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Korver got fouled on the second to last play. Shoulda gone to the line. Losing two to the Bobcats really sucks.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 07:22 PM) And $2.3 is actually pretty decent value for him, however, I wouldn't pay him $2.3M for 6-7 starts. I think it's best to just wait until the 10 days are over and try to sign him as a free agent.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 07:26 PM) Wouldn't mind him as our emergency starter. Couldn't we just get Freddy for cheaper though? Probably not. They're similar pitchers, except Galarraga is a lot younger and has proven he can stay healthy.

Galarraga would suffice for a 5th starter. And that's about it.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 05:37 PM) A couple funny little clauses I found for Sox players in Jayson Stark's article today. Will Ohman and Jesse Crain both have clauses stating they will get between $10,000-$25,000 bonuses if they start the All-Star game. lol. Not GET SELECTED to the team, but START the game. Pretty unlikely, but maybe even more unlikely.... Adam Dunn gets an extra $25K if he wins the gold glove. lol. Gold glove for DH I guess. What is the point of those clauses?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 02:11 PM) WTF are the Tigers doing up there? http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/01/tige..._medium=twitter What the hell? I guess this means Phil Coke is really starting.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 18, 2011 -> 05:18 PM) Humber could be a waiver steal if they can get him back to his top prospect results. If they can get league average innings out of him from the long relief role, it'd be good enough for me.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jan 17, 2011 -> 10:58 PM) 7-9 against teams above .500 according to ESPN and 21-4 against those below. Just based off of that alone, they're in the top half of the league in fewest games above .500+ teams. Hollinger's rankings has their SOS at .483, which is tied for 6th lowest in the league. That includes the .416 SOS of the last 25% of their games. They did have a .580 something SOS earlier in the year. At one point, the Bulls were 3rd in the Hollinger rankings I think.

I guess the Packers are trying to imitate the Jets from last week by talking too much.

Nice win without Boozer.

Fuentes is getting 2 years and $10.5 million with an option for a 3rd.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 17, 2011 -> 10:21 AM) A's signed Brian Fuentes to a two-year deal. Don't know what they're paying him. I would imagine it wouldn't be much more than what they gave Balfour. Their bullpen is really deep now. Really, really underrated off-season for the A's. I'd say only the Red Sox and Brewers have had better ones. Billy Beane's off-season has been awesome thus far.

Chris Bosh is such a p****. Jeez. And people said Boozer was soft...Bosh seems to be on another level. I'm actually glad the Bulls didn't get Bosh after hearing what he's said. The guy is worse than LeBron when it comes to public comments.

Bulls probably should have had a easier time in that game since it was basically the 2009 Heat vs. the Bulls for the 4th quarter. But it's still a good win.

KORVER!

Wade is in freakin' beast mode right now.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jan 15, 2011 -> 12:31 PM) There is always a reason to free up money if you can - especially with guys like Danks & CQ arb-eligible. And the Sox need a closer whether that's Joba or someone else. We're talking about this year. Quentin and Danks probably won't make more than $12 million combined. Jackson's good as gone next season, so there's no point in freeing up money when he's gone anyways.

There really is no point in freeing up money when we don't need anymore pieces on the team besides a possible 5th starter and a better 4th outfielder.

QUOTE (TomPickle @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 06:34 PM) Royals signed Jeff Francis to a 1 year $2 million contract. He seems like the type of guy that's going to dominate the Sox for no reason. Probably because he has a good change up, has good control, and is left handed.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 02:54 PM) Wes Welker mentions feet 10 times The best part of it all was that he sounded serious about it. Genius.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 01:11 PM) Top this Lebron! You can't touch the ultimate douche. Kanye lives in another universe. That's not the best comparison.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) lol. Yeah, well, Sabermetrics is your god. It's what you turn to when you need answers in your every day life. 'How do I go about getting this girl'? Simple: 'Just combine a combination of wOBA, WAR and WPA and by george you've got it!' You have no idea how well that combination works. Every time, every time.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 01:15 PM) Yeah but those two aren't really human. They're more like androids. I have to figure out how to leave the emotion out of it. That's become my problem here and in every day life, actually. Then start becoming an android. Go open up Excel and stare at numbers all day. Trust me, it will make you less human.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 11:56 AM) Out of curiosity, how many wins did you calculate between Mauer/Morneau? 6.2 for Mauer, 4.4 for Morneau. I just ran Thome through. The projections like him for a lot of PAs. Thing is, I don't think he's gonna get more PAs than he did last year. So I have him at 328 PAs, 87 games with a .369 wOBA. The wOBA number I did not come up with, that's the average between the three projection systems I have at my disposal. So the combined projection systems have Thome at 1.5 wins. That puts the Twins' position players at 26.8 WAR. Pitchers at 16.4. They're at 43.1 right now, the Sox are at 42.7. I haven't ran the Tigers through yet, but I doubt it's higher than the Sox and Twins.

As of yesterday, before the Thome signing, the combined projections I calculated (CAIRO, Bill James, Fan Projections) had the Twins at 90.1 wins. They had the Sox at 90.7. I think this move probably puts the Twins ahead in terms of projected wins based on WAR. Thome was worth 3.6 wins last year. I really doubt he does that again, but still, I think he'll be good for at least 1.5.