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  1. a700hitter
    I like Berkman. He is a much better hitter than Napoli if he has anything left in his tank.
  2. a700hitter
    I was pissed the first time around when after only a few games we traded LaRoche for the punchless Casey Kotchman. That still doesn't make sense to me.
  3. a700hitter
    Yep, I think any organization would be thrilled with a 50% success ratio.
  4. a700hitter
    I hope that you are right. The Dodgers have not been known to trade away there best pitching prospects. Probably the most notable exception to this was Pedro who they never believed would be durable enough to be a starter. Usually, the dodgers pump up their prospects reputations and unload them to other teams where they fail. Hopefully, this is another Pedro case. The dodgers are due for a screw up. It's been almost 20'years since Pedro.
  5. a700hitter
    agreed, Morales would be a good depth option.
  6. a700hitter
    Our system is not loaded with pitching talent. These guys are nothing special. Webster is slightly better as a prospect than Zach Stewart was. People tried to convince themselves that he was a possible back of the rotation starter for us before ended up in palooka- ville after the end of the season. I loved the LA trade, but people are over-estimating by a large margin what we got back.
  7. a700hitter
    I am not criticizing the trade at all. As I said when it was just a rumor, I didn't care if we got anyone in return as long as they took the salaries. That was what it was all about. I think the Commisioner might have stepped in if it had not been a big market team like the Sox doing the selling. If it had been KC and not the Red Sox, it might have been a different outcome with the Commish.
  8. a700hitter
    It was a trade that had to be made, and JH and LL had no interest in who came back. They just wanted the trade to go through. How people can look at that trade as building our system is a bit overly optimistic. We have already gotten rid of Loney, DeJesus, and Sands. The fact that the other two are top ten prospects for us speaks volumes for the lack of pitching talent in our system.
  9. a700hitter
    it was always obvious that the trade was first and foremost a salary dump. They got 3 All Star quality players without giving up their top hitting or pitching prospect. LA included nothing but players for which they had no future use and just enough tht it didn't look like we sold the players.
  10. a700hitter
    It remains to be seen whether they will be useful to us beyond De La Rosa becoming a reliever. Getting one reliever for AGon, Beckett, and Crawford for one guy that might be a reliever is a salary dump. That's pretty obvious.
  11. a700hitter
    Two of the four players that we got from LA have been dumped. Two are left. It's starting to look more and more like a salary dump where we got just enough in return that the Commissioner would let it go through. We never wanted any of those guys, except De La Rosa who is probably a reliever.
  12. a700hitter
    Cervelli is trash.
  13. a700hitter
    Brock Holt? I didn't see that coming. I was really hoping for Garett Jones. Good riddance to Melancon. What a turd! Ben thought his career was emerging, but it was about to submerge. Maybe he'll be a useful MIR guy for the Pirates. You don't use valuable trade chips to get a MIR guy.
  14. a700hitter
    Of the guys you mentioned, only morales could be counted on to be depth in 2013. The others will be either purely short relievers or minor league starters with very little chance of being anything other than emergency starters.
  15. a700hitter
    DLowe may not be the answer. I would not argue that he is the answer, but our rotation is thin and not very strong and there is no depth.
  16. a700hitter
    Williams was in a class by himself as a hitter. He was beyond being a generational hitter. Generations have passed and no one has come close to being as good as the Splid Splinter. The only point that I was making was that Miggy like Stan the Man is not at the top of everyone's mind because he suffers from not being in a media capital. If DiMaggio can be in a discussion with Williams, Musial must also be considered, because he was a better hitter than Joe D. Miggy can be compared favorably with any hitter on any day.
  17. a700hitter
    Who else could be the centerpiece?
  18. a700hitter
    I am not quite sure what to make of this.
  19. a700hitter
    Lillibridge has way more talent than Nava, plus he can play IF and OF, and he had Zero trade value. The guy we got is a 26 old non- prospect. Maybe someday if he is lucky he will be an emergency arm for a depleted pen on the Pawtucket shuttle. Nava could not even net us this type of player in a trade. He's certainly not going to entice the Pirates to add Garret Jones to the Hanrahan deal.
  20. a700hitter
    Musial was a more complete player than Williams. He was an excellent fielder and base runner too. Williams was not a good base runner and his fielding was just adequate. Edit: The debate has always been DiMaggio vs. Williams, because they played in the bigger media market. Musial belongs in the debate. He was a better all around player than Williams, and he was versatile playing 1st and OF at an excellent level. He was a better hitter than DiMaggio. Williams was the best hitter of the 3, but he was one dimensional compared to the other two. They were the 3 giants of the generation, but you hear very little about Musial.
  21. a700hitter
    Any interest in DLowe for depth?
  22. a700hitter
    Lillibridge was thrown in because he was going to get cut when they added Youkilis. We took him to make it look like we got a return. He had no value. Neither does Nava.
  23. a700hitter
    Merry Christmas, Fred!
  24. a700hitter
    people probably don't think of Miggy, because he has played in Florida and Detroit. Stan the Man played when there were only 8 teams in each league and yet he was still underrated in the press which paid much more attention to joe D and Teddy Ballgame. Musial was their equal, but largely ignored by people who do not come from the Midwest. Hank Greenberg was a giant of the game, but not from the east coast media Mecca.
  25. a700hitter
    It looks like that. What's next, arguing current pitching terms like whether a guy' s stuff is "filthy" or "electric".
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