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  1. I don't believe it's reasonable to believe that a player will improve upon his past season minor league numbers in his first season of professional baseball. Pie's OPS by month: .862, .676, .630, .771, .930, 1.389 Well, if he goes .676 .630 in 2 consecutive months and the Cubs are losing ground, will Lou "let him play through it"? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving young guys their shot, but I don't think the timing is right this year. You're missing the point. Pie's shown the ability to make adjustments in the past, and last year was no exception. By the end of the year he was better than his .792 OPS indicated.
  2. I don't believe it's reasonable to believe that a player will improve upon his past season minor league numbers in his first season of professional baseball. Pie's OPS by month: .862, .676, .630, .771, .930, 1.389
  3. Perhaps I haven't seen Gonzalez pitch enough, but I just don't get this trade from Atlanta's perspective. The Braves probably could have gotten Ohman, Cotts or Eyre for far less than LaRoche. Gonzalez is legit, better than anything we have. LaRoche is still a stiff price to pay for him though, even if he is their long term solution at closer.
  4. LaRoche put up a near .800 OPS (.797 to be exact) against LHP last year. That's fine when you're hitting .950 against RHP. Using career numbers for LaRoche considering he's 27 and has progressed upwards and last year was the first year he got more than a handful of ABs against LHP is very misleading.
  5. You're comparing different arbitration years. Lilly made 3.1 million as part of a 2 year, 5M deal in his 2nd arbitration year, which is what Prior is in right now.
  6. http://www.progressiveboink.com/dugout/archive/nick104.htm
  7. I wasn't around when Corey left so please don't automatically assume I thought the same about Corey. I never said anything about your opinions on Corey. However, the ridiculous guesses about the player's personality, right down to the "I can see it in his eyes", is the exact same that some people said about Patterson.
  8. I guess we can officially say that Prior has replaced Patterson now, as far as ridiculous guesses to their personal character go.
  9. This is a hollow argument. No one was complaining when Prior was making only 3 mil in '03 when he put up amazing numbers. No one said anything when Zambrano was awesome in his pre arbitration years. This is how it works, it has nothing to do with greedy athletes or Prior "earning it" or whatever.
  10. Sosa hit LHP very well in '05, to the tune of .288/.370/.471/.841
  11. This. I don't want to say it, but I sorta feel like people that are fans of teams from all over the place aren't really... as good fans as those that are from the hometown team. I get into this hometown thing really strongly. Conciously thinking about it, I know that people are big fans even when they aren't from a certain place, but it just doesn't feel right to me. I don't want to disrespect anyone, but thats how I feel. EDIT: I don't want people coming in here to defend their fandom, because I know you guys are true fans. But it still don't feel right. Not everyone lives in the same area their whole life, and not everyone has the same amount of interest/passion for different sports.
  12. Sam Fuld: .300/.378/.422/.800 in 89 games at Daytona. He turned 25 in November.
  13. Why are you doing this to me Mizzou? Why couldn't you have just gotten drilled so I didn't have a chance to get my hopes up? Kansas leads by 1 at the half.
  14. First base and Catcher are the two hardest positions to accurately assess defensively. Dewan's methodology for 1B leaves a lot to be desired. That's not to say that he's wrong about Pujols, but just to throw it out there.
  15. Only way we have a chance to win is if Brown or Hannah decide to pretend to be Thomas Gardner from last year's game.
  16. That would make sense, but you don't need a sophisticated rating system to tell that Giambi-Morneau are 1-2 in AL 1B offense. This is just as good.
  17. A worthless one.
  18. Poor Nate Kaeding, he just can't catch a break in the playoffs.
  19. Just over 6.9m. What about just first basemen? Eyeballing it, but more than 6.9M. Pujols, Howard, Berkman, Giambi, Johnson, Morneau, Konerko, Delgado, LaRoche, Tex, Helton. That's 3 guys that are pre-arbitration, 2 making 5-10M in arbitration, and 6 guys making at least 10M.
  20. Alexander is crazy. Briggs blew up that play, he wouldn't have even got the first down, never mind a TD.
  21. This will be only the second time the Saints have played outdoors in 2 months(Dallas doesn't count). Of course, last time they were truly in the elements they beat the crap out of the Giants.
  22. Are you back in Columbia? I think my Fox feed just had an aneurysm.
  23. I'm more surprised that Holmgren didn't call it.
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