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Because he has a grand total of 1.059 years of service time, meaning he would still be under team control for five more years, and a seven year deal would buy out only two years of Free Agency, and quite possibly at market price. Not to mention the importance of financial security and avoiding arbitration and similar hassles.

Rangers close to deal with Beltre per ESPN: http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/news/story?id=5984163&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_5984163

I confirm.

That's only plausible if you're A: A dude who plays baseball or B: A chick who's in porn. On a serious not, Simon is f***ed on so many levels it's ridiculous, even if he didn't do it.

J_E wants Madison Bumgarner (400 K)

I.......Must.......Trade..... Who wants to trade???? My pictching and Colby Rasmus are up for trade! thejameskirkpatrick@gmail.com

Defensively, he seems to not be a very good 3B (by all stats account) and signing Beltre would open the door to move him to DH or 1B, where he should fare better while keeping his bat around. Earlier trade rumors seemed to be looking to clear payroll for Lee, now it seems that it's a move to shore up the D and offense. On a side-note: MLBTR now reports that the deal is not finalized, but that the sides are still linked to each other.

Mostly because the results speak fro themselves.

I've heard that exact same line before with: Daniel Nava, Hunter Jones, Lars Anderson, Tug Hulett, Mark Teahen etc etc etc. I also love how you cherry-picked ORS's post to justify your position: To come to a conclusion about what he can do, you have to watch him play. Bottom line.

Do you f***ing read? Anyways, you're grasping at straws, and they're not too big. The possibility exists, and you can hope for it, but it's not likely to happen. Just like it wasn't likely that any other of the prospects/s***** players you have pimped lived to the enormous expectations planted on them by you.

Enrique Rojas tweeted that Beltre is about to reach a deal with Texas, and since MLBTR is re-posting it, it seems to have some weight behind it.

I.....must......trade....... Somebody trade with me!

Use my e-mail which is posted in the trade market thread.

Whiskeybreath, i desire to negotiate with you. Interested in anyone from my team?

If you wanna negotiate with me (every pitcher not named Verlander is available), e-mail me at: thejameskirkpatrick@gmail.com I have a lot of trouble with the PM system, so please e-mail me there.

Reasoning behind the Morrow pick: He had a 4.49 ERA, sure, but he had a 3.16 FIP and 3.63 xFIP with 10.9 K/9 and a .348 BABIP. If those numbers normalize, watch out. I wanted to have him and Scherzer, but WB, as usual, took my ideal pick.

I conceded the point that it's "possible" everything is "possible" but it's also highly unlikely. Most of these guys who end up developing 20-HR power in their late twenties are identified by scouts as having "projectable power" which i never found in any scouting report in the kid's case. And it's simply not his game. What is the obsession with him hitting homeruns? He's an OBP guy who slaps the ball around.

Every starting pitcher not named Verlander is available. If interested, my e-mail is in one of the posts before this one.

He had "above-average" power in college, he wasn't a "power hitter". This is what his scouting report says about him: Which is what i've said all along. At this point, we're arguing for the sake of arguing, i'm not convincing anyone no matter how many scouting reports and statistics i present. I agree with the scouts, he's a doubles hitter with outstanding plate discipline, you guys seem to think there's some hidden power potential that no one in the organization, reporters, or scouts foresaw. So let's just agree to disagree and wait to see how it plays out.

You mean 47 doubles and 13 homers between AA and AAA. Career high. This is the minors, not the Majors. Where is the indication besides the SSS that his power has increased from low double digit homers to low twenties? There is none. I'm just being realistic. If this was a Yankee prospect, people would be jumping at the evidence presented and accepting it as a gospel, which is pretty humorous to me.

There are plenty of cases of players who miss time due to injuries or personal issues (Josh Hamilton, Jayson Werth) and continue down the development path they were expected to have, but here lies the key to the issue, continue their development path, where is the indication that Lowrie's development path was going to take to 20-homer, 40-double land? Sure, stranger things have happened, (See: Ramirez, Hanley; Cano, Robinson, Youkilis, Kevin) but is that a reason to say that something as unlikely as him hitting 20 homers or slugging .520 is a near certainty? Because that is being a homer of the worst kind. Now, i'm not saying you're doing that, but let's also mention that Beltre's 2010 season was a fluke indeed but it was not close (power-wise) to 2004. He hit 48 homers and had an OPS over 1.000 , 2010 ain't even close. Also, food for thought, here are the players who slugged .520 or better last year: Corey Hart, David Ortiz, Matt Holliday, Jayson Werth, Robinson Cano, Luke Scott, Adam Dunn, Beltre, Tulo, Paul Konerko, Albert Pujols, Carlos Gonzales, Joey Votto, Miguel Bautista, Miguel Cabrera, Josh Hamilton. The 20-Homer list ain't too long either. My point is that being optimistic and realistic are different things. Hell, he could break out and hit 54 homers like Bautista, but come on.

I've tried everything. Different browsers, changing CP settings, i changed IP's when i moved from the DR to Michigan. Absolutely everything.

Different formula to both calculate and assign value based on defense. Reference uses a sum of oWar (offensive WAR) and dWAR (defensive WAR) while fangraphs uses a much more comprehensive (complicated) formula to calculate D based on UZR and other defensive measures.

For future reference, it's damn near impossible for me to send PM's to people because of whatever the f***'s wrong with my account, whether it's a CP option f***ed up or the mods f***ing with it, i have no clue, but i need an alternate option to trade, so i'll post this e-mail here in case anyone wants to negotiate with me: thejameskirkpatrick@gmail.com Again, Oswalt and Billingsley are available for C, 1B, 3B, LF, RF, either by acquiring a better talent with a bigger salary or a slightly inferior talent with a lower salary (in Oswalt's case). And just so people are informed, Cabrera posted a 6.2 WAR last year, while Oswalt posted a 4.7 WAR, and since Cabrera made five million more than Oswalt, when you factor in payroll and positional scarcity, it's not a rip-off. Just sayin'.

Because a trade that's not agreed to is not a f***ing trade, it's a negotiation which you're stunting by discussing while it's not completed. The handy "veto" option is there in case you don't like a finalized trade, but don't scare away people from negotiating.