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QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) though i will recognize this as ingenuine as the next guy - what else do you expect him to say? Something a little more genuine than this BS.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 11:48 AM) I know him and Edwin Jackson are close. He also said yesterday that he is close with Fernando Rodney. Right, because Fernando speaks great English.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 11:20 AM) Career ERA of 4.70 in 222 innings Which isn't very good.

Nice to know. It's just that Mark usually sucks against Cleveland.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 11:20 PM) I'd consider preordering now...but no love for Comiskey? Hmm, I'm debating which game to get next week, MAG or The Show... The Show dude, the Show... MAG is very generic.

QUOTE (SnB @ Feb 23, 2010 -> 07:36 AM) i'm considering 2k10 solely because I lack a PS3 and want to play road to the show. The demo is out on 360.

Yeah right...

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 08:30 PM) This has got to be one of the silliest questions I've ever heard. Do we really need a Cy Young award winner in his prime? Pitching always trumps hitting. This is why there are so many ridiculous contracts paid to pitchers and not as many for hitters. But we were pretty much set in the rotation already, our hitting was not. Thus, hitting was our top priority to improve. I'd much rather have a great hitter than Halladay if I was in our current situation.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 07:18 PM) I think that Damon fell into their consideration, and fit the bill. SD can afford to ask for the system right now, but they'll lose leverage by July. In the past few weeks, Kenny has officially gone public with his desire for a lefty impact bat. I'm not saying the addition is imminent, I'm saying the Thome, Damon discussions...remove the pre-Soxfest concern that Kenny is gonna just accept the lack of a lefty impact bat on this roster. -BTW, he just said if Jermaine Dye was left handed he'd be in camp right now. -Ugh.... A left handed Jermaine Dye can hit better than Mark Kotsay I say.

Did we really need Halladay? Personally, I think our rotation is good enough as is. I would have loved to have him, but we probably would have needed to trade either Danks for Floyd, something I wouldn't have wanted to do. This team needs a big hitter more so than a big pitcher, something Kenny failed to get this off-season.

Look at how high Peavy's elbow is. The general rule in pitching mechanics is that you shouldn't form an inverted W with your lead and throwing arm. Peavy kind of ignores that... Another guy who has that similar elbow bend... No other than Shawn Marcum, the guy who owns us, but can't stay healthy.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 05:10 PM) He does? His motion is extremely violent. He bends his arm back at a very weird angle. Take that image for example, the elbow seems to be bent way too far back for comfort. I've tried to replicate his pitching motion and my elbow starts hurting every time I try. If it's fine for him, then that's fine. But physics affects everybody and sooner or later, his elbow will start wearing down from that motion. Let's just hope it's after 2013. Nice article for stuff like this: http://www.chrisoleary.com/Projects/Baseba...nic_200709.html

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 05:00 PM) Peavy? He hurt his ankle running the bases. He's never really had that many arm problems before, even with his violent pitching motion.

This also has to do with the fact that our front office is pretty cautious when it comes to signing/trading for injury-heavy players. Guys like Quentin are the exception, but for the most part, we're a healthy team.

QUOTE (La Marr Hoyt HOF @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 02:57 PM) worse, he screwed-up our team for the next three years... Yeah, we already know this because he's only played a month for this team in his very first bad season. Let's all worship small sample sizes.

I hate all the BS these players spew out when they're talking about why they did it. "I was hurt, I needed to get healthy." GTFO, you most likely took them to get bigger and stronger. Health was just one of the reasons, not the main reason.

QUOTE (dmbjeff @ Feb 22, 2010 -> 12:15 PM) He looked like he was easily 275+ in his LAD days. So 221 is a real good sign. If he can get around on fastballs again and can lay off the offspeed stuff which he was abysmal at hitting he has the chance to have a decent season I hope. Now if only he were to get 60%+ of the DH platoon over Kotsay. A 300 pound center fielder, now that's funny.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:58 PM) What about what scouts say about his decline? I just received my BP yesterday. Here's their little write up on Rios: As surprising as the Jake Peavy trade was, Kenny Williams' claiming Rios in August wins the award for the most shocking transaction of 2009. With Williams hoping the talented outfielder simply needed a change of scenery to get things going again, Rios responded by not even getting his batting average above the Mendoza line, and the club is stuck with him for six more years at a cost of more than $80 million. (I believe they are off $20 million but it may be an option) Rios is young enought to figure things out again, but he most galling aspect of his performance might not be the stat line; it's the gaggle of scouts who see a player who just doesn't give a damn. I don't know if that really is true or not. Not the scouts feelings, I know that is true, but whether he really does give a damn. One other thing I heard on MLB Network about Rios with the White Sox in 2009, in 150+ plate appearances, he only hit 12 balls hard in play. Pecota has him at 34 2B 4 3B 20 homers .274 AVG. 339 OBP You can change attitude, you can't change talent. If Rios still has it, it's more than likely that he can bounce back in full stride. All the projection systems have him as a 2 WAR player, I think he's capable of that.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) And we couldn't do this because? Because we don't have that many long-term contracts. Outside of Peavy, Buehrle, and Rios, we don't have any lengthy contracts. And Buehrle's contract isn't even that long. He's going to be a FA at the end of 2011. I doubt you're going to get Peavy and Rios to do anything to their contract since they've only been here for a short time. Doing anything with Buehrle might not even be worthwhile.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:29 PM) It's so great though, because Isiah just buried that organization for years to come, and if they don't sign multiple Max FA's this year, they will be forever screwed. It was only 10 years ago that the Knicks went to the Finals. One man can screw up so much.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 02:29 PM) Right. Like I said earlier, the "decline" is misleading. It's like saying Pujols was on the decline from 2003 to 2005 because his OBP went from 1.106 to 1.072 to 1.039. Technically, that's a decline. But, obviously, it's really not. Wouldn't a lot of people here like to have Curtis Granderson? Well, he's also been on an OPS "decline" the last 3 seasons (and actually, it's been a much more serious decline than what Rios has had) but I wouldn't consider him to be a player that's getting worse. I'd be glad to have him. Melky Cabrera had a similar 3-year downward trend, but that doesn't mean bigger picture issues. For somebody that just turned 29 three days ago, I consider 2009 to be anomalous, and the 3 years before that are not even a problem for me because they were still good years. I keep hearing that the Tigers were smart to trade Granderson because he had already peaked. The guy's still in his prime, what are they even talking about? Just because he had one bad season doesn't mean he's done for. The Tigers look really stupid right now since they gave $15 million this season to Valverde and Damon instead of shelling out maybe $10 million to Jackson and Granderson, two younger and better players.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 01:58 PM) They traded it to Phoenix in 2004 I think. Isiah Thomas traded for Stephon Marbury. Then the Suns sent it to Utah in a Tom Gugliotta trade. So a trade in 2004 had a draft pick from 2010? That's just weird.

QUOTE (chunk23 @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 06:29 PM) Rios has been on the decline the past few years, and Quentin has been hurt every year. I would call hoping for both of those to reverse as counting on lucky breaks. Rios had his best season in 2008, not in terms of home runs or anything, but he stole 32 bases, hit nearly 50 doubles, and played great defense in center field when Vernon Wells got hurt. He was worth 5.6 WAR in 2008, which was good enough for 3rd among all CF behind Beltran and Sizemore. The perception that Rios has been in decline ever since 2007 is flat out wrong. He was actually progressing until last season.

With all this heart warming stuff coming out, we shoulda given Jones a team option for 2011. xD

Nice game for the Bulls today.