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Postby cartersDad26 » Thu Nov 18, 2010 08:37:24

i am very much against the expanded Wild Card round thing. no thank you.

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Postby JFLNYC » Thu Nov 18, 2010 09:38:25

I'm actually looking forward to the World Series coinciding with Christmas.
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Postby BassGuiFloyd » Thu Nov 18, 2010 09:41:16

Barry Jive wrote:holy crap, the Padres are only expected to be on the books for 39.7 million after arbitration awards, pre-arb contracts, and league minimum players to complete the roster

(per baseball-reference.com)


that is nuts. they are going year-to-year with every play except Adrian Gonzalez, whom they just exercised his 2011 option for $5.5M
Why not just go storm Normandy and get shot in the face while you're at it
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Postby BassGuiFloyd » Thu Nov 18, 2010 09:42:58

phils are also within $5 mil of the yankees, and if the season started now, we would have the highest payroll
Tm # Pyrl Est
NYY 10 $141.6 $157.3
PHI 17 $142.2 $152.5

i like their disclaimer:

All values are estimates and should not be
used by GM's for actual team planning.
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Postby JFLNYC » Thu Nov 18, 2010 09:44:23

But we have cost certainty!
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Postby Soren » Thu Nov 18, 2010 09:46:07

and what are the odds the Padres actually spend any money?
Olivia Meadows, your "emotional poltergeist"

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Postby drsmooth » Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:30:42

philliesphhan wrote:If you've been to baseball-reference's home page recently, you've seen that they have 12 players' pictures on it which rotates every few minutes.

This guy was one of the 12 just now. Great name and great nickname


most similar batters #10: Jeff Stone

YOU CALL THAT RANDOM?
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Postby Grotewold » Thu Nov 18, 2010 11:39:01

Heyman wrote that Sherman wrote:yankees will make jeter a 3-year offer soon, as @joelsherman1 sugested. $45 mil is probably ballpark figure

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Postby Wolfgang622 » Thu Nov 18, 2010 13:21:17

Grotewold wrote:
Heyman wrote that Sherman wrote:yankees will make jeter a 3-year offer soon, as @joelsherman1 sugested. $45 mil is probably ballpark figure


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Postby BigEd76 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 13:04:53

Shin-Soo Choo was on the Korean team that won gold at the Asian games, so he should be exempt from military service now. If they didn't win, he would've had to give up two years of MLB to serve...

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Postby smitty » Fri Nov 19, 2010 17:49:43

BigEd76 wrote:Shin-Soo Choo was on the Korean team that won gold at the Asian games, so he should be exempt from military service now. If they didn't win, he would've had to give up two years of MLB to serve...


Did Chan Ho get exempted at some point as well? He must have. Normally the Koreans don't play when it comes to their Universal Military Service stuff.

I wonder if this was a reason behind #6org trading him? It actually never took all that much for the Ms to make a bad trade.
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Postby BigEd76 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 18:10:02

He was on the 1998 team that won

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Postby Rockinghorse » Fri Nov 19, 2010 18:19:31

Astros for sale again, or still, or however you want to look at it...

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Postby Wolfgang622 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 18:23:33

Rockinghorse wrote:Astros for sale again, or still, or however you want to look at it...


They almost moved to Washington before he bought them you know.
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Postby BigEd76 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 18:32:02

From that article, not sure if you guys saw this note before:

the Astros have agreed to launch a regional sports network in partnership with the Rockets and Comcast


yep....Comcast SportsNet Houston

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Postby swishnicholson » Fri Nov 19, 2010 19:08:09

BB/9 innings should also include HBP. Sure, it doesn't make that big a difference for most pitchers, but it's still free passes issued due to control issues (or is it command?). And since it's the most commonly used shorthand for this quality, it would be a little more accurate without a lot of work needed. You'd have to come up with another name for it, though.
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Postby TenuredVulture » Fri Nov 19, 2010 19:13:27

swishnicholson wrote:BB/9 innings should also include HBP. Sure, it doesn't make that big a difference for most pitchers, but it's still free passes issued due to control issues (or is it command?). And since it's the most commonly used shorthand for this quality, it would be a little more accurate without a lot of work needed. You'd have to come up with another name for it, though.


Does it count for OBP? It certainly should.

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Postby Barry Jive » Fri Nov 19, 2010 19:32:43

Yes, it counts for OBP.
no offense but you are everything that's wrong with America

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Postby phatj » Fri Nov 19, 2010 20:05:41

TenuredVulture wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:BB/9 innings should also include HBP. Sure, it doesn't make that big a difference for most pitchers, but it's still free passes issued due to control issues (or is it command?). And since it's the most commonly used shorthand for this quality, it would be a little more accurate without a lot of work needed. You'd have to come up with another name for it, though.


Does it count for OBP? It certainly should.

As Barry notes, it does. This actually reminds me of one of my baseball-related pet peeves. The fact that the traditional stats for pitchers and batters are completely different never made any sense; what's good for a batter is bad for a pitcher, and vice versa. So why not use the same stats? I know that BA Allowed and so forth are sometimes used to describe pitchers, but why were these not used in the first place?
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Postby joe table » Fri Nov 19, 2010 20:06:27

Well WHIP does HBPs, right? Or doesn't it

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