Greg Hibbard

CAN YOU SAY INSURANCE, SUCKA

WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!! :finger :finger :finger

YES way to prove my ass wrong paulie christ, could these announcers be LESS into this game?

one of paulie's patented dp's coming up here...

CRAZY CARL!!!!!

Juan actually worked a walk...OMG

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 01:38 PM) what it say "frank thomas? HE GAWN!"

MJH just talked about it in their tease

well, I'm not exactly an optimist, that's for sure. don't forget the infamous yankees thread you can't spell controversy without Hibbard

Wow...I'm just in shock...Levine is giving a few more details right now...also talking trade stuff

Maybe the Sox look at Adam Dunn now? Or does Cincy want the farm for him?

They just said in a subsequent report that he may even have re-fractured the ankle coming back too early...they are not sure yet

Yeah this blows. Now we definitely need a bat.

Levine just reported it

on ESPN 1000 just now Frank Thomas done for the year

please please please let Thomas finish his career as a Sox

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 11:44 AM) Jermaine Dye hasn't committed an error at shortstop either. By the way that helped out my fantasy team a great deal. To be able to put a stick like Dye in my MI spot is just awesome. However, I digress. Hibbard, there is not a statistic out there that can actually prove someone's defensive worth. It is really impossible to do that. Just watch the games and you will notice how damn good Uribe is at SS. Watch the games and you will see such a huge downgrade in quality when Pablo fills in for Uribe. Uribe is a stud in the field and that should not even be up for debate. His bat I would like to improve. However, is Pablo really that huge of an upgrade offensively that you would be able to deal with the huge downgrade defensively? Who is to say that if you start playing Pablo day in and day out that he will be that good offensively? Plus SS2K pointed out that Pablo has absolutely no power. There is no way I am taking a chance with him playing everyday when I am not making my team any better. Now if you want to acquire a SS like Vizquel then I can understand that and I am with you, however I am not for replacing him with Pablo as the everyday SS. Hibbard, I understand you jsut want to try to make this team better, but this would not do that. This team is based on pitching and defense. The Sox are close to unbeatable when they don't create an error. You can't risk losing a guy like Uribe when your team is built like that. Great response. I do appreciate that some of what Juan does is unquantifiable, and I may have been hasty in suggesting Pablo would be a great fill-in perse. I was honestly just surprised at how bad Juan was at the plate and coupled with what I viewed as mediocre defensive stats, I got on my pedestal and started shouting. However, our most glaring deficiency is on offense it seems, and our most glaringly bad offensive player is Juan Uribe. Isn't there someone available that is better offensively and not a significant downgrade defensively?

It would certainly be a nice change if people just ignored the threads they didn't like rather than flame them.... :rolly

Now I may be a moron, but I certainly am not going to shut the hell up.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 11:37 AM) Our starting LF also has a superior OBP and has 50+ steals to compensate for his SLG. Ozuna has the most steals/game played on the team after Podsednik. If he played every day, he'd have 20+ steals by now. I'd take a speedy on-base guy over a swing-at-anything occasional slugger any day. What's Uribe's slugging....I'll bet it's less than .400. My point is, what the hell does Uribe do to make up for everything he doesn't do? Not much. Also, I misread Pablo's error chart...that was my bad.

Our starting LF has a slugging of .356...I suppose we should bench him

btw, Pablo hasn't committed an error at shortstop

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 10:44 AM) You are the s***tiest thread starter on the site. If I say anything in retort, I know this thread will be locked down or deleted so what's the point

I just came up with the stats to prove Uribe is totally mediocre defensively, awful offensively, and all you can do is accuse me of trolling. LMAO indeed. Clayton is having a better season defensively and offensively. At least he has a friggin' OBA above .300! To me, that's surprising that Uribe is this bad. Hell, almost any other shortstop in the league is having a much better season. How is looking at these stats and gleaning the most apparent truths from them trolling? Uribe needs to be upgraded. That much is obvious.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 29, 2005 -> 10:24 AM) Juan Uribe is vital to this team. Period. Ozuna doesn't make half of the plays that Uribe does. Pointing to him being 7th in errors is so incredibly lame, as we are talking about 14 teams in the league, so essentially he is middle of the pack in errors, but how is range, how is his arm, how many plays does he make that go under most SSs gloves? We have already seen that defensively Pablo Ozuna can't carry Uribe's jock in a suitcase. If you want to point to offense you are talking about a guy in Ozuna with absolute zero power. But keep nitpicking stats until something sticks. I just proved how Uribe is the worst offensive player in the AL. Let's look at his defense. 7th out of 10 shortstops in qualified fielding percentage at .972. Don't like fielding percentage, you say? Fine. Let's look at range factor, something you seem to be insinuating is great about him. 5th out of 10 qualified AL shortstops, 14th in the entire majors at 4.5. Zone Rating? 11th out of 25 qualified MLB shortstops. What about his defense is remarkable? Even if Ozuna's not the answer, anyone other than Uribe clearly is. Even Royce Clayton.