treebird

murder most foul, imo

It's hard to quantify Blanco's defense at SS. He only got 90 innings there last year and hadn't played in the majors since 2006. And even at that, he only has 66 total games at SS in the majors. That said, I don't see it as particularly likely that his glove can cover the gap in their offensive abilities. I didn't even think about him not having a big enough sample size to truly get any sort of real indication. Do we think Blanco could be close to a gold glove caliber SS, given what we've seen from him in the field? If that answer is yes, then does it make it close enough value-wise to pull the trigger and deal Theriot? I'll have to make this quick and dirty, but it's a good approximation. If they both perform like they did last season with the bat, the difference between them over 650 PA is about 20 runs. All metrics seem to be in agreement that we are unfairly disparaging Theriot's defense on this board, and most systems rank him as average to slightly above average. For the sake of argument, let's say he's dead average. (which is likely underselling him) Andres Blanco would have to be +20 with the glove to provide equal value. In the last 5 years, there have been a grand total of three SS who have accomplished that feat... Orlando Cabrera in 2005, Adam Everett in 2006, and Omar Vizquel in 2007. Nobody has managed it the last two years. Do you think Blanco would? we're not going to cut theriot and give all his money to blanco, the idea would be to trade theriot for something valuable and play blanco at short in his absence. for the trade to be a good idea, we don't need blanco>theriot, we need blanco+new guy>theriot. and i still don't think theriot is an average defensive shortstop, but that's another matter.

aaron miles hit zero home runs in 170 plate appearances last year. it is very unlikely he would manage to do so in such a big spot.

agreed. still my go-to jersey tshirt.

ehhhh, i think he was milking it a little

where you been lil buddy Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman Having said that......I've been working at my current job for like 7 months so I don't know why I haven't posted to just would browse from time to time that's coo o and welcome back~!

where you been lil buddy Ha....Got a new job where I wasn't able to be on the internet all day long.....Then I got let go from that job and got another new one where I'm able again. Thanks for wondering Treeman Having said that......I've been working at my current job for like 7 months so I don't know why I haven't posted to just would browse from time to time that's coo

where you been lil buddy

whoever posts the lowest projected era will win funniest joke of the day

i am very surprised that the tribune agreed to print that

ROCKET DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP

palmer should probably just pretend whoever revis is covering on each play isn't there.

that play pretty much always works in madden too

braylon would probably have more that 6 drops this year if they counted all the times like that where he as too stupid to touch the ball

if the bengals would like to hire me to be in charge of their challenges next season, i would require very little in compensation

HOW IS IT A GOOD CHALLENGE IF THEY'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO LOSE IT, JOE?

if you lived in missouri, i'll bet you'd be pretty excited by the prospect of shoe ownership yourself

okay, there's the cash. cut silva now. right now.

i thought the exact same thing. i completely hate this trade, but i would like it better if i found out we were also getting some cash/a prospect and we were going to release silva tomorrow.

we suck in the short term, i'd much rather they be good in 2010 than 2012

i'm going to call senator pelosi and tell her you told us about your interview and the fbi is going to murder you do you still have her number

i don't think taking pleasure in the suffering of others is very christian

MORE TROUGHS HURRAY

it's bad to be 22 in the dsl EDIT: just because ssr is faster and more informative doesn't mean he's better than me

LOL so now we have another class of racist -- those that point out when others have incorrectly attributed racism to a situation that involves none. The lunacy in this thread has officially reached mind-numbing proportions. if you had just pointed it out, it wouldn't have been as obvious. but instead you assumed he attributed it to you (he didn't. at all.) i'm good at figuring things out. just give it up. imb you should look into becoming an investigative journalist or something because BOOM BOOK IM DAN-O