i'm not going to do a bunch of work just to have you say my criteria is flawed after the fact, if you'll agree to the criteria i provided, or provide your own, i'll do the work.
if anyone has a GOOD hitter they want to trade straight-up for one of my 3 closers (Cordero, Saito, or Weathers- your choice), please make an offer on the site. i'd be most interested in a high avg/runs scored guy who bats at the top of a big lineup because R/AVG are my two worst ategories, but i'll take any hitter who is good enough.
if they didn't already have the discipline? i'll look into it if you give me a criteria to search.... how about players who a) started their major league careers at or before age 21 didn't walk much in the minors and at least their first 2 full seasons... and i'm checking to see how many improved significantly?
Elster88 wrote: OBP still under .300 BA up to .262. If Reyes has taught us anything, he has taught us that plate discipline can be learned while not losing your agressiveness. i do think Reyes was an extremely rare player in that regard.
]As far as Lastings Milledge goes...You might as well hold on to him or release him the usual cleon idiocy. even if you think he sucks he has trade value
]Santana owns Valentin (1-19, 9 K), and Easley is even worse (0-5). i'd rather be Easley there, Valentin has a large enough sample size and a pile of K's to worry me. Easley just has an 0-5 night.
iramets wrote: ="Frayed Knot"]iramets wrote: How'd ya like the "G" that pitched yesterday? He was just about as bad as their "C" (who got demoted right after the game) Oh, if only we could have demoted our "G" before the season! he's probably the weak link right now... and yet they'll probably demote/bullpen Sosa when Pedro is eventually ready even if he keeps pitching well.
Anderson hit FIFTY at age 32 and never more than 24 other than that. his seasons were (starting at age 28, his first full year): 21, 13, 12, 16, 50, 18, 18, 24, 19, 8. that makes me REALLY suspect that something was up in 1996.
i'd rather ditch the interleague. if it was kept i'd want it to be FAIR (no rivalry games and a division rotation like the NFL's) but that would require 16 teams in each league to work right.
vtmet wrote: ]All of these intangibles come to the Orioles for $3.1 million, a bargain at today's rates. He's probably worth that much just for the increased sales at the consession stands...18 home games times 25 extra minutes leads to how much in added sales when you have 25,000 people per game purchasing $7 beers, $5 sodas, $4 hot dogs, etc... lol very true. ]"I won 15 games. Why doesn't that number count? It didn't count because I had a high ERA. But what about the years I had a low ERA and didn't win games? You can't have it both ways. You can't pick and choose which numbers you want to look at." a fair point by raschel, but i think the answer for anyone with a brain is that the Ws are far less important and just because you were "overlooked" after good ERA years in the past doesnt mean anyone should overpay you after a bad ERA year now.
]And since starting pitchers only play in 1/5 of the team's games (tops) I don't see any grave injustice in a pitcher not receiving a player of the year award. Should that happen I think it would reflect more on just how much the everyday players suck to not be able to accrue enough points over 162 games a good starting pitcher is responsible for more opponents' at-bats than a hitter is at-bats, they just happen to be concentrated into 1/5th of the games.