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  1. 17 Seconds
    ah yes the famous career OPS. When I evaluate a player, I use more than his age 23-25 OPS, sorry. i just used OPS because it was easies to post. his overall offensive numbers are pretty accurately displayed there. and ages 23-25? what about the last 2 seasons where he's failed to break .800?
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    I'm talking about ov=verrated in terms of the way people talk him up... especially ESPN and such. They constantly make him out to be some superstar hitter. It's not just ESPN though.
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    alex rios career ops' .721 .703 .764 .865 .852 .798 .744
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    undervalued? rios might be the most overrated player in baseball
  5. 17 Seconds
    Rios plays better defense, younger, and plays CF and usually is a crappy hitter
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    In a sense, yes. I don't know what you're even trying to do here. I wasn't even the one who said it "completely burned the bullpen". I'm just saying that it's foolish to say that extra innings on relievers arms this late in the season don't matter just because they suck.
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    No, it did not "burn" the bullpen, completely or in any other way. Six guys were available to pitch the next day (Guzman Marmol Gregg Stevens Heilman Grabow). By your logic, any bullpen that does not have a full complement of all seven arms available every single day is "burned". Complete and utter nonsense. You keep ignoring the main point over and over again. Thisis what you constantly do. You pick and choose which facts and points you want to9 include in your posts. You railor the facts to your argument. JUST BECAUSE A RELIEVER WAS AVAILABLE THE NEXT DAY DOESN'T MEAN THAT HIS INNINGS WERE IRRELEVANT. I'll say this for the THIRD time. Every inning on your bullpen this late in the season is relevant. Even to your crappy relievers. This is when bullpens wear down. Now let's see if you ignore it again. Was it Heilman's 1 inning or Grabow's 1 inning that put the bullpen over the edge? Did I say anything close to that? All I said was that every inning pitched by any reliever this late in the season is relevant.
  8. 17 Seconds
    Well now I'm sold. Well done.
  9. 17 Seconds
    http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/blackhawks-confidential/Patrick%20Kane.jpg whoops
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    why? because they upgraded from havlat to hossa? because they did the smart thing and DIDN'T overpay for khabi? if this was like the cubs offseason, they would have overpaid for havlat and khabi, and then traded duncan keith for a role player Have you been in hibernation? They got Hossa, who turned out to be hurt and are being investigated for potential misconduct and may be fined or lose draft picks because of it. They had to overpay and put themselves in an even more precarious cap position because they effed up the RFA offers. And the whole Tallon thing. And you are saying it's not been a bad offseason? Anyway, as to the Kane thing, I'm sure it will all get pinned on his cousin in the end. He'll come out clean. As far as assembling a team for next season, no, it has not been a "disastrous" offseason. It hasn't been pretty, but disastrous? Come on. As for Hossa, he'll miss like... what.. 2 months? For a contract that long, that's pretty irrelevant. Plus I highly doubt they lose any picks.
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    woooooosh
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    No, it did not "burn" the bullpen, completely or in any other way. Six guys were available to pitch the next day (Guzman Marmol Gregg Stevens Heilman Grabow). By your logic, any bullpen that does not have a full complement of all seven arms available every single day is "burned". Complete and utter nonsense. You keep ignoring the main point over and over again. Thisis what you constantly do. You pick and choose which facts and points you want to9 include in your posts. You railor the facts to your argument. JUST BECAUSE A RELIEVER WAS AVAILABLE THE NEXT DAY DOESN'T MEAN THAT HIS INNINGS WERE IRRELEVANT. I'll say this for the THIRD time. Every inning on your bullpen this late in the season is relevant. Even to your crappy relievers. This is when bullpens wear down. Now let's see if you ignore it again.
  13. 17 Seconds
    I'd rather Lou not stay anyways.
  14. 17 Seconds
    exactly. when i read this my only thought was that it was amusing.
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    why? because they upgraded from havlat to hossa? because they did the smart thing and DIDN'T overpay for khabi? if this was like the cubs offseason, they would have overpaid for havlat and khabi, and then traded duncan keith for a role player
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    a) we aren't hearing the whole story b) i don't even care. i already know that most professional athletes are a-holes c) i don't see how this has been a "disastrous" offseason.
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    Wait, 6 baserunners, 2 runs, and only one strikeout in 4 innings is "doing well"? Really? A WHIP of 1.50 is "doing well"? All he did was get 12 outs in a loss. That's it. Any major league pitcher could have done that. I'm not going to congratulate him for going out to pitch when his manager told him to. That's his job. If he actually does it well, THEN I'll give him credit. And I wasn't even the one who made the "completely burned the bullpen comment". I was just pointing out that your whole argument was breaking down the pitchers used in the game and how they all sucked, but you conveniently left out Marshall, who is a good pitcher who was used. I don't see how pointing out the biggest factor in that game is "being tedious". Actually, what's "tedious" is the fact that you're so hung up on the word "completely" in his post. His point was that it burned the bullpen, which it did. Whether you want to admit it or not, extra innings pitched by ANY of your relievers at this point of the season are unwanted. Just because Heilman sucks doesn't mean his future performance is irrelevant.
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    my friends 7 year old son just got wasted because of this incident. thanks a lot, josh
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    I'd rather be rooting for Colorado to win to help the Cubs win the division. let's say that when the cards play the rockies the cubs are 4 games back of st louis for the division, but tied with colorado for the wild card. you'd still root for colorado? if it would help the cubs get into the playoffs, of course i'd root for the cards. my love for the cubs will always trump my dislike for the cards. oh, i thought your post meant that you'd rather root for the rockies no matter what the deficit to the cardinals was.
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    In my scenario, I also failed to mention whether the run scored or not. I'm just like a predator toying with his prey at this point. More mind games forthcoming. okay, if the run didn't score... that still means the run that takes the other team from 5 runs away from slam range to 4 runs away from slam range just got moved 90 feet closer to home, thanks to the clutchness of aramis! he basically is insuring victory all by himself
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    I'd rather be rooting for Colorado to win to help the Cubs win the division. let's say that when the cards play the rockies the cubs are 4 games back of st louis for the division, but tied with colorado for the wild card. you'd still root for colorado?
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    If he hits a single with a runner on second in a 9-1 game in the 4th inning...is that clutch? hell yeah it is. then we're only 3 runs from slam range HA! I never said the Cubs were losing in this situation. You've fallen right into my trap! well if they're winning, that run puts the other team 5 runs away from slam range instead of 4. clutch man, clutch
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    If he hits a single with a runner on second in a 9-1 game in the 4th inning...is that clutch? hell yeah it is. then we're only 3 runs from slam range
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    aramis has good risp numbers every year. in the regular season, at least.
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    Believe me, it's tedious. The fact is, folks should be praising Samardzija for saving the bullpen on Friday. Only because he ate 4 innings were the other 5 guys spared overuse. But he's one of the board's favorite whipping boys, so of course that credit isn't coming. signing bonus, ntc, gets shelled every time out... and you want me to praise him for pitching 4 innings in relief? it doesn't surprise me that you seemingly share the same man crushes as jim though, considering you're the biggest jim hendry apologist on the site.
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