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Guys, Frank was in camp yesterday. He's feeling so good he decided to play CF. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=250302104 It's on ESPN, it's got to be true.

This series has been running for awhile now. I thought they weren't going to have any Sox in the top 100 a couple weeks ago. But today I checked it out again, and BMac checks in at #14, and I missed Brian Anderson at #27. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/3433164

No worries on Munoz. He was nasty in Winter ball.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 07:11 PM) I can't wait to hear this one. Please. Explain. How many runs did Pods SB's in the past two days lead to? For stealing 70 SB's last season he only scored 85 runs. What a joke. They don't mean s***. Gimme a guy who can get on base more often, and doesn't give away outs by getting thrown out. They turn the the line-up over and give the team more opportunities than a low OBP his steals guy.

SoxBadger Anyone who's bashing Willie, yet prasing Pods is being a hypocrite. After all, at age 26 Spod had 0 major league stolen bases. Oh and I hate SB's -- They're virtually useless.

yes out of HS, by the Dodgers

QUOTE(Reddy @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 06:21 PM) out of curiousity whats the point of that info... all that matters is major league production... and spod beats willie there anyday Well since it was in response to the ability to TEACH the SB.... It seems to me that good ole Scotty Pod had to have time to develop. He didn't steal more than 30 bases until he was 26, and that was for the Tacoma Rainer's.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) ANd you can't teach willie how to use that speed to steal a base every once is a while Spod Total SB's thru age 26 = 190 -- In 9 minor league seasons. WH total SB's thru age 26 = 184 -- in 6 years of professional baseball(Minors and majors) Looks to me like Spod is the slow learner...

I hate game threads, but I had to read to see what happened.. Yesterday's media coverage was poor. QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 3, 2005 -> 03:41 PM) Do we have a backup infielder in Ozuna? I've liked him for a while good thing we have him. This was my favorite quote. I LOLed and got some little pieces of partially chewed pretzels on my comp screen.

It's Fake, It was close enough that I thought I would post it... There's one thing that stuck out to me that nobody has/will notice that was a dead giveaway to me right away. I just wanted to see if anyone else would catch it.

Just looking for your opinion.

QUOTE(JimH @ Mar 2, 2005 -> 07:15 PM) Trying to look at it from Guillen's point of view. Guillen's point of view could be made into an ESPN behind the scenes look into the seedy underbelly of misguided MLB managers and their teams, OutMakers.

WTF were we thinking?

You guys are retarded if you think think that one game in March validates whether a player is good or not.

MLB = Sux0rs

not quite... You don't get to be called Sir unless you were a born Englishman.

QUOTE(joemg311 @ Mar 2, 2005 -> 01:31 PM) Ok thanks guys it is becoming much more clear. But what is to stop the sox from giving everyone of those players the league minimum? They generally do in their first season.. The next two years they get small raises.

Matsui acts like he's never seen 2B before.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 2, 2005 -> 01:01 PM) Really...? We paid $13 all last year and many times we didn't have our pass. .....isn't that special.

QUOTE(Steff @ Mar 2, 2005 -> 12:54 PM) Since when is parking $17...? April 4th.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 2, 2005 -> 12:38 PM) Is it just me or does it really tend to clump teams too much. There aren't any high win totals or high loss totals. That's a product of running so many sims... In a division without a clear cut winner it's probably gonna do just what you said, because of the unbalanced schedule. (example: one sim the sox win 90, but because they have to win those games mostly against their division, the twins finish with 70 wins. The next sim, the reverse happens. Result: each team is predicted to win 80 games) If you just ran a couple sims you would get some real fluky results, like the Detroit winning the WS or something. Running multiple sims helps remove the "noise" from those fluke seasons, but most teams inevitably fall in the phat part of the Bell curve.

Here's one I found using the most up to date ZiPS/line-ups/etc. Sim was run 100 times... W/L record is average Team W L RF RA DIV WC American League East Baltimore Orioles 82 80 831 823 1.0 13.8 Boston Red Sox 97 65 941 765 77.5 18.0 New York Yankees 89 73 859 784 20.5 34.0 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 70 92 705 813 0.0 2.0 Toronto Blue Jays 80 82 784 785 1.0 7.3 Central Chicago White Sox 80 82 792 811 29.0 0.0 Cleveland Indians 81 81 815 810 28.0 0.0 Detroit Tigers 74 88 783 839 6.5 0.0 Kansas City Royals 68 94 754 895 0.0 0.0 Minnesota Twins 82 80 788 791 36.5 0.5 West Anaheim Angels 87 75 826 775 45.5 9.0 Oakland Athletics 88 74 831 750 44.5 9.8 Seattle Mariners 81 81 802 801 7.0 5.0 Texas Rangers 76 86 829 894 3.0 0.5 National League East Atlanta Braves 83 79 756 746 15.0 10.0 Florida Marlins 81 81 714 700 7.5 6.8 New York Mets 89 73 769 701 35.0 17.3 Philadelphia Phillies 90 72 765 688 38.5 20.7 Washington Nationals 79 83 692 695 4.0 7.0 Central Chicago Cubs 84 78 747 704 3.0 19.8 Cincinnati Reds 71 91 745 823 0.0 0.8 Houston Astros 74 88 707 786 0.0 2.0 Milwaukee Brewers 78 84 703 740 1.5 3.3 Pittsburgh Pirates 67 95 668 794 0.0 0.0 St. Louis Cardinals 98 64 779 622 95.5 1.0 West Arizona Diamondbacks 74 88 725 806 0.0 0.0 Colorado Rockies 76 86 815 864 2.0 0.0 Los Angeles Dodgers 94 68 762 652 87.0 2.3 San Diego Padres 82 80 738 715 11.0 8.5 San Francisco Giants 76 86 747 803 0.0 0.3 In the AL Central, the RA seem inflated for a few teams (minnesota in particular)(They allowed 715 last year, and I think their pen may be even better this season)... Still, a 29% chance of making the post season seems pretty accurate to me.

It's skipped a couple times in the bottom of the 1st... What kinda connection you on? I imagine that these games are their highest traffic games (outside of World Series)

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 2, 2005 -> 12:12 PM) How's the quality for you knight?? I turned it on for a bit and turned it off the quality was awful for me. The game's on espn, I just wanted to see how mlb.tv was so I can make a decision on it for when college comes up in August. It's incredible for me... crisp and no skips whatsoever. It's great.

Reyes and Kazou instilling a lot of confidence in the mets top of the order...