Jake

While I don't really subscribe to this to a great extent, a bunch of guys having huge increases in innings last year is as much a recipe for a bunch of significant injuries as it is evidence that they're "stretched out" now.

I'm not a very big Headley fan, but it's not like he played badly last year. He's played 6 seasons, and it is his 3rd best by WAR and by wRC+. It was a good year. I think the price will be too high to get him, whether it is trade price or the extension price, but we're underrating him now

I don't see any reason to think Arencibia will be anything but bad and the most frustrating kind of bad at that. At least when Phegley is the worst batter in baseball, you hardly notice him -- one swing and he's outta there

If management believes we have already seen the best of Flowers/Phegley or that Phegley needs more AAA time, then sure.

Trestman may or may not explain it this way, but he kicked on second down because he didn't believe the offense could keep from losing yards on the next down

QUOTE (farmteam @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 10:27 PM) I've never understood this suggestion. Eat what? Anything? Just before I work out, or all the time? Don't fret about the timing unless you aren't eating at all before or after your workout. If you are getting food in you within 2-3 hours of your workout (before and/or after, whatever works for you), then the timing won't matter. As far as what to eat, the easy thing to shoot for is a high protein, low sugar diet. It isn't so much that sugary foods are automatically evil, but if you don't want to be counting calories it will be much easier to avoid them for the most part. Some fats aren't bad and are actually necessary; like the carbs though, fats from peanut butter or olive oil will be better than fats from a Twinkie. If you struggle to eat enough, try to eat calorie-dense foods and try to eat often. If you often eat too much, don't eat calorie-dense foods and try to spread out your mealtimes.

Ike Davis please

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) All trades and free agents signings are based in part on past and future perceived worth. That's why you have some people liking or hating on trades and signings. I think the lists are useful for fun and not thinking they're the defintive word . That's whats fun abour baseball ,comparing players to each other. The problem is that they tried to make quantitative. They made a series of small, subjective opinions about each player and turned them into numbers and then analyzed the result of the numbers as if to say, "numbers don't lie!" Nobody could say with a straight face that Alejandro is one of the worst CF in baseball, but the numbers say so (that a guy made up)! If he just said, I think this guy is better and here are some reasons I'd take it more seriously. Instead, the results don't even reflect his opinions, but rather an arbitrary score based on his opinions -- in other words, I guarantee the list is not in the order it would be if he tossed out the numbers and just ranked them based on who he thought was better.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) All trades and free agents signings are based in part on past and future perceived worth. That's why you have some people liking or hating on trades and signings. I think the lists are useful for fun and not thinking they're the defintive word . That's whats fun abour baseball ,comparing players to each other. The problem is that they tried to make quantitative. They made a series of small, subjective opinions about each player and turned them into numbers and then analyzed the result of the numbers as if to say, "numbers don't lie!" Nobody could say with a straight face that Alejandro is one of the worst CF in baseball, but the numbers say so (that a guy made up)! If he just said, I think this guy is better and here are some reasons I'd take it more seriously. Instead, the results don't even reflect his opinions, but rather an arbitrary score based on his opinions -- in other words, I guarantee the list is not in the order it would be if he tossed out the numbers and just ranked them based on who he thought was better.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 07:55 PM) pretty good reason to not give a s*** about whether it's "outdated" or not BUT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THE NEW STUFF

They won't resist the Maddux-Glavine pair

This team drafted Cody Zeller 4th this year. They're the dumbest thing this side of Anthony Bennett. I would not count on them to be good, and I definitely wouldn't count on it based on the assumption they'll make good draft picks. If they have 3 picks in the top 15 and there are three bad players in the top 15, they'll pick those three

The reason he did it is because our line is so bad. Being in FG range meant Minnesota could stack the box as we go into obvious run mode. We almost always lose yards in those situations. Passing was out of the question as well, mainly because of how bad our line was playing. When you wonder why our yards and our points never correlate, it's because we can't execute on big downs because our line always lets us down in those situations

The length of the product cycles makes me want to kill myself. My HTC One is already considered outdated and it has aged better than all the other models that came out at that time.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 12:14 PM) Alejandro De Aza named 37th best CF in baseball out of 40 http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1755728...center-fielders It isn't that it came from B/R, it's that it's based on nothing. They claim to consult various statistics, but the actual point values they assign are based on their gut feeling (that is informed by stats, but who knows to what extent). That's dumb.

My WRs combined for 5 points and I still win

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 1, 2013 -> 06:00 PM) Cliff just got his 2nd technical booted from game vs St Rita. Can't play Friday at this shoot out in Kentucky on Fri but will be at Chicago Elite Classic Sat. The ref reportedly reached for a common foul before going for the T

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Nov 30, 2013 -> 11:18 PM) Good to see the Twins spending $ to make sure they can compete with us and the Royals for 3rd place in the ALC I have no clue why you'd assume Cleveland is on some higher level than the rest of us. Very flawed club

QUOTE (Baron @ Nov 30, 2013 -> 08:15 PM) Yeah his name is Josh Phegley AKA, MLB's worst offensive player in 2013

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2013 -> 05:20 PM) Zapata has to be at the very least 4 years away. 5-6 is probably realistic, and still really agressive. I took that to mean that he would be popular on this board in a few years

You don't realize how f***ing big Bynum is until you see him absolutely dwarf Joakim Noah QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 30, 2013 -> 04:08 PM) This is random as all hell. But is this the worst single-season roster in nba history? http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/VAN/1996.html I know this was their first year of existence. But jesus f***ing christ of almighty praise be to allah and the prophets and angels. My eyes are bleeding. How did they win 15 games? They didn't even play in good college programs for Christ's sake

If "everything falls his way" Hector Santiago is an ace

It won't blow my mind if Abreu posts a sub-.800 OPS, but that is by no means my expectation. Even if it does happen, I would expect that it be weighed down by a very slow start that he rallies back from

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 30, 2013 -> 10:53 AM) Didn't Michael Bourn sign with Cleveland in March? I hope Granderson doesn't wait that long. Wouldn't shock me, since they are both the type of guy that you don't mind giving some money to, but don't really want to give up a draft pick to get.

My first reaction to the "close losses" stat is that it has no context. I have no clue if that is more than normal or what. Our pythagorean W-L had us with 67 wins (versus 63), which says that we did have an unlucky distribution of runs. If we had been pretty damn lucky in our distribution of runs, we're just getting into the mid-70s of wins. For reference, we won 85 games in 2012 and our pythagorean W-L was 88 wins, so we were actually "unlucky" last year. I put unlucky in quotes because luck isn't the only thing that affects the distribution of runs. Obviously, good teams may "pick their spots" so to speak better. For instance, a good team will surrender a larger portion of runs in games that they're winning big than a bad team.