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37 - 21 in the regular season. 3 - 1 in the post season. A starting pitcher's job is to win games, you can't call him a bust when he does that. Tom

Are you a Nazi? Don't see how you could be offended otherwise. Tom

Well, I don't care how many walks Albert Pujols can draw. I certainly wouldn't ask him to change his approach but I am not going to pay him $20M to walk 150 times. But I'd pay him that to drive in 150. You are on the wrong site, anyway. THIS IS A NICE PLACE FOR GIRLS Tom

Dig it, I missed that. Tom

You missed Manny. Better hitter than anyone you mention here, none have even come close to his 165 RBI in 140 games. Funny how that works. Tom

I feel comfortable with my assumption. Tom will be one of the best ball players ever, mark my words. Tom measures in yards, not feet, because he just hits the ball that far. And, yes, brother, I do consider RBI the measure of a productive player. You hit in the four hole that is your job. You are not there to walk, you are not there to advance runners. You get paid the big money to drive in runs. That's it. That's your job description. Tom

Tom is not better than Adrian Gonzalez NOW. Let's give him some time to grow into the role. Now, Ryan Howard doesn't produce runs like these other f***ers named? Come on. Four full years, three RBI titles and two HR titles. That is a bad dude. Tom

Mark Texeira. Albert Pujols. Ryan Howard. Prince Fielder. Tom

Changed your tune, huh? As for your "can't miss, first ballot HOF" nonsense, well I think you are wrong again. Xavier Nady, 49th pick in the draft. John Olerud, 79th. Is that where can't miss first ballot Hall of Famers go in the draft? "...because you don't know anything about player development..." Pot, meet kettle. I'll let you get back to your nonsensical ramblings now. Happy Thanksgiving. Tom EDIT: - Sorry one more thing. "..that is why TEAMS DON'T DO IT ANYMORE..." I'll bet you a six pack Strasburg is on the opening day roster for the Nats. Then you will be wrong again.

How could I possibly catch your drift when your argument changes with each and every post? You started out saying that every single player needs a full year in the minors. You were wrong. You said none of them were born after 1960, conveniently overlooking the fact that my first example was born in 1964. Wrong again. You said no players have done it since 2000 as if the game has changed drastically since then. Come April you will have been wrong yet again. I'm sensing a trend here. http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Stephen_Strasburg Tom

How is it relevant? He hit 30 home runs as a rookie without spending a single day in the minor leagues. That is the relevance. Certainly not the only guy to do it either, just the first that came to mind. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ottme01.shtml Tom EDIT: here's a few more for you. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats9.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/i/incavpe01.shtml

This is The Mayor? All he does is laugh and tell stupid stories. And laugh. Tom

We could go another million years without one, the "C" (or"A") only matters in the NHL. Meaningless BS in baseball. I think it's embarrassing to watch Tek parade around like Terry O'Reilly. Tom

Man, you think like Bill Veeck. "We have just traded Guzman to the Red Sox for Papelbon. He will make his first start in a Nationals uniform THIS SUNDAY! GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! BE THE FIRST TO SEE PAPALBON WITH THE NATS!"

I like it. I think Guzman is what Lugo was supposed to be. Decent speed, decent glove and a decent hitter, for average anyway. Make it happen, can't hurt to replace the AAAA guys with a legit MLB caliber SS. Tom

Or this year. Didn't we have too much pitching a few weeks ago? Tom

Where do you live Dojji? Tom

Ah, Ted, but what if Henry Aaron was blessed with these wonder drugs? The Babe was on pace to be a HOF player without even hitting a home run. The numbers are the problem in baseball. The numbers are sacred, there is no other sport like it. Tom

Nah. Dude's been underpaid his whole Red Sox career. Tom

That is a crazy thought, yes. The only reason anyone has been caught is because a track coach got fired. To be a spiteful prick, he sent a sample of a "designer" steroid to the USOC(?), and the fun started. Thing is, they only have to make very minor changes to it and it won't be found in a drug test, but you still benefit. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/steroids/ Some more reading, you can buy some steroids tonight at your local GNC. http://forums.steroid.com/showthread.php?t=100603 Tom http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ac051317q "...However, as long as these preparations remain undiscovered, new designer steroids are not screened for in routine sports doping or veterinary control urine tests since the established GC/MS and LC/MS/MS methods are set up for the monitoring of a few selected ions or MS/MS transitions of known substances only. In this study, the feasibility of androgen bioactivity testing and mass spectrometric identification is being investigated for trace analysis of designer steroids in urine..."