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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    speaking of victims, i think we just intercepted chase daniel again It's all slant routes and bubble screens, it's not that hard to figure out.
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    I'd be looking forward to Florida losing so much more if Oklahoma would stop pretending to be victims before every single game they play. I think Bob Stoops must scour ESPN message boards for "OU sucks" posts and then tell the media about how they're playing with a chip on the shoulder because they, OKLAHOMA, aren't getting respect.
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    Paraphrasing... "cue Redflash saying they didn't want Gordon anyway" "Sorry truffle, but here's three paragraphs why Gordon probably wasn't good enough for Bama anyways"
  4. Transmogrified Tiger
    Most places where you find statistics that would require explanation(Baseball Reference, Hardball Times, Fangraphs, etc.) have glossary pages on their site.
  5. Transmogrified Tiger
    Signing Bradley to a 3/25 deal does not in any way mortgage the future. There's no real incumbent at the position he plays, and the years and dollars aren't prohibitive. There's definitely trepidation for paying the money that Peavy's owed, but it's a necessity to add a player of his caliber. Four year deals might be suicide if you're dealing with Carlos Silva(or maybe Ryan Dempster, but that's a different topic and water under the bridge), but if you want the best talent it's the risk you have to take. Being overly fearful of getting burned on a contract for a player like Jake Peavy is how you end up like the Cardinals, filling half your rotation with recycled options every year and not being able to compete with those who go out and get real talent.
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    Every Bowl Game in 10 words (NSFW language) A couple of my favorites: Capital One Bowl: Dantonio suspends EVERYONE for not wearing top hats. LOSS, Spartans. Rose Bowl: JoePa says “I haven’t seen that much blood since Antietam.”
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    DeRosa, Marquis, Pie, Hill, Vitters, Cedeno, and 4 million for Peavy. Oh, is that all? edit: And Pie + Marquis at 5M for Olson? hahaha
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    Will Rhymes could fit that bill. This year was the only year he's had a platoon split instead of a reverse platoon split though, and he's only average defensively and only at 2B. Daniel Mayora is an even better fit, but he's never played an inning above High A.
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    Aurilia was a couple runs below average at 3rd, so he'd probably be something similar at 2nd. Not a positive, but not too much to be worried about in the v. LHP side of a platoon, especially with Fontenot able to be a defensive replacement.
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    I think he wants upwards of 8 figures.
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    I don't think it's too much to ask that we keep one of DeRosa, Pie, and Marshall.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    Someone in the Mark Loretta, Ray Durham, Alex Cintron category, I would assume. I've said it a couple places now, but Clint Barmes is my guy for that spot. Good defender that has always hit LHP, in an overcrowded infield situation in Colorado with Atkins, Baker, Stewart, and Tulowitzki all competing for 3 spots.
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    From Winter 08-09: http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/12/cubs-close-to-a.html Let's not pen Peavy into our rotation just yet. The key difference here is that Baltimore's owner was doing everything possible to keep Roberts from being traded, while San Diego's owner is putting payroll restrictions on Towers that force him to be traded. And the Cubs are the only trade possibility.
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    It also makes it less likely that Pie is in the deal. Bradley, Fukudome, Johnson, and Pie for 2 OF spots would be fine. Tangentially, I'm really bad at making comparisons based in runs. Can someone give me a triple slash line that's approximately 10 runs worse than .290/.375/.480? 20 runs? 30 runs?
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    I might be remembering a different team, but I'm pretty sure Minnesota was like Vanderbilt, walking a tightrope(similar total yardage, really advantageous turnovers) to win games early against mediocre teams, then that luck ran out and they got smashed by everyone the rest of the year. As long as KU doesn't do anything really dumb in this game they should win by a couple scores.
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    Everett has started about 100 games the last two years combined, his defense is way down(though still well above average) from his injuries, he's always been a disaster at the plate, and he'll be 32 years old come spring training. There's not a lot of upside to adding him, although at a year and a million there's no real harm unless you're under really tight budgetary restrictions.
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    Marquis for Barmes please.
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    Not a fan of his at all. Not a very good K/9, rather high H/9, and outside of 2007, he's shown a tendency to give up the longball. He's more BABIP dependent because of his lower K rate, but he's been fine with HR rate aside from when he got hurt in '05. I'm not suggesting he be a staple of the bullpen, but we could probably do worse than bringing him in for a year to be a middle reliever.
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    Utah will stick with them for a while, but unless they get some turnovers, the size difference in the trenches and the "neutral" crowd will wear them down.
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    Lyon might not be a bad signing at the right price.
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    Who else would you prefer? 1 loss Boise State and Ball State teams that played your high school among other terrible teams? 2 loss TCU or BYU from the Mountain West? 3 loss Georgia or Georgia Tech who couldn't win their respective divisions? 3 loss Oregon or Michigan State(who OSU beat)?
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    Cabrera isn't coming back, is he? Touche. So Lillibridge and Ramirez up the middle then?
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    What does that make the White Sox offense look like? Cabrera AJP Quentin Thome Konerko Ramirez Betemit Wise/Owens That has quite a bit of potential to be really heinous unless they add some talent/actually have someone I forgot.
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    I didn't include Lee because I don't think we're to the point with any system that can accurately get a grip on 1B defense because of how many throws they receive. I think it does as good a job as other positions with regards to fielding batted balls, but when you get maybe 2 of those per game compared to 10+ throws a game, it doesn't paint a very accurate picture. John Dewan tried to tackle this looking at game video. It looks pretty subjective, but according to this method, Lee is good, Pujols is a god (and/or Eckstein skipped 900 baseballs at him in 2005), and most 1B fall within a few plays of each other. Anyway, fangraphs is amazing. A WAR stat would be sweet and pretty simple with UZR and wOBA data. How did he define "bad throws" though? Guys like Pujols and Lee are going to make a lot of throws look a lot easier than Scott Hatteberg(or even Todd Helton) would have because of their stride.
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    I have to think that if Towers has spent a month exhausting all possibilities to get the proper value from our crappy farm system for Peavy, including trying to find a third team, that there really isn't another option. The circumstances of the situation lead me to believe Peavy is essentially forcing Chicago as his only possible destination.
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