aurilia, and for the right price, i’m not against it at all.

i try’d to link but i failed sorry

I attended that NLCS when I was only 13. It was possibly one of the worst experiences of my life.

Yikes, haven’t thought of that one in long time. Day of the game my friends wife can’t go so he gives me the ticket for free. Aurilla second home run everyone can blame on me. I was standing in line for a beer talking with the guy next to me. He said “well were holding Bonds off so far”. I responded jokingly “yeah, as long as we can keep Aurilla in the yard” CRACK….there it goes, barely got the words out of my mouth and it was gone. Talk about turning into the pariah of the beer line in a heart beat.

Thought we had a shot after Perez hit one out but it was not to be. My only playoff game at the old Bush and that would have been the storyline I would have taken away except when leaving, my friend and I stopped by the press box just to take a look when an older lady came up to us from inside and let us know Mr. Shannon will be out shortly, we didn’t even know he was still there. So that is now one of the greatest games of my life because I got to meet The Man in Black himself. Took my friends picture with him, he said that paid him back for the ticket but I don’t think I can ever pay him back for the experience.

Cubs fans would be just thrilled if the Cardinals got Farnsworth, unaffectionately known as “Mr. Gas Can”.

draysbay posted.

New plan! Snag Kawamaki, use him to raid the Rays’ tank.

Called strike three on a ball six inches below the knees and a foot inside! The second pitch, called a ball, was much closer than the last one. If he brings that umpire with him, I say sign him up.

Nein danke.

from yadi2second’s video, I am not putting ANY stock into Japanese K/BB ratios

to sub-quality meat. I’ve read that they’re beef is of lower quality than pet food….

Those were some pretty poor pick-ups for the Cards, although a year of Grudzy would not be a bad thing. Point is, filling the club with cheap retreads is not going to do the job for the club. We need to be aggressive and smart in settling an udderwise fairly solid team. it would seem that the Marlins are looking to get rid of a variety of players, including a few guys who cud help us, those being Dan Uggla, Kevin Gregg, and Scott Olsen. Uggla would, of course, be plugged into 2nd – even though his glove is nothing to cheer about, he does provide significant power, and I’m sure we cud use him at third every now and then. Gregg would be very useful in our pen, provided that we trade away some of the right handed help we already have. Olsen might be a decent project for Duncan – he cud be the lefty starter we haven’t had since John Tudor, especially since we don’t know what will happen with Garcia. he cud be the 5th guy in our rotation if we can get him to cut down his dingers and get him into the Duncan philosophy. Now, what cud we trade to the Marlins for these guys? Well, I’m sure the usual suspects would be involved (Anderson, Thompson, Motte, and maybe Freese), but I don’t see us needing to give up anyone like Rasmus or Jones or Perez. I’d love to dump AK on them as well, but that won’t happen: Florida wants young, cheap players they can rent for 2-3 years before spinning them off on new trades. An-udder guy I’d like to see us go after is Jeremy Affeldt.

Anycow, that is the sort of thing we should cowcentrate on, not signing the likes of Lieber, Farnsworth, or Renteria.
:=8)

Besides, Edgar is still dead to me.

Yes, I’m old and bitter.

i can totally see the following argument: the hank aaron award goes to the player with the best offensive performance in each league. ryan howard led the league in HR and RBI, two out of three of the offensive stats! (there are of course only three, the other being BA) therefore, he’s a shoe-in!

No one takes those serious do they? Kudos to Chicago, their fans get out and vote in numbers. Boston too.

And at the end of the day it’s just an award. It didn’t solve the financial crisis or cure cancer or anything.

is he a Proven Closer if his saves are all in Japan?

so that would make him 51 when his 13-year contract with us ends. I’d have to say, I think his offensive production and defensive mobility would decline significantly over that period of time. ;)

you’re gonna get people all worked up.

The BP article I just read (admittedly just scanned it) just said “more details after the press conference” but they didn’t say it was in Milwaukee ;)

really though that does mess with the schedule of things but it probably works out great for Fox with the Obama ad they were going to delay game 6 for anyway.

With so much new data out there it is getting increasingly easier to value players who just were just lucky/unlucky for a season. When evaluating potential acquisitions though either trade or free agency how important is it to look for under-valued assets? What balance is their between the new metrics vs scouting when evaluating if a player just had an unlucky season or his play actually diminished?

I am going to base the numbers against wOBA

wOBA or weighted on base average is a statistic developed by and used with the permission of Tom Tango. He gives a detailed rundown of it here. In a nutshell, wOBA uses linear weights on certain batting events to come up with a metric that is more statistically sound than OPS and is scaled onto an OBP scale. According to Tango "An average hitter is around 0.340 or so, a great hitter is 0.400 or higher, and a poor hitter would be under 0.300."

http://www.insidethebook.com/woba.shtml

I am going to use the Park Adjusted version of wOBA*

Tampa Bay public relations man Rick Vaughn declined to comment on that but indicated that he felt the situation was “much better” Sunday night.

“Saturday night was not cool,” Vaughn said.

…besides Barack O’Mole?