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Post by bigpupp on Nov 21, 2013 18:06:43 GMT -5
Minor league salaries are a pittance. If you've got 200 players and they average 30K a year, that's six million dollars. In other words, what Prince Fielder makes in about two months. So I'm not sure how much that matters. What about transportation costs, per diem, etc...?
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Post by bigpupp on Nov 18, 2013 23:42:32 GMT -5
Signing Tanaka is going to require a minimum of $120 mil to get done, but in Japan he's worth $4 mil, because it's an inferior league. Ok. I get it. And Trout got paid 500k last year... Angels are damn slave drivers!
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Post by bigpupp on Nov 4, 2013 1:44:35 GMT -5
Only the first 10 picks are protected. Remember last draft when the Mets threw a fit that their #11 pick wasn't protected because the Pirates failed to sign Mark Appel? The first 11 picks are, both of the Blue Jays' picks are, if I'm not mistaken. Can't link cause I'm on my phone but a couple sites agree with you.
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 31, 2013 1:26:28 GMT -5
Really amazing. Even when the warm hand of victory was about to slap some of you in the face you were still capable of complaining about something...Bravo....
As for the Sox...Wow. This team was one of a kind.
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 27, 2013 22:02:22 GMT -5
Amazing how he went from being a dominant lefty to someone who can't buy an out.
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 20, 2013 23:42:03 GMT -5
No. He'll just be on the suspended list instead of the DL. Now has to be even more careful about what he takes during rehab when being tested more frequently. Just to be clear, he wasn't suspended for a performance enhancing drug.... It was for weed.
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 19, 2013 22:34:18 GMT -5
This freakin' team man.....
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 10, 2013 18:12:52 GMT -5
How about speeding the game up by...ya know...actually enforcing the time limit between pitches and limiting the amount of time batters can step out of the box. And limiting the amount of times a catcher can visit the mound in an inning.
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 9, 2013 21:33:11 GMT -5
Oh look, another terrible call influencing the outcome of the game. To me, the piss-poor umpiring in MLB deserves as big an asterisk as the Steroid Era. Umpiring has always been bad, we just have more proof now.
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 8, 2013 23:09:08 GMT -5
That was by no means a good split...that was similiar to a change/split Which is what his splitter always does....
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Post by bigpupp on Oct 8, 2013 23:01:20 GMT -5
should we worry we havent seen a good split in a couple of games What's that?
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 29, 2013 18:37:35 GMT -5
Doubront has been out of the rotation for under a week and had never pitched in relief until today. There is very little you can take from this game that means anything. The only way he was going to make the playoff roster based on this game was if he was lights out, and even then, the chances of him making the ALDS roster were still slim to none Nitpicking, but Doubront made 9 relief appearances in 2010.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 18, 2013 23:09:53 GMT -5
Not on Farrell either. 15 hits, 3 runs? Pathetic. Players lost this one themselves. While Farrell could have done better, he hardly cost us the game. Theres a reason we've been losing all these 1 run, close games recently. I don't know what team you have been watching, but we haven't been losing much at all recently.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 18, 2013 17:17:11 GMT -5
Head to head doesn't matter for division anymore OK, but theoretically they can still tie with that scenario, so magic number should be 4 yes? No. Sox are 92-60. The most losses they can have at the end of the year is 70. Baltimore already has 70 losses and Tampa has 68 losses. If the Sox win 3 more games then the most losses they can have at the end of the year is 67 which would guarantee the division.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 18, 2013 16:53:48 GMT -5
Am I doing the math wrong or is the magic number not actually 3 for Division? If Orioles win out and Sox lose the rest of their games Balt actually wins the div because of head to head. Head to head doesn't matter for division anymore
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 16, 2013 14:29:08 GMT -5
AL East Champions!!!!!!!!!! Not quite yet, champ.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 13, 2013 23:10:45 GMT -5
Like many of us have said here. Once we clinch a playoff spot he will get rest. That's not the point, using him today would have been a bad move in June, there's not point to use him today when you've got plenty of other capable relievers, and if you overuse him now it's not going to matter how much he rests later. I'll stop commenting after this, but I think you're completely wrong. The point is to win games. That's it. If you start Morales or RDLR and they end up walking a few guys then you will end up using Uehara in a more stressful game instead of the easy 10 pitch inning that he got. Sure he might be unavailable tomorrow, but tomorrow can worry about itself. We needed to close out a game tonight, and with the amount of crappy innings our bullpen has given us recently I would MUCH rather get the division in the bag now and worry about restin the pen later on. If Uehara gets hurt then Farrell and I will both be wrong, but he's much less likely to get hurt throwing 10 pitches in a stress free inning then one where he has to get someone out of a jam.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 13, 2013 22:12:27 GMT -5
Another thing about Uehara. If he looked gassed, like Tazawa did earlier, I would be right there with you that he needs a break but he looks more than fine. The most reliable reliever had already been use what did you want Matt Thorthon facing Cano or Soriano with men on base? Win the games think about the other stuff later. Using Koji on a four run lead (twice in three days) in June would be foolish, doing it in the middle of September when you're 8.5 games up on the division is negligent. Negligence is knowing you have a foot on a teams throat and let up instead. Koji can rest all he wants when the magic number is zero (and btw, it was Koji that wanted to come into the Yankee game last weekend and I'm sure he wanted tonight's game too).
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 13, 2013 21:43:24 GMT -5
I agree, I guess. But he's only throwing 10 pitches per outing. Plus all the warmup pitches, but the larger point is that he wasn't needed there at all, so it was pointless risk (regardless of how small the risk was). He's now pitched on three of the last four days, and two of those appearances were with 4 run leads; if he's ineffective (or even hurt) for the playoffs I'm blaming it 100% on Farrell. And our bullpen never blows a 4 run lead, either.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 13, 2013 21:37:34 GMT -5
I love using Koji there. We have seen far too many 4+ run leads dissappear recently to not bring him out to start the 9th. Plus, the magic number is now 7, so there will be plenty of time too rest him soon enough.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 8, 2013 15:49:57 GMT -5
You go after Soriano over Cano any day and twice on Sunday over Cano D.C. That run is on Salty. You could have intentionally walked both to load the bases, Cano wouldn't have mattered. You could repeatedly punch yourself in the junk too... Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 7, 2013 15:39:47 GMT -5
What a humiliating win. Disgusting that they will be going for the sweep tomorrow.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 7, 2013 15:16:11 GMT -5
Humiliating. It all falls on Lackey too. Yes. It's Humiliating.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 7, 2013 15:15:02 GMT -5
You typically go with 12 man pitching staff. So if you go with 4 starters you get to have 8 RP. Dont forget webster might get some RP outings going forward. So we might see Dempster/Doubie, Rubby and Webster for those spots. Look back at the last few times they have made the playoffs. They won't go with a 12 man pitching staff in the playoffs, nor should they. Too many days off to need another guy in the pen.
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Post by bigpupp on Sept 6, 2013 22:15:27 GMT -5
Koji has now retired the last 27 batters he has faced.
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