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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.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 11:37 AM) Confirmed? By whom? And what does that have to do with this thread? I think he's trying to say Sale will be useful against all the Twins left handed batters late in games in the bullpen.

I'm also not so sure that Grant Balfour likes our team. He had that altercation with OC in the ALDS back in 08. Pretty sure Ozzie doesn't like him either and vice versa.

QUOTE (scotty22hotty @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 11:17 AM) Hmmm He signed for cheaper than Jesse Crain This also makes the Ohman signing just look silly Wonder if KW went after him at all... seeing as how the 1st round pick was already gone. There was some concern by some front office people around baseball about Balfour's loss of velocity last season. He did lose velocity, but it was around 1 MPH. All I know is that he had a hell of a season last year. I would much rather have Balfour.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 11:14 AM) Reasonable deal. Oakland has had a very underrated offseason. Other than not landing Beltre I don't see what's not to like about what they did. That team is looking dangerous.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 10:52 AM) So, is Pavano like the only free agent of note remaining? He's going back to Minnesota. Not a done deal, but that's what is expected.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Jan 14, 2011 -> 09:45 AM) It's still only 192 PA's, so it could easily be sample size. When it happens 3 years in a row, you gotta start believing it's a real trend. Alexei's BABIP is horrible in April, so it could be partially on luck, but since I don't know his batted ball rates in those months, I can't really comment on whether or not it's just bad luck.

CL Rivera SU Soriano SU Feliciano MR Robertson MR Chamberlain MR Logan (LOOGY) LR Mitre You could add Marte in there too. They have a lot of depth.

That Yankees bullpen sure looks good now.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 13, 2011 -> 12:40 PM) I can already see Kruk saying something stupid about how the Yankees had a great offseason because they didn't make any real changes. The Yankees probably had the worst off-season of all the big market teams. They overspent for a league average shortstop, overpaid a lot for their closer (even though I would say most of it is deserved), and their only real addition is Pedro Feliciano.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 13, 2011 -> 09:18 AM) I'd much rather see lbj getting dunked on by scal and Stacey king goes crazy like "oh no oh no u didnt scal!!! don't do the king like that!! WTF is the poster machine?!" That would be the best basketball moment of the year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 13, 2011 -> 03:10 AM) "Instant Karma's gonna get you...gonna knock you right off your feet" I think Bron Bron's learned his lesson.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 12, 2011 -> 10:47 PM) Lebron on his karma tweet. seems that this guy has no balls to own up to what comes out of his mouth. He's getting a lot of bad advice from his stupid friends.

Unfortunately, Jim Caple also wrote some article about how runs scored are one the most important individual stats in baseball in order to prove Derek Jeter wasn't bad last season. So there goes some of his credibility. http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove09/...%26id%3d4848879

QUOTE (Pale Sox @ Jan 12, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) "I have the ultimate respect for White Sox fans. They were as miserable as the Cubs and Red Sox fans ever were but always had the good decency to keep it to themselves. And when they finally won the World Series, they celebrated without annoying every other fan in the country." - Jim Caple from his latest article updating the team misery indexes. Put this quote in my sig. Trudat.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 12, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) There's a reason Devin Aromashodu is on his third team, and it's because he just isn't very good. I hear it's about him not being able to fit into what the team wants him to do. He's probably just lazy. He is pretty talented.

QUOTE (WHITESOXRANDY @ Jan 12, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) Except that he'smaking more money than almost every player that created more runs than he did and they actually play a DEFENSIVE position! They play the whole game and help win games on defense and some can actually run and help their teams on the bases. They can bunt, hit and run etc. Way way overpaid for Dunn. You want Adam Dunn to bunt and hit and run? Seriously? Just for the sake of ending this horrible debate, let's look at the 2011 salaries of players ahead of Dunn in wRC+ from last season. And in order to make this fair, the player must be no longer arbitration eligible (6 or more years of service). Arbitration and pre-arb players don't count. This way, we can determine the value of a player better or like Dunn in the free agent market. Miguel Cabrera - $20 million Paul Konerko - $12 million Matt Holliday - $17 million (That's until 2016, then he gets deferred payments) Jayson Werth - $10 million (but he's getting $116 million the other 6 years of his deal) Aubrey Huff - $10 million Adrian Beltre - $14 million (then at least $76 million for the other 4 years) Carl Crawford - $14 million (and then $126 million for the other 6 years) The only guy who is much cheaper than Dunn is Huff. And that's understandable since he's older and he probably took a discount from the Giants. Everybody else is either at similar value or they're paid way more. That's also understandable, but you have to realize the market's value before you go rambling about how so and so isn't worth he's being paid.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 12, 2011 -> 02:00 PM) Hey J4L, I think someone is about to pass you over as the resident whipping boy There's no point in arguing with you. Your arguments are fraught with terrible logic. At least J4L had logical reasons to look at things the way he did.