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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Teams won't take guys they don't have a legitimate interest in keeping, because they don't want other teams doing the same to their prospects.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    The competitiveness of the big numbers has always been as much of a factor as the actual money in athlete's contracts. I'd be willing to go as high as $90 million in total commitment to him, but I don't know if he'd take $40 million after a $50 million posting fee, and the more the posting fee the more expensive the contract is in real dollars.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wasn't talking about this specific player. I was talking about your repeated assertions that a $2 million overpay is nothing because it's an insignificant amount of money in baseball.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Thank you, Mr. Hendry. Because taking a 1 year chance on a 26 year old one time prospect is the same as giving multi year deals to flotsam like Miles,Grabow, and Neifi. Deciding that paying an extra million or two to a guy who should probably be non-tendered is no big deal is classic Hendry.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Thank you, Mr. Hendry.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not a terrible option, but it's kind of expensive for what you'd likely get, and what you'd get isn't *that* great. It's only Dec. 3, so it's a little early to be settling for something like that.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Way more certainty for a guy coming off a .464 OPS season and is coming off a major wrist injury? A hundred times yes. 101 times no.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not the certainty that makes him intriguing, it's the fact this upside is so much higher than your normal AAAA infielder. None of those guys have the potential to hit .260-.270 with 20+ homers. Ian Stewart has never hit .260 in any major league season, full or partial, in five tries. He is currently on a 56-game homerless streak at the MLB level.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. He's not awful, but he's not good in any way. Way more certainty for a guy coming off a .464 OPS season and is coming off a major wrist injury?
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    How are we going to come up with a better backup option than paying $2.5 million for a mediocre defensive 3b who put up a .705 OPS the last two seasons in a 110+ park factor home park, coming off a major wrist injury? I can think of a lot of ways to do better. Wave a $400k contract around the AAA Infielders Convention and see who bites?
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    The reason not to do it is that you should really be able to come up with better back-up options to Headley than Stewart, so it's really just a waste of time. You can probably come up with better options internally, especially considering salary.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's 26 and spent his entire career in a league that comps to A ball. Yeah, the bust potential is huge. What would playing in Japan comp to? I'd assume the competition there is a level above a Cuban league. If we are gonna spend big money then I'd rather have Darvish than Cespedes. Between AA and AAA.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's 26 and spent his entire career in a league that comps to A ball. Yeah, the bust potential is huge.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I assumed we were talking about starting 3b. Stewart will make way too much money to be a 25th man. Especially in an organization as stacked with 25th-man infielders as this one.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    If our management team is a fraction as good as they are supposed to be, those can't be the only four options.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    If so, it's a stupid game. As I said before, even if Theo thinks that he has a shot at Headley between now and next winter, there's no reason not to jump on Stewart if the price is DeWitt. The question isn't the cost. It's whether you want Stewart at all. If you pick him up, you are giving him a roster spot, playing time, and $2.5 million or so. I'm not convinced that's worth it.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's true. I'm not saying I don't want Stewart and I'm not saying it's wrong. But it feels a little bit odd to see sabersavvy fans become so focused on trying to find players who have recently been bad. That sort of undervalued player has become the new trendy thing to look for, like TTO guys used to be.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's interesting to me that you're extrapolating a poor season from Stewart into the opinion that Stewart has been an awful MLB player. I didn't say "awful," I said "bad." I know, I know, but the connotations are different. He doesn't really have any good seasons to balance out the bad one.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's interesting to me how sabersavvy fans have gone from "The best indicator of future performance is past performance" a decade ago to drooling over every bad player who had a good scouting report five years ago.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rafael Palmeiro only did it once, and he doesn't think his whole career should be judged by one incident.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Honestly, this just sounds like Pujols' agent trying to make the market for him seem as hot as possible. I don't doubt that the Cubs have made some sort of contact, but I'm not entirely convinced they are serious about it.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    And he did it very cerebrally.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    FIP and xFIP kinda like him. He can replace Garza when we trade him. *ducks*
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Columns aren't journalism.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jackson for Wright? Apparently all you have to do is posture about how a bad asset is actually the face of your franchise and suddenly people are willing not only to take him on, but give up serious value for him? Guys, Soriano is the face of the franchise. We might be willing to trade him, but only if we get a legit prospect in return.
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