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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    For me, it's more effort based than mental mistakes. A guy who gives up an 0-2 HR is still trying to get the guy out, and someone who takes a called third strike thinks it's best that he take a pitch that's a ball. But a guy who isn't running out a bobbled ball, or an outfielder who gives up an extra base by slowly getting to a ball aren't trying to do the right thing, they're just being lazy. But I admit I have a much more narrow view of what's acceptable for booing than most.
  2. Transmogrified Tiger
    Booing players on your own team is really stupid, unless it's something like a guy getting thrown out at first because he didn't run it out and the guy bobbled it for 5 seconds. Or a Todd Hundley flipping off the fans situation.
  3. Transmogrified Tiger
    They have Fukudome about +13 in RF last year, and -13 in CF over about 15 games. That's *really* awful for 15 games. How would a +13 in RF translate to CF, on average? Not too good, I would assume, but you know how far that gets you. The -13 is prorated for a full season, sorry if that wasn't clear. It has him -2.5 over about 15 games, which is much worse than I originally said(not reading correctly today), but heavily based on last year(-2.2 to -0.3 in about the same time). As for translation, I imagine +13 in RF translates to at least several runs above average in CF, but I don't know the exactitudes.
  4. Transmogrified Tiger
    Since this is the spot with the most draft talk, I'll leave this link here. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Four-ways-the-NFL-Draft-can-make-sense-to-a-coll?urn=ncaaf,158274 I'm especially fond of his last point.
  5. Transmogrified Tiger
    Do they? How many times has he been used as such? I haven't really noticed it happening but perhaps I've missed it. I guess it hasn't happened as much since then, but he was used as such in 3 of the first 4 games.
  6. Transmogrified Tiger
    This is another good joke. It'd work better if the Cardinals weren't tied with us. It was more a reference to the fact that this is happening for the 3rd year running, but I can see how the wording is ambiguous.
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    They have Fukudome about +13 in RF last year, and -13 in CF over about 15 games.
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    Johnson grades out below average defensively, relatively easily in fact. I have no idea why you wouldn't consider Fukudome at least adequate, if not stellar/outstanding/additional adjective.
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    5 K's, 3 ground outs and a flyout for Carpenter. Not a bad result for the first time through the order.
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    Can anyone find that info broken down for April of previous years for Lilly?
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    Pepe does not appreciate your dives in the box
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    If Bradley is healthy, then you can get by with Fox and Hoffpauir in the same lineup. Gathright is never going to start since he's the 3rd or 4th outfielder at every spot, so strictly as a bench player having Fox around might be better. And if Bradley gets hurt again you can swap Fox for Sam Fuld or something(since you'd have to release Gathright) to get that outfield D back. Doubt it happens though, Bradley's too frail and they really like Gathright as a defensive replacement/pinch runner.
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    Ramirez is doing just a fantastic job of hitting tonight.
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    If the lefty is a guy with not much of a split like Cotts, there isn't much of a difference.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    Dickerson dropped a fly to the warning track, everyone moved up a base.
  16. Transmogrified Tiger
    Votto was not pleased that Encarnacion left the base.
  17. Transmogrified Tiger
    How is that not scored an error and that was a strike.
  18. Transmogrified Tiger
    Come on, Harden isn't getting the outside corner that Soto and Theriot just got.
  19. Transmogrified Tiger
    That's mostly amassed in the lower minors while being well older than his league. Barton is a pretty decent backup outfielder, but he's a non-normal fit because I think he's bound to LF by his defense, and he doesn't have enough pop to be a power bat off the bench. He's like a slightly worse version of Matt Murton.
  20. Transmogrified Tiger
    YOU HEAR THAT? MY TEAM USED TO BE BETTER BEFORE WE WERE BORN!
  21. Transmogrified Tiger
    I'm excited about the 2008 draft. You have Jackson, Coleman, Shafer, and Carpenter have shown good things so far as starters. Flaherty is showing that he can hithithit. McDaniel(although he's starting right now) and my favorite Cales have done well in relief roles. And Cerda and Watkins have shown advanced approaches for young draftees. And I haven't even mentioned Cashner, who showed why he went in the 1st round when they put him in the pen last year. Bristow pitched well last year too(I can't remember, is he hurt?). I also like the relief prospects we have coming along right now as well. Stevens and Gaub are off to good starts as Cubs, Parker is striking out everyone, the aforementioned McDaniel and Cales have pitched well, and Papelbon's off to a good start as well.
  22. Transmogrified Tiger
    There's several ways you can go with it, I'm especially partial to "Speak up please, it's hard to hear up here in first place." Something along the lines of "best of luck actually finishing in front of the Astros this year" would also work.
  23. Transmogrified Tiger
    And yet his season stats remain putrid. I don't see how that is at all "curiously timed". It's an article about which early trends are likely to continue. So the "trend" is one terrible week? That he followed up by tearing the cover off the ball?
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    To emphasize how dominant Parker has been, 10 of his 13 outs have been K's.
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    This is a curiously timed article, considering Lee hit .381/.417/.619/1.036 with 2 doubles and a home run last week.
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