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MLB Roster

The MLBers have arrived in Japan to play some of Japan's finest. The following Mets are over there: David Wright Jose Reyes John Maine Manny Acta (coach) Julio Franco (coach)

Welcome A-Bordick!

He was traded to Texas.

Did this ever get fully incorporated into the posting levels?

ABG wrote: ="Edgy DC"]Andrew Wayne Wilson took a U-Turn. After winning awards going .284 / .370 / .532 // .902 at St. Lucie in 127 games (20 of them behind the plate) in 2005, he regressed to .226 / .303 / .335 // .638 in 90 games in 2006. He's from Zanesville, OH, the town that makes Mets, so he has that going for him, but he sure didn't look like he's making the big squad anytime soon, and he's 25. Zanesville can't help him now. Other than Payton, who else is from Zanesville? Edgy was thinking in the right direction. It's not Bordick, though, but Kurt Abbott.

Someone from Cats?

The woman from Flashdance?

Bradford filed today too.

Here's my initial take on this year's rankings. I'll start by compiling a list of possibilities for the 30: Hitters: 1. Reyes 2. Wright 3. Delgado 4. Lo Duca 5. Beltran 6. Valentin 7. Chavez 8. Floyd 9. Nady 10. Woodward 11. Milledge 12. Franco 13. Matsui 14. Castro 15. Green 16. A. Hernandez 17. Tucker Pitchers: 1. Glavine 2. Trachsel 3. Martinez 4. O. Hernandez 5. Maine 6. Heilman 7. Oliver 8. Wagner 9. Bradford 10. Feliciano 11. Sanchez 12. Soler 13. Bannister 14. Bell 15. Perez 16. Williams 17. Zambrano 18. Julio 19. Pelfrey 20. R. Hernandez 21. Mota So that gives us 38 players for 30 spots. The first player I'm eliminating is Pelfrey, followed by Zambrano, Julio, and Williams. That leaves 34. Next I'll cross off Anderson Hernandez, then Matsui. That's 32. Tucker's the next to go, and Heath Bell is the last to be removed. So that leaves this list: Hitters: 1. Reyes 2. Wright 3. Delgado 4. Lo Duca 5. Beltran 6. Valentin 7. Chavez 8. Floyd 9. Nady 10. Woodward 11. Milledge 12. Franco 13. Castro 14. Green Pitchers: 1. Glavine 2. Trachsel 3. Martinez 4. O. Hernandez 5. Maine 6. Heilman 7. Oliver 8. Wagner 9. Bradford 10. Feliciano 11. Sanchez 12. Soler 13. Bannister 14. Perez 15. R. Hernandez 16. Mota Now I'll grade the hitters against each other and the pitchers against each other: Hitters: 1. Beltran 2. Reyes 3. Delgado 4. Wright 5. Lo Duca 6. Valentin 7. Chavez 8. Nady 9. Floyd 10. Franco 11. Green 12. Milledge 13. Woodward 14. Castro Pitchers: 1. Glavine 2. Wagner 3. Martinez 4. Maine 5. O. Hernandez 6. Heilman 7. Oliver 8. Trachsel 9. Bradford 10. Feliciano 11. Sanchez 12. Mota 13. Perez 14. R. Hernandez 15. Bannister 16. Soler And now to merge the two lists into a point allocation: 30 Beltran 29 Reyes 28 Delgado 27 Wright 26 Glavine 25 Lo Duca 24 Wagner 23 Valentin 22 Martinez 21 Chavez 20 Maine 19 Nady 18 O. Hernandez 17 Heilman 16 Oliver 15 Trachsel 14 Floyd 13 Bradford 12 Feliciano 11 Sanchez 10 Franco 9 Green 8 Mota 7 Perez 6 R. Hernandez 5 Milledge 4 Bannister 3 Woodward 2 Soler 1 Castro

And now it's down again. What is going on?

It's back up now.

It's down again... an "internal server error".

You have to keep the Wild Card. Getting rid of it would be foolish, IMO. What should be done is that baseball should bring back the scheduled double-header. That would compress the season enough to allow for some off-days during the playoffs and possibly an extra 1-game or 3-game round between two wild-card teams.

Right here: http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/Product.aspx?p=2&e=0&pg=1&am=-1

It's started coming back up. Some parts are still down.

Uh... Yancy? Why is the UMDB showing up as a bunch of garbled code?

By the way, Yancy, you already have the pics for Tito Navarro and Darrell Sutherland up on UMDB.

Hey Steve, this happens to everybody. The same kind of thing happened to me when I made a rambling post months ago about how I came up with nicknames.

I never made the connection! Whoa! I used to love that cartoon!

Tom Martin Jason Anderson Shane Halter Joe DePastino Jim Mann Rick Parker Barry Manuel Todd Haney Wayne Housie Mike Fyhrie Dan Murray Matt Watson

I think you have to purchase images to remove the watermark.

Very quietly, David Wright has moved into 18th place all-time in look-ups.

Pedro is in no way finished. He's got at least another solid year left in him, probably two.

Fucking Looper is having the last fucking laugh tonight...