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Well, part of the problem is that the five NL playoff spots and a couple of the AL spots are just about locked down, so even if one of them thought Dunn would be a good upgrade for them at 1B/DH, it's hard to justify giving up anything valuable for him when you're pretty much a lock to make it in without him. And in general, teams just aren't in the mindset of giving up good prospects for veterans right now. In that respect, the Sox picked a bad year to suck.

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He gives 100% effort in games where he bet on his team to win, and gives less than 100% effort in games where he bet his team to lose (or didn't bet at all). As manager, he can make sure he has his best bullpen pitchers rested for games he bet his team to win.

Sox/Royals on Thursday and Sox/Rangers on Friday are both the MLBN alternate game, so you will only get those games if you are in the home market of one of the teams in the primary game, which is Atlanta/St. Louis both nights.

I said the Sox mainly because of the pitching talent, but also because the AL Central is a pretty weak division right now. Tigers are good but look headed for a decline. Indians and Royals never seem to be able to turn good farm systems into winning major league clubs, and the Twins are still years away.

Unfortunately, I think Lindstrom fits into the category of being too good to give away for nothing, but not good enough to get anything valuable in return for him.

Only 20.5 games out of the second WC spot!

My net worth is negative and I'm leaving 100% of it to Soxtalk.

It wasn't just a threat--the Sox actually did win!

Alexei's saber-stats benefit from being position-adjusted and he happens to be playing a position that is rife with putridness. When a guy has a 289/312/376 line and is above average for his position, that's pretty scary.

What's the all-time record for outs? Pierre has to be close.

This is probably going to be like talking to a brick wall, but here it goes anyway: Waiver claim decisions aren't made in a vacuum. Lots of players from every team are on waivers at the same time. Teams can't risk claiming multiple high salary guys because on the off chance they get stuck with all of them, they are totally screwed. Teams have to prioritize who they claim. DUNN GOING UNCLAIMED DOES NOT MEAN THAT NO TEAM WANTS HIM. It just means that he was not #1 on any team's list. With lots of starting pitchers and position players on waivers at the same time, a DH not getting claimed makes sense. As we've seen with Peavy and Rios, teams are reluctant right now to part with top prospects, so sitting on Dunn right now isn't Hahn's worst option at all.

No, the 'R' in WAR stands for 'Replacement'. A replacement-value player is a player you could pick up off waivers at just about anytime. Somebody like Casper Wells or Tyler Greene, or most of the players on the Astros. A team full of replacement-value players would have a cumulative WAR of 0.0 and would win about 30% of their games. A roster with 25 guys all with a 1.3 WAR would win about 81 games, so I guess in that respect a 1.3 WAR player would be average.

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Terrell was clearly not "The Victor" in that confrontation.

Unless there was an obvious sign that Dunn's production was going to take a nosedive, then no, it wasn't a poor decision to sign him.

A roster full of replacement players would be about 41-83 after 124 games.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...,0,389133.story Actor Lee Thompson Young, most recently of Rizzoli & Isles, 29, suicide

Congratulations! Just don't be one of those guys who pulls into the left lane going 66 right in front of me when I'm going 76.

Yeah, Braun accused the drug test sample collector of being a Cubs fan. That's clearly crossing the line.

Now everybody knows that they can start a post with, "Why all the hate for ARod" and then go on to call you all kinds of names in the rest of the post and you won't ever see it.

I meant that the edge from pick to pick between 2 and 5 is not as great. In other words, getting a top 5 pick is important, but winning a couple more games and getting the 5th pick instead of the 3rd isn't that big of a deal.

So basically, there is a fairly decent edge in having the #1 pick, but not nearly as big of a gap from 2-5.

ARod and the players union would easily win a grievance against the Yankees for refusing to play him.