Jabroni

Phil Rogers is a Flubs-loving piece of crap. Who cares what his opinion is.

Low-A.

Birmingham Barons.

Why? Escobar is 26 and has done nothing in the majors. He was once a great prospect with the Mets but has done nothing since because of injuries. I'd rather have a leadoff hitter prospect incase Podsednik is a bust.

Ummm, Jermaine Dye is 31 but Carl Everett is 33. That's a pretty bad mistake in the article there.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6841776/ Key excerpts:

What could have some bearing for the Sox? Do you mean that if one of the guys in our bullpen gets injured, we could go after Dotel or Baez? What exactly did Levine say about the Sox?

"Down on the Farn Traded to Detroit, Kyle Farnsworth is the latest controversial Cub to be relieved of his duties this off-season" http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...ack=1&cset=true

Yep, and Jeff Farnworth was actually with the Tigers before he went to the Nationals. Maybe the Tigers like The Farns Brothers? The PTBNL from the Cubs will most likely be David Kelton. He isn't likely to make the opening day roster and he is already out of options. If he doesn't make the 25-man roster he becomes a free agent anyways.

http://rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/p...ort=MLB&id=5889

http://rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/p...ort=MLB&id=4709

Yep, if they would have compared our outfield to the Cubs' outfield accurately they would lose at every position... LF - Podsednik > Hairston/Hollandsworth/Dubois CF - Rowand > Patterson RF - Dye > Burnitz

Wow, straight from the Cubune? I don't think it's biased at all.

I don't think those steroids were helping him either.

The Tigers may cut Higginson if they manage to sign Magglio.

Dye could simply be more aggressive at the plate batting 3rd because he is trying to knock in Podsednik and/or Iguchi, hence his pitches per at bat would decrease.

Even if he does, it could easily correlate more to batting in the 3rd spot instead of the 4th or 5th spot than from leaving the A's and "The Great" Billy Beane. Bold prediction there, boss. :rolly

You must believe that Beane somehow magically possessed Dye's body and took over his at bats when he was with the A's. I doubt a career .246 OBP player like Billy Beane is going to to be able to tutor Dye into having more plate discipline. :rolly Beane is not God, get it out of you head. Stick with believable stats. I sincerely doubt even "The Great" Billy Beane would take credit for Jermaine Dye's plate discipline with the A's.

I understand the desire to work pitchers but as long as A.J. gets close to his career .294 AVG and .336 OBP, I wouldn't worry about how many pitches he is taking. He's already a HUGE upgrade over Olivo / Davis. By the way, how does switching teams completely change Dye's plate discipline and make it worse? Please don't tell me that Dye's improved plate discipline with the A's was a result of Billy Beane.

Agreed. Dye also hit a little bit in the 5th spot for the A's. Ideally, if Frank was healthy our lineup would look like this... LF Podsednik 2B Iguchi DH Frank 1B Konerko RF Dye CF Rowand C Pierzynski 3B Crede SS Uribe Although, the above lineup strings together too many of our right-handed hitters.

Dye batted 4th for the A's most of the season, right behind Eric Chavez when they were both healthy.

"Nakamura, Dodgers agree to terms Japanese star signs one-year minor league contract" http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NASApp/m...ws_la&fext=.jsp Only a minor league deal? I would have loved a backup for Crede at that price but we don't really have the roster spot.

Agreed. Why the hell would they sign Royce Clayton when they have Alex Cintron? They are going to realize how sucky Royce "The Choice" is away from Coors.

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpag...ort=MLB&id=8908