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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 10, 2015 -> 08:19 AM) Moncada basically has to be Mike Trout to justify it. yeah, I was thinking of Cano or Arod (because he is listed as an IF), but the idea is still the same. For that price you HAVE to get a superstar out of it, and even then, you are getting zero surplus value out of him.

Alexei days until pitchers and catchers report!

At the cost we are talking about here ($80 million + no real international signings for two years) to me it isn't worth it.

OOOOOOOH DAMN!

Ego will not allow me to pick up the pencil.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 01:38 PM) .300 points of OPS is a thin line? And your second statement is completely subjective and meaningless. No player has ever actually outed Piazza ON THE RECORD - and that means something. The case against Piazza is weak at best. It would be better if we talk Sosa as our example player. Look at Barry Bonds pre-2000, and post 2000. Then after 2004, he falls right back to his pre-2000 levels. His numbers are somewhere between 250 and 300 points over what he did outside of his steroid years.

So Dayan... where does he land next?

MLB Pipeline ‏@MLBPipeline 1h1 hour ago Top #13 picks in @MLBDraft history, by WAR: M.Ramirez, 69.2 Tanana, 57.9 Konerko, 28.1 Templeton, 27.6 G.Nolan, 25.9 A.Hill, 23.8 Sale, 22.9

Pau Gasol leads the NBA in double doubles.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 01:15 PM) He's going to the Padres, they are officially out of control Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 3h3 hours ago The Padres are taking over the world: Sources say San Diego is working out Yoan Moncada today and plans to be aggressive in bidding for him.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 09:15 AM) Liquor stores have a ton of boxes too. Especially after Wite has been there.

Comcast SportsNet ‏@CSNChicago 6m6 minutes ago #WhiteSox 'first round' talent Spencer Adams gets his due, writes @CSNHayes: http://bit.ly/192i7y1

QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 8, 2015 -> 07:38 PM) Thank you. I am still trying to track down a birth certificate. All I have now is the year of birth. Seriously, ask around a facebook page centered on the towns history. There is one centered around my hometown and it amazes me the things that get talked about there. I would be willing to bet that someone knows someone who grew up with him, played ball with him, or just remembers him and can give you at least a direction to go in.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 09:38 AM) No, Belisario was bad last year. There was some unluckiness to it all - a LOB of 57.7% screams regression to the mean of about 70% - but even with a very good GB% and GB/FB ratio, the one thing we can't tell merely from looking at his numbers was how hard those balls were hit. I didn't see a lot of Belisario last year, but I know I saw him give up of groundballs that were absolutely scalded. He had a tendency to leave the ball up, but with such heavy sink on it the ball still tends to get pounded into the ground. Javy Vazquez put up great fWAR's in 2006 and 2008 too, but if you are going to try and convince me that he was a good pitcher those years, I wouldn't be swayed. Some guys just don't pitch to their talent, which is more of what I think fWAR shows us, and some guys pitch well beyond their talent. This is why I don't wholly disregard bWAR and the like. There is value, because that is based on what they did, but it's not a great predictor of success. I know people don't like things like the eye test and different roles making a difference, but to me Belisario was the poster boy for both. He got off to a horrible start, and then was a lock down set up guy, until they tried him as a closer. Once he hit that closer role, the self-destruct button was hit, and he was terrible again. I think Bellisario is a textbook case of not having enough between the ears to be a guy who does more than be a middle reliever and set up guy.

QUOTE (3GamesToLove @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 08:24 AM) Sloooowww down there, buddy. You can arguably count on one hand the guys in baseball history who hit better than peak Frank Thomas. I remember very early on there was a person who predicted that Dayan Viciedo would end up hitting more homers than Frank.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 8, 2015 -> 08:45 AM) My goal is to have the most posts w/o being an administrator. You have got a really long way to go for thgat.

OMG

Like the penguins do... smile and wave.

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QUOTE (shipps @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 09:33 PM) So I have now watched Frozen for the 289th time. Decent movie I suppose but I was satisfied after the second time for sure. Good lord I wish my kids would pick a new movie. Let it go...

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 09:16 PM) I can't guarantee what will be inside, but I'm sending you a care package. It definitely won't be awesome White Sox memorabilia.

Try facebook pages from the town or area the guy is supposedly from.

QUOTE (Douglas Rome @ Feb 7, 2015 -> 09:38 AM) baseball has been very very good to Diane V. how much has he made in the last 4 or 5 years? More than enough to go back to Havana and sit on his front porch and eat tacos and get big and fat and live like a king. thanks, douglas Haven't we gotten past calling someone a girls name being an insult? It is the 21st century. Women aren't inferior beings just because of their gender. I won't even touch the other stereotypes.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Feb 6, 2015 -> 02:00 PM) I said stuff like that 18 months ago; now there are two of us. To be fair you pretty much hate everyone born after 1970.

It almost feels like something will go wrong now.