Dojji
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OK then, what do we have in the leadoff spot around the league with a clearly higher OBP than Ellsbury? I concede Jeter, Ichiro, and Span, who else though? Figgins' contract year notwithstanding, he's only a .360 or so career OBP guy himself. Bourn is about on par with Ellsbury. There's a lot of teams that don't even have one guy. Ellsbury is above average in the leadoff spot on his OBP alone. Throw his league-best speed into the equation and you're already talking about an elite leadoff man.
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We'll have to see him play it out, Dipre, but frankly, I see no reason not to believe he is EXACTLY this good. The minor league numbers bear out his potential, and he started the surge he's on right now in the middle of last year. There was a point in the ALCS where he couldn't not hit a homer against us. Him and Aybar and Upton all murdered us -- the difference is that Zobrist sustained it. He's got the discipline, he's got the power, he's got useful speed, he's got the OBP. His bat compared to Youkilis this year. And Zobrist switch hits. All he needs to do to disabuse you of your "career year" notion is keep his average up (his .330 BABIP is on the high side, which is about the only legitimate concern). And his position versatility puts him in the conversation for one of the best players in the American League. I donno if he's as valuable as Pujols, but then guys like Pujols happen actually more often than the kind of truly super-versatile power hitter Zobrist is emerging as, so... *shrug*
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Look around the league. There aren't a lot of leadoff hitters much higher than .350. It's a pretty respectable mark from the 1 hole. throw in Ellsbury's speed and you go very quickly from "pretty respectabie" to "elite."
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Yep, and you said the same thing a year ago and yet you twisted these exact same attributes to make Wang sound like an ace. Now that he's been exposed, you've changed your tune.
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He's a pretty decent asset with a .350 OBP and 70 steals IMHO. There ain't a lot of teams around that have that in their leadoff position.
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Pujols only plays one position, Rhet. Zobrist can take one of the best bats in the league and go play shortstop. that's a pretty huge equalizer.
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you argued extensively here last year that Wang's stuff was amazing. I believe you compared it favorably to Josh Beckett's. Something about a pitcher surviving in the AL East with only a power sinker.
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Just curious. Did you come up with the $100M number independently Dipre? Or did you use that level because I used it in the post above yours?
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tim Thomas is not being paid elite money. He's being paid middle of the pack money.
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You set the cap at $100M, that doesn't hurt us that much. We can get under that next year if we need to. It sure hurts NYY though. They lose half their payroll and more.
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Agreed. That was one of his best performances. Only an insane nut expects a shutout every time. Little news flash for you, Kilo, EVERY goaltender, no matter how great, is out of position at least once or twice a game. That's why the rest of the team needs to play defense. This offense has got to get clicking.
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Hermida is Alexis Rios without the strangling contract.
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First we deal Jones, now Teahen goes elsewhere. Bad day for Dojji lol.
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With all the success Wang had in the AL East, I'd take a flier on him. I mean this is his first year that was even bad. that said, I wouldn't exactly put myself in a position where I had to count on Wang as a rotation staple. We all know how flukey his numbers were.
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I seriously considered not posting at all in this thread, just so you wouldn't have the benefit of the humor at my expense. Then I realized that I could count on you bastards to have it anyway. . Frankly I'd heard of this at another site awhile ago. Not really surprised they dealt him. I am surprised the Royals went for Getz and Fields as a return though. That's a bit of a headscratcher. One would have thought they'd try for positions that didn't duplicate two of their best young players.
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Hermida has some upside. But yeah, this is probably a bench player or last-ditch option to make sure that Reddick is in Pawtucket where he belongs.
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And both of you misspelled "acquire."
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NICE! I guess that's it for Baldelli then.
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If Carl Crawford were a factor in centerfield, they would have used him there when B. J. Upton got hurt a couple times. the obvious answer here is "either because he sucks there or because Tampa thinks he sucks there." On the other hand in the 54 games he's played in centerfield his UZR/150 is pretty good, so who knows.
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There is no need to panic about Beckett. If this team doesn't tender him a very generous offer to stay in Boston I would be very much surprised. He hasn't been Pedro, but he's a legitimate franchise rotation leader and #1 pitcher.
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I wouldn't. I don't think you gain much by trading one above average player for another at the same position, even if one is noticeably better than the other. the only exception is if the guy you're trading wouldn't play the same role that the guy you're receiving would. I don't think that's the case here.
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I'd like to make two points 1: Please break up that unreadable wall of text with some paragraph breaks. 2: There's a difference between a bad year and a decline. This was a bad year.
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Oh for pity's sake. Mariano Rivera blew multiple individual playoff games and is still one of the best relief pitchers in history, if not THE best. ONE GAME doesn't erase Papelbon's CONSISTENT dominance over the PREVIOUS FOUR YEARS. Every single Papelbon season, INCLUDING THIS ONE, has been better than Foulke in 2004. There's a little regression to the mean, absolutely inevitable after his ridiculous 2006, but NO traces of decline here He's so unstoppable that every time he does show a rare chink in his armor it's major panic time. That's all this is.
