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  1. CaliforniaRaisin
    Carrillo works around a basehit for a scoreless first.
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    What impact player can be had for the middling prospects in our system? You could get something with the pitching we have. I would think a package of Hill, Pawelek, Veal could net you a pretty good player. I don't think those guys (forgive me Rich!) are loved by other organizations as much as us. We've always been under the impression that our prospects are better than they are. Veal is going to get rocked if he keeps walking people. Pawelek is pretty solid. Hill is just getting his value out of the toilet. Veal is. He should be an MLB-wide top-50 prospect.
  3. CaliforniaRaisin
    Heh, while Theriot got a good 2.5 seasons in the SL and FSL.
  4. CaliforniaRaisin
    Exactly. It would appear as though they did the same thing with Hudson, but they didn't get much out of that trade.
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    Might as well go for the high draft pick. What else is there to play for? can someone fill me in who knows alot by amautuer baseball. Lets say we are picking top 3...is there a saviour out there? An Arod? A Joe Mauer? A Johan Santana? or are we pretty much F'ed. As of now (and this definitely will change by next June), the top 3 prospects look like LHP David Price (Vanderbilt), RHP Matt Harvey (high school) and C Matt Wieters (Georgia Tech). Do any of those players you just mentioned go by the title "Messiah" The pitchers look real good, especially the HS ones. There's gonna be a future few aces there - the draft certainly will be better than this years. I'd take Price if he can perform at the level another Vanderbilt product is pitching at right now. Yeah, the next Roy Oswalt sounds good to me. :) Roy Oswalt didn't go to Vanderbilt?
  6. CaliforniaRaisin
    Troy Tulowitzki - the top prospect in probably the second best farm system in baseball - was called up to Colorado:
  7. CaliforniaRaisin
    Oh man, that Javy Lopez HR was awful.
  8. CaliforniaRaisin
    The Jaxx have lost 8 in a row already, not sure how if they can lose 13 in a row.
  9. CaliforniaRaisin
    Might as well go for the high draft pick. What else is there to play for? can someone fill me in who knows alot by amautuer baseball. Lets say we are picking top 3...is there a saviour out there? An Arod? A Joe Mauer? A Johan Santana? or are we pretty much F'ed. As of now (and this definitely will change by next June), the top 3 prospects look like LHP David Price (Vanderbilt), RHP Matt Harvey (high school) and C Matt Wieters (Georgia Tech). Do any of those players you just mentioned go by the title "Messiah" The pitchers look real good, especially the HS ones. There's gonna be a future few aces there - the draft certainly will be better than this years.
  10. CaliforniaRaisin
    Might as well go for the high draft pick. What else is there to play for? can someone fill me in who knows alot by amautuer baseball. Lets say we are picking top 3...is there a saviour out there? An Arod? A Joe Mauer? A Johan Santana? or are we pretty much F'ed. As of now (and this definitely will change by next June), the top 3 prospects look like LHP David Price (Vanderbilt), RHP Matt Harvey (high school) and C Matt Wieters (Georgia Tech).
  11. CaliforniaRaisin
    You're good mojo, Iceblink.
  12. CaliforniaRaisin
    Sanchez signles to right. Jones threw it over the backstop. Wow. I know, your wondering how it managed to go over the backstop on the 36th bounce just like I am. Seriously, I didn't know Jacque had it in him to throw it past 15'.
  13. CaliforniaRaisin
    Sanchez signles to right. Jones threw it over the backstop. Wow.
  14. CaliforniaRaisin
    What happened?
  15. CaliforniaRaisin
    Oh my goodness...
  16. CaliforniaRaisin
    He's probably going to get called up no matter what.
  17. CaliforniaRaisin
    Man, I wish Bynum got to play more. :roll: yeah.... somewhere else !! St. Louis? If he went to St. Louis he would instantly become great... Just like Weaver and Ponson and Miles... So far so good this season. :D
  18. CaliforniaRaisin
    Wow, that's good.
  19. CaliforniaRaisin
    Man, I wish Bynum got to play more. :roll: yeah.... somewhere else !! St. Louis?
  20. CaliforniaRaisin
    Nice.
  21. CaliforniaRaisin
    But you said a guy like Loretta wouldn't improve the team before. This makes more sense. Sure. But they had a rookie CF. Prior's trade value is at his lowest. For someone like Lackey who probably isn't available except for the right price, you'd have to package Prior with someone like Zambrano, etc. I don't see the Angels trading away Lackey. Adding a couple of FA pitchers definitely will improve the team, but the Cubs do have a limited budget. Where is this Barrett for Wells rumor coming from? Why would the Blue Jays make such a horrible trade?
  22. CaliforniaRaisin
    I'm sure soapy has watched a game. Why would soapy be posting here otherwise? You're right, no contender has ever played a rookie. Heck, the WS runner-up last season played a rookie CF. So adding a better second baseman will make the team worse? He counted him as a 5th starter. If that doesn't suit you, notice how he listed 4 potential starters for 2 spots? You could plug in one of the other two. Schmidt is likely to get a smaller deal than someone like Zito because of his age. Schmidt also doesn't give up as many flyballs as Zito - more of which will likely be HRs when half of his games are played at Wrigley as opposed to Oakland. There certainly is a risk in signing Schmidt. The Cubs work on a limited budget and obviously cannot fill all their many holes with just FA signings. Sometimes one must trade from a strength to improve a weakness. Trading away one reliever shouldn't really make a strength into a weakness - and if it does - then the bullpen is not ready for injuries.
  23. CaliforniaRaisin
    It's Walrond...which I see you have in a later post. Never mind. :oops:
  24. CaliforniaRaisin
    Daytona's Sam Fuld is officially out for the rest of the season due to his hip injury.
  25. CaliforniaRaisin
    Sheesh.
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