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I posted this point yesterday.... Most of Marte's BS were coming in to a 7th or 8th inning situation with runner's on base already. He gives up one hit and it's blown save. koch starts the 9th himself and gives up 2 walks and 2b before he gets his blown save. Look beyond the stats.

I like the idea of using Gordon and Marte interchangeably. For example, use Marte to get through the 8th inning that has acouple of LH hitters due up, and Gordon to save it in the 9th... or vice versa, depending on who is due up for the other team.

you are seeing eye to eye with the vampire? Vampire? I'm not sucking on anyone's neck in here..... wait! Where's Steff?

We will be taking on $42Million over 4 years in salary with Kendall. They could then trade Lee, dump his salary and get two good prospects for him. This is a very doable trade, IMO.

But I posted it first!

If we were to move Colon to SF, would that maybe open up enough salary considerations for us to then turn around and trade Carlos Lee and/or someone else to Pittsburg for Giles and the albatross of Jason Kendall's salary?

They'd move Benson.

I'll drink to that.

I believe Kendall is owed about $40 mil over the next four years. They'd probably give as Giles and Kendall for a bag of batting practice balls. No way we will take on Jason Kendall's contract. We wouldn't be able to move him later.

But Gammons is ESPN's featured baseball reporter. It's always east coast with ESPN.

It might be the fact that Sauerbeck has a LH oppenents BA of only about .212 against him over the past 3 years. Looks like "lefty specialist" to me.

I read on the wepages of one of the Chicago papers that the Sox believe it will be Rupe and Webster that the Rangers select.

The difference in the Colon we saw today and what we have been seeing is that he threw heat. 107 out of 111 pitches were fastballs. Someone apparently had something to say to Bartolo about what he should be bringing to the mound. And it's about time, too.

The level of competition picks up now. I hope we can keep it going.

Gammons said that Gonzalez could be up with the BoSox very soon. With Sauerbeck, Fossum and Embree, that would give Boston 4 lefties in the pen. That seems awfully heavily loaded to the lefty side.

Stating the obvious here, but that's what you call a good day for a Sox fan. I hope they come more often from here on out. :fthecubs

Everybaody has been getting Sheffield out easily. This AA pitcher making his ML debut should not have any problems.

Tony G

Next year will be my break out year for predicting break out years.

Third basemen are hard to come by. We have to keep Joe Crede.

Someone please Kill this thread.

Just the smart ass ones.

Hey, no problem.

Thanks, I took it as such. I didn't want anyone to think I was trying to pick on them.

I wasn't really trying to counter anyone. I just wanted to put some perspective on things. Number's can be misleading.