Hatchetman

there not testing because there is no test for HGH.

f***. cora was the guy i wanted if we don't get iguchi.

i hope they just leave the team as it is

sandberg would have been a 1st ballot guy if: 1. mike jackson hadn't have broken his hand that one spring training 2. his wife wasn't sleeping with one of his team mates, causing him to "retire." she was pretty hot there in that miniskirt if you recall his retirement press conference. he compiled most of his stats by the age of 31.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 7, 2005 -> 10:19 AM) This coming season can be a very good, exciting season. But there is potential there for the season to totally suck. better than the same old s*** in my opinion.

A if he gets a 2B. B otherwise.

i don't mind turner, but don't know anything about the OL coach. i hope he knows what he's doing.

This has to be the steal of the offseason. Lucky us!

In order: Frank Thomas Carlton Fisk Harold Baines Robin Ventura Jack McDowell

I think Hawk actually quit because he couldn't play as much golf.

I'd take Fogg as a #5. He could go 9-12 5.00, which would be about 9 more wins than we got out of #5 last year.

I'm not going to get all worked up over $1mil, but you can pick up a minor league FA better than Timo.

we couldn't afford to offer him arbitration and he wouldn't sign a "reasonable" deal with us.

yeah, us and about 10 other teams...

yeah. i wonder if they just randomly make stuff up or what...

i think so...the score said he'd sign with somebody by monday. which means nothing, of course.

the score reported 6 teams, including the sox, are interested in AJ P.

that's a nice little theory in general, i think bill james made up, but it doesn't necessarily hold for particular players. fisk, for example, sucked in LF. i suppose if you gave him a couple of years he'd get the hang of it, but no time for that in the majors.

But he hit .400 with runners in scoring position!!!!

Cotts should be in AAA getting innings under his belt.

That's what we thought last year. Get a guy like Estes who at least won't go 1.3 IP 8 ER (at least not every start).

Quiz: Jerry Krauss The FA signing that pissed me off the most was giving up a #1 pick to sign Sandy Alomar (the first go-around).

AJ grounded into 27 DP's because Bonds was planted on 1B 300 times. He grounded into 27 the two previous years combined. Not that speed and DP's are correllated 1:1 anyway. (see Andruw Jones) But you're right. The book says catchers can't bat in the #2 slot.

He's got average speed, if you've ever seen him play. He's a better bat handler than Uribe. He's got a higher OBP than Uribe. KW says Rowand will bat down in the order. He wouldn't be your prototypical #2, but the Sox don't have one of those. You really want Uribe to be taking strike one and two while Podsednik tries to get a good jump?

And that would be why?