Transmogrified Tiger

But don't you question his mental toughness? I do. I did when he was here also. I say been there, done that. That baseball to the head knocked the mental toughness into him. Seriously though, starting pitching should be considered after we fill the incomprehensibly void black hole in RF.

A platoon would be better than some of the options, but not Hairston. Rondell White, Craig Wilson, and David Dellucci among others are some options if you are unable to get a big stick in RF.

Wouldnt these just be two or three separate trades. The deal between SEA and BOS have no effect on our deal between SEA and PHI. I think this is highly unlikely, but interesting to consider. It has an effect. If Seattle doesn't trade Reed, then there's no reason for them to take Patterson.

Murton could barely put up a .190 IsoP in college, and aside from his brief MLB stint, hasn't been within 35-40 points of that mark in his professional career. I don't think it's very feasible for him to make that jump in power. IMO, his best bet for higher production is continued luck/ability with Balls in play combined with a boost in power. Something like .300/.360/.450. You make very good points, but I'd be interested to see something on minor league power numbers vs. major league ones. Murton hit for much more power in a limited sample size, but just how abnormal is that? Plenty of young players have come into the league and had an increase in power numbers Bay and Sizemore stick out. Plenty others have been able to at least maintain their minor league power production. Despite the fact that the pitching is much better at the major league level, I believe that it is strongly possible that HR power (and maybe XBHs as a whole) is easier to come by at the ML level than it is in the majority of minor leagues. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but I think Murton playing 40 games with the wind blowing out in Wrigley, 8 in MMP, 8 in GABP, 8 in Miller, and a few games Colorado, Philly, Cleveland will enable him to hit for more power than he showed in cavernous parks in the Florida State and Southern Leagues. That's certainly possible, and Murton's been rumored to put on a BP show, so it's not like he's without potential to hit for power. My point is just to temper some of the expectations with Murton. If he does improve on his past IsoP numbers, fantastic, but it shouldn't surprise anyone in the slightest if he doesn't.

As a Cleveland fan I wouldn't want that trade. Marte is an absolute beast. He alone is worth more than Crisp, and you get Mota to take Howry's spot in the pen. It's a steal for the Tribe. Marten hasn't proven anything yet at the big-league level. Coco has? And are you honestly even beginning to compare Mota to Howry? I said Mota was going to take Howry's spot, not that he was similar to him. Crisp has put up some good numbers, but he's probably not going to get a whole lot better. His ceiling is that of a pretty good offensive CF or a subpar offensive LF with good defense. Marte has the chance(as well as the likelihood) of being much better than that. If I had to guess who would produce more this year, I'd probably put my money on Marte.

Apparently that package for making the NC game, including a PSP, Madden '06, and a Rose Bowl watch, wasn't quite enough for some.

Several sources have speculated 36-38 million over 4 years.

I happened upon a link to this site since they sponsored B.J. Ryan's baseball reference page. It only went live recently, but it looks very promising. It's got some good stuff for major and minor league players that I haven't been able to find elsewhere, like BABIP, RC, and SecA for hitters, and some fielding independent pitching stats.

As a Cleveland fan I wouldn't want that trade. Marte is an absolute beast. He alone is worth more than Crisp, and you get Mota to take Howry's spot in the pen. It's a steal for the Tribe.

My favorite part of the article is that some of Stark's reasons for why trades wouldn't work are as ridiculous as some of those propositions. Most notably the Blalock for Ollie Perez + Snell proposition.

My buddy still in the Cleveland area said that there is a rumor that if the Indians are able to sign Nomar, they're going to trade Crisp to Boston for Mota and Marte.

He's more prone to being hurt by line drives heading right at him at high speed than anyone I've ever seen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from my 2005 calculations: Cub pitchers who missed time due to taking line drives off the hand/arm: 3 (Prior, Borowski, Fox) Pitchers from the other 29 teams who missed time due to taking line drives anywhere: 1 (Halladay TOR) I don't recall Borowski or Fox getting hit by a batted ball. Fox blew out his arm throwing a pitch. Borowski got hit with a ball in spring training, but I confess myself incorrect about Fox. Two for the Cubs and one for the other 29. Clement got cracked in the head too.

He's more prone to being hurt by line drives heading right at him at high speed than anyone I've ever seen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from my 2005 calculations: Cub pitchers who missed time due to taking line drives off the hand/arm: 3 (Prior, Borowski, Fox) Pitchers from the other 29 teams who missed time due to taking line drives anywhere: 1 (Halladay TOR) I don't recall Borowski or Fox getting hit by a batted ball. Fox blew out his arm throwing a pitch.

What you said. Last 3 years: 125, 157, 148 games

He's more prone to being hurt by line drives heading right at him at high speed than anyone I've ever seen.

He's only 31, he's just hitting his prime!

Do you say, "Q-tip" instead of cotton swab or "Kleenex" instead of tissue? Big difference. A q-tip is a q-tip. It doesn't matter what brand, same with a kleenex. A coke, pepsi, sprite, dr. pepper, mountain dew, etc are all very different. what? Q-tip is a brand name and so is Kleenex. You can get Scott's tissues and you can get CVS brand cotton swabs. There is no difference. What's the difference between Q-tips and generic cotton swabs? Between Kleenex and Puffs? Very little. Now what's the difference between Coke and Mountain Dew?

He's barely acceptable for a corner OF against RHP, not quite a stud. If we're trading Walker and a prospect for Mench, skip Jones entirely.

The Cards are better than us and are still a good team. This doesn't change the fact that their offseason has been awful to date.

Trade for Gotay!

They found Sosa worth 16+ million a year, I can't see them having a problem with 20 million if they feel the player is worth it.

Done yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the day after that. After that, maybe use Murton and Williams to get a first rate starter, or just Murton and Walker/Cedeno to upgrade 2B/SS.

3/13.5? haha, at least Howry and Eyre were coming off of good years. Jocketty's working on a truly terrible offseason right now.

I don't know, I just listed off a car manufacturer.

What are your estimates for Pierre and Zambrano?