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charlie hough

pedro martinez

roger craig

this isn't slowing me down all that much... leiter

cone

viola

glavine

koosman

seaver

i did some digging and i think i found a guy who played for 8 franchises (or maybe 7). since i dug him up, i won't hazard a guess. but did our many-hatted man finish his career with a 0.310 batting average?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Number 6 wrote: Nice article by Davidoff today in the Daily News. Not breaking new ground, but he does call out the anti-Bagwell argument for what it really is. Jeez, you had me excited that Davidoff joined the Snooze (I'd trade John Harper straight up, Long Island, what do you say?) I admit I'm suspicious of all those Houston players in the Caminitti Era. Bags had 6 home runs in 859 minor league plate appearances. Six! 859! but caminiti didn't really start mashing until he left houston and went to san diego. and he had claimed to only have started using steroids in 96, two years after he left houston, and two years after bagwell's first monster year. i guess its possible that bags was the one who introduced caminiti to the roids, or that they had shared a common source. but really, its almost as if these bbwaa voters haven't watched a single minute of non-baseball pro sports in the past 15-20 years. everybody looks jacked today, relative to the skinny ball players we think we remember from the 80's. hell, if we're using the photo test, then every football and basketball player over the age of 15 is on the juice. well, except eddie curry i guess.

Guys I Gave Some Thought to and Rejected: Harold Baines Bret Boone John Franco Don Mattingly Jack Morris Dale Murphy Fred McGriff Mark McGwire Benito Santiago Lee Smith Guys I Gave Almost No Thought to and Rejected: Carlos Baerga Marquis Grissom Lenny Harris Bobby Higginson Charles Johnson Al Leiter Tino Martinez Ra�l Mondes� John Olerud Rafael Palmeiro Kirk Rueter B. J. Surhoff i don't think he should actually get in, but john olerud has the 12th highest WAR on the ballot, per bbref, at 56.8, snuggled between mark mcgwire's 63.1 and crime dog's 50.5. he's got 17 more WAR than mattingly, 19 more than parker. 30 more than benito santiago, and 35 more than brett boone. yet he gets dismissed out of hand. boo.

jeff kent

brett butler

olerud and kevin brown are both way stronger candidates than their one and three votes, respectively, would indicate. way stronger.

dangit... i'm working to update my spreadsheet and tehn tally everything up, for comparison sake. i wouldn't begin to suggest that i hold up the works. i just might offer up a dissenting opinion once i'm thru. the 'bot will surely have an interesting take, as well.

oh, come on. why would they want felix hernandez? that guy doesn't know how to win.

speedo actually makes some nice shorts, for beach volleyball and such. throw in some speedo water shoes, a t-shirt, and a speedo watch, and he's met his bold decree. there. isn't that a nice ensemble? besides, he could always wear one of these underneath...

batmagadanleadoff wrote: If that's the main reason why Lee spurned the Yankees offer and left almost $20M on the table, then the Lees are idiots. depending on how the two contracts were structured, that 20 mil way down the road is not worth nearly as much as it sounds. mind you, i'm not at all good at calculating then-year dollars vs current-year dollars, but accounting for inflation, he didn't leave all that much value out there. besides, it's not like you or i leaving 20 mil on the table. he's opted for 15% lower total dollars. it's less than 10% in terms of value, and might be less than 5%. you couldn't imagine choosing one job with what you perceived to be a better personal situation over another that offered a 5%, or even 10%, higher salary?

no, they'll be self-congratulatory for chasing away another weak soul who would've been incapable of withstanding the pressure and the bright lights and the blistering stupidity of the big city.

i'm happy, but wary. i'm glad the mets aren't the team that threw all this money at another pitcher. i had been worried the rangers would get him and cripple their franchise for another ten years. i was really hoping he'd go to the yankees, and be there for 8 years. but i can live with the phillies for 5 years. if it were a longer deal, it'd have an even greater chance of being an albatross for even longer, but by the time the deal is through, today will not be looked upon as a happy day in the city of brotherly love. i hope...

the phillies just signed cliff lee. he's old for a pitcher. he's also a year younger than me. so that makes me sad. but we're not talking about those kind of feelings. i want to know your feelings about this signing. as i said, cliff lee is old. roy oswalt is older. older than me, even. by a whole month. and roy halladay? he's friggin ancient, with some 4 months on me. and lee and halladay are signed for quite a while there, for quite a bit of money. roy makes $20 mil in each of the next three seasons, and cliff averages $24 mil for the next five. add in ryan howard, who is grossly overpaid, and you've got a potential for a few albatrosses just down the turnpike. granted, they've now got the best paper rotation in the game. and their offense, while not nearly what it used to be, is still fairly threatening. so they're most likely the current favorites for hte world series. and that can't make you feel great. but enough of my ramblings. what do you think?

it can't be long until there's a steve smith playing in the major leagues, can it? those guys are everywhere!

good. i like murphy a lot. i'm certainly rooting for him. plus, i've got me one of them sweet green t-shirts with his name on the back.

Valadius wrote: I see no utility in trading a homegrown superstar during his peak years in NEW YORK. We're not exactly the Florida Marlins here. Unless you sign Carl Crawford I see no reason to part with him. as good an athlete as he is, i just don't know if crawford can play a good shortstop.