Princess Dye

OK! good to manufacture a run there

Dammit, Twinkies are currently clubbin it like lou canellis

Honestly based on what DJ has been doing since being here....ive always wondered why we never see too much of a call for him to get a rotation spot. On top of that we now have Peña

filthy pitch there by dj

Not a word exchanged between Jose and Ozzie there. The funny thing is Ozzie's real track record of truly openly/visibly disliking players has been those of Hispanic origin. Completely the opposite of what he's often been accused of.

Ha ha classic Hawk. I wonder if we'll ever see him follow his pal Blyleven into profanity land

FRWHAT!!

In the last minute I've hated, loved Jose. Perhaps I'll hate again though in about 20 seconds and prepare the DFA papers

Stoneys job- good work if you can get it

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 4, 2009 -> 07:45 PM) http://www.soxtalk.com/chat/index.php I've found it way more possible to follow the game by using message boards ...you can slowly check back on missed comments in between at-bats/pitches

Aight keep it on Camera 1

QUOTE (onedude @ Aug 4, 2009 -> 07:42 PM) to think how long we'll have beckham and quentin makes me as gitty as a school girl We should combine that with an overpay for Matt Holiday and call it a dynasty

darn it . i was hoping to find out sean osullivan is more horrible than he is

Ya know, after all this CQ-is-dead talk, he is third on the team in AB per HR unless we want to count resident batsmith Mark Buehrle

Sweet. more enjoyable than the Beckham moment for obvious reasons

SlayerBaconator

That would cost so much dear god I dont wanna decimate the farm's pitching any further. Maybe down the line we could package Flowers and Mitchell? It would hurt to give that up but TB has been open to going the youth movement route. And we'd be pretty darn stacked at that point.

If Padres were being ordered to get rid of Peavy, how come we werent hearing about other bidders leading up? The injury and contract...yea... but was there seriously zero interest coming from anywhere?

If there are enough great 3Bs out there for every team to have one.... then yes i'd want Beckham at 2B. But since it's not the case, I'm in agreement w/ you.

Probably Catch All material, but we have 8 good OBPs and then the 9th player is Quentin.

I want that clump of OBP guys up high in the lineup. The success that Alexei has had this year, I would argue, is not specifically his having done two-hitter-ish things. Even though he's been great in the 2-hole, i dont know if that spot in the lineup shows any causality for that success He's taking more pitches. Back when he was lower in the lineup this year, he was doing that same thing. The difference in avg to obp has been pretty good for his standards (and by that i mean all year, not just as the 2). I think we all pictured him getting more fastballs hitting in front of the 3-4-5. Despite that, his average is lower than last year and his OBP is higher. I think it can be sustained down lower in the lineup. And even if some of this is wrong.....I hate to say it, but the thought of getting more Gordon at-bats per game is worth letting Alexei's stats suffer lower in the lineup.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Aug 3, 2009 -> 12:40 PM) Peavy is a player who's bottom line value is not just in his performance on the field. There are only a certain number of players who have this effect. This is something these stat "experts" won't take into account. Not to mention the attendance jump that will make JR all the more willing to spend the money that is coming off the books this offseason

QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Aug 3, 2009 -> 12:31 PM) I dunno if any of you guys frequent RealGM, but this is similarly ridiculous (hehe) to the Bulls fans over there b****ing about Reinsdorf paying Peavy and not Ben Gordon. It's a slow offseason and I knew it was a matter of time til that board would jump at something like this

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 2, 2009 -> 05:55 AM) Hey Kalapse, Can we get an updated version of your payroll spreadsheet? Thank you! That would be excellent. The thing I'm most curious about with this deal is seeing what it does to our free agency possibilities.

Richard's ceiling appears to be that of solid #3 starter Poreda, now that he's away from the team that drafted him, is going to start being looked at as bullpen-type because of his makeup Obviously we cant judge the deal yet, but the guys we sent are replaceable. Peavy does some things that are very hard to find, and JR gets to take on that type of starter with his preferred method -- 4 year contract or less. His point about the big contract is a good one, but we're the kind of team that has to overpay anyway. I would rather have this on the books than have another one of those offseasons where FAs turn us down and we have to settle for Nick Swisher.