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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Was there a buyout amount? Cot's lists a $1 million buyout.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    It'll be an even better better place when people stop trying to inject that into every conversation. It's not hurting you, leave me alone. You can't take on this persona you do and then play the victim and PM people asking why they don't like you. 1) This isn't a persona. 2) PM people? I may have done that, but I don't remember doing it and it doesn't sound like something I'd do. I did PM some mods some times asking for rules clarifications, that's the closest I can think of. 3) You don't have to like me. But you don't need to follow my posts around telling people not to have conversations with me, either. That's just rude.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    It'll be an even better better place when people stop trying to inject that into every conversation. It's not hurting you, leave me alone.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's an average late inning guy who's never been worth more than 1.3 WAR and he'll be 30 at the beginning of next season. They're paying over $7 MM per year to a guy who shouldn't be getting more than about $3-4 MM max. For the money he's being paid, yes, he's a bad player. He has a combined 3.5 WAR over the last 4 years. $5 mm per year to fill a gaping hole, okay, but to sign him to that deal when he hasn't even hit the open market is asinine. So in other words, he's not a bad player but they overpaid the market for him.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    lol @ Royals.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Expect-Los-Angeles-Angels-to-make-trade-Ervin-Santana-Dan-Haren-103012 Absolutely not on Santana. Haren wouldn't be my first choice, but if we get to the end of the offseason and have Villanueva and some other scrub as our pitching pickups, I'll wish we had Haren instead.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh lord, yes. But we won't.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Have they signed any bad baseball players? They're overpaying the market for good but not great players, sure.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Stupid Dodgers. They're never going to win the Efficiency Award with all this money they are spending.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Evidently you can waive them. But it'd be a thing where the player knows where he's going to be playing from the get-go. They just get their money from a different team. I guess you'd kind of have to recruit a small market team early in the offseason and come up with some parameters up front. "We'll send you 10 mill for whatever and you give us this prospect". Then let that team make it work from there. But the player knows up front that this is how it's going to go down. So why not just pay for the prospect and let them sign the player?
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's a great indication of how expensive pitching is going to be.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Our two open rotation slots are far too valuable to be wasting on a nothing like Santana. Haren, I'm not a huge fan of, but you could make a case.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not unless we think we can reverse whatever caused his fastball to drop into the high-80s last season.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    He held his own against much more advanced pitching and continued to show the flashes of talent. I'm happy with how it turned out, even if it was cut short.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Hits" 93 means works 89-91, which is consistent with what I saw on some YT videos from the WBC.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hope we never go to the WS. Do you know what that'd do for our draft position the following year?
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Any time there's a site outage, I just assume it's finally happened.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I find it interesting that we're seeing more high WAR guys with lots of power and low OBP. In theory, OBP should become less valuable relative to slugging as offense goes down. With offense down almost 20% from it's peak, we may be seeing a little bit of that in the offensive value calculations.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    It really does seem like Kyle. Keep guessing... If I wasn't Kyle, I probably would have guessed Kyle too.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Remember: While he was teaching a generation of young Cubs players the fine art of alcoholism, it was Sosa's salsa music that was the real clubhouse cancer.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Single-sentence paragraphs used to be universally taught in journalism school. It's a leftover from when there were things things called "newspapers" that actually printed out articles on paper. They were printed with very skinny columns, so multi-sentence paragraphs became long and inhibited reading.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    At least this one has actual upside, or so it appears. He's my favorite so far.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you're speaking in terms of solely competing for next year. Otherwise it marks a good start at building for a contender in 2014. I have to assume that if they target 2 of the Jackson/Marcum/Liriano/McCarthy/Sanchez tier of starting pitchers, that they would be here through 2015 at the very least. Same with whatever outfielder they choose to target. Bourn, Upton, or Swisher seem like the only decent gambles in that regard. If we have any intention of competing in 2014, we need a *lot* more than two SP and a CF. A 3b, a RF, some relief pitchers at the least.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't call 2 SP and a CF a good plan, until we see who they get. Sounds more like the bare minimum for a passing grade.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cabrera and Russell? Wouldn't accidentally want to leave anyone potentially remotely useful in the bullpen.
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