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I should point out that while weekly transactions DOES help those with less time by only requiring them to check in once a week, it doesn't entirely solve their problems. While the lineup can be set a mere once per week, transactions (add/drops) are going on all the time, so when player X becomes the new closer for Milwaukee it will still be the guy who is on all the time that clickls "add" first. Fortunately, this is only a problem with players who have suddenly lucked into a new role, as anyone who has been traded/calledup/signed etc will be on waivers and thus available to everyone for a few days. I personally favor weekly transactions, not because I don't have the time for dailies, but because i hate the idea of "lets drop some starting pitchers and pick up new ones every day"- a strategy that i myself adopted last summer to gain about 10 points in the standings mid-summer. Sure it didn't help me win, but it could have.
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yeah, lets just wait for a few people chime in on the subject (or a few days to pass with no comment)
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Edgy DC wrote: An athlete with the opportunity to choose between two major sports chose MLB, and that speaks well of baseball. I was going to make a different argument, an athlete chooses baseball because the money is generally gauranteed as of where in football it isn't. It could certainly be seen as an indication of the good health of baseball that the owners see no problem with handing out gauranteed money even over 7 year deals and the fact that franchises like the Royals can give 5 year 55 million dollar deals to mediocre (at best) pitchers....it might not have been a good baseball decision but it says alot for the health of the sport that a deal like that can be handed out.
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baseball is healthier than ever, but whats that got to do with this thread?
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A website with CitiField In Progress photos
nymr83 replied to stevejrogers's topic in New York Mets Talk
I read somewhere that the Yankees are going to have corporate sponsors for the gates into the stadium or something like that so they can still call it Yankee stadium. -
Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'm really surprised at the cavalier attitude Elias has towards accuracy. I think the Retrosheet gang ought to be put in charge of official stats. Elias finds it more profitable to avoid changes to the "record" whenever they can... I'm not sure anyone would do better, it probably comes down from MLB themselves.
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LOL
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any rules changes that you think we should vote on? put them here, i'll start new threads to poll each one (though i may wait if anyone has questions about your proposal that they want clarified first)
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the Braves have signed ex-Pirate Craig Wilson for 1 year and $2 million dollars. I still don't like their trade, but it makes alot more sense now. Wilson, who is 29, hit pretty well for Pit last year, but was a bust sitting the Yankee bench. his overall line was .251/.314/.446, his 2005 line was .264/.387/.421 in ~250 PA. his 6-year career line is .265/.354/.480 with a 115 OPS+. He's not the hitter LaRoche is, but its a good signing.
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LaRoche is 27 years old, he's played the last 2 full seasons and alot of 2004. he has a .274/.337/.504 (114 ops+) career line which was .285/.354/.561 (133 ops+) this past season (for comparison, Delgado was .265/.361/.548, a 134 ops+ this past year.) Gonzalez is 28, he's thrown 155.7 innings in his career with 116 hits, 74 walks, 183 k's, a 2.37 ERA and a 1.221 WHIP. good numbers for a young relief pitcher, but I still have to question giving up LaRoche to get him. The braves had already traded Horacio Ramirez for Rafael Soriano, who is imo better than Gonzalez. Lillibridge's stats are indeed impressive, and its nice to see that the mid-season move from low-a to high-a didn't hurt his OBP (though his power suffered.) I am a bit concerned about the 104 strikeouts (I don't mind strikeouts from major leaguers, an out is an out, but from guys in the low minors the inability to make contact against that level of pitching leaves me with concerns about what will happen to them at higher levels.)
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Delgado says he'll be ready for spring training http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2734002 didn't want to start a new thread just for that.
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Edgy, like i said, i don't believe there is any institutional problem, just some isolated instances like Ishii and Zambrano.
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believe me I was the one screaming loudest for his removal, but I never attributed his presense to salary. Maybe the 3.5 million AND Phillips combined to make the Mets hope he was better than their senses were telling them. I definetaly think Kazmir kept Zambrano pitching too long.
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Neither Zambrano nor Ishii were making "big money." If they were kept in the lineup too long it was because of who the Mets gave up to get them, and that wasn't Ira's charge.
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whatever complaints you have with Mets scouting, I don't think the team has in any any sense generally stuck with players who are ineffective because of their salaries, though there are surely one or two examples, I'd guess you could find as many or more examples on a any team (except those that dont spend in the first place.)
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Edgy DC wrote: ="Nymr83"]Heilman > Schoenweisas a starter imo, the results for Heilman were much better when he did it in the past. Perhaps , but the past has also shown that Heilman's bullpen slot is a boat they don't want to rock as along as a workable alternative is there. Schoenweis' numbers as a starter suggest he is not a workable alternative.
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Heilman > Schoenweisas a starter imo, the results for Heilman were much better when he did it in the past.
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Maine should be #2, el duque has done jack shit to earn it over Maine...not that its really that important, as long as you're not 5th and getting skipped all the time.
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cutting and pasting an entire article froma free area is unethical (imo) and pretty annoying to have to read/scroll through the whole thing to find the rerlevant part. copy the most relevant couple of lines and provide a link.
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Relative Reserve Outfielders (Split from Now What)
nymr83 replied to nymr83's topic in New York Mets Talk
if we could actually get a decent starter for Chavez i'd do it and take the chance that when someone goes down Milledge will be ready. It should also be easy to acquire an aging corner outfielder with a semi-productive bat midseason if need be, compared to other positions they practically grow on trees. -
it is a symbol of racial hatred, as bad as Nazi symbols (which are rightfully banned in Germany.)
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Relative Reserve Outfielders (Split from Now What)
nymr83 replied to nymr83's topic in New York Mets Talk
Johnson is an excellent guy to have around, nobody is suggesting he get handed a starting job, but he's a good player. -
its too bad we don't ban those (confederate symbols.)
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DocTee wrote: Do you really think the 2007 Mets have a greater chance (35%!) of making the playoffs than the team that started 2006? i think that the perception of their chances has changed that much, yes. everyone this offseason has talked as if the Mets will be in the playoffs again. last offseason we were talking about hoping to contend.
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going in to last season where would the Mets executives have put the chances of a playoff berth? 40%? where would they put it now? 75%? with the playoffs looking more likely than this time last year the Mets aren't as eager to promise playoff seats as an incentive to buy ticket packages.
