes and your memory have misled you. Choi had an OBP of .389 and an SLG of .496 (OPS of .885) when he was injured. But he still can't hit lefties. He never has been able to. That's a fact. And the key is those were his stats BEFORE he was injured. What has he done since then. You can state your case based on that but he's not that same player. I could make the argument that Sammy was still hitting well before he got beaned in the head and that should warrant a contract. But Sammy changed after that, teams know that, and that's why he isn't playing this year. Choi never could hit lefties, and after he suffered the concussion, he changed. And that right there is reason enough that Choi shouldn't play everyday. The guy at best is a platoon player. Really? Wow, he sucked as a Marlin in 2004. Only had a .388 OBP and a .495 SLG (.883 OPS). That's just awful, I say. Definitely took a dip to Neifi-esque suckitude with a .331 OBP and a .453 SLG (.789 OPS) as a Dodger in 2005. In the minors, Choi faced lefties everyday and wasn't platooned. He did fine against them. TT, post the numbers. Stat monkey, the numbers please. Thank you. Choi in the minors(all at age appropriate levels): .285/.387/.532/.919 While Minor League splits are hard to find, it was noted around 2003 that Choi had done fine against LHP. Of course, it's very difficult to put up a .920 OPS and be bad against them.

Pierre had 719 PA's last year. Let's say he gets 720 this year. In order for him to have a .350 OBP for the yaer, he needs a .376 OBP the remainder of the year.

Outstanding.

I would think that people who become rich enough to independently buy baseball teams have similar mentalities as the board of directors of a corporation. Sure there are people like Cuban(different sport) and Steinbrenner(does a lot of harm as well), but what about people like Glass and Loria and Huizenga(sp)?

I don't think there's any way to accurately project Cedeno's career based on the season so far.

Someone needs to photoshop Pierre in a Kia with a license plate like "GO4X(infinity sign)"

Excuse my ignorance, but is Daric Barton a good player? I took my son to a minor league game here in Tucson and we ended up catching a Home Run Ball that he hit. Okay, maybe catching wasn't the right word, but the ball landed in front of us so I grabed it.... He's a pretty good prospect. In BA's prospect handbook, all their writers put Barton in the top 50 in all of baseball.

brutal. that would make the '06 outfield look good. No doubt. But seriously, the way things are going, why not call up Luis to platoon with Jones now? Dump Bynum and send Theriot back down, and then maybe call up Hoffpauir. You'd still have plenty of middle infield help, with Walker and Cedeno backed up by Neifi and Hairston. If they refuse to shake up the coaching staff despite all the losses, and they refuse to make a trade because they think they'd overpay, then why not give a couple hot hitting prospects a chance to do something? And don't just call them up to sit the bench, let them play. Why not just bring up Restovich again? He has a better pedigree and is absolutely pounding the ball at a higher level than Montanez. Also, Montanez is actually hitting better against RHP than LHP thus far.

I think you have to question Durazo's ability to even be able to play 1B at this point.