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Sosa usually hits .280 40 120 .950 OPS with triple digit walks and K's each year. He is very marketable and very likeable(except to those who dislike his hot dogging ass), and brings fans to the park. Maggs usually hits .300 30 110 .850 with more BB's then K's, but never more then 70 or 80. He is likeable and marketable, but does not bring fans to the park. If Sosa is 34, I take him in a second over Maggs. Due to the fact that he is 36, I consider it long and hard, but in the end of the day, I probably take Sosa over Maggs anyways. Maggs is a great player, but unless he has 2002 every year, he is not as good as Sosa IMO.

s*** got messed up when the boards were switched.

I think MLB does, but if you have checked, and they don't...

The DRays website says he isn't in the minors...so I'm guessing I'm wrong. So I would guess he has 0 homers, 0 RBI, and has an average of .000 in 0 ABs.

To touch on a few subjects... Day-to-day usually means you are out just a couple days, and the injury is very minor, but inhibits you from playing(if you have the flu, and it is so bad that you cannot perform on the baseball diamond, you are day-to-day). Day-to-day is usually brought up when the player is injured, but is not injured enough to go on the DL. I'd let Frank sit out either the whole Yankees series or maybe this whole week and let him watch the Yanks and DRays play the Sox. As has been said, you do not want to rush him and let him reaggrivate this. IIRC, a hamstring injury pretty much took out Jose Valentin's 2001 season, and in 2002, a hamstring injury slowed Lofton down to a halt for about a week or two. It's an injury that can linger, so let him get healed up. I know he just DH's, but he is a key to the Sox success this year. And I wouldn't mind bringing McGriff in. Let him get his 500th homer here. At the moment, I believe we have 12 pitchers on the team...at some point, we should go down to 11 pitchers, and that's when McGriff becomes effective. He can play a little 1B, and he has a pretty good bat. He's making maybe $500,000, and I believe is playing for Durham. It's a low-risk, high-reward type of move. If he can give us just a little more power off the bench, he has done his job, and if we are lucky, he gets his 500th homer with us, and then retires next year.

So do the Twins though too. That's the only bad part about that(and I have a feeling that the Twins will hit a wall sooner rather then later)

Good to hear HSC is doing well.

You just hit it on the head. Thank you Loaiza.

Good to see I'm not the only one who gets pissed when old-ass(and by old-ass, I mean like 2 years old) threads get brought up again. f***ING STOP DOING IT :finger

Anyone have any idea of what he throws?

I don't think so. At the very most, I'd suppose probably a trip to the 15-day DL, and I would guess probably just take a week off and just pinch hit late if necessary. But do not take that like it is a guarantee...I'm just using my best judgement, and my best judgement could be very bad.

Esteban is awesome.

I hope your kidding about asking Brando is he is kidding about Sosa being a star. I dislike him very much(being a hugeass hotdog, his hop, the stutter step, the kiss-blowing...it is disgusting), but to say he isn't a star is f***ing stupid, period. That's like saying Jose Paniagua is a good pitcher. If you want me to back my point, I will. I think I've said enough though.

How about this... We trade for a 5th starter(or an ace, and move everyone down, or a #2, etc), someone everyone likes, and move Wright to the pen where he is still effective. Mmmkay?

ROTFLMFAO

It is. Didn't you see that it was added in January?

Thomas's OBP of .419 is 17th in the league, and his 10 walks are 4th. If he's hitting anything more then .260, his OBP is .430-.450, and his OPS is hovering .950-1.000. If he's hitting .280, his OBP is .450-.470, and his OPS is right around 1.000-1.050. Frank is a notoriously slow starter, but the fact that he is doing everything he can to help the team win is good to see. Getting on base does help BTW.

I'm not either. But if he can hit .260 with a .330 OBP, he's done enough as far as I'm concerned, so long as when he is on first he does what he needs to(and not get picked off). If he can get in the pitcher's head, he wins, and we'll win more often.

I don't know about anyone else...but I thought that the first strike to Dunn in the 9th was a ball(I can't remember if it was low or outside...but it was one or the other). I thought the ump called a good 9th inning personally.

This could be.

I have a brilliant idea. LEAVE IT THE f*** ALONE. As they say, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Jose's fine, Willie's fine, Uribe's fine...THEY ARE ALL FINE.

I can only hope so

Sweet, sweet, sweet Rubber game tomorrow, and Loaiza goes against the Rays. iIRC, he still has not beaten the Rays in his career(I don't believe he did before last year and I don't believe he did last year). Tomorrow would not be a bad time for his first win.