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I'd say Slowey, but I think it might depend on the rest of your staff. If you have more young/potential arms, then Slowey; if you have more experience/production, then maybe Buchholz.
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I thought you could do better than that, since I haven't said anything about MSU in years. I win $100 if they win tonight, so Go Green.
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I don't know. Isn't Kauffman's renovation almost a total gut rehab that will end up costing more than Busch Stadium III? EDIT: almost. Kauffman's renovations will cost around $265 million while a whole new cheaply built Busch stadium cost around $300 million. My guess is that after a couple of years the Red Sox will get a bad case of stadium envy and build a new place. And Kauffman doesn't even have a softball field next door. Oh yes it does.
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Other thoughts after looking more closely(Peoria and Tennessee are up on the wiki, btw): Robnett in AA, ouch. The AA infield is seriously ungood. Fortunately, that'll mean more at bats for Castillo and Clevenger. Tennessee could have a fantastic pitching staff, especially in the pen with Gaub, Maestrie, Papelbon, and Parker. Nothing too glamorous at Peoria except for the infield, but it's quite the infield. Pitching is intriguing enough with Carpenter, Shafer, Pina, Archer, and Huseby. -
I like our system a lot better seeing names like Jackson/Coleman/Guyer in AA and Castro/Searle in A+. Now off to put the rosters on the wiki.
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ugh, the Shark is a pitcher Pecota just has no idea how to properly forecast. and i hope i don't have to explain the utter impossibility that Lou would have patience enough to give 150 innings to a guy with a 6 ERA Not only that, but I'm taking the over on several of those Brewer projections.
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All 26 THT contributors picked the Cubs to win the Central. 14 of them picked the Cubs to win the pennant and 4 of those picked the Cubs to win it all. No Cubs showed up in predictions for MVP, Cy Young, or Rookie of the Year. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/2009-tht-staff-predictions/
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Opening Day - Other games
Transmogrified Tiger replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Sunday Night Baseball is blacked out on MLB.TV? Lame, I'm at work. -
I can't find anything definitively, but I did find that players being returned to the original club have to be exposed to waivers with the same Rule 5 obligations(which intuitively makes no sense), so I imagine it would work the same for trades as well.
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The only way they could have done that would be if he first cleared waivers. I think some pitching-starved non-contender (e.g. Pittsburgh or San Diego) would have claimed him and kept him on the roster with the hope he'd contribute in the future. No, they could've sent something to Colorado to get his full rights.
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I'm excited to see what Patton and especially Guzman do. I'm disappointed that we had to dump a pretty useful swingman to do so. How much could it have taken to get Patton's rights, and let him pitch in AAA(he's never pitched above A+) to make sure he wasn't a ST mirage? I understand this scenario doesn't add anyone with options, but it adds flexibility(extra player, extra player we can send down) with minimal loss(even if Gaudin is awful and Patton is awesome, the amount of innings necessary to figure that out wouldn't have a huge impact on the team).
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Atkins and Wells are also on the 40 man, plus they could stretch out Heilman if that's the route they wanted to go.
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So the only reliever we're able to send down is...Marmol?
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Should we be worried about the Brewers?
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
You need to remind yourself that Spring numbers mean very, very little. And also that the Brewers' pitching is hilarious. -
Villanova has no one to blame but themselves for this game, they just can't make anything.
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It was nice for the officials to wait 6 seconds before the first bogus call in Hansbrough's favor.
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I'm not talking about spring numbers. I'm talking about the fact that Harden's velocity is way down, Lilly's is down and probably will be for a while, and Dempster has had one good year and has horrible career numbers. Dempster and Lilly are no different than what they were going into the year, unless you're somehow worried about Lilly's possible slow start(while he builds velocity or whatever) dooming the team. Harden is unique, but he's said he's fine, and it's not like he's throwing at a velocities that he hasn't been very effective with in the past. Plus, we knew going in that Harden is always going to have the specter of injury hovering over him.
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Dempster had a 4.50 ERA last spring. Harden's was 4.71. Marquis's was 1.93. Lieber's was 1.80. Wuertz didn't give up a run last spring. Zambrano only gave up 1. Even with the WBC, Lilly has more spring innings than last year. There are no new issues with the rotation that weren't there before ST began.
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How many huge plays has Summers made, that guy is everywhere.
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This is embarrassing officiating. Price was holding one of Summers' arms, and the foul they just made up on Suton is mind boggling.
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I noticed they gave Schafer the starting job. How does he project as an offensive CF'er? Eventually, pretty good. As a 22 year old who struck out in 1/4 of his PA's in AA last year, the outlook is not bright for 2009.
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The Braves might have one of the worst offensive outfields in history, and Kotchman is pretty bad for an offensive 1B. They won't score enough runs, especially since they don't have a knockout rotation.
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Going strong for me. Cano with a 2 run HR. 3-2 after 2.
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"That's not a play you practice in spring training" Referring to a double down the right field line with a runner on 1st. Fantastic.
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I'm going to be honest, having Aaron Miles be the first thing I see when watching Cubs baseball makes me angry, I don't care if he just singled through the left side.
