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  1. frostwyrm
    Of course he has. When you're dealing with this organization expect anything possible..anything. Yes. Closer though -- this is no middle relief role. As closer, Guzman's talents could benefit us as much or more than as a 5th starter who only makes it on the field 2, 3 times a month. I don't think so. Look at the game logs of any closer. It's a role that has the effect of largely wasting a team's most talented reliever and it's really an embarrassment to the sport of baseball. I'd take a talented starter over a closer, even a 5th starter.
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    There are very few "top hitters" as unproductive as Soriano. Most top hitters maintain solid numbers and get their great numbers out of streaks. The problem with Soriano is he's not a top hitter. He needs his hot streaks just to keep his numbers out of the trash bin. He needs the Pittsburgh Pirates to stay out of the trash bin. 24 of his 72 total bases are vs. Pirates pitching. That's one third of his production.
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    I'm curious to see how long a leash Miller will get. If he bombs in his first 2 starts while throwing 87 mph fastballs then I wouldn't see any reason to give him another start. Not sure what Lou would do.
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    .806 OPS is terrible for his salary and position. Only 4 homers, 3 of them against Pirates. He's not getting on base much either. We could have gotten similar or better results if Lou had just stuck Murton in LF every day, and it wouldn't cost $136M.
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    Giambi's contract is heavily backloaded, so if the Yanks void now they get rid of the most expensive years. Giambi is also going to be quite old in those years and probably less productive than in the past. From a business perspective voiding now makes sense, but it's pretty sleazy to have waited for the convenient moment to do it. http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2005/01/new-york-yankees_111398168678860040.html
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    If that's true then that's even more reason why 6 IP and 3 ER ought to be dumped as the standard for a quality start.
  7. frostwyrm
    Hendry's extension? That's number one on the short list. Signing Baker? That's on there too. Nolasco and Mitre for Pierre? Nolasco, Pinto, and Mitre for Pierre. And Corey Patterson for Nate Spears. Since CPatt outperformed Pierre last year, the deal is looking awfully more and more lopsided. $136 million for Alfonso Soriano is far worse than any of these, except maybe the Hendry extension. Are you serious? Sure. In time I think it will most likely land on the short list of the worst contracts in the history of sports.
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    Hendry's extension? That's number one on the short list. Signing Baker? That's on there too. Nolasco and Mitre for Pierre? Nolasco, Pinto, and Mitre for Pierre. And Corey Patterson for Nate Spears. Since CPatt outperformed Pierre last year, the deal is looking awfully more and more lopsided. $136 million for Alfonso Soriano is far worse than any of these, except maybe the Hendry extension.
  9. frostwyrm
    Hendry will certainly be interested if these guys are amenable to pitching out of the bullpen. I think Hendry has already pushed the panic button bullpenwise.
  10. frostwyrm
    Farns!?! Are you serious? Yeah. I'm guessing Hendry is losing major sleep over the bullpen now and will try anything. He likes big name relievers and Farns has actually been decent this year discounting that horrible meltdown on 4/11 that is skewing his stats. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/gamelog?playerId=4049
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    The name I could see becoming available is Farnsworth, due to disappointing performance and the tiff with Roger. Not sure if Hendry would want another go with the Farns, but he is desperate. He'd try to get the Yanks to eat some salary.
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    It's bad enough that our most promising young starter is being dumped into the bullpen, what makes it worse that the Cubs feel compelled to do this crap despite spending $20+ mil. on relievers this year. Absolutely pathetic. My bet is that Hendry will look for yet another expensive veteran reliever if Eyre and Howry don't shape up within the next 2 weeks. We could have a $25M bullpen before long.
  13. frostwyrm
    Fonz with a chance to win over the fans.
  14. frostwyrm
    Increasingly I believe Hendry will throw even more money at the bullpen to try to fix it. It's just his nature. He'll trade for another veteran reliever with a big salary.
  15. frostwyrm
    \ Yeah I was thinking that too. I guess Lou is saving him. Better use him soon since we only have 6 outs left.
  16. frostwyrm
    Soriano OPS back below .800. Too bad he can't face the Pirates pitching staff every day.
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    Against LHP? Of course. Against RHP? Uh, no. Winner. Yeah, I don't think Pagan is realistically projectable as anything more than a platoon player. If he can team with Jones to give us decent production in CF then he is worth a roster spot.
  18. frostwyrm
    Soriano is still pissing me off. Other than prove he can beat up on Pirates pitching what has he done so far? Of his 68 total bases 24 of them have come against the Pirates. His season stats(.813 OPS) certainly aren't where they need to be for his salary and position, and if you take out the Pirates numbers he looks really bad. If Soriano tanks that's certainly a firing offense for Hendry.
  19. frostwyrm
    I did. You don't give a large three-year contract to a guy coming off a year that's clearly out of line with his past: WHIP 2000: 2.16 2001: 1.40 2002: 1.55 2003: 1.51 2004: 1.33 2005: 1.08 __________ 2006: 1.48 2007: 2.17 Now really, what in those six years above the line, aside from 2005, says "give this guy a big three-year contract." I don't see anything. I wish Tim would enable search again. I'd dig up some old posts from when Howry and Eyre were signed. I thought they were both terrible contracts, as did many others. I'm still surprised the Soriano contract didn't get more negative buzz here. That's like Eyre times 10.
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    A question about NTCs...do they prohibit the front office from trading the player to ANY club at all, or do they just limit the choices of teams that the player can be traded to? A full NTC means that the player has to approve any deal that is made in order for it to go through. Some players, like Scott Eyre, have limited NTC, where they can block trades to up to 10 teams. Hendry gave Scott Eyre a fricken no trade clause? That tells me everything I need to know about his talent evaluation skills. On the bright side 2008 is a $3.8M player option for Eyre. There's a chance, however slight, that he'll become stark raving mad before the offseason and turn down the money.
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    I just totalled up some numbers and noticed that (counting Rusch) we are spending in excess of $20 million on relief pitchers, which is even worse than I thought. I don't think any team other than the Yankees should spend that much. It's also amazing how little production we're getting for that money. Relieving is 30% of pitching, and pitching is 35% of the overall game. I wish Hendry could figure that out. And please no more big multiyear commitments to relievers. Hendry's fat relief contracts have been a series of crippling financial sinkholes.
  22. frostwyrm
    Just got home and saw the boxscore. Brutal loss, has to be the worst of the season.
  23. frostwyrm
    There's a possibility of him being a good 5th OF. I'd be happy if he could be a good platoon partner for Jones. Could potentially have good production from CF with those two.
  24. frostwyrm
    If a pitcher were good from both sides I wouldn't use him as a switch pitcher initially. First I'd try to see if he could pitch more frequently than every 5th game. Alternate righty/lefty between starts so you're always throwing with a fresh arm. The guy could probably pitch every 3rd day. The increased innings would be more useful than switching arms during a game.
  25. frostwyrm
    Over the course of an entire season, batting Soriano 1st instead of 5th (where you presumably want to bat him) results in an extra 80 plate appearances. I'm fine with that. The extra plate appearances are not nearly enough to make me content with seeing Soriano hit a bunch of dingers with the bases empty.
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