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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Are you just refusing to factor in how paying someone like Vernon Wells 25 mil a year over the next several years could hamstring a team? Keeping that contract hurts them...it's worth a prospect or two to get someone to take his contract off of their hands. For example, if it weren't for Soriano's contract (or others), we might have actually sealed the deal on Peavy in the offseason. Obviously I'm not the only one who thinks this way, as Toronto has already stated they're going to try to package them. I think they are making a mistake, unless I'm underestimating how much adding Wells will eat into the package they are going to get for him, or overestimating what they'd get without Wells in the deal. They could set themselves up with a good handful of elite prospects who will be around and helping them win long after Wells' contract is up.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want to say Bertrand committed in 10th grade, with the talk beginning in ninth.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I should be so lucky.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rasmus is a fantastic prospect/young player. If it was straight up, then of course the Cardinals should take it. But if he's the centerpiece of a multi-prospect deal, I think twice and probably don't do it. The Jays would be idiots not to ask for Rasmus, but there's no reason for the Cardinals to budge. A package centered around Wallace is going to be competitive with anything any other teams offer.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd rather have Wells and a few elite prospects than neither.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not to mention, hockey is one of the sports where there is almost no doubt that adrenaline helps, and helps quite a bit.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    $80 million in players in 2009 will buy you: Alfonso Soriano Aramis Ramirez Derrek Lee Ryan Dempster Ted Lilly Kosuke Fukudome But I'm sure the next bunch of big-money players we acquire will always have good seasons and never get hurt.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Name the players you'd like to acquire in the next three offseasons, with an expected asking price of $80 million, and start plugging in how many wins above replacement or average you think that team will be. Pujols, if he reaches the open market, would be a wonderful start and probably put them over the top no matter what the spent the remaining $50-$55 million on. But I doubt he's available. Big-money free agents are hit-and-miss at best, and the MVP-caliber ones are few and far between. Yes, free agency is not the only way, but then you are trying to compete with other teams in terms of prospects and not cash, and that's not a competition the Cubs will often win.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    And what four MVP caliber players will be hitting free agency in that time frame?
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Guess that settles it, then. I'm really surprised by that, but I respect Carroll's work and will defer to him.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    In terms of predictive value, though, I don't think a lot of small injuries predict more small injuries. They might even make large injuries more likely. I need a Will Carroll ruling here.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ramirez's injury history is pretty spotty, too.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    How often does $80 million available in one offseason really turn a team around? The best players don't often hit free agency, and $80 million can run out pretty fast.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hopefully never.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    The U.S. federation is apparently asking for way too much. Or ESPN is being skinflinty, depending on who you ask.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    My Blackhawks winter cap still is pretty useful.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Technically, the ballpark itself could be a "capitol."
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's weird. Well, it's not weird that they normalize for the strike zones. It's weird the way they present the final results. It's not weird at all. The only way to show the data and have it make any sense is to show a standard display. All it is showing is how far the ball is either inside or outside of the hitters strike zone. 1.5 inches out of the zone is 1.5 inches out of the zone. It doesn't matter how big or small the zone is. I think it is fantastic as long as the accuracy of the data can be confirmed with an outside measurement. Then the Y axis shouldn't be labeled from 0 to 6 (or whatever) feet, because it's not exactly that. A ball listed at 2.5 vertical feet may or may not be 2.5 feet off the ground, depending on the batter it was thrown to.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Hawks board is always insane. It's a lot like Cubs.com. Tallon gets a lot of credit for being around when the team got good, but many of the key pieces were in place before he got there. He made a lot of good trades and a lot of awful FA signings.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Given the somewhat urban-legendy history of baseball, I imagine any answers would be shaky at best.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe Soto was.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    ERA by rest, 2009 Rich Harden: 4 days: 6.30 5 days: 5.73 6+ days: 2.25
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    They've been planning to replace Tallon with Stan Bowman since daddy Bowman was brought into the organization. They were just waiting for an excuse.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Elvis in America. Jackson abroad.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    The question on Urlacher is... is he rededicated?
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