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oh god just shut up. did bradley ruin chemistry in texas when all his teammates loved him? acting as though seattle got anything but a great deal today just makes you sound like a [expletive]

release silva immediately and release a bm all over jim hendry's disgusting face

why wouldn't they be ecstatic about the trade? they just hit the jackpot

halladay pitches in the al east. there are some big parks in the nl west. also halladay goes deeper in games

need to choose a 3rd running back. frank gore and steven jackson are my locks. keep in mind the scoring for this league gives you a full point for a reception, which is significant because you don't get extra points for rush attempts or completions. so if you catch a ball for -1 yard, you still get .9 of a point. here are the guys im choosing between mendanhall- i've been starting him almost all season and he's been solid at a 3rd rb (12 team league), but he was terrible last season and has to go against GB (2nd best run defense in the nfl and have been shutting down everybody lately). reggie bush- bush is a little more valuable in this league because he gets a lot of receptions. last week he was great, but was coming off an injury the week before and was out the 2 games prior to that, so i don't really have much to go on. maroney- this is probably the way i'm leaning right now. he's been up and down and i havent started him because i never know how much work he's going to get (and he doesn't get many receptions), but he's going against buffalo, who have the worst run defense in the nfl and have been getting lit up even worse lately. so, maroney?

Not to mention we have a good chunk of money coming off the books after this coming season, unless Hendry decides to extend Lee and Lilly again before the season is over. Also have Aramis' salary potentially coming off the books if he opts out. If all 3 leave after the seaosn that's $40 mil off the books. There should be no reason not to consider Crawford in the offseason if that happens assuming, like you said, that Tampa doesn't extend him if all 3 of those guys leave we're going to have a lot of holes though it sucks because the contracts that are coming off the books are the good contracts, the ones you don't want to end. Wait, so Hendry entered into several *good* contracts? I thought your whole schtick is that he is a completely incompetent, overspending boob incapable of such a thing. yeah, i always have said that hendry has never given out a good contract, right? your posts don't even make sense anymore. you're just making garbage up. then when i call you on it (like how you claimed i said 2/15 for cameron was good just because rob said it... even though i said it before rob said it) you don't say anything. anyways, i can name plenty of really good moves hendry has made. harden, ramirez, lee, derosa, lilly, barrett, nomar..... i've never said that jim hendry is incapable of making good moves, and i've never said that he's close to the worst gm in baseball (unless I was obviously joking).

unless you're an awesome hitter and there's a rule that allows one player to not have to play the field. then, you really should be on a major league roster.

it wasn't yahoo, it's the official box score that changed. they usually make minor corrections late wednesday night/early thursday morning. they usually make lots of small changes. these are some from this week alone-

i think he settles in as a healthy jd drew with more average but less walks. or pre-2009 david wright with a little less power.

booze or, you know, adrenaline

Maybe. I think he's still behind, as Holliday has had one or two standout seasons to go along with his steadily good overall performance, while Ramirez is about as consistently very good but not elite as you can get. A quick-and-dirty control for park effects shows: Holliday: .808 career OPS on the road (.284/.353/.454) Ramirez: .830 career OPS on the road (.280/.334/.496) It's not perfect but it does illustrate that these guys aren't too different as hitters. yeah but that's kind of skewed due to those guys having different types of careers. ramirez struggled for a while before he figured it out, and those early ABs bring his career numbers down. it would be more useful to look at his road numbers from like 04-09 or something like that. holliday was pretty good right from the beginning so his career stats are a more accurate reading of who he's been. I also wouldn't necessarily compare someone equally on road splits if one guy was in the NL West and the other guy was in the NL Central. San Fran, LA and San Diego are really bad hitting parks and AZ is a hitters park. All the NL Central parks are middle of the pack parks. From the stats above, and without actually looking, I would imagine that Holliday's stats are lower than what I would imagine they would be. yeah good point with the other nl west parks.

i like the dh. i like seeing big ogres massacre the ball. it's much more fun than watching a pitcher lay down a bunt or a manager pull a double switch.

Not to mention we have a good chunk of money coming off the books after this coming season, unless Hendry decides to extend Lee and Lilly again before the season is over. Also have Aramis' salary potentially coming off the books if he opts out. If all 3 leave after the seaosn that's $40 mil off the books. There should be no reason not to consider Crawford in the offseason if that happens assuming, like you said, that Tampa doesn't extend him if all 3 of those guys leave we're going to have a lot of holes though it sucks because the contracts that are coming off the books are the good contracts, the ones you don't want to end.

Maybe. I think he's still behind, as Holliday has had one or two standout seasons to go along with his steadily good overall performance, while Ramirez is about as consistently very good but not elite as you can get. A quick-and-dirty control for park effects shows: Holliday: .808 career OPS on the road (.284/.353/.454) Ramirez: .830 career OPS on the road (.280/.334/.496) It's not perfect but it does illustrate that these guys aren't too different as hitters. yeah but that's kind of skewed due to those guys having different types of careers. ramirez struggled for a while before he figured it out, and those early ABs bring his career numbers down. it would be more useful to look at his road numbers from like 04-09 or something like that. holliday was pretty good right from the beginning so his career stats are a more accurate reading of who he's been.

They just changed the scoring on something I win 147.16-147.10 hahahahaa

both sides )bay/redsox) have pretty much acknowledged that there isn't a lot of mutual interest there. plus they'd have to trade ellsbury to free an outfield spot.

i'd be pissed if they got him for 5/80. that's not a bad deal at all

I'll give you that. He can swipe a bag with the best of them, but I'd much prefer a stronger hitter to a stronger base stealer manning center field. but with the success rate he has (70 for 82 last season), he's probably still a top 10 offensive center fielder.

what's more important is that he steals at an awesome rate. he's stolen 129 and only been caught 23 times so far in his career. if he could just become adequate in center he'd be a really nice player

Let me guess... because you heard Rob say that earlier in this thread? In fact I believe those were his exact words. actually if you go back BEFORE rob said that (first page actually), you'll see i gave my endorsement to cameron at 2/15.5. go ahead, look. it's there. now will you apologize, or will you pretend you didn't read this?

no he got you with your literal usage of the 9 players thing. now you're resorting to this

this thread makes me think that lackey is underrated, not overrated

everything you're asking for is right in the link i gave you wait, so if grabow DOESN'T have those types of innings more often, then how do you think he keeps his era low despite stats that don't really back it up? you're kind of arguin for me and against yourself here.

not really sure if you didn't understand my post or something.it's just an example of how era can be skewed over the course of a full season. how often do you see a pitcher end a full season with an era that doesn't really match up with his overall stats? all the time. are you guys trying to argue that it's not common for pitchers to have ERAs that don't match up with their overall stats? if you aren't, then are you arguing that a pitcher can have an talent/ability to consistently pitch better under certain pressure sitations and get out of jams at an above average rate on a yearly basis? i just want to know where we stand on this

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/HOU/HOU200907070.shtml single lineout single walk double play grabow's era was 0.00 for that outing. was he effective? no, he sucked and got lucky. yuou're going to argue that he got the double play when he needed it, right? why didn't he get the double play earlier? he didn't need it then? his badassness doesn't kick in until he's in a certain level of trouble? besides, you might be able to make that "results blah blah" argument with starting pitching, but not relievers. are you never going to acknowledge that era for relievers doesn't even show "results"? grabow comes in with 2 outs and the bases loaded. he walks the first guy to force in a run. the next guy ropes a double down the line to score 2 more. then the next guy pops out. his era for that day was 0.00, so he got results, right?