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="Frayed Knot"]" ... others feel Molina's a better fit because of his post-season performance" A really dumb reason on which to base a decision. Beltran anyone?

Rotblatt wrote: Would we do NL only or MLB? one of the many things we'll have to decide once we know who is in, of course if we get more than say 12 or 14 teams this would pretty much be decided for us (we'd need both leagues)

i got tired of baseball mogul awhile ago and am looking for something else, the most important things to me are: 1. realistic stats engine- i don't want guys hitting 90 homers or striking out 400 batters, i don't want teams winning 130 games. 2. realistic financial options, at least on the game's higher difficulty levels- i don't want to have a 500million payroll and be operating in the black and winning every year 3. difficulty- if i'm winning too often the game is no fun i don't care at all about graphics, lots of extra stats and charts and tables and stuff are cool... which game is for me?

smg58 wrote: God, I hope Wagner doesn't turn around and insist on five years now. Not that I know who else would even consider that. the yankees need a lefty setup man. lol.

hopefully the Mets will realize that Toronto drastically overpaid and that Wagner is older to begin with. If another team wants to offer him 5 years let him go.

it could work, who knows.

that is a shitload of years and money. toronto will come to regret that contract in a few years i think.

Valadius wrote: The problem isn't the fans. It's the stadium itself. Think about it. How hot does it get in the summer down in Florida? It's regularly 90 or above. Would YOU want to go to a game in that heat? The Marlins NEED a domed, air-conditioned stadium to attract fans in the dead of summer. That's the problem. that is at least excusable, theres no excuse for abandoning your team based on their W-L record especially having recently won a WS. i've personally avoided Shea day games in July and August, but only because i knew i could go the next day at night. i still think the dome isn't the entire answer though, tampa has a dome and bad attendance, no?

I'm always looking for more leagues and they just aren't satisfying when you are playing against random yahoos from yahoo that stop paying attention the 2nd week of May. I'm starting this thread to gauge interest in either a cheap ($10-$20 per person) or free league consisting of only members of this forum. we'd run the league with yahoo or some other free service and worry about the rules once we see who wants in...

normally i'd hate to see a team, any team, move. but when you win 2 friggin world series since 1997 and still the fans don't come i say screw them, they dont deserve a team. edgy is right about the stadium thing and thats why in the end i dont think anyone will move again anytime soon. the era of publicly funded stadiums seems to be coming to an end (or at least slowing down considerably) and i'm glad to see it go.

Bryan Hoch ran some mets rumormill site until greedy mlb shut him down, right? while Milledge is more valuable than Petit OR Jacobs, i'd still rather have the two of them than him, and i doubt the Marlins would have gotten Milledge along with 1 of them, so they probably made the right "decision" if there was actually a choice involved.

Valadius wrote: Whatever happened to that offer from Don King to build a stadium on some of his land in Florida? i don't even remember that.

i'm not really willing to look that far into the future when it comes to building a team, if it was opening in 2007 maybe i'd take it into account foir 2006, but considering that it won't be for several years after that its pretty much irrelevant right now.

never heard of him.

i'll take Vazquez over Benson and Bannister isn't good enough that he should stop you from making a deal. Vazquez has more upside and i believe a better strikeout rate (which is good when the infield D isn't looking so good) his love of fly balls won't hurt him at Shea where that monstrous wind seems to kill everything in the air for 2/3 of the season.

thanks Elster, you beat me to it. his month by month OPS from 2002-2004 according to espn.com: Mar: .933 (3 at bats in 3 years) Apr: .971 May: .934 Jun: .955 Jul: .895 Aug: .996 Sep: .1080 Oct: .944 (regular season only, 12 atbats in 3 years) he seems to suffer from a poor july followed by an explosive aug/sep

i'm not so confident in Ryan. If Wagner will cost this much maybe its time to show Heilman some love and trade for a guy in June if necessary.

Abogdan is right. when you are actually HURTING your team and taking up many at bats in doing so, you are far less valuable than the guy who went 1 for 3 with a single on the season. good part-timers vs. mediocre full-timers is a seperate issue from good part-timers vs. bad full-timers.

SS Reyes (who still needs to get on base more) CF Beltran (in the spot where he belongs) 1B Delgado (who needs to drive Pierre in when you've got Reyes!) 3B Wright (L-R-L 3-5, or bat Wright 3rd if you don't care about that stuff) LF Floyd (he'll probably get hurt at some point) RF Diaz/Nady C Castro (career .220 or so, i'd like help here now that Jacobs is out) 2B Matsui/Hernandez/Keppinger (job should be up for grabs in ST) P this lineup still needs help, though it has improved considerably. i hope Beltran bats 2nd because one of those 2Bmen there would be awful. I'd like to see a bat in RF since there arent any i like at C or 2B available. Diaz deserves the chance in RF if we don't find someone better, i wouldn't platoon him unless necessary, i want to see what he can do playing every day. if our current options at 2B don't change by opening day i would start whoever has the best spring and play them everyday until theysuck, then go to the next guy. i wouldnt want 2 guys each getting 3 games a week, i'd rather run someoe out there consistently until he either shows he has it or doesnt.

this is a great trade. Delgado is a top-10 hitter. Jacobs is an unproven youngster with no real position and he was never even thought of the way milledge/wright were in the minors, he could easily be a fluke (though i didnt think he is.) If he had been a well-thought-of prospect maybe i'd feel differently, but what makes him any different from the first month of Shane Spencer and Benny Agbayani?? Petit is a pitching prospect and i am universally untrusting of them, and he's not regarded as highly as many others. they are both probaby at the peak of their values right now (as are Heilman and Seo IMO, though i still want to keep them.) Delgado is, imo, 90% likely to do well here. unless BOTH Jacobs and Petit "beat the odds" and turn into good players we have won this trade. if one of them turns out good but not the other then the trade might be a wash. overall the probability is strong that this trade looks good for the Mets when looked back on ina few years. i'll make a few predictions based on this trade, feel free to save them as i'll stand by them: Carlos Delgado will place in the top 5 of the MVP voting as a Met at least once in the next 2 years. Yusmeiro Petit will, AT BEST, ultimately be another Kris Benson, a highly regarded prospect who turns into a league-average pitcher for most of his career (100 ERA+ most years), alternatively he will simply stink. Jacobs will be a starter for the next few years hitting 20ish homers and batting .280, he will then become a bench player providing power off of the bench.

Elster88 wrote: Matsui is going to hit .315 next year with 48 doubles. Mark it down. Hideki Matsui maybe

this just in! Yankee owner George Steinbrenner will help the Marlins firesale by trading for their longest-tenured member and paying his salary. at the same time, George will be filling a need that has existed on the Yankees for longer than he has owned the team.....

you wont get 5/5/5, 5/5/5 because that would require inter-league play every day which is not something they seem to want. you'll see equal divisions when they expand to 32 (it has to happen some day) at which point i HOPE they do it 8/8, 8/8 with 2 wildcards per league instead of 4 team divisions with only 1 playoff team per.

i really dont like gauranteeing 4 either, i'd give 3 at 30 million with a 4th that kicks in based on innings in the 2nd and 3rd years, maybe a fifth that can be exercized by the club with a buyout

"Baseball Mogul" is a fun game, they come out with a new edition every now and then. theres next to no "graphics" just economic and talent management of a baseball team. you can simulate games 1 by 1 (and watch the play by play, see the box score) or simulate the season at once. additionally you can create a league and have it run the SAME season X number of times shhowing you each team's average finish as well as how many times they won division/playoff round/ws/etc