Transmogrified Tiger
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Nicely done! To compare Hairston to Pierre is ridiculous. Hairston has yet to have even a decent year while playing more than part time. Player A Avg. less than 80 games a year Player B Has avg. 150+ games a year Also, please give your reasoning behind calling Pierre a subpar defensive CF. From Espn scouting report : Hardly sounds like a "subpar" defender. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/pierrju01.shtml That's why Pierre is a subpar defender. The ESPN scouting reports are a joke, and using them Hairston could be considered above average too. Whether or not Hairston gets hurt or not is irrelevant. They have startlingly similar production, yet no one is saying "Hairston would be the leadoff man we're looking for if he could just stay healthy". -
Why didn't you list their stats for 2001? Also, Player A gets hurt alot unlike Player B. There's a pretty signifcant difference between the two. I want a little more for Patterson and Hill than just Pierre though. Where's the significant difference? That Hairston is injury prone? The point is that Pierre isn't good, no one's calling for Hairston as the leadoff man we've been searching for, but for some reason people are enamored with Pierre. And I didn't list 2001 for the purposes of showing that they have been similar. The same way I didn't use their numbers from 2000, that favor Hairston in a similar sample size. But if you would like to post them and use the numbers from 5 years ago to prove that Pierre is significantly better than Hairston be my guest.
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Player A 2002: .268/.329/.376/.705 2003: .271/.353/.372/.725 2004: .303/.378/.397/.775 2005: .261/.336/.368/.704 Player B 2002: .287/.332/.343/.675 2003: .305/.361/.373/.734 2004: .326/.374/.407/.781 2005: .276/.326/.354/.680 Both are subpar defensive centerfielders. One is on our team, the other is Juan Pierre. Anyone think the difference between Hairston and Pierre is worth Rich Hill, nevermind Patterson?
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From what I have, Hairston is a free agent. According to this he isn't a FA intil after the 06' season: http://mlb4u.com/0607FA.html He has less than 6 years of service time, but he was a super-two. I'm not sure if that means he gets an extra year of arbitration, or if he gets to free agency a year earlier. If the former is true, then he is arbitration eligible, and will probably make 2 million. If the latter is true, he's obviously a FA. I thought it was discussed here before, but I couldn't find anything.
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Jenks is insane. I don't know if he ever graduated high school, he lived in the woods with his dad or something. He also got into trouble a couple times in the minor leagues. Here's an article that details a little bit of it. The ESPN article they mention is really good, but I can't seem to find it online.
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Juan Pierre had a .680 OPS last year. .680. six eight-oh. Once more, .680. Whywhywhywhywhy
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Probably because most of us are midwesterners. Plus there's only one FSU fan I know of here at NSBB, and no Miami fans that I know of. Mizzou with 14 votes! That's not the AP poll Adam.
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Seriously. If getting Lowe means that we get Bradley too, then that's alright. But I don't see a reason to target starting pitching on its own, especially high cost guys like Lowe, Zito, etc.
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http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20051022/capt.mojf10510222104.nebraska_missouri_mojf105.jpg The hilarious part was watching the State Troopers take down people at random. They'd let a bunch of people by, then two minutes later they'd be tackling someone to the ground and handcuffing them.
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Down come the goalposts! 41 - 24 Brad Smith with nearly 500 yards of offense! Defense shuts out Nebraska in the second half, Taylor picked twice, and sacked who knows how many times. Mizzou still in the lead in the B12 north, all alone if KU beats Colorado tonight. Did they come down?! Surely not. If so, I'm gonna have to head downtown right away and find the guy who's sawing them apart! Both of them, they were proceeding downtown as I left.
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Down come the goalposts! 41 - 24 Brad Smith with nearly 500 yards of offense! Defense shuts out Nebraska in the second half, Taylor picked twice, and sacked who knows how many times. Mizzou still in the lead in the B12 north, all alone if KU beats Colorado tonight.
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Yes it's possible for a player to make less through arbitration, but it can't be more than a certain percentage of a paycut(the number fails me now). Most of the time a player that would get that much of a paycut will be non-tendered to try and renegotiate at any price, since he's not that valuable to begin with. Patterson is an unusual case. He's put up acceptable production for his position in the past, but he was terrible this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he made less, the same, or more. I don't think you could expect Zambrano's salary to double, but my guess is that he gets a raise to the 5-6 million range. From what I have, Hairston is a free agent.
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Mabry's done. He wasn't very good this year. Make sure the infield is good enough that Cedeno is the backup middle IF, Fontenot for the other infield backup(3B/2B). Sign Sweeney for 1B/OF, keep one of Patterson/Hairston, and get a RH power bat that plays a corner OF spot.
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I've been pro-15/15 for a while, with one interleague matchup going on at all times. I'd have the previous year's WS participants, and runners-up, play each other early in the season. With the previous season's cellar dwellers facing off at the end. I've backed a 15/15 with an uneven schedule spanning both leagues and eliminating the DH.
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I agree. Therefore, I'd like to see him become Arizona's.
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No, Walker was a consistent all-star, but no one would call him one of the best players of the era. Plus Coors/steroids/whatever.
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You know, it's too bad you couldn't get a community wide effort to ignore him. I think it would be hilarious to have that dude make a bunch of moronic responses like that, then have no one reply at all. Much more fun than typical bannination.
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LaRussa and post season performance
Transmogrified Tiger replied to indifferent's topic in General Baseball Talk
I'm sorry to hear you have a cold CFICT. Dusty sucks. -
I'm not saying that the WC team isn't good. But we all know that postseason baseball plays by different rules than regular season baseball. It just seems like the WC teams are better suited to short series. Maybe that isn't as true for 7 games, but it is for 5. A WC team with 90 wins might play a division winner with 115, but that WC team has one lights out pitcher, say Jason Schmidt, and pitches him twice, wins both, squeeks out a third win, and bye-bye 115 win team. If the WC then goes on to lose in 7 during the LCS that seems like an injustice to me. The least they could do is make the divisional series 7 games. It might be a little better if the Divisional Series went 7 games, but you're still going to see upsets. A team that wins 115 games should be able to knock off a Jason Schmidt, and they probably should have one(or more) of their own. Bottom line is in a short(5 or 7) game series anything can, will, and has happened. Sanctioning the Wild Card team isn't going to change that, and isn't fair to them.
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Come on, the Wild Card team isn't wildly inferior to the other teams that it should be a surprise when they upset them. They never hame home field, and they have to play the toughest schedule. I think that playing in more of those pressure games can be interpreted as a disadvantage too. You need to win a bunch of them to get in, and eventually the law of averages has to kick in. The argument doesn't make much sense at all to me. The playoffs by nature are going to cause some more talented teams to lose because of the series length. Just because there's been a recent stretch of upsets doesn't mean we should punish one of the 4 best teams in the league.
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The Wild Card is already at a disadvantage by having the hardest road to the World Series.
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Is that something a notice saying that if Glendon declines his player option, he isn't coming back?
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I don't think it's a mistake to take chances on guys like that with creative contracts (Dempster). It's a mistake when you rely so heavily on guys with recent injuries, and don't have a decent backup plan. This is a contradiction to your other notion that Hendry is directly responsible for not improving the Chiacgo Cubs in 2004 and 2005 partially because of signing too many high-risk injury contracts, isn't it? There's quite a difference between taking a gamble on a middle reliever/setup guy who will at most pitch 70 innings, and a starting position player you are counting to play 140+ games without a serviceable backup. By nature bullpen arms are easier to replace, and it's more likely to get better relative performance from the guy filling in for him.
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That's terrific, thanks for passing that along.
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Major cardinal overhaul for 2006 season?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to mjohnson71's topic in General Baseball Talk
Edmonds has a "limited" no-trade claus in his contract. I also think his contract is up after 2006 (with a team option for 2007), so I wouldn't be devastated if the Cards try to get something for him. He'd be extremely hard to replace, however. What I have says he has a 23 team no-trade clause. Who knows who the 7 teams are he'd approve a trade to. We also don't know if he gets to change that list every year or if it's set in stone at the time of the signing.
