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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 11:00 PM) Run that through one of them fancy run generators. Must show like 13 runs per game. Link 5.79 runs per game. Highest possible is 5.86. That's 940 runs. Jesus.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 10:59 PM) Doubt it. They'll just slide Ellsbury over. Mike Cameron is toast. I'd love to have him. Too expensive for my taste.

So is Crawford going to play center field?

Holy f***ing s***... 1. Ellsbury 2. Pedroia 3. Crawford 4. Gonzalez 5. Youkillis 6. Ortiz 7. Drew 8. Catcher 9. Scutaro

Ugly win, but whatever. God the Cavs suck.

I wonder why Boozer's been sitting out for the entire 4th quarter.

Daniel Gibson is just jacking up three after three right now. Cavs look like they have no real gameplan.

Marty34 = Joe Cowley?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 06:07 PM) Interesting how I didn't find a show on ESPN (ATH, PTI, First Take) to have a segment about the Dunn or Konerko signings, yet they had a segment about Carlos Pena today. Also, on ESPN's bottom line today I saw they mention "Dunn and Konerko were both listed among the worst defensive 1B in baseball according to advanced fielding metrics". LOL, ok cool guys, thanks for pointing out their flaws. Oh, now they use advanced fielding metrics. But they sure didn't use them when on Derek Jeter.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 05:33 PM) Rays trade Bartlett to Padres for Adam Russell and Cesar Ramos. Who is their SS? Beckham? Brignac? Ew, Adam Russell. Good deal for SD. Although Bartlett is going to hit even worse in Petco than he did last year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 05:10 PM) I hope he signs him to a contract extension halfway through his 1 WAR campaign. His reasoning - Jeff has hit for a very high .280 average and he has 15 home runs. What he might have missed is that his OBP would be around .310 and his SLG might be .400.

Ryan Doumit is a HORRIBLE defensive catcher.

Dayton Moore finally gets his guy - Jeff Francouer. My god, it's hilarious.

QUOTE (IamtheHBOMB @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 02:28 PM) That runs per game number only applies if the "optimal" lineup plays every game, right? Yeah, which is never going to happen. So you can take that estimate with an error of +- 15-20 runs.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 01:54 PM) Ozzie's lineup optimizer: Lol, based on what he said...(Rios hitting 4th between Dunn and Konerko). The lineup would average .05 runs less. That's an 8 run difference over the course of a season.

Ran the lineup of 1. Pierre 2. Beckham 3. Rios 4. Dunn 5. Konerko 6. Quentin 7. Pierzynski 8. Ramirez 9. Morel through a lineup optimizer with Bill James' optimistic forecasts (although these were released before they knew where Dunn would go). Link That lineup yields 5.15 runs per game. Over the course of a year, that's 835 runs, 80 or so more than last year. The best lineup (with Gordon leading off and Dunn hitting second) yields 5.23 runs per game.

Now that I know Konerko's getting differed money in 2013, I feel a bit better about this.

Eh, I guess we needed to give him 3. Whatever. Now our offense is set.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 8, 2010 -> 03:20 AM) What's your machine's wOBA? Haha, I don't know. But it does render cool ass images. Like this one... And this... Cool result, but god damn the work sucked. And no, I don't know what the hell the first image is.

Just finished my last machine problem. I do hate computer engineering...

Jim Hendry just had to ruin the 1B market didn't he? Ugh.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 04:18 PM) He's on the Score right now basically saying that half an hour ago KW was ready to announce the signing then something went horribly wrong and it's quite possibly 100% over, as in KW has already said goodbye. He says the sticking point is likely that Konerko wants that $15M a year to be a higher paid player than Dunn, KW expected this number to come down but it did not. This is probably for the best: $15M a year is a joke, I have a huge problem with paying a guy based on what he's done and not what he's going to do. There's no way in hell Konerko is a $15M a year deal over the next 3 seasons. Cowley says D Lee's name is picking up steam and I say hell yeah. Yup.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 11:37 AM) Yep. He didn't earn the $60 million over the life of the deal. He also failed to earn his yearly salary in 3 of the 5 years of the contract, according to fangraphs' value measurements. Now he is 5 years older and he wants a pay raise? Well, the baseball economics of 5 years ago aren't the same as they are now. Players are getting paid more for their power and Konerko had 39 homers last year. If Paulie hit 9 less home runs and 9 more doubles, I don't think he'd be asking for $15 million a year.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Dec 7, 2010 -> 02:50 AM) I like Lovie Smith the man. I don't like Lovie Smith the football coach. I don't care that his personality is as interesting as wallpaper. The issues that I have Lovie Smith come from odd personnel decisions, poor clock management, poor replay challenge decisions, stubbornness and the lack of development of our draft picks. I guess my question is. . . what makes Lovie a good coach? What does he do (doesn't call plays)? What is his stamp on this team (takeaways?)? The only players that I feel have really developed under his tenure are Lance Briggs, Charles Tillman and maybe Daniel Manning. I know that Angelo is ultimately responsible for acquiring talent, but some blame for draft failures belongs on the coaching staff too (which Lovie is responsible for). Anyone remember Zachary Bowman? Lovie was on his jock all summer long and even named him the #1 CB during training camp. Bowman hasn't substantively played since being benched in favor of Tim Jennings week 3 against the Packers. Again, what makes him a good coach? Does he influence the offense? I suppose its possible he told Martz to rein things in. Has he helped Dave Toub make the Bears a consistent force on special teams? I don't really know, nut it doesn't really seem like it. Does he help Rod Marinelli call the defense? Maybe, but it doesn't really appear that he does. I guess that leads me to: If he isn't calling plays, and he has trouble developing talent . . . then what is his stamp on this team? If I had to argue on his behalf, I'd say that he is a good leader of men. The players seem to genuinely love him. They play hard for him. That is an admirable quality but a good coach should get his team to play hard regardless of their feelings for him. I'd rather have a head coach who was truly an expert at something. Like Rex Ryan on Defense (ignoring tonight), BB on Defense, or Andy Reid on the Offensive side. It follows that I do not believe that Lovie Smith is an expert on defense. Still, if the Bears make the playoffs I believe he deserves to fulfill the final year of his contract regardless of the result. A playoff berth this year would be no small feat and earns Smith a chance to develop this offense under Martz (hoping that he stays) and add to this rag-tag defensive secondary. The Bears should not, however, rush into extending his contract. I still don't believe that this is an elite football team and this team needs to show that it can compete in all phases of the game. /end diatribe. +1.

Quentin's degrading fielding skills are definitely the results of injuries.