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He's going to get like 4/75 from the Dodgers, then inevitably put up an .890 OPS next season.

Why didn't you just say so? Don't be ridiculous. If Soriano had a stat line like DeRosa's, but he had dropped a routine flyball costing five runs and later failed to drive in a runner from third with one out in a crucial situation with an extremely poorly executed AB, no one would hesitate to describe his performance as horrible. Just because DeRosa is generally a solid fundamental player, some choose to lessen his culpability. You make no sense. People (reasonable people, at least) wouldn't generalie an entire performance based on one play. DeRosa definitely had a key error and the at-bat with Soto at third was not good, but to say he was "horrible" is ridiculous and you know it.

If by everything you mean "one bad play", then yeah.

My guess is they are going to let Dempster walk and maybe let Wood walk. Gotta shed salary somewhere. Hendry said last week that he fully expects to re-sign Dempster and so does Ryan. I also can't imagine Wood leaving.

And probably will. He was lights out in the second half, so I think there will be a pretty big market for him. The fact that he actually stayed healthy will outweigh his bad first half in terms of terms of what kind of deal he'll get. I don't want him though. We'll already have one injury prone guy in Harden, we don't need another...especially at a high cost. I doubt Hendry does anything for the rotation other than re-signing Dempster. I don't really expect any FA signings, actually. All the money is going to have to be spent of Dempster and Wood. I'd let Dempster walk, but apparently JH won't let that happen. I wish we could make a run at Lowe, depending on how many years he wants.

As long as DeRosa repeats any of his last 3 seasons, we don't need a 2B. Not to mention he's been one of the very few guys that has actually showed up at the plate in the last 2 postseasons.

It will be interesting to see if he's used as trade bait. What kind of value do you guys think he has? He's a former first round pick and he's hit pretty well at every level, so it's not like he came out of nowhere. I think he could definitely be an .800-.850 OPS every day player.

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Huh? So one error (albeit a key one) means he was horrible? .333/.333/.750 with 2 doubles, a home run, and 4 of the 6 RBIs That's horrible?

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What do you mean by "steeper declice" for Soriano? That implied that he declined this season, which is just not true (unless you're talking about his legs). His offensive numbers were right where they should have been, and for much of the season he was actually putting up career numbers (rate wise). I'm not saying he won't start declining, but he didn't show any signs of it this year.

Yeah, at first I was mad. Now I'm just sad. I feel like I just broke up with my girlfriend or something. Just, empty.

How about anything but "be patient"? You really don't see the prolem with that quote? Really?

Yeah, Hendry's an idiot. He put together a great team. It's not his fault they completely blew it. They are NOT A GREAT TEAM. They are exactly the same team as last year when it comes to winning when it counts. So you knew that they'd choke like this after winning 97 teams? I'm not a Hendry fan (at all) but to criticize his performance in building the 2008 team is idiotic. He did all that he could. This is all on the players and coaches.

That seriously is an unforgivable quote. That just shows how out of touch he is with the importance of what just happened. Only 6 more years!

What can we really do? we have center field and MAYBE rf (though I doubt they'll give up on Fukudome already after shelling about 48 mil) to fill. I really don't expect much this offseason. They'll probably re-sign Wood and overpay for Dempster, then tell us how they've already built a 97 win team and they just need to stay healthy.

How can you guys possibly watch those right now? That's the last thing I want to do. It is depressing as hell to just think aout those now meaningless plays that we cared so much about.

I didn't see it, but my friend told me about it and I saw it on another board as well. What a joke.

Anybody catch that comment? Un-effing-believable. That might be the worst quote of all time coming from the worst possible person. WOW

Close. Instead, he's proving that he's a postseason choker.

Is it really that much of an accomplishment to dominate public yahoo leagues? Most of those people stop paying attention after like a month.

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How about you get rid of your avatar. That thing slows down the entire page HOW ABOUT YOU GET OFF YOUR 56K just kidding, i'll get rid of it when i get home It only does it on my laptop for some reason. It makes the little scroller thing not work and it makes the page act all [expletive].

The flipside of that is at least the Angels aren't getting swept out by a team that only won 84 games and was 13.5 games worse than them in the regular season. The Red Sox are certainly better than the Dodgers, but the "84 win" thing is pretty decieiving when tlaking about the Dodgers. If they had Manny and a healthy Furcal all season they would be well over 84 wins.

I was referring to several of the other hits he allowed. And yes, the ground balls that the fielders booted were also hard-hit. If he hadn't been unlucky they were booted, he'd have been very lucky they were at'em balls. He was adequate last night, but nothing particularly special. Whether you consider that "good" or not is semantics. He should have only allowed 1 run, and that on a home run from a guy who homers off of everybody. He was pounding the zone and was not just "adequate", he was the good Zambrano. Not to mention that ridiculous 2nd inning wore him down and made him throw a ton of pitches. If Derosa turns that double play I can say with confidence that he would have gone at least 7 innings, giving up just the one run. I can say with confidence that a pitcher giving up 1.25 baserunners per inning (excluding ROE) is probably not going to go 7 IP/1 run unless he is very, very lucky. Did you even watch the game? If Theriot uses his glove or Derosa turns the double play there's one of his ER taken off. If Zambrano finished the 7th instead of Cotts the 3rd run probably doesn't score. Boom, 7 runs 1 inning right there (that's no my speculation, that's simple math), and that's not even counting the fact that 2 of those baserunners shouldn't count since you can't expect a pitcher to get 6 outs in an inning. Also, how many of those hits were really hit that well? Furcal's was a bunt, that's not Zambrano's fault. The hit and run single that bounced off Theriot's hand wasn't his fault. I can't remember the other hits, but I do remember him throwing hard and pounding the bottom of the strike zone. Really guy, it's okay to admit that a Cubs player played well. It won't kill you to do that. Zambrano didn't walk guys, he was missing bats, and he stayed relatively calm. Stop acting like he didn't pitch well.