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QUOTE (danman31 @ Sep 1, 2014 -> 09:36 PM) I won't argue with that overall, but I really don't think Mata is all that good. He certainly isn't on the same level as the company listed there. Probably not, but I'd say he's one of the better midfielders in the PL.

ManU now have 3 top-tier strikers in Rooney, Van Persie, and Falcao along with a great distributor in Di Maria. They've only scored one goal so far in the Premier League. If they don't start scoring some more with a front line of Rooney, Falcao, Mata, and Di Maria, then Van Gaal will surely be on the hot seat.

QUOTE (TRU @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 11:23 PM) Ive spent about $50 on ultimate team so far. My wife is going to kill me if she notices the charges on our account. It's like I know that it's nothing but a money grab for EA...yet I keep playing. I collected football/baseball cards when I was a kid, so maybe that's why I have this urge to make my team better. After spending $30, I've only gotten 1 elite card on my team and that was because I got two Mike Evans cards and made them into an elite one.

QUOTE (LDF @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 05:24 PM) I wonder what San Fran was offering. I'm fine with what we got back, I was talking about his performance for the team.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 05:50 PM) So last week would have been good timing to beat a pregnant woman? I guess I see what he is trying to say, but come on now, especially as such a public spokesperson I think you're reading into it a bit much. Right after he said bad timing, he said wrong decision. He's clearly not endorsing people to beat their wives.

I've never spent money on DLC or in-game purchases until I started playing Madden Ultimate Team this year. I had $10 lying around in my PSN wallet that I didn't know about, so I spent that on 7 packs. Then I had a $20 credit from Amex and bought a $20 PSN card from Amazon. So technically I haven't spent much of anything, but that's still $30 I just gave to EA.

Adam had one good year with us and it wasn't even that great honestly. It would have been nice to get some more out of him, but sometimes you just have to cut your losses.

QUOTE (ROC Sox Fan @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 11:31 AM) Holy shift! I saw that on NotGraphs and thought it was a joke. It looks like somebody photoshopped them into the picture.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 10:37 AM) Bruce Chen DFA'd!! We should pick him up and stash him in AAA forever.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 04:18 PM) Q finally gets a break. He's only got one more win and one less loss than Samardzija, who didn't win until late May. I think that says a lot about Jose's lack of luck.

I'm getting AT&T's gigabit internet once I move to my new apartment next week. Pretty excited. I have 50 mbps right now and I have trouble imagining something 20 times faster.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 01:02 AM) Baserunning, sure. I'll give you that. But this PREMIUM DEFENSIVE POSITION REPLACEMENT LEVEL crap has to stop. Any player who can hit like Abreu holds tremendous value, I'd go so far as to say unequaled value. Abreu is the only player, regardless of position slugging above .600. Not only that, he's the only one even close. He's the only player in baseball that has even a remote chance of an OPS over 1.000. He leads MLB in wOBA and WRC+ too, lack of baserunning and all. It doesn't matter what position Abreu plays, he is cramming much more offense than anyone else in baseball into one spot in the lineup. There are plenty of teams that are not getting Abreu like production out of their 4 and 5 hitters combined (totally unverified claim). Don't give me the "well you see Trout plays center and the average center fielder can't hit near as well as the average first...", Abreu so far out classes what anyone in baseball does with the bat arguments over positional semantics are worthless. No, it can't. Because if you stick Abreu out in CF, he's going to cost you games. It takes a specific set of skills to play a good CF at the ML level. It takes a lot less to be a decent 1B. Also, when you take park factor into account, Trout actually has a higher wRC+ than Abreu despite having a slightly lower wOBA. So basically, Abreu = Trout offensively and Trout >>> Abreu in everything else. And you're telling everyone here that we're arguing about worthless semantics...lol.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 01:43 AM) A thread about the off season ahead the upcoming 2015 season. We already have a report that Victor Martinez is the team's top target, and the team must rebuild the bullpen. So what do you want accomplished this off season? I don't want us signing old players coming off career years (like Victor Martinez).

Steve is just easily taken aback by something new...only to hate it later when he realizes it kinda sucks.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 11:10 AM) Both players are having legit MVP quality seasons, but the reason that Trout is going to rightfully win it is because the Angels are in 1st place with a 80-53 record and the Sox are in 4th place with a 60-73 record. If the records were flip flopped Abreu would have a much better shot and probably win it. They're about equal offensively, but when you take defense and base-running into account, Trout is way better. That's the objective way of looking at it. However, the voters don't always look at it that way and I have to assume that if the roles were reversed, Abreu would be a much bigger threat.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 11:14 AM) Trout still was the better player last year. Yeah, but I found it more justified than when Cabrera won it the year before. Trout actually out-hit Cabrera in 2012, he didn't last year.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 09:26 AM) I don't think we have to worry because this is probably his year. The Angels will make the playoffs and that'll be that. Although it would be extra hilarious if writers fall so in love with the KC story that they give it to Alex Gordon, with defensive metrics as the justification. I don't expect a bunch of old people to take defensive metrics seriously. Even I can't take his UZR this year all that seriously. I mean, Gordon's a good LFer, but not +25 runs good.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 06:34 AM) The only reason Trout didn't win in 2012 and 2013 was because his team missed the playoffs. Now that his team has the best record in baseball, I would say he is a lock to win it this year. He didn't win last year cause Cabrera had one of the best offensive seasons in the past 10 years and Cabrera won the triple crown the year before. It didn't have much of anything to do with making the playoffs, it had everything to do with Cabrera putting up offensive numbers the voters couldn't turn down. I didn't agree with Cabrera winning it in 2012, but I can't fault the voters for voting for him since he won the Triple Crown. I didn't mind him winning it last year even though Trout out-WAR'd him by quite a bit.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) My guess is they keep: Marshall, Jeffery, Wilson, Holmes, Morgan, and Spurlock. With 10 practice squad spots they will hope to slide Chris Williams and Josh Bellamy through waivers and keep them both. Easier said than done though. Are they actually going to use Holmes at PR if they don't keep Williams? Holmes returned punts yesterday and looked pretty good.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 10:13 PM) Trout just doesn't have the bat. I went Felix. .950 OPS isn't good enough huh?

Mike Trout and it's really not all that close IMO. Cabrera's been awful for his standards this year. Gordon's second in the AL in WAR, but half of that is from his defense (I don't buy it). Cano, Donaldson, Seager, and Abreu are also candidates, but I don't think they can really be fairly compared to Trout.

I joined a 10 team public league on Yahoo just for fun. Those leagues are no real fun. Way too many good players left on the free agent market. My bench is absolutely stacked. There's 3 guys who would have been starters in a 12 team league on my bench (Spiller, Decker, Kaepernick).

They definitely made ultimate team a lot harder this year. I have one guy whose rating is over 80 right now and I've opened like 8 packs (one pro pack, a bunch from other stuff). I remember playing it last year and getting AP off the bat.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 25, 2014 -> 10:12 AM) If he hadn't gotten behind the wheel drunk, then the NFL would have let him be an alcoholic in peace Didn't know about that part.

So Prater just got suspended 4 games for being an alcoholic. Odd.