Dipre
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I'd be a fantastic investment guy.
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Can you prove that different approach was taken on David Ortiz? Besides that, if i'm going to guess he started using during his injury-plagued 2001. 2000 numbers: 10 HR's, 36 2B, 1 3B in 415 AB's, 47 XBH. 2001 numbers: 18 HR, 17 2B, 1 3B in 303 AB's 36 XBH. Power spike much? Nearly doubled his HR output in 100 less AB's with just 11 XBH less.
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Do you have any evidence he started using after 2003? No. Do i have any evidence his plate discipline improved greatly when reaching Boston? Yes, in stats. PED's don't give you the ability to improve your strike-zone judgement and plate discipline. 2002: .339 OBP, .49 BB/K 2003: .369 OBP, .69 BB/K Which of those improvements came from PED's?
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Check the stats. The power numbers were there. The plate discipline and lineup protection weren't. Put two and two together and.......
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You think he started cheating before 2003? He already had the power numbers. What he didn't have was the plate discipline or ability to hit inside fastballs, this has been acknowledged by a700 himself. It has no bearing in the discussion.
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If we traded Hunter Jones for him, then it'd be low risk/high reward. There is such a thing.
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Hahahaha, you and i have certainly been synchronized lately, my good sir.
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Someone might take the gamble. The Astros come to mind.
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I think he'll get around a 2.5 mill salary to start somewhere. 2 yr/5 doesn't sound so bad.
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But he can catch a baseball like nobody's business. And he's not as ugly as Jack Wilson to boot.
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Minute Maid Park, however, had a lot to do with that. It sheds light on how atrocious his 2009 really is though.
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I like UZR combined with RF for the following reason: If you have a positive rating and an above average RF you've got a good fielder over 90% of the time. Look at Tex. He had a negative UZR, combine it with RF though (which was very much above average) and you come to the conclusion that he was, indeed, above average, but not by a lot.
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Positional value. That's why i always couple UZR with RF/G
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UZR Park Factors. A couple paragraphs down.
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Back to Scutaro. Offensively, his average season comprises a .265/.337/.384 line for a .721 OPS., offensively, this would be solid for the 6 position, but my point is, since he's never been anything special defensively, is nobody else scared of age-related decline to his defense seeing as the sample size at SS is not big enough to establish a career curve or a specific estimation? I have been openly ridiculed here for suggesting Tejada as a stopgap option at SS, however, even though his 2009 was awful defensively, he posted a 9.4 UZR/150 and 4.0 RF/G as soon as 2008, which might suggest, given an actual improvement on his RF/G (4.4) that this was nothing more than a fluke? Just as perhaps Scutaro's 2009 season was also a fluke? This is not a Scutaro-bashing attempt, but an honest question. I would like to know what others think.
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Again, please trade Montero and Hughes to the Jays for Halladay then give him a five-year, 100-million dollar extension.
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