Hatchetman

Assuming Dye is gone, I count about $46 million off of last years' payroll: Cabrera 10.0 Swisher 3.6 Dye 9.5 Uribe 4.5 Crede 5.1 Vazquez 11.5 Griffey 2.0? Total = $46.2 mil

well, how many 2B put up a career OPS+ of 120?

the obvious thing would be for steve and garry to reunite. on a good station in the afternoons they would get decent ratings.

The problem is there's a bunch of FA's similar to Dye available. Nobody's gonna pay out the wazoo for him when they could just sign Abreu, Dunn, Ibanez, etc.

That interview a couple of posts above sounds like Lillibridge could have had some injury issues with his wrist. That may partly explain why he sucked in 2008. Total speculation. Maybe a respectable journalist could do some digging (har har).

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Dec 4, 2008 -> 12:43 PM) Jessie Rodgers just stated that on a conference call with Kenny, he asked what happens if Cabrera accepts arbitration. Kenny stated that Alexei is our SS, and one of the young guys will be our 2nd baseman. If Cabrera comes back, he will be on the bench. Kenny is so funny. He reminds me of a stern father lecturing his son. "You'll be on the bench, kiddo!" Yeah, right. $12 mil riding the pines.

these guys (keith laws of the world) are phony snake oil salesman....like the expert analysts you see on CNBC. no way can one man be an expert on 1200 or so players and prospects.

Cabrera's OK for a #5 starter as is. At least a decent insurance policy.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 07:27 AM) I'll agree that a pitcher has some control over whether or not he gives up a HR, however a hitter ultimately has the final decision to take a pitch, or swing at it and if he swings, where he wants to put his bat while he swings There are many homeruns that are hit on good pitches And many more hit on bad pitches. Some pitchers have a tendency to give up more homers than other pitchers, there's no doubt about that. The examples are numerous. Compare Clemens to Scott Sanderson, .66 HR/9 compared to 1.04 HR/9. That's over 5000 and 2500 IPs respectively. Look at a guy like Dan Quisenberry. About the only thing significant about him was his ability to not give up home runs (.51 HR/9).

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 12:59 AM) A pitcher cannot control whether or not he gives up home runs because he does not himself swing the bat. You are hopelessly clueless. I'm guessing you're like 18 years old, so you have no clue who Tommy John and Bert Blyleven were. Check out their career stats and tell me a pitcher has no control over giving up home runs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 2, 2008 -> 12:57 PM) The economy is just a little different today than it was then, it makes sense that the budget is different too. Logical if they didn't hike up ticket prices.

"we don't have the budget." Just like old times!!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Dec 2, 2008 -> 08:28 AM) I'm just trying to figure out whether you actually believe they are called 'samwich' picks yeah, you know like "in between two things". like ham in a ham samwich.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 2, 2008 -> 08:06 AM) I think your better off spending that $1 million in the Dominican, or somewhere like that. They oughta spend it in both places. I'd like to see them whack $20 mil off the major league payroll and put it all into player development.

WTF are we talking about here?? Odds of getting a good player with a samwich pick are like 10%. Odds of getting a good player w/o a samwich pick are like 0%. A samwich pick gets $1 million tops. so you draft 10 of them for $10 mil and odds are you get one good player. Sounds like a good gamble to me.

what's the logic behind that thing? So BA is a better hitter than Thome?

I'd put Getz there because where you bat in the line-up isn't statistically significant.

Someone explain to me how Taveras is a better hitter than Anderson....cuz I don't see it.

His career runs scored per AB are horrible. Ergo, dude sucks.

KW has given away many compensation picks in the past, so it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't offer arb to OC. Although nowadays fans and the media are a little more aware of what is going on. just off the top of my head, he signed sandy alomar before the arb deadline when no one else wanted him. he traded ray durham for the absolutely worthless non-prospect jon adkins. didn't offer arb to riske. there are others but i'm old and i forget.

though i love steve dahl, he's probably next to go.

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Nov 24, 2008 -> 02:02 PM) I'm always of the mentality that, if you can, spend little on the Major League bench and get defense-first players who won't hurt you in the field should somebody go down. OK. Well this is what we need. Cesar Izturis?

Clearing cap-space for Jay?

that last video is pretty good. he looks strong like bull!

I'm all for Getz as starting 2B.