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QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Sep 3, 2010 -> 07:02 PM) Might be a blessing for the Twins honestly. Obviously they want Morneau, but they've done well without him in the lineup. Plus his a career .306 hitter with a .929 OPS pre All-Star break , and only a .260 hitter with a .791 OPS post All-Star break. Justin Morneau is one of the best players in baseball. There's no "blessing" in not having him. If he and Nathan are healthy, our season is over last month.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 3, 2010 -> 06:56 PM) Eh, I disagree. I think Felix was better than Buchholz obviously, but outside of ERA, Jackson wins about every category over Felix. And Felix faced the Rangers, Yankees and Red Sox. Just a tad better than the Tigers, Orioles and Indians. Felix was clearly the best AL pitcher last month. BAA: .189 ERA: 0.82 K/9: 10.62

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 3, 2010 -> 06:40 PM) You dispute this? I won't go as far to say he's "killing" us. But he's not helping either.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 3, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) Guess who won AL Pitcher of the Month!!! http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/pos...of-month-honors Clay Buchholz. 43 2/3 IP, 30 H, 13 BB, 28 K, 2.7 BB/9, 5.8 K/9, 2.15 K:BB, 1.03 ERA, 0.98 WHIP 4.06 xFIP 36 2/3 IP, 30 H, 7 BB, 45 K, 1.7 BB/9, 11 K/9, 6.43 K:BB, 1.47 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 2.35 xFIP Tell me which line YOU think is better..... Felix Hernandez was better than both of them.

QUOTE (smalls2598 @ Sep 3, 2010 -> 01:38 PM) I was never really a fan of Prior, but that was mostly because he was on the Cubs and i was jealous the Sox didn't have anyone with that kind of skill. But now, i wish him the best of luck in returning to the majors; the guy went through so many injuries, and whether it was more mental or not, I think it would be cool to see him return to baseball. No team in baseball had a 1-2-3 the caliber of Wood/Prior/Zambrano back in '03. I envisioned a Braves-like run. Prior's second half of that season and playoffs (up until Bartman) was as dominant a stretch of pitching brilliance I've seen.

Director of amateur scouting.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 10:25 PM) What's wrong with Buch? He's as legit as any other pitcher in the system and he certain doesn't belong in the same class as a Chase Blackwood. Almost 23 years old in rookie/A ball? The system is worse than I thought.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) I'm sorry, but the Hudson love is on overflow. Does anyone honestly think he would've done as good as he has in the AL? How about in a small sandlot that we play in? Jackson always had the stuff and he's still pretty young. Hudson has decent stuff who didn't have the problems that EJ did. With that said, Jackson always had the higher potential. I'm sure KW wasn't like "We'll give you Hudson for EJ...waddayasay?" He probably started with Threets and found out he had to give up Hudson. Maybe Coop didn't like something Hudson did, or didn't do, similar to BMac. Maybe the people who still want Hudson here were BMac's biggest supporters. Either way, keep in mind Jackson was in high demand. You were going to have to give something up. Especially considering they give up Scherzer for him. Chase Field is more of a hitters park than the Cell. And Edwin will have to drastically outperform Hudson for this trade to be a net gain.

9 runs on 14 singles. lol.

I give the f*** up. Congratulations to the 2010 AL central champions. Hopefully, Ozzie and KW both quit.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 10:39 PM) Just watch, Cano, Bautista, Hamilton and Cabrera will all finish ahead of Konerko somehow. I wouldn't be upset if 3 of those 4 finished ahead of PK.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 05:41 PM) I agree with everything except the fact that you mention Mark is declining. He seems to have been pretty damn consistent in his numbers the last few years now, including this one. I guess you're right. Although Mark's K/BB rate is at a career low of 1.83. The rest of his peripheral stats remain pretty much the same.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 05:17 PM) In a vaccuum, Danks. But this team is looking deep in the SP department. With Buehrle-Peavy-Jackson-Floyd-Garcia-Sale all still here without Danks. Plus we had a flurry of pitchers pitch very well in the lower minor leagues this year. Chances are at least 1 of them will make the majors. So to answer the question, this team needs an OF more than it needs a SP. So if I can get a guy that has put up great numbers his whole career outside of this season in which he was injured, then I'll take that. Garcia? C'mon now. And Buehrle is declining and has one year left on his contract. Peavy is a major health Risk. We're nowhere close to knowing what we have in Jackson. And Sale, while ridiculously talented, is an unknown. The only sure things we have right now are Danks and Floyd. I'm not against trading either for a legitimate package. But this does not include Jason Bay.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...blings1000902_1 Pratt, this is what I was talking about when I brought up Sabermetrics.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 05:05 PM) This season his splits are .259/.347/.402/.749 and he is not getting any younger. Don't blame that on his new spacious home park either, cause he hits much better there. Just because you are only paying 60% of Bay's salary doesn't mean you are getting a deal, he will still be overpaid. Would you really rather have Bay at $10 mil than Danks at $10 mil???? We trade Danks and we BETTER be getting a stud back. Be it a hitter or a pitcher. Jason Bay=epic fail.

Alright, I've pretty much lost track of our entire system (mostly due to it's ineptitude and injuries to guys like Mitchell and Thompson). Sorry, Chase Blackwood and Ryan Buch don't do much for me. The question is who's put themselves on the prospect map this year? I mean legitimate prospects. Not some 26 year old in AAA that had a good year. Anybody to look forward to going into next year? Thank you for your time.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 04:49 PM) Uh. No. It's because I could not hate the idea of acquiring Jason Bay right now any more than I do, let alone trading a starter with the value of John Danks to get him. Bay is 33 next year, and set to make 17 mill per for each of the next three seasons. That is an AWFUL deal, and I said so when the Mets signed him to it. I'd much rather allocate those resources, if we had to, to locking up Danks rather than trading a player entering his prime to land someone so old, so expensive, and really, quite bad. Throw that 5 WAR crap out the window, dude's prime just done passed him by. May God have mercy on your soul. You've been outstanding of late. When did your evolution occur?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 04:59 PM) If you see something in Edwin Jackson, and you want him, and that's the price... then you pay it. Edwin Jackson is a pimp. Just like CQ was a pimp in 2008. Or how Beckham was last year. Edwin is pitching out of his mind right now. Will need at least a half season to fully gauge if this is the real Edwin. And when I say that I don't mean a 1.47 ERA over a full season. But a legitimate one or two, or at the very least an all-star caliber starter. I will say that he definitely, and this has always been the case, has the arsenal.

When the hell did the Rays get Brad Hawpe? And 0/4 with 4 Ks has to be the worst debut with a new team ever.

Danks has to step up against a good offense. He hasn't done so in a while.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) Yeah, because boy, that last project of his, Edwin Jackson, really went badly. I'm extremely disappointed in what he's been able to do with Tony Pena.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 03:56 PM) What would you like to see instead? Number of balls bounced off head while playing RF? A couple of people claimed I was silly for comparing the 2 offensively. Please show me that one is superior at the plate over the other. I don't think people really understand how bad CQ has been this season. His WAR is 0.1. He's 145th out of 154 qualified every day players. I'll give him a little credit for that ridiculous three week stretch he had going into the break that helped get us back into the race. Other than that, he's been putrid, dreadful, deplorable, an abomination against nature. He's sunk so far into the baseball abyss of suckage that he's evoked images of Shawn Abner.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 11:51 AM) Just trade Danks and Quentin to the Mets for Jason Bay + cash.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 12:49 AM) f***in absurd. It is. But it seems like every team in baseball has at least one guy consistently hitting 100 MPH.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 2, 2010 -> 01:00 AM) Trade Quentin and Danks 1&2 in some mega package if Danks doesn't resign for some huge bat. Perhaps A-Gon if you could get him to agree to a deal. Then, non-tender Bobby and Pena and the money saved from not paying Bobby, Quentin, Pena, or Danks could be used to resigning Paulie for DH/1B platoon with AGon, resign Putz for the BP, and try and woo Carl Crawford to play CF (I know he's a great LF, but with Rios in right and Pierre in left, Crawford would probably thrive in center, just not as much as LF). Move Sale to the rotation and have this: Starting Five: Buehrle-Jackson-Sale-Floyd-Peavy LF - Pierre CF - Crawford RF - Rios (had to break up the lefties) DH - Paulie 1B - Gonzalez 2B - Beckham C - AJ (only if he's cheap, if not, Flowers) 3B - Morel (I can't stand the thought of Teahen there and Vizquel won't start) SS - Alexei Bench: CF/LF/2B/SS/3B - Lillibridge RF/1B/RF/LF/3B Emergency - Teahen 2B/SS/3B - Vizquel C - Castro Bullpen: CL - Putz SU - Thornton SU - Santos MRP - Linebrink MRP - Infante LRP - Harrell LRP - Leesman (if he does well in the AFL) I have no idea where my brain went off on this tanget. What the hell? I have no idea where this came from. Other than the fact our middle relief would be hores***, that's easily a top 3 team in the AL. I will say though they better figure out something with Pena. They traded a quality 1B/LF prospect for him. The play he made in LF last night was incredible. I underestimated his athleticism.