Jake

Ellsbury, Pence, McLouth, Cruz, Beltran (sort of an OF)

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 06:31 AM) He's the new David Eckstein. TWTW is such nonsense, but then you look at guys like Kozma and wonder how else they can succeed in the majors. Except David Eckstein was good statistically, unlike Kozma. Kozma has a .4 WAR this year. The best version of Eckstein regularly surpassed 2 WAR and once posted a 4.3 WAR when the Angels won the WS

There are free agents other than Utley, McCann, Granderson, and Morales. Granderson is not even the best FA OF in the market.

I think Wong is the most likely to be the odd man out. I want him, but he's nothing special - he seems very likely to meet his ceiling, but his ceiling isn't super high. He isn't a wizard with the glove, he has very limited power, but is just a consistent contact hitter. They have more talent at those two positions currently. I know their plan may have been for Carpenter to be their rich man's Jeff Keppinger or whatever you want to call it when the season began, but he has been one of the best rated defenders at 2B in baseball this season and I'm not sure if they're eager to shake up such a nice infield for s***s and giggles. If I were the Cards, I'd want to find a way to turn Wong into a shortstop via trade

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 8, 2013 -> 10:39 PM) I think we're going to get a ton of Class A prospects for a lot of our players, plus cash, and I'll leave it up to our minor league forecasters to tell us whether these guys are any good or not. I can tell you the answer as to whether the minor leaguers are good or not now: "maybe"

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 8, 2013 -> 10:36 PM) it's scary to think how bad this team would be if Crain wasn't pitching out of his mind this season. if we swapped him for a replacement level pitcher, we'd be 2 wins worse

dangerous backhand stab there by Phegley

I like to think about how Twins fans all think Jesse Crain is horrible. If you're a non-closing reliever, it appears to be impossible to be remembered fondly

High leverage is his most favorable split this season

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 8, 2013 -> 10:27 PM) Would I be out of line to say, "It's Ova?" We do not win games like this. Folks, Matt Thornton will not get the Sox much at all on the trade market. The guy is a very very poor pitcher. How can anybody dispute this? I am no pitching expert, but his fastball must be straight as an arrow. He throws a ton of balls, then lays the fastball in there and it almost always gets crushed. Who they hell is going to give up anything for Matt Thornton? with stats

Thornton gets far more hate than he deserves. He's a nice relief pitcher. He used to be elite. Sometimes he'll give up runs just like everybody else.

I will find some way to make Curley hitting a million home runs mean something

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 8, 2013 -> 10:20 PM) It's happened at least 2 other times in previous games. Not sure what the issue is. All scouting reports on him mention this; an apparent problem with catching pitches. Not blocking - he does that fine. Just catching regular pitches. It dumbfounds me

da f*** Phegley, those are fastballs

96-97 from Matty Ice. Throwing that heat for the scouts!

Phegley has a 222 wRC+

Phegs needs to take Garza deep again so we can poop on his ERA

The myth of the Phegley

Nick Swisher looks like non-hustling ass on ball he thought was foul

Garza would never lose his cool on the mound. Never.

THE CUBS

You're our only hope Dunner

Rizzo alligator-armed the f*** outta that one

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 8, 2013 -> 09:38 PM) https://twitter.com/CHawkins10/status/354418337998057472 LOL that's pretty funny #GoldenSombrero? #blocked

Dear Cub fans, Darwin Barney sucks.