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Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    He did a Dice K-- loaded the bases with no one out. He got out of the inning giving up one run.
  2. a700hitter
    2 1/2 innings and Salty has k'd, dropped a popup and threw a ball into the OF. Same Ole Salty.
  3. a700hitter
    Salty still blows.
  4. a700hitter
    I am looking forward to these spring games. I don't expect there will be much excitement during the season.
  5. a700hitter
    I'll take that as RSFFL is gaining wisdom.
  6. a700hitter
    Lars Anderson got DFA'd again. What a bust!
  7. a700hitter
    He didn't just fail. He blew up so thoroughly that he couldn't get anyone out at AAA for 2 1/2 months relief outings. His ERA was over 7. To give some historical perspective, I read that Bard's final start with the Sox was so bad that no starter in MLB history had had such a terrible start since the 1910's. This was not just an historic bad start for a Red Sox pitcher.
  8. a700hitter
    He has me on ignore but potshots me like a coward. BTW, I said that he would get at a minimum a 6yr/$150 million deal barring injury or a steroid ban.
  9. a700hitter
    Thanks, SFF!
  10. a700hitter
    Two-thirds strikes is a good sign. Velocity-wise, we'll have to see if he can pump 97-98 bu the end of camp. 94 for the first day out is fine.
  11. a700hitter
    The only thing standing in Cano's way to a contract in excess of Josh Hamilton would be if he got suspended for PEDs. Other than that or injury, he wil get at least $150 million.
  12. a700hitter
    Overbay has an opt out if he is not on the opening day roster. If Carp has no options, couldn't we have just waited and claimed him off waivers?
  13. a700hitter
    Does Carp have any options? Is he better or worse than Wily Mo in the OF?
  14. a700hitter
    Cano should be able to get $25 million a year for 5 or 6 years.
  15. a700hitter
    It would be like buying a penny stock and characterizing it as low risk/ high reward, because if it hits there will be a lot of upward leverage. If your investment guy recommends something like this, fire him immediately. Carp was cheap because he is not very good. He's a long shot to be a good major league ballplayer. Therefore, he is a high risk acquisition. If he performs at or above the major league level, the return will be high, because his cost was low. He is a high risk/high reward acquisition. It is because he is high risk that he is cheap. It is because he is cheap that he would yield a high reward in the unlikely event that he performs at or above MLB levels.
  16. a700hitter
    I admitted to being mislead by the team stats. I posted the link so that you could see that the stat sheet was misleading. I was not posting it to mislead. Pena and Robinson aside, there are still 8 other players that OPSed at .846 or above on that team. It's not at all misleading to say that they must have been in a hitters league. As far as Carp being better than Overbay, he has more power, but other than that, Carp is not very good at all. Matt Stairs was like Stan Musial compared to Carp.
  17. a700hitter
    Did you read my last post? I did not dispute what you were saying. I acknowledged having not read the last column of the Tacoma team stats that indicated that those stats were combined for 2 teams for 3 of the players. It doesn't change the point that 8 guys were raking on that team, so I stand by my point that Carp's 2011 Tacoma stats are not very indicative of major league performance.
  18. a700hitter
    The link below to the Tacoma team stats showed that Pena played 76 games and hit 25 HRs, that Langerhans OPSd at over 1.000 playing 95 games and Carp played only 66 games. I didn't notice the last column, noting that 3 of the 8 guys had played for 2 teams. Nevertheless, the 2011 team had some over-weighted offensive stats with 8 guys OPSing at .846 or above. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=1321ffc8
  19. a700hitter
    You are right. I don't like how this smelts. This Carp is no keeper. Hopefully, the Sox FO will do the right thing and catch and release.
  20. a700hitter
    Good to see you.
  21. a700hitter
    It's a low cost move. There is no such thing as high reward, low risk.
  22. a700hitter
    Pena would not be a good acquisition now or in 2011 when he tore up Tacoma even more than Carp did that year. Tacoma seems to be a hitters haven with 8 players OPSing over .900 (4 with more than 1.000). I don't think any stats at Tacoma are a good barometer for success in the majors, regardless of the age of the player.
  23. a700hitter
    I don't want to burst your bubble about the guy, but Wily Mo Pena well outperformed Carp on that 2011 Tacoma team. Eight players on that team had OPS over .900 and 4 of them were over .1000, including Ryan Langerhans. Carp's 2011 at Tacoma probably doesn't mean too much. He's a mediocre player with a below average glove.
  24. a700hitter
    A mediocre addition to a mediocre team. Meh.
  25. a700hitter
    I'm in.
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