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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's in 93 games.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Huh? I already posted that I liked this trade. And I seem to recall being effusive about the Marshall trade.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    He crushed the PCL last year. If he crushes the PCL this year for even a couple of months, there's no reason not to bring him up and let him start making adjustments to MLB pitching. Once a prospect's proven what he can do at a level, you don't want to stagnate him there.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm waffling between outright steal and just a move that makes sense for both sides that really improves our organization. Cashner was a maybe to ever stick in the rotation. Rizzo was a maybe to ever stick at 1b for them. Cashner is still a maybe to stick in their rotation. Rizzo fills a gaping orgnazational maw at 1b. We talked a lot during the compensation talks about how young, MLB-ready prospects with little service time are the most valuable assets in baseball outside of pure superstars. And Epstein/Hoyer are doing a great job of targeting those guys and acquiring them.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's hard to compare 1b prospects to P prospects, but I really think Rizzo is the best player in the deal. I hate the stupid PCL for making it impossible to trust AAA hitting numbers, though.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    We know she is a waitress, probably, so maybe he had to wait for her to close the bar or something.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's a pretty large assumption you are making. You're right. Withdrawn.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    The police may feel it isn't worth pursuing once they talk to him. I doubt there will ever be charges, because the there's almost no chance of getting a conviction. It's nothing but he said/she said. That still leaves us with Castro either being the victim of a false accusation or a sexual assailant.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow, anything else you want to make up about this woman?
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Should sexual assault accusations be reported, and who's names should appear" is an argument even I don't feel like having. That's a humongous sinkhole of complications and suck.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's also all too easy for scumbag athletes to do whatever they want because they know people will think like you, so accusations will never stick. We don't know right now, so I don't see why Castro or the woman should be getting the benefit of the doubt. We just don't know.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    No, and you shouldn't be paying $5 million a year for a lefty-masher anyway. A poor defensive, corner-playing lefty masher is pretty much the definition of replacement level and fungible.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's tempting to just brush this away as "we'll never know the truth." And there's a good chance we never will. But this still sucks. Sometimes women target athletes with accusations as a money grab. But athletes also know that some women don't have a lot of credibility with these accusations and take advantage of that. Either Castro is a rapist or he's being falsely accused. Eww.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Athletes aren't usually good people, part 42115.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't trade Baez for our crop of Shawn Dunston Jr overslots, no.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rationalization kicking in. If this is really how think the market for Carlos Zambrano was, then I guess maybe there really is stuff he did that didn't come to light.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's amazing how much certain players improve based on how badly we need them to be certain things. Soler is suddenly an offseason prize instead of a Cespedes afterthought, and I really wanted Darvish to be a legit ace.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    With ... 22 years of MLB control between them? I think that's right. That's quite a bit of cheap, future production, and outside of Torreyes these aren't just prospects. These are young MLBers entering their prime years with (with the exception of Stewart) good statistical reasons to think they may be undervalued.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't have much use for xFIP. I don't really see why home runs should be normalized significantly.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow, somehow you think Stewart is the better buy low candidate? Volstad has peripherals that say he could have turned the corner. Stewart's peripherals say he's completely toast.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Running update: Soriano/Byrd/DeJesus (Sappelt/Johnson) Stewart/Castro/Barney/LaHair (Baker/DeWitt) Soto (Castillo) Garza/Wood/Dempster/Volstad/Wells Marmol/Samardzija/Russell/Cashner/Corpas/Beliveau/whoever I still like starting Sappelt and just dumping Soriano for whatever we can get, Zambrano-style.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yea, I don't normally buy into chemistry arguments. Ever. But Zambrano is pretty much the definition of the exception to that belief. I'll ask the same question I asked about Milton Bradley. Who on the team last year struggled due to Zambrano's presence? that's a silly question. obviously nobody can quantify what impact a misbehaving player has on his teammates. are you suggesting that chemistry problems don't exist and that bad teammates don't ever have an effect on the performances of players around them? If bad teammates hurt performance that much, then Ron Santo shouldn't be going to the Hall of Fame. Anyway, I don't love this trade the way I did the Marshall trade, but there's enough there with Volstad that I'll give Hoyer the benefit of the doubt for now.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Good potential power bat Very patient hitter World class Twitter user 24 years old And 5 more years of team control I just like a tiny bit more power in my potential power bats. I guess I do see it, though.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    We have to eat all his salary to get Logan Morrison? What am I not seeing in Logan Morrison?
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hope we save a lot of money. Whoever has the most payroll space wins, right?
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