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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    In Texas it should be even greater than before. Location.
  2. Transmogrified Tiger
    Thome was traded to the White Sox last month. And Philly is paying part of his salary.
  3. Transmogrified Tiger
    For his career, he only has 9 fewer games post-ASB, and has an OPS 18 points higher. He would be a great platoon option though, and his numbers against RHP aren't terrible.
  4. Transmogrified Tiger
    He was on pace to hit 25 HR last year at age 20 in AA, a pitchers league, had he gotten around 550 ABs. Pie is strong, and he definitely has the potential to hit that many HR>
  5. Transmogrified Tiger
    I really don't care who wins, as long as they win by eleventy billion. They both suck.
  6. Transmogrified Tiger
    To me, a .780 OPS for a corner OF falls short of awesome. Realistic, but nothing special.
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    Rusch has been much better the last two years than he was previously. What was he, like 1-16 before he came to us? You're trying awfully hard to diminish any improvement made by any of our pitchers for the sake of disparaging Rothschild. He may not be perfect, and he may not have the answer for every pitcher out there (but neither did Mazzone), but he's generally considered as one of the better pitching coaches in the game by many people associated with the game. I think you need to be a little more open-minded. BK did an article a while back showing that most of Rusch's improvement was BABIP related.
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    Good for Tony's OCD matchup tendencies, but not so good if he continues to decline against lefties like he did last year.
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    Food is his anti-drug.
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    As much as we like to malign Hughes around these parts, looking at the players he drafted and developed in Montreal shows that he has quite an impressive track record regardless of his methods. There's quite a difference between drafting players, which has very very little reliable statistical data, and being an assistant GM and evaluating near major leaguers and major leaguers that have a much longer and more reliable backgrounds.
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    It's in Atlanta? Wow.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    Chuck Wasserstrom is the guy you're thinking of, IIRC.
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    He can REALLY catch the ball.
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    Or just hit ctrl + Is that the keyboard shortcut? I was too lazy to experiment to figure it out.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    If you use firefox and your mouse has a scroll wheel, hold down Ctrl and use the scroll wheel to adjust the text size.
  16. Transmogrified Tiger
    FWIW, in inter-conference games this year, the NFC has 24 wins, the AFC has 25. To me, Indy is head and shoulders above everyone else, Seattle and probably Denver are slightly above the next tier, then there's madness among the other good teams. I don't think the AFC "good" teams are appreciably better than the NFC's, but that's just me.
  17. Transmogrified Tiger
    "The difference between a .275 hitter and a .300 hitter is one hit every 2 weeks."
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    I think a pretty good arguement could be made that he is not one of the top ten players in the game. If he is not he is close. And he is the best SS in professional baseball, until Rodriguez decides he wants to play short again. Tejada was 39th in MLB in OPS, and he plays average at best defense. And what were his offensive numbers compared to other SS? I'll take average defense with the numbers he puts up. You are going to have to break off this obsession you have with demonstrating that Tejada isn't that good. It does not hold water, especially given his contract in compairson other top of the line SS. Who cares about what he is compared to other SS? The question was top 10 players in baseball, so position is mostly irrelevant. But since you asked, Young, Peralta, and Jeter were all on par with him last year, and Young and Peralta's contracts are nothing compared to Tejada's. I'm not trying to say that Tejada isn't good, but he's not one of the top 10 players in the game, and he's not worth writing a blank check to acquire. The only reason there's an impression that I'm trying to say he's not good is because so many people overvalue him based on his name, or his sizzling start to last season, or whatever.
  19. Transmogrified Tiger
    I think a pretty good arguement could be made that he is not one of the top ten players in the game. If he is not he is close. And he is the best SS in professional baseball, until Rodriguez decides he wants to play short again. Tejada was 39th in MLB in OPS, and he plays average at best defense. 12th in VORP And around 20th in VORP rate, but I don't like VORP anyways. I'm curious, what don't you like about VORP? Do you just perfer rates in general? I don't know exactly what goes into VORP, but not to sound old-fashioned and paranoid, I'm not sure how much weight I can put into a metric that claims to be a good park-adjusted measure of offensive performance, and then puts Alfonso Soriano as one of the top 50 hitters, ahead of people like Tracy, Nick Johnson, Floyd, etc. Also, I do prefer rates in just about every instance. The only reason I wouldn't prefer them is if the numbers have been put up in a small sample, and at that point there's not a lot that is going to be a very good measurement.
  20. Transmogrified Tiger
    I think a pretty good arguement could be made that he is not one of the top ten players in the game. If he is not he is close. And he is the best SS in professional baseball, until Rodriguez decides he wants to play short again. Tejada was 39th in MLB in OPS, and he plays average at best defense. 12th in VORP And around 20th in VORP rate, but I don't like VORP anyways.
  21. Transmogrified Tiger
    I think a pretty good arguement could be made that he is not one of the top ten players in the game. If he is not he is close. And he is the best SS in professional baseball, until Rodriguez decides he wants to play short again. Tejada was 39th in MLB in OPS, and he plays average at best defense.
  22. Transmogrified Tiger
    I can't see the game, overpursuit?
  23. Transmogrified Tiger
    C'mon, don't take things out of context! It's pretty much saying, "If, in the unlikely event that Miguel Tejada is traded, the Cubs are the early frontrunners." I guess that may be viewed as optimistic, but I was really expecting something else when I read the topic title/message... It doesn't really matter, because I really doubt Rosenthal knows any more than you or me. It doesn't take any insider knowledge to say that "they probably won't trade Tejada, but here's who's been in the paper the most inquiring about him".
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    I think either the Cubs will get Tejada within the next couple of days or the Angels or Astros will swoop in and get him in a week. I doubt the Astros, simply because they have to set aside SOME money to possibly re-sign Clemens, if Roger wants to come back in 2006. Besides outside of Taylor Buchloz (the kid that got for Wagner, sp?) is prolly the closest to being a "high end prosect" the Astros have. And if the Stros are seriously considering the Lidge for Abreu deal, then that would effectively take them out of the Tejada sweepstakes. Realistically,it is really down to two teams...Cubs and Angels. They didn't offer Clemens arbitration, they can't sign him until May 1.
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    But we're getting Loewen too, so we need to throw in someone else. Not quite Pie or Dopirak, but close to that. While we're asking, would they like the rights to Wrigley as well?
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