David

Let me say it again, as obviosuly the point was missed. Hendry has no control over how the players are used on the field. That job belongs to the manager (Piniella in this case). What Hendry has done is put together a very solid team, that has the potential to be a really good team. Now it is the job of Pineilla (NOT Hendry) to get the team to play well. If the players don't play to their potentials, or the manager doesn't get the players t play to their potential, makes the GM look bad, but in this case, it is unwarranted. Calling Hendry a "bad Gm" or "Hendry sucks" is simply not true. I know he has made some questionable moves, but he also made some good moves. The point wasn't missed. The point is just wrong. Hendry is ultimately accountable for the product on the field and the performance of said product. Hendry hired the managers. Hendry put the players on the field.

Post AS break 2007 he hit one every 16.13 AB's. That would come out to 37 HR in 600 AB's (34 in 550 AB's). That seems about right and about the best we could have expected, even if he hadn't injured his wrist (despite his monster 2005). We'll see if he continues at the pace he was at after the break. There is reason to believe he will.

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I guess there's no point in me commenting on the Lee never getting his power stroke back thing since like 5 other people have, but I was gonna.

1. Alex Rodriguez 2. Albert Pujols 3. Hanley Ramirez 4. Jose Reyes 5. Ryan Braun 6. David Wright 7. Chase Utley 8. Jimmy Rollins 9. Miguel Cabrera 10. Johan Santana 11. Matt Holliday 12. Ryan Howard 13. Grady Sizemore 14. Prince Fielder 15. Jake Peavy 16. Troy Tulowitzki 17. Victor Martinez 18. Carl Crawford 19. Alfonso Soriano 20. David Ortiz 21. Carlos Beltran 22. Brandon Webb 23. Vlad Guerrero 24. Ichiro 25. Derrek Lee 26. Russell Martin 27. Joe Mauer 28. Brandon Phillips 29. Brian Roberts 30. BJ Upton 31. Derek Jeter 32. Corey Hart 33. Josh Beckett 34. Manny Ramirez 35. Dan Haren 36. Robinson Cano 37. Justin Verlander 38. Erik Bedard 39. Aramis Ramirez 40. Cole Hamels 41. Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones 42. Adam Dunn 43. Mark Teixeira 44. CC Sabathia 45. Carlos Lee 46. Lance Berkman 47. Roy Halladay 48. Carlos Zambrano 49. Scott Kazmir 50. Francisco Liriano 51. John Smoltz 52. John Lackey 53. Chris Young (the outfielder) 54. Curtis Granderson 55. Brian McCann 56. Ian Kinsler 57. Magglio Ordonez 58. Jorge Posad 59. Khalil Greene 60. Carlos Guillen 61. Garrett Atkins 62. Felix Hernandez 63. Aaron Rowand 64. Geovany Soto 65. Chris Young (the weirdly proportioned pitcher) 66. Roy Oswalt 67. Aaron Harang 68. Ryan Zimmerman 69. Carlos Pena 70. Joe Nathan 71. Matt Kemp 72. Francisco Rodriguez 73. Dan Uggla 74. Gary Sheffield 75. Jonathan Paplebon 76. Daisuke Matsuzaka 77. Hunter Pence 78. Tim Lincecum 79. Rich Hill 80. Nick Markakis 81. Rickie Weeks 82. Kosuke Fukudome 83. Kenji Johjima 84. Fausto Carmona 85. JJ Putz 86. Takashi Saito 87. Jose Valverde 88. Todd Helton 89. Javier Vazquez 90. Nick Swisher 91. James Shields 92. Miguel Tejada 93. Brad Hawpe 94. Hideki Matsui 95. Travis Hafner 96. Edgar Renteria 97. Alex Rios 98. JJ Hardy 99. Chone Figgins 100. Billy Wagner 101. Joba Chamberlain 102. A.J. Burnett- picking for IMB 103. Bobby Abreu 104. Shane Victorino 105. Mariano Rivera 106. Placido Polanco 107. Kevin Kouzmanoff 108. Jason Bay 109. Josh Hamilton 110. Brad Penny 111. Michael Young 112. Torii Hunter 113. Adrian Gonzalez 114. Matt Cain 115. Eric Byrnes (IMB) 116. Huston Street 117. Adrian Beltre 118. Howie Kendrick 119. Brett Myers 120. Andruw Jones 121. Justin Morneau 122. Bobby Jenks 123. Ben Sheets 124. John Maine 125. Matt Capps 126. Delmon Young 127. Pedro Martinez 128. Francisco Cordero 129. Rich Harden 130. JI....JIM THOME 131. Tim Hudson 132. Adam Wainwright 133. Paul Konerko 134. Kelly Johnson 135. Ted Lilly 136. Yovani Gallardo 137. Joakim Soria 138. Rafael Soriano 139. Yunel Escobar 140. BJ Ryan 141. Trevor Hoffman 142. Pat Burrell 143. Josh Fields 144. Chad Billingsley 145. Kerry Wood 146. Jeff Kent 147. Jermaine Dye 148. Jarrod Saltalamacchia 149. J.R. Towles 150. James Loney 151. Lastings Milledge 152. Willy Taveras 153. Eric Gagne

Not by any stretch of the imagination since 2005.

Felix is definitely wearing cups. Don't you see him readjust it during every freaking AB?

Just Google NSBBLOL

Did Hill just blow a snot rocket?

What about "testular" being paired with "extortion?"

Remember that cory is a "5 tool player" according to all of us a couple of years ago. Too bad those tools were pretty dull Actually, the tools weren't all that dull, except for maybe the contact part of the equation. The rest of those tools were pretty damn good. Just goes to show how dumb the five tool thing is.

That's a near .800 OPS out of a rookie CF. That would almost be the opposite of bust, IMO.

You have no backup CFer.

That is Bobby. Willie Mays Hayes http://chronicle.augusta.com/images/headlines/070404/27165_512.jpg

Um, did he seriously write that?

Maybe an interception near the goal line run back for a TD. Maybe.

wat

Hasn't this already been posted like 5x?

Isn't this similar to Luis Gonzalez's situation a few years ago?

Noticed that too... Spoke with Sean and yes the Gun was off as he was throwing Mid-90's Based on that, I would guess it was off about 7 mph. 91-93 for Sean and 87-90 for Lieber seems about right.

Were they deep counts at least?

Not that I'm concerned mind you (every good player has 40-50 games per year where they don't look good) but I'm kind of curious how Soto continued to look good today. It was about as bad as you can get for him at the plate today. The one AB of his that I saw was a good AB even though he just popped it up. It is starting to bother me that you don't see him go the other way much, though. Pulls the ball quite a lot. A lot of hitters have great careers doing that, though.

LOL Hey guys I haven't seen Kobe Bryant but I'm pretty sure Chris Paul is better because I've seen him play a lot and he's awesome.

LOL Takatsu is just filler for spring training and there is an excuse for losing. It's spring training and a bunch of crappy players are playing.

RuhRoh....Did Lloyd let the cat out of the bag? Or was he just wrong? http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=At.GfdEwsoo94bhdLb_SDFRDubYF?slug=ap-bears-lloyd&prov=ap&type=lgns