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The Rangers giving a 120 million dollar contract to a guy with a career .695 OPS. He's solid defensively, but no Iglesias. Crazy.
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First game of the year is over, and the Astros are the best team in the MLB. Doubt that'll last too long They'll always have the Opening Day Champions hats.
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Anyone watching this game? Rangers getting smoked early.
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The Opener - 4/01/2013 vs. NYY
Palodios replied to onlybereaved's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Reposting this because I think this is a big deal: Did anyone go to MLB.com today? I had no idea... but Buchholz and Lester had the lowest ERAs of any two starters this spring. We're not talking lowest two on a team, we're talking #1 in baseball and #2 in baseball. I understand it is just spring training, and small sample size, or whatever you want to say to make that accomplishment insignificant but it is a very good sign. -
Did anyone go to MLB.com today? I had no idea... but Buchholz and Lester had the lowest ERAs of any two starters this spring. We're not talking lowest two on a team, we're talking #1 in baseball and #2 in baseball. I understand it is just spring training, and small sample size, or whatever you want to say to make that accomplishment insignificant but it is a very good sign.
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The reason why I argue with this is that you're referring to intangibles. Things like momentum, team chemistry, work ethic etc are all in that pile. If you're going to argue that the intangibles of constructing a group of guys with great personalities will not add a significant amount of wins to this team, arguing that the intangibles of losing some meaningless ST games while single A no-namers are on the mound shouldn't add a significant amount of losses either.
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This argument was never about slugging.
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You're not a fan of my terminology. Replace "Monster OBP" with "Top 20 OBP against righties". Happy? Every opportunity he's been given, he's shown that he can get on base against major league hitters. He's done it in spring training as well, even though he hasn't hit that well.
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That's inaccurate. He had a bad August, but he continued to perform from September on.
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Nava's minor league numbers from his career: 2008-- .424 OBP 2009-- .458 OBP 2010-- .372 OBP 2011-- .372 OBP 2012-- .425 OBP I'm not pulling this out of thin air. The guy has no power, no speed, but he gets on base.
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It was probably more likely related to the wrist injury that sent him to the DL twice.
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My impression was that they would be platooning him. .380 is definitely in the monster range-- top 10 in the league for 2012.
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That's if he makes it to mid-season. Brentz could continue hitting in the minors, Kalish could get healthy, or he might just get pushed out when Ortiz comes back. If he starts hot, and burns out, that'll help the team get off to a good start, and maybe they'll be interested in bringing in an outfielder in a trade midseason. There is a good deal of flexibility.
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Nava is considerably more useful this year than before. With Bradley Ellsbury and Victorino in the outfield, the team doesn't need someone who plays multiple positions in the outfield. That being said, he picked up 1B fairly well, and can play there with average ability. Does he deserve to start? Probably not, but he's better than most 4th and 5th outfielders out there. Let's look at some of the other 4th and 5th outfielders out there. The Rangers? Julio Borbon and Leonys Martin. Maybe they have potential but so far haven't done much in the majors. The Yankees? Boesch and Overbay are actually worse defenders than Nava. The Jays? Raja Davis has speed, but he's a poor defender, doesn't hit, doesn't get on base. The Tigers? Avisail Garcia and Don Kelly really don't have anything over Nava. He isn't a superstar, but with the built-in versatility of this team, it seems reasonable to keep him around for his monster OBP.
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Morales appeared in exactly one game-- and that game will be a big pain to the roster. Otherwise he was on the DL to the end of last year and I think it could have been retroactive to last year.
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It just pains me that after all the moaning we've heard about (and to a lessor extent participated in) the starting pitching, they're doing awesome. The pitching was the problem. The defense is great, the bullpen will be great, and the offense will come around -- it does have six all-stars on it, a solid platoon in left, and a solid sophmore at 3B afterall. Buchholz and Lester have been untouchable all spring, Dempster has been where we've expected him to be, Lackey started off poorly but has shown solid results. If the problem isn't the starting pitching then what is?
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Do you know what momentum is going to carry over? The fact that Buchholz has allowed exactly two runs in his last 25 spring training innings. The fact that Lester has a 15 inning scoreless streak going on. Runs scored in the last ten games -- 3, 6, 1, 12, 7, 3, 0, 6, 0, 7, 3, 5. There's plenty of offense in there. Fred, we disagree on a lot of things, and I try to stay respectful, but thinking poorly of the Red Sox team because guys like Fieri, Duarte, Celestino are losers? That's silly. Who cares how the AA team does? The major league team has done fairly well.
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Fred, its just spring training. Look at the individual stats instead of looking at the score. Who cares if Mark Duarte and Rick Scott give up 4 runs on March 29th? Who cares that Gillian Godfrey and Mike Clestino gave up 9 runs on March 26th? Do you know who needs to win games? The starters. In the last three games, Lester gave up 0 runs, Buchholz gave up 0 runs and Dempster gave up 3 runs.
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Perhaps that was phrased poorly. Potentially available ace = potentially available, potential ace. He's a 4 time all star with a Cy Young and pile of 200 inning seasons, and he's only 31. There are definitely risks, but he's pitched like a #1 as recently as last year.
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The White Sox are far more likely to trade Peavy and Floyd than Sale. If they are out of contention, I see Peavy being a potentially available ace.
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Why not keep Ellsbury and Bradley together for years to come?
Palodios replied to MANNYHOF24's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Can we talk about how Victorino has been significantly better than Ellsbury throughout the course of both of their careers? -
Arizona has been paying 50-70 million a year on their team for the last decade. I see them more likely to trade one of the pitchers, and keep the other one than sign both. The Brewers also seem okay with letting their elite players hit free agency.
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All of those guys you mentioned are signed for atleast 5-6 years, and pretty much untouchable. I threw out those options as players that may be available.
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I understand Posey is a good player... but catchers are the most dangerous players to pay monster money to. I was a huge Mauer fan at the time of his massive contract, and it definitely made me look like a fool.
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I'm very surprised by some of the contracts we've seen. Cain, Hamels, Felix, Verlander, Greinke, Wainright all seeing monster contracts. Slim pickings available in the years ahead, but who knows, maybe someone like a Brett Anderson, Ian Kennedy or Yovani Gallardo could become available and dominant.
