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lowe declined their arbitration offer.

it's some "score" assigned to each pitchers start -- it's on ESPN's site -- scores start at 50, and go up or down based on hits, walks, strikeouts,runs allowed, etc.

I'd have to shoot whoever made the decision to move him if he's not. There's maybe 5 CF'ers in baseball better than Rowand defensively...off the top of my head Cameron, Beltran, Edmonds(who I still think is overrated), Damon(maybe, that's pushing it though) I feel like I'm missing somebody, Jones(he's lost a step though) I still feel like i'm forgetting someone, but those are the only guys who I would immediately move rowand to another position for. Hunter. that's 6.

you wouldn't play frank at first over Konerko, so why play Po over rowand in CF?

average game score

gamescore is a good way, as it values strikeouts, but I think it penalizes for walks. Guys with good "stuff" usually end up walking their fair share of batters because they don't have the control to go along with it. I just noticed the "stuff" stat today on the DT cards over at baseball prospectus...I had never paid attention to this column of numbers before, but they seem to be a pretty accurate assessment of a guys stuff. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/clemema01.shtml -- Clement rates as 16 in stuff over his career, but significanly better in his years with the Cubs http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/perezod01.shtml -- Perez rates as 12 in stuff, and has been more consistent in his career. RJ is off the charts with a stuff # of 44.

This is a guy, who on his career has been below league average. Can you imagine what Garcia would command on this market? -- Clement, career ERA+, 98 Garcia, career ERA+, 114 Who thinks Jon Garland is overpaid now? Garland career ERA+, 101 If garland has one substancially above average season over the next two years, given continued market inflation, he could be looking at $12M/yr or more.

While I'm not going to complain about clement in a Sox uni, I think the sox could be better if they go another way... Clement at 3/30 or Perez @ 3/22.5 + 2B platoon parter, or even Peirzinskwhatshisname

I think it was on the duece during whatever crappy NBA game they had going on the main network.

The Argument for Clement is that he has top of the rotation "stuff" -- He strikes guys out, but struggles with control -- 26 HBP's and 27WP's in the last 2 seasons... So his Baserunners/9IP is even higher than WHIP would indicate. Clement has only posted one season with an ERA+ significantly over 100, and his career ERA+ is below 100 Perez has posted and ERA+ significatly above 100 twice in the last three seasons, and his career ERA+ is over 100. They are very simillar, I would argue that Perez is probably a safer bet, in that he seems less likely to be injured. Clement has a violent delivery and motion. Perez is also younger, has yet to reach "peak" age, and will probably improve slightly over the course of his next contract. Clement, at age 29, has just reached peak, and although he has the "stuff" to be a top starter, I find it hard to beleive that if he hasn't harnessed it by now that he ever will truly figure it out.

For the most part I find things "interesting" that are difficult to understand. I certainly don't understand them enough to hold down any paying job. The M's deal is largely to try and keep them under budget this season. I believe that they were operating with abour $24 to 30M(depending on who you beleive) to buy free agents this winter.. This means they are probably going to be a big player in the Beltre derby, along with looking to add another SP (Clement Perez Lowe Millwood)

This is interesting to me... In baseball where contracts are guaranteed, deals are almost always backloaded. In football where contracts can be voided essentially at will, deals are almost always heavily frontloaded.

Like Jason said, This would be the equivalent of Felix Diaz and Chris Young. Young's a little farther away than Cruz, but probably has more upside.

from verducci's winners/losers column, Clement was lsted as a winner. The market has just gone crazy.

I think he's been offered in the area of $9M per.

Neyer explains many baseball rules in simple terms -- http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/transanctionsprimer.html I think Phelps is the only person who I've seen DFA'd in the past few days. He'd be a good pick-up to platoon w/ Gload should Konerko be gone.

Depends on his performance, Paulies performance, Paulies desire to test the FA market, whether ozzie still has a job, whether kenny still has a job, etc.... There's too many variables to be sure at this point, but if he's healthy, they'd be stupid not to let frank back @ 11 or 12M in '06, given the overpriced market this year, that's sure to increase in the coming seasons.

We don't... kenny seems satisfied with the catching situation... Perez would be very possible though. $6M(which is exactly what we freed up) in '05, $7M in '06(Konerko,Everett come off the books), $8M in '07(Frank is done, Contreras & Buehle off the books), $9M option for '08 -- $1.5M option buyout. That's 3-years/$22.5M, essentially the going rate for SP.

I'm not conviced the whole sox team is going down, currently as they are, they'd be toast. But there's still time for kenny to make moves. Anyway you slice it though, we have a average at best outfield.

That's like moving deck chairs on the titanic, either way the ship is going down. And like Willie said, you put your best defensive player in CF, the best arm you have in RF, and whatever warm body you have left in LF.

as much as I like to smack both of the Simpson sisters upside the head with a shovel, I'd like to beat their overbearing daddy-dearest even more.

AL avg LF -- .281/.347/.453 -- Podsednik would be lucky to even approach average AL avg CF -- .281/.338/.437 -- Rowand is much better than average, but could regress AL avg RF -- .276/.344/.440 -- Dye should be about average. That looks like an average OF at best.

Barry Bonds has batted in the #4 spot at about a 3:1 ratio compared to #3 in the order, while averaging 45+ HR's the last 3 years... While they had 24 HR's total coming from the #3 spot in '04, and 23 in '03, Marquis Grissom taking a majority of the AB's -- It's a common practice to have your "slugger" bat 4th... I know Konerko hitting #3 would be a disaster. He would end the season with about 40 GIDP's.

fine, he said that rowand didn't have "enough power", or wasn't didn't have as powerful as dye. Rowand's last 584 AB's (approx = 1 full season) -- Rowand's batted .322 with 30 HR's -- When was the last time Dye did that? Frank's only had a full season where he put up an OPS of .900 once in the last four years. Pauly was great last season, so I can't argue with that, but I don't like him batting third, too many GIDPs.

you should watch more baseball.