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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Um...he had multiple offers on the table. He picked this one. I'm not sure there's anyone that needs "blaming" for his contract (which is what your use of "fault" implies) but if there is, Kosuke gets some if not all of it. This is a confusing response considering that Kosuke took less money to be a Cub.
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    Kinsler is the number 1 player in your league. You can do better.
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    I'm gonna go look at who was taken after Pawelek so I can get good and depressed. Ellsbury, Rasmus, Garza, Craig Hansen, Clay Buchholz, Jed Lowrie, Joey Devine all before the end of the Supplemental round, yikes
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    Awful hitters who didn't require any effort to get out. Lots of them. Take the 1946 Cardinals. They had Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, and Whitey Kurowski, but their other 5 hitters OPS'ed under .700. And they led the league in runs. I don't know if that's really the right answer. I'm not saying you are wrong, because clearly there are better hitters today than back then due to the talent pool increase. However, your Cardinals example was pretty narrow and was just looking at one team in a single year. Let's look at NL league OPS by decade. Now, we have to remember that the very low .OPS in '06 and '16 is due to the fact that slugging wasn't very high in those days i.e. deadball era. 1906: .658 (league slugging .330) 1916: .655 (league slugging .341) 1926: .757 1936: .823 1946: .717 1956: .748 1966: .725 1976: .715 1986: .731 1996: .735 2006: .785 Those are some pretty significant differences. 1946-1966 has an average OPS of .730(just averaging your 3 numbers). That's 55 points of OPS for every single player, league wide, it's a huge deal. The disparity is even greater when you consider there were 16 teams in '46 and '56, and 20 in '66, and 30 in 2006.
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    Up to the millisecond line for Vitters: .337/.398/.530/.928
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    Vitters with a 2 run double, Boise leads 5-0 after 2.
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    Awful hitters who didn't require any effort to get out. Lots of them. Take the 1946 Cardinals. They had Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, and Whitey Kurowski, but their other 5 hitters OPS'ed under .700. And they led the league in runs.
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    I'm seeing lots of bitterness that people in this thread didn't get tickets to get their own American Girl doll today.
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    6 home runs, 2 from david ross my head hurts
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    Fontenot's OPS has crossed over .890. Amazing.
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    I for one am shocked, SHOCKED, that Lieber is ineffective throwing once every 15 days or so.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    And that one out has a batting average under 1.00. I'd hope so.
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    I for one am shocked, SHOCKED, that Wuertz is ineffective pitching on 8 days rest.
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    The Cardinals are where they are because of their starting pitching. Namely Lohse and Wellemeyer and Piniero, guys with plenty of history pointing towards them trending downward the remainder of the season. And if the Cards hover at .500 for the rest of the season, they'll be out of the wild card by 5 games.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    Howard homers off of Looper, Phillies lead the Cards 2-0 after 1.
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    There's also the fact that he's slugging .700 in July.
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    Both are interesting pitching prospects. Pina is coming back from TJS I believe, and Jackson is making his second "start" after being promoted from Boise, he was drafted in the teens(maybe 12th-13th round?) this June. Speaking of Boise promotions, Rebel Ridling and Jake Opitz should play. Opitz has a future in a Fontenotian role, and if Ridling can keep hitting like he did in Boise, he just might have a MLB future. Luis Bautista is a C/1B/DH that has been killing the ball all year. He's come out of nowhere and is a bit old for the MWL, but 1.000+ OPS's make you pay attention.
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    why sir? Because even if Burnett was great for them, the downgrade to Escobar from Hardy would wipe away pretty much all of those gains. If Burnett continues to struggle, the Brewers easily make themselves worse. Plus Burnett would stick them with that contract in all likelihood, meaning there's zero chance of Sabathia or Sheets staying there if there was any before.
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    Marmol has been used 3 days in a row 5 times, and he's been used in 3 out of 4 days 9 times.
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    Everyone was angry because Lou used Marmol for the 4th straight game in 5 days with a 4 run lead when 2 guys in the pen haven't pitched in a week, and 2 more hadn't pitched since Saturday.
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    Hardy for Burnett would be fantastic for us.
  22. Transmogrified Tiger
    You have periods in between the letters?
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    Back for a 3-peat.
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    As good as Prior he said.
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    So trading for Jason Kendall instead of promoting Soto wasn't a mistake? Or are you chalking that up to laying the groundwork for the Harden trade? Okay, make that the last 51 weeks.
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