Benjamin Grimm

G-Fafif wrote: I expect recurring frustration interrupted by sporadic elation -- or vice-versa. Not many people chimed in on this thread (I was surprised to see that I didn't say anything; I did try to post an expectation for every player) but G-Fafif seems like the winner here.

Not surprisingly, nobody anticipated that David would miss two months in the middle of the season.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Next great anchor contract. I think this is the winning entry for this thread.

Now that 2011 is over (at least, baseball-wise) I thought we might want to revisit the prognostications we made for the different players back during spring training. I've moved all of the Expectations of Eleven threads to the Predictions Archives forum where they can be found more easily. Eventually* they'll moved to the deep archives, where they'll be view only, but for now they'll remain open for comment. *At least until it's almost time for Expectations of Twelve

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The answer is in the article I pasted above: Jesse "Pop" Haines (210)

He made the same vacuous argument about Frankie Rodriguez. Ceetar seems to think that if a player is good, it doesn't matter how much you pay him.

Thome would, I assume, see a lot of time at first base until Ryan Howard is ready.

Two former Cardinals whose brothers were also big leaguers just died. If he believes that things happen in threes, Joe Torre is probably in panic mode right now.

Another former Cardinal passes on: Bob Forsch, one of a handful of pitchers to have two no-hit games and the third winningest pitcher in Cardinals history, collapsed at his home near Tampa Fla., and died suddenly Thursday night. Early reports from his wife, Jan, were that Forsch, 61, had suffered an aneurysm in his upper chest. Forsch, who spent 15 seasons with the Cardinals from 1974-88, won 163 games for the club, ranking him third behind Bob Gibson (251) and Jesse "Pop" Haines (210). Employed as a minor league pitching coach in the Cincinnati organization for the last few years, Forsch was on three Cardinals World Series teams here under manager Whitey Herzog in 1982, 1985 and 1987. Forsch threw the ceremonial first pitch here last Friday before Game 7 of the Cardinals' 11th World Series championship. Forsch pitched no-hitters in 1978 and 1983 for the Cardinals, making him the only pitcher in club history to do that. His best season was in 1977 when he won 20 games. He had 10 double-figure win seaons before finishing his career with Houston in 1989. Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinal-beat/cardinals-pitcher-forsch-dies-at-age/article_bdfb18cc-06f5-11e1-a7f4-001a4bcf6878.html#ixzz1ckyhTHZq

Edgy actually looks more like this:

seawolf17 wrote: Centerfield wrote: Giant Squidlike Creature wrote: Giant Squidlike Creature arrived in the 2001-2002 offseason when the Mets could have signed Squid for a song. Squid returned the following offseason but was still shown no respect. So Squid became the forum archivist. Squid is versatile like that. Wait a second, I always though GSLC was Willets. And Willets quit. Is Willets back? Has GSLC declared his independence? Or was I just wrong? No, I think Squid is BGrimm. Nope, I'm not the Squid. I've taken over the archiving duties, but not the Squid persona.

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: CPF: "What's Mr. Wright's name?" Me: "David" CPF: "GOOD!" How the hell do you sign up here? I don't know where that "GOOD" thing came from. Actually, I do. It was a temporary step while I was testing the new method of registering. What I don't know is why that version was live rather than the final version, which has been restored. Try it again, if you like. It should work a little bit better now. I do have to wonder how many people may have been perplexed by that "GOOD!"

Does it matter?

That sounds right to me. I've been thinking $18 million per year over five years, but add an option for a sixth year and you're right around Vic's projection. Some have been saying that Jose is certain to get at least $20 million per year, but I'm not all that sure of that.

Maybe a fly flew up his nose and is sitting on his brain.

Gross! Maybe you should bury them in the yard and then retype your list.