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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.
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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?
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Does Carp have any options? Is he better or worse than Wily Mo in the OF?
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Cano should be able to get $25 million a year for 5 or 6 years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Good to see you.
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It's a low cost move. There is no such thing as high reward, low risk.
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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.
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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.
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A mediocre addition to a mediocre team. Meh.
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Official Talksox Fantasy Baseball 2013
a700hitter replied to Sox Fan on Cape's topic in Contests/Prizes
I'm in. -
What about Iglesias?
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What about Iglesias?
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and tickets will be very easy to get.
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It's hard to keep things inhouse if his tantrums manifest themselves on the field like happened yesterday.
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If he acts like an ass, it could affect his performance, and it definitely would diminish his trade value.
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I think he has the potential to be a cancer on this team. I don't see him accepting his role gracefully, so they should probably trade him before he forces the issue.
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Red Sox 2012/2013 Offseason Thread
a700hitter replied to SoxFanForsyth's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Great stuff, Fred. Thanks. I'll call you before I leave for Fort Myers. -
They used to list Yaz as 6' at some points in his career. They also used to list his weight as 185. Both were exaggerations. He wasn't quite 6', but he was probably 5'11". I met him in person right after he retired. He was wearing cowboy boots that made him look a little taller, but I still think he was about 5' 11. His playing weight was usually around 175, based on interviews that I have heard and read. Nava is about the same size as Pedroia, who is listed as 5'9", but that is also an exaggeration. Steve Garvey was a small first baseman, but like Yaz, Garvey was big on talent. Nava is not very talented at all.
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Red Sox 2012/2013 Offseason Thread
a700hitter replied to SoxFanForsyth's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Fred, you have a great memory for baseball. Great story about Malzone from over 50 years ago. I used to have that kind of memory for baseball stories, but i don't remember the details that I used to. Fred, some old Brooklyn fans had told me tales about a Dodger pitcher who came up with the Dodgers around the same time as Koufax and Drysdale, but who was a better prospect than either of them. His name was Karl Spooner. You know everything about those 50's Dodger teams, so I'd like to read your recollections about Spooner. -
Information on the great Teddy Ballgame
a700hitter replied to RedSoxfanforlife305's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It would have screwed up his legacy in Boston. No doubt about that.
