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  1. 17 Seconds
    it should have been greinke and haren. haren has been by far the best pitcher in baseball this season but he seemingly gets very little credit. his stats- 130 IP 89 hits 16 bb 129 k .81 WHIP 2.01 era that's ridiculous
  2. 17 Seconds
    Get your head out of the spreadsheets Joe. Just out of curiosity what were those "other" stats that were so impressive? Was one of them the "he plays for my team" stat? Because I think you have a hard time justifying the Pena selection other than with one of the oldest counting stats around, HR's. If we are going by OPS then Branyan, Dye, and Cabrera are all ahead of him and and doing better in almost all areas excepts HR's. Better for him just to admit it was a homer pick and not act like he made some great statistical anaylsis. it was a homer pick, but it was still funny to see that cardinal homer amsinger finally have somebody tell him that batting average isnt that important
  3. 17 Seconds
    i'm not all that familiar with how it's determined what type of free agent status you're given, so can somebody tell me what harden is looking like for this offseason? between his injury history and his rough season, is type A out of the question?
  4. 17 Seconds
    haha greg amsinger on MLBN just questioned joe maddon on picking pena because of his batting average and maddon basically punked him out saying you can't just a player by his batting average and told him pena's OPS and other stats.
  5. 17 Seconds
    there were at least 2 different occasions during tonight's game where he was clearly flexing/grabbing his shoulder with a grimace on his face after a swing. he was definitely feeling it.
  6. 17 Seconds
    the shumacker one is hideous
  7. 17 Seconds
    like who? the only clear cut one that i can think of is vazquez. you could make arguments for gallardo (he's had 2 really bad starts in a row now so his numbers are pretty even to duke's, despite having way more strike outs), jurjjens (1.27 whip to duke's 1.21 and a not so pretty k/bb), wainwright (1.30 WHIP to duke's 1.21) and pineiro (as flukey as it may be, he's somehow been very productive so far. he has a 1.11 WHIP) like i said, the only clear cut guy i'd put over duke that i can think of would be vazquez. the rest are pretty even.
  8. 17 Seconds
    duke is having a really good season you guys. i'd have taken vazquez over him, but picking duke isn't that ridiculous.
  9. 17 Seconds
    hopes: that they won't suck expectations: that they'll suck
  10. 17 Seconds
    why do you want to bring in more terrible players? if we got any of those guys you'd be screaming for hendry to get rid of them after they have one bad game anyways.
  11. 17 Seconds
    The June numbers look a lot better, but he still walked 6 and struck out only 3. I want to see that ratio improve. I wouldn't be against signing him and giving him a chance, though. Yeah, the WHIP is still too high, but I wouldn't worry too much. He's brought it down significantly 3 months in a row... so I would have confidence that it'll be lower this/next month. it's not hard to improve when you're that bad.
  12. 17 Seconds
    he was letting go and taking huge rips tonight. the problem is it looks like it was hurting him i mean it was obvious they rushed him back. every time the cubs lost a game it seemed like his return date would be moved up a day. this feels a lot like the derrek lee injury in 06. he rushed back, sucked for a while, and then ended up back on the DL. i've be shocked if ramirez doesn't hit the dl again eventually
  13. 17 Seconds
    So just to confirm, this was your opinion when we originally signed him and won back to back division titles right? Probably, yeah. Even when he was going good it was an awful contract and one most of us would have chosen to unload if possible. Btw, we would have easily won the second division title without him.
  14. 17 Seconds
    He refused to take his position. I can't recall another player ever doing that. Yes, he finally went to left and found out it wasn't so bad. But, a player refusing to go to the position the manager assigned him to offends me. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't think that happened. He didn't refuse anything when push came to shove. No he definitely refused at first and eventually stopped whining and accepted it. I seem to remember it dragging on a while before he finally agreed to do it
  15. 17 Seconds
    he's kind of right
  16. 17 Seconds
    maybe he's feeling the pressure of knowing that this is his contract year
  17. 17 Seconds
    wait, so now beane is a genius with trading used up pitchers....but only if they're a product of his farm system. in other words, he drafts pitchers who he knows will be awesome for a few years and then fall apart for no reason years later got it
  18. 17 Seconds
    it's always good to get an opportunity to post this picture http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/files/2009/05/0829_large.jpg
  19. 17 Seconds
    Yeah, my first thought was how weird it was to see an intra-division trade. I don't know if it's that weird when it's 2 established players of comperable value getting traded for one another. It'd be weird if there were stars trading teams, or a firesale trade from one team to another. When they play the same position and both teams are in the division race, it's pretty weird. This seems like a "let's make a move just to make a move and try to spark this sinking ship" type of deal
  20. 17 Seconds
    Yeah Dan Haren and Huston Street are awful
  21. 17 Seconds
    im assuming that promoting sandberg fits in with the "lose as many games as possible" idea
  22. 17 Seconds
    that was a great post, but you know his reply is going to be something like this- it's funny because most of the time people aren't even arguing with his points, they're just telling him to stop bringing up soriano. he doesn't get it though, he just tuns it back into a soriano argument.
  23. 17 Seconds
    umm, did you not even read my post? i said i liked fukudome there. jesus dude. you're trying to find ways to talk about soriano and it's pathetic. actually it's getting kind of creepy.
  24. 17 Seconds
    So let's see. Fukudome gets moved to the leadoff spot and finally starts hitting again. He's doing awesome there and what does Lou do? Move him to third for no reason. Reed Johnson is awful against RHP, so what does Lou do? Bat him leadoff against one of the best RHP in baseball. This guy has got to go.
  25. 17 Seconds
    lol mets
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