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If nothing else, J.D. Drew sure knows how to raise expectations for himself. You'd think a guy so shy (or reserved) would be worried about that, but he is all business. I don't mean that as a pejorative - just as an observation. He is something of a contradiction.
Now that the Boston Red Sox have signed Drew to a five-year contract worth $70 million, my question is this:
What kind of performance will Red Sox fans require of Drew to be satisfied with him?
My initial thoughts: at least a .300 batting average, 25 home runs, 100 RBI, .950 OPS, 140 games played, one huge clutch hit and one clutch catch a month - including one in the first week - along with some slightly lesser hits of renown, good vibes from the clubhouse, and a cinematic moment of playing through pain.
Every year.
If the Red Sox keep Manny Ramirez, that will lessen the pressure on Drew. But with Drew, very often it was less a case of "What have you done for me lately?" and more "What did you do firstly?" His rep has proven hard to shake, and the sooner he can lay waste to it, the more happiness he may be able to find. And, in fact, even if the fans aren't happy with him, that won't necessarily mean Drew won't help the team.
Most likely, Drew will be a big asset some years but not others. And if the Sox win a World Series one of those years - who knows, Drew might be allowed to carry Dave Roberts' gear at Oldtimers' Day.
Maybe one of his bad knees can bleed through unto his uniform...
Mahalo.
Wow, that's too true.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu_article.shtml
Is this true of any highly paid free agent or do you have some other criteria?
"The Rockies, priced out on Dave Roberts, have Darin Erstad, Kenny Lofton and Steve Finley on their radar screen as center field options."
I can't decide who I most want them to sign.
http://tinyurl.com/y8p8yd
The Devil Rays for now wisely are rejecting overtures for outfielders Carl Crawford and Rocco Baldelli
While speculating on an Opening Day lineup on Tuesday, Rays manager Joe Maddon had Akinori Iwamura at third base and didn't include B.J. Upton.
If Bossman is available, Ned needs to look into what it would take to acquire him. Bossman could be our 2b for the next 10 years.
I think I might never go to dodger stadium again if Ned did this.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2687700
$10M/1 year, with a player option for anywhere from $6M to $10M, depending on how many innings he pitches.
Red Sox
and then there was one.
Actually, how Mr. Drew is received by the Boston fans will be determined by (i) his performance and (ii) their expecations. If the fans expect Mr. Drew to perform like a number 2 hitter, he could be one of the best in the league. Unfortunately, his salary demands and "potential" make people think he is a clean up hitter. And that is where the disappoint arises. A successful team needs its "big bat" to play almost every day and to hit for power on a regular basis.
That is why, I believe, Mr. Drew disappointed the Dodger fans. So if Boston management lowers fan expectations to a leval Mr. Drew can meet, he may have a successful five years. I wish him well.
Mahalo.
Eric -- I keep trying to squeeze in Matt Stairs. I think "to stair" could be a verb --- "Her apartment was on the twenty second floor, but I was so excited I staired up in no time."
Can I get a ruling?
I think the lower dollar player option was a pretty clever solution to the impasse the Padres and Maddux were heading towards on the one year/two year thing. But it is a big contract and while offering arb had risk, I think the people (um like me) who thought it was a pretty safe risk and worth it were right.
Expectations are at least partially determined by your contract. So Boston can only lower the fans expectations so much.
Mahalo.
As for Drew, he would be well served if the Sox keep Manny as that would make him the third biggest bat and reduce expectations, but I don't see that happening. How do you sign the Dodger trifecta, keep Manny and still have enough money to obtain the Boras represented Daisuke Matsuzaka. I believe a Manny deal will be made in the next 9 days. That is how long the Sox have to negotiate for Matsuzaka before the window closes and he is sent back to Japan.
Lastly, whether Drew is accepted in Boston will not be determined by the quality of his play. He will hit like Ted Williams in Fenway. The issue will be if he plays at all. If he has an early injury or worse yet injuries himself in spring training--watch out it will get ugly in a hurry.
From the OED:
stair, v.
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[perh. f. STAIR n.]
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Mahalo.
Always direct at least some of your anger Mr. Walmart...
He couldnt carry Trot Nixons jock.
Two mitigating factors for Boston: The bid to Seibu is exempted from the luxury tax and, MLB protestations notwithstanding, the Sox could partly offset the bid's cost by cutting side deals with Seibu.
However, the present-day-value of the $51.1 million makes it even more expensive, as the entire sum is due once the Sox come to terms with Matsuzaka. Clement, by the way, has a bum shoulder and is basically a sunk cost at $9.25 million.
I think Boston is one Manny hamstring twinge away from feeling pretty desperate to save a huge chunk on Manny. Hopefully if the Dodgers revisit these talks they will act like they are in the driver's set rather than jumping in front of the front grill, like they did in the Pierre talks.
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Mahalo.
Some of us had teachers that got us through the section on World War II in school.
I remember my father telling me stories about what he did during World War II. He was part of the Greatest Generation. The part of that stayed home because he was too young to fight, but he did make sure the cows got milked and would drive the tractor on dates because it was exempt from gas rationing.
I learned for the first time, just this past Thanksgiving, that my father's father was attending the University of California at Berkeley studying to be a dentist when he was called away to fly bomber planes over the Pacific in WWII. He never finished his dentistry studies.
Actually, it was more of a reference to Greg Brock's ability to drag his kids through the entire curriculum in history class and not get stuck in the Civil War for six weeks.
And a good chance to talk about my dad and cows.
Nope, the entire bid is due upon agreement to terms with the player. Heck, I doubt several clubs even have $51.1 million in cash, let alone the ability to spend it at once. That's one reason so many people are skeptical about Lucchino's recent journey to Japan. Somehow, someway you can bet the Sox are confident that they can cut some sort of side deal with Seibu that will offset that $51.1 million.
Oops, that was supposed to say "toward Mr. Walmart"
Mahalo.
Mahalo for your mahalo.
"Repko isn't likely to hack it as an everyday center fielder, but he'd be a fine platoonmate for a left-handed hitter. The Rangers could sign Kenny Lofton and then recreate the Dodgers' center-field situation from the early part of last year."
http://tinyurl.com/yzthpu
Whoever said Ben Hendrickson before, that counts. And yes, so does every Bill.
Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:38:01 -0800
Updating a previous item, The Chicago Tribune and Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal are both reporting the contract offer to free-agent SP Barry Zito (Athletics) from the Texas Rangers is six years at $102 million.
I enjoyed your Drew post. If you are looking to write more about Drew, how about examining (again) whether Ned should have better anticipated his departure. I'm not saying Ned should have known a few months ago that Drew was going to get $70 million. Still Drew more than doubled his $33 million and Ned acted like a guy who didn't see anything like that on the horizon. Kind of scary, no? Markets are tough to predict, of course. Who would have predicted that Pierre would get $44 million?
Maybe the Dodgers are better off without Drew but it is disappointing that Ned wasn't more attuned to Drew/Boras and the markets. So often Dodgers GMs appear to react posthaste to events rather than anticipating them. This looks like another example. Teams like Oakland and San Diego, conversely, seem to anticipate events.
Musing on Ben Sheets, but I don't think it's going to get there.
Mahalo.
Like John Kerry, a "botched joke."
Time to go find a rich widowed heiress to a ketchup fortune I guess.
I think you meant moron Zito offer
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I wasn't taking anything personally. I was trying to say that, of course you should direct anger toward Andrew Shimmin.
Mahalo.
In the immortal words of "Maverick": "No apologies"
(Cue: Take My Breath Away)
I reserve the right to change my mind; I already have. But as of now, I would advise Neddy to try to sign Schmidt, but if that doesn't work out, just stand pat. Every position except for SS and C should be a competition this spring. Let's just see what we've got.
The curse of having all these hot prospects is every GM thinks he has to bag one if he does a deal with LA. Nobody wants Hendrickson or Tomko or Hall. Even if they need 'em, they don't want 'em. It would be like going to Nordstrom's and only buying underwear (which I've done.) So we're not going to hear realistic offers for anybody.
Mahalo
In the meantime, I have become the heir to a large mustard fortune.
Sentences requiring commas sorta count, albeit with an asterisk, like Ernie Shore. In fact "Ernie, shore." is one of these.
Ron, hunt.
Al, maul.
etc
Cheers.
Get out of my physics lab exam early, get $30 in an econ experiment, and we got Saito for a cool $1,000,000.
In the case of Hendrickson, Tomko or Hall that would be dirty underwear.
Pitching is important, but it is less than 50% of what wins games. Scoring runs is half of winning and preventing runs is the other half. Since hitting explains basically all of scoring runs, but defense also makes up part of run prevention, hitting is more important than pitching. In a five game series anything can happen, but over the course of the year, hitting trumps pitching.
Scoring runs = f(hitting, character, veteran presence, knowing how to win)
Lugo gone.
A Mench coming in!
http://tinyurl.com/y7gl65
"Boras said rumors that Maddux had agreed to a contract with the San Diego Padres weren't true, saying only "we're moving positively in a couple directions.""
"[Colletti] said he has interest in free-agent outfielder Luis Gonzalez, but denied claims by Gonzalez's agent, Gregg Clifton, that he had made an offer. Gonzalez is also being pursued by Baltimore and St. Louis, according to Clifton."
I mean, we might kind of need him next year. I was looking at their relief pitching and im not really enanmored with any of them. unless they want to give us eric hurley...
repko for Joaquin Benoit and hendrickson for mench works for me.
if dickey V thinks its absurd, it has to be absurd.
The winning bid is supposed to be
$51,111,111.11
Please send the eleven cents in coin to"
Larry Lucchino
Fenway Park
Boston, MA
The Red Sox will accept one dime and one penny, two nickels and one penny, one nickel and six pennies, but anyone sending eleven pennies will get their money returned.
(Feel free to go to the li-bary to look it up...)
during the Arizona/Louisville bball game, there was an espn update and they gave FA signing news from the winter meetings.
It's a deal.
I can't believe that Mustafa Shakur is already a senior. He (and Hassan Adams) really should have left after their sophomore years when they would have been first round draft picks. I can't see Shakur going any higher than in the middle of the 2nd round.
Heres a good breakdown of Drew's projections in Fenway - http://tinyurl.com/yz3gb7
Hey Nate you're a metal fan right? Did you get the new Isis album?
I got it and the DVD.
yea. what do you think of it?
I think its a solid album. Not as good as Panopticon, but those are for my own personal reasons. I kinda liked the fact that I had to listen to it like 10 times before I was able to get a full feel for it.
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I think these are the remaining free agents that rate higher than Lugo that were offered arbitration...
Zito hasn't expressed an interest in playign there
Schmidt stated he prefers west coast teams
Suppan no idea
Aurillia might want him if they want to dump Lowell
Walker might want him to replace Loretta
I cant really complain about isis, they are amazing musicians and one of my favorite bands.
Jason Varitek - $10,000,000
Kevin Youkliss - $4,000,000
Dustin Pedroia - $400,000
Julio Lugo - $9,000,000
Mike Lowell - $9,000,000
Manny Ramirez - $18,000,000
Coco Crisp - $3,500,000
J.D. Drew - $14,000,000
David Ortiz - $12,500,000
Daisuke Matsuzaka - $19,000,000 (Pulled out of thin air)
Curt Schilling - $13,000,000
Josh Beckett - $6,000,000
Matt Clement - $9,500,000
Tim Wakefield - $4,000,000
Alex Cora - $2,000,000
Eric Hinskie - $2,812,500
Wily Mo Pena - $2,000,000
David Murphy - $400,000
Jonathan Papelbon - $400,000
Adam Bernero - $450,000
Hideki Okajima - $1,250,000
Julian Tavarez - $3,100,000
Mike Timlin - $2,800,000
John Lester - $400,000
Craig Hansen - $400,000
Total: $147,912,500
Well, yeah, you do prefer when a player can drive in runs and field his position, you know, if you're in a position to be choosy.
Too bad the sox can't salary dump Varitek, that would have more backlash than when depo traded loduca. Only other dumps they can do that isn't Manny would be Clement and Lowell.
So how about taking a risk on Trot Nixon?
Ned's handling of the Maddux matter could not have been more hilarious.
Personally, I want Sweetbreads Bailey to be our GM
Obviously, I meant Padres.
With the Dodgers unwilling to give in to Greg Maddux's contract demands, the San Diego Padres completed a two-year contract that guarantees the 40-year-old future Hall of Famer $16 million and provides incentives that could increase the deal to $20 million.
Maddux's agent, Scott Boras, said the right-hander will get $10 million in 2007 and a guaranteed $6 million in 2008. The incentives kick in when he reaches 160 innings and top out at $3.5 million at 200 innings.
it seems like Colletti held firm to only one year.
Add "Shoehorn Papelbon" to the list of great baseball names. "Cancer Lester" would be great, too, were it not for the circumstances.
Maddux/Boras had a loaded gun and Ned flinched. Understandable. Beyond the exposure of some $12 million to $14 million if aribtration gets offered and accepted, you have the delicate matter of timing. Boras had seven days to accept, then several weeks to drag out negotiations. Seven days might not sound like much to us, but it can be an eterntity to a GM who is simultaneously pursuing agendas on Ramirez/Schmidt and others. And let's say Boras does accept arbitration, it can still be another several weeks before one finds out whether Maddux will command $10 million or $14 million. Credit San Diego, once again, for being astute and prepared.
Do we know this for certain? He had a pretty scrappy first half, is clearly declining, and is old. Are arbitrators as crazy about glossy books as GMs?
I just don't like a whole lot of what Ned's done, so at this point, I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt on anything.
Glossy books are like crack
Mench has got a HEED. That thing is outstanding.
1) J.D. Drew strikes it rich in Boston, while DePodesta continues to hurt the Dodgers;
2) Greg Maddux chose the Padres because uniform number 31 hasn't been assigned yet, and his feelings are still hurt over Brad Penny's refusal to part with it. (And WHO acquired Brad Penny again?)
3) Julio Lugo, Dodger hero. Acquired to bring defense and character to a Dodger team that had lacked both since Alex Cora was non-tendered. (And who did that?)
I also think Maddux probably realizes that if he has to separate two teams on the margins that Petco Park is a better fit for him than Dodger Stadium. Chavez Ravine isn't the pitcher's park that it was a few years ago and Maddux isn't the pitcher that he used to be. Any fringes benefits could be telling. Maddux considers all of the angles and that likely will be one of them. As good as he is, he will be 41 in April. Petco is a more forgiving park.
his home is in dana point. as in, orange county. not san diego county.
/end rant.
vr, Xei
Mench/Kemp/Repko/Werth would be the RHB in the corner outfield depth chart to go with LHBs Pierre/Ethier/Loney/Anderson.
The 2006 Dodgers were a wild card champion. What is our GM doing breaking up a championship team?
My joy knows no bounds.
Looks like might be a trade brewing?
New poster but long-time Dodger fan. When I was growing up, my grandmother and I would watch the Dodger games and during the simulcast, she'd turn Jerry Dogget off on the TV and turn on the radio to listen to the 4th, 5th and 6th. At that point, the dye was cast.
(that's a button with 24 cents written on it)
Aside from that, he still has Tomko & Hendrickson that could be packaged with other spare parts to relieve some team of an expensive contract that they don't need (maybe Jenkins, as Nate mentioned earlier). He could probably make that happen pretty quickly unless he perceives that he can get more for them in Spring Training. JMO
Andruw will be 30 in April -- I don't know that Ned is ready to dance with Boras on the size of THAT potential contract after 2007.
(dang I cant find any pictures on the interweb.. am I crazy?)
I'm not wild about getting Schmidt. In this market, you will have to overpay and I think you will lose draft picks. I just hope they don't act desperate. The chance to pitch in a DH-less league in a pretty good pitcher's park for a pretty good team should be worth something to most pitchers. They won't get Schmidt to agree to some bargain but need to have some sense of proportion (none was evident in the Pierre deal). I also wouldn't mind seeing them going the Furcal route and dangling their best three-year deal. One positive if Conte should give them good info on Schmidt.
Routines. Ballplayers love those routines.
I recommend Sloppy Thurston.
But keep your mits off of Sweetbreads Bailey.
Good thing Biggio's a lot more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres. Not sure about Lugo, though.
If I remember correctly, he "picks" his front shoulder every at-bat kind of like Nomar. So if he likes to get his hands or batting gloves dirty with infield clay for extra grip that would explain it.
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
The only way the Dodgers wouldn't get a 1st rounder from Boston is if the Red Sox also signed Zito, Suppan, Todd Walker, or Schmidt, the only 4 arb-offered free agents that rank higher than Lugo.
Also, the Dodgers get a supplemental pick (in between the 1st and 2nd rounds. Right now, the pick is the 11th supplemental pick (#41 overall) but that will obviously change after all the free agents sign. Right now, there are 24 picks in the supplemental round (including Arizona's unsigned 2005 #1 Max Scherzer) with the potential for up to 18 more!! That's a huge supplemental round.
I'm still fumed for two reasons that the Padres allegedly offered their 6 free agents arbitration on the condition that they not accept:
1) is this even legal or fair to the other teams?
2) why didn't the Dodgers think of this, and at least do it with Lofton (a type B, whose arb status wouldn't affect his market since the signing team wouldn't give up a pick)
Perhaps the Padres arbitration coup was Depo doing. He's got his eye on all those high school pitchers.
Justin Orenduff
Blake Dewitt
Scott Elbert
Blake Johnson (lost in the Odalis trade)
Josh Bell
Josh Wall
Jonathan Meloan
vr, Xei
vr, Xei
Since I was never big on Guzman, I would rather have the draft pick. But that does not mean that the deal was a good one.
As to your valuation of Joel Guzman, it is obviously faulty. He doesn't have to be MLB ready, and may never be to have value right now as a AAA prospect. A theoretical draft pick has to make it through three or four levels just to get to AAA and attain similar value (and that is years down the road). Your valuation does not, apparently, take that into account. There are other flaws, but that will do for now. Billingsley is a non-sequitur. It is conceded that some prospects become major leaguers. I assume it is conceded in return that some don't.
I have no doubt that Logan White and you would rather have the #20 pick than Joel Guzman. But that is vanity, not valuation. The proper way to look at it is that as long as we have the #20 pick instead of Joel Guzman, we should be glad Logan White is making it.
Barry Zito's shoulder and elbow seem to have held up fine under the strain of pitching in college.
I just dont see the cardinals outbidding the dodgers or mariners for schmidt.
Is that #22 pick the Dodgers' original 1st round slot? Shouldn't it go to the Cubs for the Juan Pierre signing, or was he not offered arbitration?
As far as the Juan Guzman vs. 20th pick in 2007 draft debate, I wonder if people aren't forgetting the 80s and 90s, when virtually EVERY SINGLE high Dodger draft pick flamed out in spectacular fashion. A nice draft position is not automatically a gimme.
Yes, we have Logan White now, and his draft-fu is impeccable, but he does not walk on water. Considering the vagaries of chance and fate that come into play during a prospect's development, Logan's due for a bad draft. Or as we like to say, "regression to the mean."
This doesnt even make sense.
you can say 2005 was his bad draft. So he had his hiccup and will be fine going forward :)
also, pierre was a type b FA, so the cubs only get a first round comp pick.
That defies logic. I bet Ned tries to do it.
Your use of the passive voice here was wise. I rest my case.
Nah I dont think it is. Sean's just going through another mid life crisis. The full circle of james to escobar was crazy. i cant wait for the finale next week.
CFers is his new SS fetish.
30 homeruns would be alot more then 2006's team leader.
http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/news/story?id=508950&page=story
basically says manny will be traded to the mariners or dodgers by wednesday.
in spanish.
This is part of the free stuff
http://tinyurl.com/ycjw2m
I'm just going to pray that we get Schmidt and that I do well on my finals.
for brad penny and two prospects too!
So that's what he told Hochevar!
Kevin Mench blows. Almost all his power last summer came during the 8 game homer streak. Take that away and he was butt ugly. He hit only 5 homers in 119 games after that streak. One homer in over 100 at bats in the NL.
I'd rather have the big swinging Jenkins at 7 Mill then anyone else I've heard mentioned. His career line of 279/350/499 works for me if Ned must have a vet.
MIAMI -- The Red Averages of Boston and the agents of the stellar Manny gardener Ramirez worked Tuesday laboriously to complete the details of a change that would take to Dominican to the Dodgers of Los Angeles or the Sailors of Seattle, said a source of whole credit to ESPNdeportes.com.
The movement, that contradicts one recent declaration of manager of Boston, Terry Francona, could complete Wednesday, assured the source.
"Something great could happen Wednesday. It would surprise to me that Ramirez is not changed to Seattle or east Los Angeles day", said the source.
The Dodgers would yield the right Brad Penny and a pair of prospectos, whereas the Sailors have offered to Adrian Beltré and Richie Sexson, but Boston insists on including to one of two throwers, between lock J.J. Putz and the preinn Rafael Soriano.
According to the source, as much the Dodgers as the Sailors has accepted to exert one of the two options of 20 million that the contract of Ramirez contains.
Ramirez will gain 38 million dollars by next the two years and could add other 40 million by the options of the 2009-10. Ramirez would approve without conditions the change if one of the equipment accedes to exert the two options.
"I do not believe that he happens", he said to Francona Tuesday to a transmitter of Boston before the perspective to lose to one of the best batters of the Great Leagues.
"It is the greatest part of our devastating alignment", added Francona.
"I cannot comment rumors. It is better than we hope to see if it passes something", said to Gene Matos, one of the agents of Ramirez and one of the few informers whom the player has. Ramirez, of 34 years, bats,314 with 470 home runs and 1.516 races towed in 14 seasons in the Great Leagues. The Dominican one divides equally 39 impelled home runs and 123 since it signed a contract of 140 million by eight years with Boston before the season of the 2001.
The player has protested to be changed last the three at least to invier to us.
"Manny very would be disappointed if it is not changed. That also happened in the previous years, but now Boston is more urgent to leave him", said the source.
All in favor?
Count me in.
I believe that all the persons should talk in such a type of way as the translator shows us to have spoken in the fashion.
Whatever happened to Hidalgo?
Come on, Sailors!
252 Did Borat translate that?
Jenkins would be a great buy low choice. he was bad enough last year and expensive enough this year to not cost top prospects and he is still young enough to gamble on last year just being a fluke down year.
Heck, I think we can offer Penny, Stults, and a shoe and have a better deal then taking back all that money.
Boras also said Atlanta outfielder Andruw Jones, a player the Dodgers have discussed internally for a possible trade, told him he wants to play the 2007 season in Atlanta. Jones, in the final year of his contract, can veto any trade.
From the Braves beat writer (about an hour later)
But when asked if there were any circumstances that could lead Jones to waive his no-trade clause, Boras seemingly provided some indication that the Braves could be working a deal that could cause the Gold Glove center fielder reason to weigh this decision.
"Obviously there is new information," Boras said. "In this situation, it's something that Andruw has control over. I would imagine since his home's [in Atlanta] and his family's [in Atlanta] that he will be [in Atlanta] this year."
There is some thought that Jones would potentially waive his no-trade clause if he had the opportunity to be reunited with Rafael Furcal in Los Angeles. But there's also a belief that the Dodgers would be hesitant to make this deal that seemingly would make them overwhelming favorites to win the National League West.
I love the way the writer worded that last sentence...
So Ned is looking at Baldelli, Jones, and Wells. How many center fielders do we need? Is he already trying to correct his mistake (signing Pierre). It makes absolutely no sense to go after another center fielder unless the Dodgers plan on locking up the new one and trading Pierre next offseason.
Thanks Eric that was a great read.
On the surface that seems to much for Manny but what if they got the player names right but a 3 way is how it is going to work out.
Just to play with this.
Dodgers get Manny/Beltre
Seattle gets LaRoche/Penny/Loney
Boston gets Sexson/Soriano
Seattle agrees not to pursue Schmidt and we sign Schmidt.
Okay, it is late and I'm off to bed and this will probably look very stupid tomorrow.
206. Xeifrank
Parents could have supported its rotation with the company/signature of Maddux. Parents have a good enclosure who can thus absorb probably the additional returns of the beater in their principles. But just I do not see Parents the marking of many races with this formation and only stage of the baseball of jarros. vr, Xei
210. saltcreek
207. Is Guzman always only what 22? If it never reduced its exits of strike it will be a force in the commanders. He straightens had the inferior year the last year.
211. CanuckDodger
207 -- Since ready Guzman is not equal MLB for rays of the devil, she is not in quienquiera "pocket," and if some explorers do the affluent bolt to you, she can never be ready MLB, whereas #20 written by the player who the next year can help in the commanders before five years.
220. The list harmed
Is this selection #22 cracks of the round one of the original one of embusqués 1ros? Does not have to go to the animals for Juan Pierre who signs, or arbitration was not offered? As soon as Juan Guzman contradicts the twentieth selection during the discussion of 2007 contours, I wonder itself if people do not forget the Eighties and years 90, when practically EACH high SIMPLE selection of the contour of embusqué was flamed outside spectacular way. An pleasant position of the contour is not automatically gimme.
229. natepurcell
Nate, I hope that the point of contacto/de the doblez does not finish. Nah I does not think that it is. In order to happen hardly of They are by another crisis of half of the life. The complete circle of the James with field of broom was insano.
241. ToyCannon
the authorization I had to thus read all repost I of posts not something but to verify this connection with the not-filtered commentaries of BP. It is the silverplated aspect of silver of Nate who Pecota for JD drew in Boston. If it comes near this projection, the nation of RedSox will be a bitter place.
247. ToyCannon
Blowings of Kevin Mench. Almost all his energy the summer last wine during the scratch of Homer from 8 games. To clear that and was it extreme ugly. Shootings with the goal in 119 then games pressed only 5 that flute. Homer in more than 100 with the beaters in the NL. Great Jenkins of oscillation 7 with the mill would have something then does not matter who who I heard mentioned differently. Its line of the race of 279/350/499 works for me if Ned must have a veterinary surgeon.
That was a lot of effort and you should be commended.
That is a band name.
Field of Broom is pretty cool.
Affluent Bolt rocks.
Circle of the James is very college radio.
All band names must be created through Google Translator.
Pleasant Position of the Contour
Scratch of Homer
Silverplated Aspect
Re: Band names.
Do Not Forget the Eighties
I've been through the season with a center fielder with two hats
It felt no good to be out of the plate
In the season you can remember your OBP
cause Pierre's one to give you the pain
Call it Juan Pierre
And it's been the ruin
Of many a poor team
And me, oh lord, I'm one
2006 vs lefty:
.303/.364/.513
career vs lefty:
.303/.366/.564
Center fielders are the new shortstop.
Money paragaph, with just a killer final line:
Few in Washington blame the Nats for not competing on Soriano's $136 million contract. However, for one-twentieth that amount, the Nats could shore up their pitching. If they don't, the Nats are playing a high-stakes game in which they bet that Washington fans are sophisticated or patient enough -- or gullible enough -- to embrace a horrible team that didn't have to be bad. The Nats have a respectable everyday lineup and a solid bullpen. If the Nats go 56-106, it was a war of choice.
Was that through the English-Spanish-English translation cycle? I hope so, because I can't make heads or tails of it.
bluto
261-How many centerfielders do we need?
Perhaps Colletti never intended for Pierre to play center and wants to stick him in left and sign/trade for a good centerfielder.
Maybe.
"Rays of the Devil" has a strange gothic flavor to it.
Does wanting to show up your old team count as "really wanting to be a Dodger" for Ned purposes?
Alot of power righties crush LHP, the problem is when they are totally ineffective against RHP which is 3/4 of the league. If they are paid at the Saenz rate then no problem but you can only carry so many lefty mashers on a modern day lineup that has 12 pitchers.
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JD Drew leaves, we free up $11+ mil per year and spend almost all of it on Juan Pierre.
We get Randy Wolf and let Maddux walk.
We sign Saito who has barely a few months of proven solid work and now Gagne seems to be gone.
Julio Lugo.. ok well I'm fine with that one based on how he performed.
But seriously, Uncle Ned when are you going to throw us a bone? Would taking a $4-$5 mil risk on Gagne be all that bad? I mean we rolled the dice on Sele, Tomko, Hendrickson, now Wolf, etc. Take a shot.
Manager Grady Little said he is considering batting shortstop Rafael Furcal third in a lineup that would have new addition Juan Pierre batting leadoff, followed by catcher Russell Martin. Furcal had 15 home runs among his 56 extra-base hits and batted .346 with runners in scoring position.
2006
Bases empty: .296/.361/.444, 46 bb, 70k, 453 AB
Runners on: .308/.388/.448; 27 bb, 28k, 201 AB
Career
Bases empty: .287/.346/.419 233 bb, 403 k, 2652 AB
Runners on: .286/.362/.406 160 bb, 170 k, 1260 AB
While he really should be a 2 hitter, it is remarkable that Furcal walks so much more (0.76 ISO patience vs 0.59) with runners on.
But there is always tomorrow.
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