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  1. duan
    I think 50 games is stunningly low, but I do accept that it's important not to hang Delmon out to dry by seriously damaging his long term career prospects. For me, it'd be a good idea to issue a stronger sentence but 'suspend' part of it on the basis of certain conditions.
  2. duan
    he was DEFINITELY safe.
  3. duan
    seawolf17 wrote: If anyone goes off the 40, it'd have to be Lindstrom. He's back down in St. Lucie and he still can't find the plate. well that's what i thought, except he's actually got a WHIP of only just over 1.00 and a tiny era. Still I reckon at 26 in A+ ball he's pretty expendable.
  4. duan
    anyone have any thoughts who'll be exposed for Gonzalez (assuming that's true!). I'm thinking Matt Lindstrom, Royce Ring or Steve Scmoll.
  5. duan
    does NOT get you a top of the line starter last winter On the free agent market 8 - 12 million per year has been getting you AJ Burnett Kevin Millwood Jarrod Washburn Matt Morris Jeff Weaver Kenny Rogers I'm not saying Glavine is a lock for any kind of dominance or anything but what he's been is an above average league starter throwing 200+ innings. Right now, on the open market they've been getting over 8-12 million and longer deals then a year. I wasn't in favour of the four year deal, but the option @ 11 million is not a disaster by ANY stretch of the imagination.
  6. duan
    the issue is we now need a 4th & 5th starter. Bannister isn't locked in to the rotation by any means and I think it'd be really foolish for us to think he's going to be a major league quality starter for definite. I go back to the point I made in the IGT; we're at the stage where we're looking at our "EIGHTH BEST" starting pitcher (Maine being six, Lima seven), he's going to be pretty lousy (otherwise he would've been up before now!). The way I'd balance it is that Heath Bell has a much better chance of adding value to the club then whomever they could drag up (Gonzalez being the obvious candidate) for next Saturday. If Bell & Heillman work out, then at least when Bannister comes back we've got a replacement for Lima Time (should he implode) or cover for the next bleedin' injury. And if they really don't think Bell can contribute, it's time to stop keeping him on the 40 man roster.
  7. duan
    because Angel Hernandez has messed up stuff with the Mets since I began following baseball (1998). Whenever I hear he's anywhere near home plate I cringe.
  8. duan
    it should probably go elsewhere, but if they DON'T start thinking about stretching Heillman out to go as a starter when they might be going to the 8th/9th starting pitcher on our depth chart it's just pig headedness. We might get lucky and Lima etc might throw a decent start or two but I just don't get why we can't bring up the likes of Bell and put Heillman back in the rotation.
  9. duan
    you reckon; and what pray tell makes you think Mr Yates has it in him to become one of the greatest songwriters ever born. http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/
  10. duan
    well in fairness to it, it was a thread on its own. It just didn't live very long
  11. duan
    for the life of me I haven't seen us talk about Iriki getting a 50 game ban http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=sportsNews&storyid=2006-04-28T231642Z_01_SP19247_RTRUKOC_0_US-BASEBALL-IRIKI.xml but he did.
  12. duan
    LoDuca 3 Maine 1 Julio 1 Beltran 2
  13. duan
    are they 'questioning the umpires competence'? Just that i'm getting the braves feed and they just think it's absolutely peachy
  14. duan
    seriously the mets pitchers are getting screwed here. is anyone getting a new york feed ?
  15. duan
    seriously Traschel's strike zone is A LOT smaller then Davis'
  16. duan
    fantastic blast by Beltran.
  17. duan
    Tracshel's getting squeezed badly by this ump.
  18. duan
    Glavine 5 Heillman 1 Wagner 1 LoDuca 2 Floyd 1
  19. duan
    I'm watching the astros unravel against the reds giving up 4 in the bottom of the fourth with Pettite pitching. One thing I will say - we should have had a look-see at brandon phillips, he's looking like he's got the prospect sheen back on!! Edwin Encarnacion's a star in the making too.
  20. duan
    agh. Cliff fucked that up royally.
  21. duan
    .... does yours go 'dead' between innings. i've just viewed my first half inning but it hasn't come back on yet!!!!
  22. duan
    having seen it he should get banned for a LONG time. It was an appalling thing to do and i wouldn't think being told to sit out the rest of the season would be too much.
  23. duan
    I getcha now; with nobody/one on his BABIP is .500 but with two on it goes to .100 (or whatever). I hear where you're coming from and it's certainly a possibility that he's had some damn kooky starts!!!
  24. duan
    Frayed Knot wrote: On the other hand I'd venture that an ungodly amount of his balls-in-play have been turned into hits. It seems that early in the inning he's rarely getting the at-em balls and, instead, almost everything is turning into a hit. . Actually his BABIP is .230 BABIP definition: Batting Average on balls put into play. A pitcher's average on batted balls ending a plate appearance, excluding home runs. Based on the research of Voros McCracken and others, BABIP is mostly a function of a pitcher's defense and luck, rather than persistent skill. Thus, pitchers with abnormally high or low BABIPs are good bets to see their performances regress to the mean. A typical BABIP is about .290. By the way, I think McCraken's theories on BABIP is a tendency rather then an actual reality.
  25. duan
    but calling up Diaz isn't going to replace our centre-fielder. Anything other then calling up Milledge doesn't get Endy Chavez out of being our starting centre-fielder and that's a situation (dickshot's generous assessment excepted!!!) that we can't find acceptable when there's a POTENTIALLY better bat on the table. I'm the first one to be worried about Milledge's clock, options and service time, but right now he's hitting the snot out of the ball and walking. I'd rather get him up here while he's in that frame of mind than after a two week long slump but when we're scratching about for bats after 3 weeks of endless outs endy.
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