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Postby momadance » Fri Aug 01, 2014 08:34:25



The opening paragraph is great.

THE GENERAL manager who has failed to produce a winning season since 2011 insisted he has a realistic sense of the market value of the players. It is the general managers who are actually in contention for the playoffs whose valuations are misguided. This is the world according to Ruben Amaro Jr., a place where fundamental economic principles do not apply.

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby momadance » Fri Aug 01, 2014 08:34:46

WheelsFellOff wrote:Well, Amaro probably considered himself a prospect when he played.


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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby Grotewold » Fri Aug 01, 2014 08:41:43

phorever wrote:the only hope for better is having a new gm bring in major fa/cuban upgrades at some combination cf, 4th starter, or 1b.


Agreed, but I would bet on some combination of Franco/Ruf/Howard at 1B.

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby PA_Dan » Fri Aug 01, 2014 09:07:39

Amazing. While everyone else was learning a thing or two watching Moneyball, Rube popped in The Natural and started looking to sign forty year olds with magic bats


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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Fri Aug 01, 2014 09:17:34

Monkeyboy wrote:Yeh, I agree that quote is much ado about nothing. There's plenty of stuff to complain about. I actually agree that prospects are being overvalued a bit. If there's a problem with it, it's that he probably believes it for the wrong reasons.

I hate this aphorism, but it really does feel like the old "a stopped clock is right twice a day" thing.

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby WheelsFellOff » Fri Aug 01, 2014 09:18:10

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby phorever » Fri Aug 01, 2014 09:20:55

drsmooth wrote:
Ace Rothstein wrote:Revere passed Howard in OPS last night


filed in my "baseball is a funny game" cabinet in the folder labeled "gutbusters"


in the fangraphs wrc+ list of 385 mlb players with at least 100 pa's this season, revere is in place 205 with a score of 93. that's a bit behind abreu (96, place 188), but ahead of all sorts of interesting names such as
howard (89)
b.butler (89)
x.bogarts (89)
d'arnaud (87)
victorino (86)
p.fielder (86)
a.gose (83)
cargo (81)
c.crawford (81)
b.mccann (81)
a.simmons (80)
e.andrus (79)
j.singleton (79)
n.swisher (74)
bjupton (74)
c.hart (72)
d.brown (70)

plenty of guys on that list that i or others would rather have aquired/kept at some point.
i just wish he could learn to play center or that the phils could see that he would have much more value in a corner.

oh, and i wish dom brown hadn't died. on the b-r lists he's 577 out of 586 in both owar and dwar and in last place overall. i was counting on at least +2bwar instead of -2bwar from him this season, even given his defensive woes. didn't end up having any impact on a playoff race, but that's a nasty 4 win disappointment. how bad is he looking at the plate these days? is their any hope of getting a positive contribution from him going forward with or without a move to 1b?
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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby PTOITWCFTPP » Fri Aug 01, 2014 09:39:03

PA_Dan wrote:
Amazing. While everyone else was learning a thing or two watching Moneyball, Rube popped in The Natural and started looking to sign forty year olds with magic bats


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Postby Squire » Fri Aug 01, 2014 09:47:46

"If Aaron Nola were any good, Ryno would be starting him ahead of Kyle Kendrick or the guy with 4 names...."

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby momadance » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:00:33

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:
PA_Dan wrote:
Amazing. While everyone else was learning a thing or two watching Moneyball, Rube popped in The Natural and started looking to sign forty year olds with magic bats


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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby ReadingPhilly » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:01:18

bless your lineups phorever and the time you put into them but it'd be major achievement for that one to reach 70 wins.

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby phorever » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:15:36

ReadingPhilly wrote:bless your lineups phorever and the time you put into them but it'd be major achievement for that one to reach 70 wins.


probably true if dom's bat doesn't come back and we don't land rusney castrillo for cf.
i had hopes for asche at 3b so that franco could be the new 1b, but that's not looking like a good soluion anymore.
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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby CFP » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:18:09

Wow, I had no idea Cleveland hated Thome so much: http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/ind ... dians.html

Comments are absurd. Thought that dude was a legend there. Glad we liked him. Ungrateful piece of shit city.

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:23:02

It is kind of a weird decision from their front office. I'd be pretty ticked if the Phillies put up a Schilling statue, even if I generally still liked him as a player after he left Philly.

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby Grotewold » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:24:54

CFP wrote:Wow, I had no idea Cleveland hated Thome so much


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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby CFP » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:28:09

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:It is kind of a weird decision from their front office. I'd be pretty ticked if the Phillies put up a Schilling statue, even if I generally still liked him as a player after he left Philly.


He hit 337 homeruns there

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby my cousin mose » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:28:54

CFP wrote:Wow, I had no idea Cleveland hated Thome so much: http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/ind ... dians.html

Comments are absurd. Thought that dude was a legend there. Glad we liked him. Ungrateful piece of shit city.

i mean, i've found 95% of the people i've met from ohio to be total mouth breathers; but maybe we shouldn't base our perception of an entire city and it's inhabitants on the quality of the comments posted on 'cleveland.com'?
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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby WheelsFellOff » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:29:30

CFP wrote:
RichmondPhilsFan wrote:It is kind of a weird decision from their front office. I'd be pretty ticked if the Phillies put up a Schilling statue, even if I generally still liked him as a player after he left Philly.


He hit 337 homeruns there

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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:53:38

CFP wrote:
RichmondPhilsFan wrote:It is kind of a weird decision from their front office. I'd be pretty ticked if the Phillies put up a Schilling statue, even if I generally still liked him as a player after he left Philly.


He hit 337 homeruns there

And Schilling was awesome for us. But don't you reserve statues for the team all-time greats that essentially play their entire career there? Or at least their entire prime?

Let me be clear: I'm not defending the hater comments about Thome. Just the sentiment that it's a weird decision by their management.
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Re: RANDAMARO PHILLIES THOUGHTS

Postby Houshphandzadeh » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:54:12

I think it's all fairly reasonable. guys who leave right in their primes don't usually get statues

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