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  1. CaliforniaRaisin
    So you don't want to fleece, say, the Diamondbacks in a trade? Just the Sox and the Cards? You come off as a Sox-hater first, Cubs fan second.
  2. CaliforniaRaisin
    A lot of Twins fans take exception to the fact that they took Mauer as a way of saving money or gauranteeing signability. I got lambaster by a barage of Twins fans on Twins.com(this was before I realized there were good baseball websites outside of the MLB ones) for bringing that up. They argued that they wanted Mauer from the get go and that Twins management would have been chastised for passing on Mauer, local kid. I thought I would throw this in here because it came quickly to mind when I read your post. One Twin fan in particular has made a point to yap at me constantly about how Prior refused to pitch for the Twins...despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up beyond hearsay. He's the only Twin fan I know who's said this, despite knowing a number of guys who have never heard anything about it. He's been quite thrilled about Prior's injury problems. He's also a Jock Jones fan. I'll just leave it at that. I think I know who you're talking about.
  3. CaliforniaRaisin
    Don't forget Wells at AA. Iowa leads it 2-1 going to the 7th - Hill has given up 1 in 6 with 9 Ks to 2 BBs. This will be a 7 inning game.
  4. CaliforniaRaisin
    I'd be a week off if that happened - I thought Gallagher would be like Marmol and Marshall last year and get promoted after the FSL All-Star game. Hill with his 4th K through 2.1 innings, Iowa leads it 2-0. The Iowa broadcast crew are talking about the country of Bhutan. Don't ask me why.
  5. CaliforniaRaisin
    Please don't. Outshined would prefer if you rub it in. :P
  6. CaliforniaRaisin
    It's a DON DAY!! My bad. I looked at the wrong page on peoriachiefs.com. Was wondering why Yepez didn't match up with my own notes (which had Veal).
  7. CaliforniaRaisin
    Win ballgames and you'll win the PR part. Don't forgo a good trade because you aren't fleecing the other team and you have a better chance of winning. It's different in Chicago. Cubs fans have 2 enemies: The Cardinals and White Sox. You may not have to deal w/ the White Sox crap out in CA, but I don't want to deal w/ moronic Sox fans. Yeah, it's not like I don't have cousins who are White Sox fans who were rather harsh last October (and ever since). So you'd rather have something to get the better of Sox fans than complete a trade that would improve the Cubs?
  8. CaliforniaRaisin
    Wow!
  9. CaliforniaRaisin
    Probable Starters: Iowa: LHP Rich Hill (2-1, 2.42 ERA, 44.2 IP, 61/9, 0.90 WHIP) vs. RHP Chris Baker (6-2, 2.10 ERA) West Tenn: LHP Chris Shaver (2-4, 2.89 ERA, 56 IP, 51/24, 1.36 WHIP) vs. LHP Corwin Malone (5-4, 4.08 ERA) Daytona: RHP Sean Gallagher (4-0, 2.49 ERA, 72.1 IP, 74/18, 1.23 WHIP) @ RHP Michael Devaney (5-3, 2.18 ERA) Peoria: LHP Jesus Yepez (1-2, 3.75 ERA, 48 IP, 27/29, 1.52 WHIP) vs. RHP Michael Penn (4-2, 2.91 ERA)
  10. CaliforniaRaisin
    Stolen and updated from Windy City: 2006 Fecal League Standings (as of 6/9/06) Team W L PCT GB ============= == == ==== === Chicago Cubs 24 36 .400 - Tampa Bay 24 37 .393 0.5 Pittsburgh 23 39 .371 2.0 Florida 21 37 .362 2.0 Kansas City 16 43 .271 7.5 The DRays have now have fallen behind the Cubs too.
  11. CaliforniaRaisin
    Ugh, 6 am on a Saturday.
  12. CaliforniaRaisin
    Win ballgames and you'll win the PR part. Don't forgo a good trade because you aren't fleecing the other team and you have a better chance of winning.
  13. CaliforniaRaisin
    You make a very valid point. Might as well clean house all the way to the top (and come back with Cuban). Ok, you win. That's freaking awesome.
  14. CaliforniaRaisin
    You're my hero.
  15. CaliforniaRaisin
    Mulder just knows how to win. Athletes aren't robots. Some have the ability to rise to the occasion when it counts the most and some often crumble in the same situations. But Mulder hasn't. And you're still ignoring the principle argument that Jocketty got fleeced. Actually, srb started out by saying Jocketty doesn't trade key prospects or players.
  16. CaliforniaRaisin
    That's what I thought right after finding out the thread wasn't about Philip. Then Carlton can drop by for the seventh inning stretch. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/Navinda/thcarltondance1.gif
  17. CaliforniaRaisin
    Why would they do it now when he has posted a .322/.389/.452/.841 line so far this season? It was posted he was hitting .207? That's just since his promotion to Iowa. I think the .322 figure is for the entire season, West Tenn and Iowa combined. Correct, that line is between AA and AAA. He's had 141 ABs at AA and so far 58 ABs at AAA.
  18. CaliforniaRaisin
    I don't care if a pitcher has a 1.75 WHIP and is 0-7 in 7 starts. If he has a 2.34 ERA, he's getting the job done. Does that mean ERA is the only way to judge a pitcher? I would say ERA has the same value as OPS does to hitters. You can look at the other stats if you want, but in the end, ERA and OPS are what you go by in judging how good a pitcher or hitter is. Haren as an A: 3.74 ERA Mulder as a Card: 4.08 ERA Haren in the playoffs: 2.16 ERA Mulder in the playoffs: 2.34 ERA
  19. CaliforniaRaisin
    I don't care if a pitcher has a 1.75 WHIP and is 0-7 in 7 starts. If he has a 2.34 ERA, he's getting the job done. Does that mean ERA is the only way to judge a pitcher?
  20. CaliforniaRaisin
    Wins and losses don't mean anything. It's about ERA. In that case, Haren has a lower postseason ERA than Mulder. And yes, Haren has pitched in fewer postseason innings than Mulder, but Mulder's 42.1 postseason innings isn't exactly a lot to work with anyways. Haren has 8 relief innings in one postseason. Mulder has 7 starts over 3 postseasons spread out over 5 seasons. Every playoff year he has had an ERA under 2.50. That's a big game pitcher. Well, that wasn't your original point. Or second point. And 42.1 innings of playoff game vs. how average he's been in nearly 300 innings since being traded to the Cards (while Haren has been better during that time)?
  21. CaliforniaRaisin
    Why would they do it now when he has posted a .322/.389/.452/.841 line so far this season?
  22. CaliforniaRaisin
    Gooz better be starting. If not, quit yo-yoing him (and Hill and Ryu) around.
  23. CaliforniaRaisin
    Wins and losses don't mean anything. It's about ERA. In that case, Haren has a lower postseason ERA than Mulder. And yes, Haren has pitched in fewer postseason innings than Mulder, but Mulder's 42.1 postseason innings isn't exactly a lot to work with anyways.
  24. CaliforniaRaisin
    How many times are you going to change your stance/argument?
  25. CaliforniaRaisin
    I beat you to that prediction. That's how the Cards deal. They don't like to give up their key prospects and players, and they don't. Daric Barton and Dan Haren for Mark Mulder? Curses, Mark. Curses. Mulder made the Cards a better team than they would have been with Haren. We'll see this year. Mulder is very streaky. Barton in the big leagues before he is anything. That's something completely different from what you said earlier - that the Cards don't like to give up their key prospects (Barton was their top prospect at the time of the trade and considered one of the 25-50 best in all of baseball) and that they don't like to give up key players: Haren with the A's: 301 IP, 3.74 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, .243 BAA, 228 Ks, 68 BBs Mulder with the Cards: 286.1 IP, 4.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, .260 BAA, 153 Ks, 96 BBs
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