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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 04:44 PM) I also realize his numbers were much better than Conors in all three of those seasons. Like I said, Im not saying I want Freese, Im just saying he is better than Conor Huh?? At age 26 David Freese had 31 ABs with 1 home run and 7 RBIs Conor Gillaspie who was 25 to start last year had 408 AB's 13 home runs and 40 RBIs

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 03:57 PM) Ok, well you are using the "He is 30 and more likely to regress" reasoning for Freese. Thats fine, but what about "Conor Gillaspie had his first season in the bigs at 26, so this is probably the best he is ever going to be"? Usually players that couldnt get out of the minors until that age end up being nothing more than AAAA players. Freese has demonstrated that he can produce at the big league level You do realize the first MLB action David Freese got was at age 26 which he had 34 PA. At age 27 he had 270. At age 28 he had 363. so according to this and you Conor is ahead of schedule and will be better then Freese

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 03:40 PM) Ok, that's fine -- just so we all know it has nothing to do with who the better player is, lol. Gillaspie may have more upside, but right now, he is absolutely NOT a better player. And Gillaspie is NOT a better homerun hitter. You can cherry pick Freese's worst, injury-plagued year if you want, but you're ignoring the rest of his entire career, including his last healthy year, just one season ago, when he hit 20 homers. Freese has more power than Gillaspie. There is no information at all to suggest otherwise, even scouting reports on Gillaspie have ALWAYS questioned his power. Freese has played 2 full seasons, not like he has 6 or 7 to go off of. One pretty good year and one bad. Like I said he has an injury filled past too so you can't really say "injury-plagued year." He will always have some injuries going on. He still managed to play 138 games this year, only 6 more then the previous year.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 03:02 PM) Career WAR Gillaspie: 0.4 Freese: 8.2 WAR per 500PA Gillaspie: 0.4 Freese: 2.3 2014 Steamer projected WAR Gillaspie: 1.3 Freese: 2.3 Career UZR/150 Gillaspie: -5.2 Freese: -4.8 Career wRC+ Gillaspie: 83 Freese: 119 2014 Steamer projected wRC+ Gillaspie: 95 Freese: 118 Hmmm. Wait, I found something! 2013 Ultimate baserunning Gillaspie: -0.1 Freese: -1.9 Help me, I'm struggling here. Is the argument that Gillaspie is better something like "Freese's injury-plagued down year in 2013 makes me think that his entire career precedent is lost now that he is age 30"? Because where I'm coming from, it looks like they are similar defenders, similar baserunners, but Freese is a SUBSTANTIALLY better hitter -- like several standard deviations better. I don't give 2 s***s about all those stupid acronym stats. I like Gillaspie more then Freese. Freese had one decent year (how many players have had similar years once or twice and sucked the rest of their career) and is full of injuries, 30 years old and couldn't even hit 10 home runs at 3B last year.. Tons of people here always talk about 3B, 1B, and corner outfielders must be able to produce the power numbers (not saying you are one of them) and Freese isn't that. He isn't that good of a player, he is average at best and Gillaspie has a CHANCE to be an above average player if he progresses. At age 30 Freese will likely just regress.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 02:33 PM) There is a HUGE difference between a .305 OBP and a .340 OBP. I think you have to take the situations into consideration also. Freese was in a playoff race with a great team around him. Gillaspie was out of the playoff race by August and had nobody around him. It was also his first full year in the MLB. If I had to pick who I wanted next year and the next 3+ I would pick Gillaspie. And Freese is injury prone and has had bad ankles for all of his playing career.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 02:10 PM) Freese is indeed overrated, and I don't want him either. However, he is absolutely better than Connor Gillaspie lol Freese 30 years old 9 HR 60 RBI .262 AVG .340 OBP 462 ABs Right Handed Gillaspie- 26 years old 13 HR 40 RBI .245 AVG .305 OBP 452 PA Left Handed And it was Gillaspie's first full year and with a horrible cast around him that never got on base. Freese was on a team that made the World Series and had a bunch of guys in front of him that got on base. I will take Gillaspie every day

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 01:16 PM) Rosenthal reporting that the Cards are looking for OF depth in exchange for Freese. DeAza for Freese? Makes a lot of sense to me, but I seem to like Freese a lot ,ore than most here. No no no no no no no. Just no. Conor is better thrn Freese. Just no. Being from St. Louis I can't stand Freese. So overrated because of a few games in the playoffs a couple years ago. I don't wamt him anywhere near this team.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFan05 @ Nov 20, 2013 -> 11:10 PM) Awkward. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1859471...amming-national Hahaha I remember that commercial, awesome that it came true

Josh Johnson to the Padres David Murphey to the Indians

Really considering getting a PS4 in March.. Hopefully it will be in stock everywhere so when I trade in my PS3 and games it will knock down the price

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Nov 14, 2013 -> 11:41 PM) PS4 comes out tonight. Xbox1 comes out....next week maybe? Ahh alright, was wondering why people were lined up

PS4 and XBox come out tomorrow or something?? I am out of the loop because 1, I am too poor to just buy one and 2, I don't want to now. I was going to Best Buy tonight because my dog chewed up my laptop charger and there were people sitting outside Best Buy in a line.

People must just be bored now. I love Uribe for what he did in '05 but no reason to bring him back. None.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Nov 11, 2013 -> 03:19 PM) I think the majority of the Sox remaining moves will be trades. Maybe a signing like Suzuki that can provide a LH bat behind the plate. Hahn can call anybody looking at Granderson and tell him he can deliver a better offensive upside with a smaller financial risk and not having to give up a draft pick. Obviously the defense is an issue, but for an AL team, it would be a pretty good deal. Suzuki is right handed and hit .230 last year with 5 home runs. No reason to sign him. I believe Phegley could do better then that.

Glad you are not the GM. Santiago has more valuable then Ethier alone and adding another starter that has a chance to be in the rotation in 2 years is a bad idea. And David Freese sucks. Conor Gillaspie gives better numbers

QUOTE (juddling @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 02:25 AM) What part did you need explained???? Pretty much the whole damn thing lol. Too much going on in that episode. I get the husband was set up but why exactly was he set up?? What was exactly the point of blowing up a port and who was responsible for it? Wasn't the girl doing it for someone else?

Any chance David Ortiz retires??

Isn't Freese a free agent? I really hope we don't sign him.. He is worse then Gillaspie and doesn't hit left handed. No point

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 02:32 AM) I spent 2 years in a dorm as well (1 year at each college), and I had some pretty awful luck with roommmates. My first roommate my freshman year was on the soccer team and eventually got kicked out of school for pot, which he kept in the room. Luckily I didn't get anything for that. I was solo for about a week before I let the kid down the hall move in with me. He was a quiet kid whom I knew wouldn't keep me up or bring any chicks back or be drunk. That worked out fine, but it was boring. Then I moved colleges and my roommate my sophomore year was a senior who I'm not sure was not a robot. Very weird kid who when I brought a friend over to watch a Sox game actually said when he came back in to the room and saw the both of us "Oh, I didn't know we were expecting to have visitors this evening". He was the closest person this world may ever have to Sheldon Cooper. We had 2 TVs in the room NEXT to each other. He had headphones with a long extension to reach his bed so he could watch Everybody Loves Raymond for hours on end while I watched sports and Comedy Central. I could go on for a while with all his quirks, but I need to get to bed. After maybe 3 weeks of dealing with that weirdo I moved next door with a guy named Neal who was easily the most fun roommate I had in the dorms, even though he was very messy, shed a ton, smoked pot and came back to the room drunk and sloppy all the time. I mean, I came back to the room drunk too, but this kid would come back with piss down his jeans and knock s*** over in the room and then leave all the lights on. He was a real real sloppy drunk. I then got asked by a couple girls from HS to live in an apartment with them, and I did, and it was by far the best living situation I've had. A real Threes Company scenario living with 2 beautiful girls. One of them I am really good friends with. The other one I am friends with, but we got on each other's nerves a lot because she is very bossy and controlling and "this has to be my way!" and I loved to go against. And now, since my girls have graduated in May, I am spending my last semester alone in a new apartment way off campus and I hate it. So boring not living with anyone, so boring not knowing any of the neighbors because they are all foreign or have kids, and so boring because I live a couple miles away from the bar scene and all my friends houses. Doesn't seem like a big deal for those who went to gigantic campuses like IU, but after living in an apartment IN the bar strip for 2 years, it's really hard not being able to walk down my stairs to the bars. My roommate freshman year sold pot and he would roll it up right in front of after I told him I don't smoke or like being around it. It was pretty s***ty. And one weekend I went and visited my girlfriend (she went to a different college) and I came back and he was gone, moved out. He left his old shoes in shoe boxes though (what a nice guy). We shared a fridge and I had a few things in there and he just took them or threw them away, not really sure. He never told me he was leaving, not a text or note or anything and has never said anything to me since (2 years ago). And I wasn't a bad roommate or anything. Never made noise, didn't really talk, would use headphones when I watched stuff on the computer. He was terrible, the pot thing and he got an Xbox and we shared MY TV and for whatever reason he would get up at like 7 in the morning and turn on the xbox and play Call of Duty. Didn't turn off the volume or anything when I was trying to sleep. He would play online and talk to people on his stupid headset while I was trying to sleep. One night I took my remote and put it in my bed and when he started playing it in the morning I turned around and muted it. He was like what the hell and I was like I am trying to f***ing sleep and you are using my TV and have the volume up, why don't you be more considerate That was the week before he moved out. I guess I pissed him off enough to leave. He moved in with his pot buddy and I had a dorm room to myself for the rest of the year and It was so much better.

Lived on campus in a dorm for 2 years and I hated it. Couldn't stand all the immature people and also sharing a room with someone that I didn't really know. And was total opposite of how I was so we had nothing to talk about. I now live off campus in an apartment with my girlfriend and I like it a lot more.

Ok can someone explain to me last night's episode of The Blacklist??

QUOTE (ChiSoxFan05 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 04:51 PM) If we were to sign another big name then SportsNation will start referring to us as the Heat of the MLB. (Signing LBJ, Bosh) Who watches SportsNation

I saw a picture on another board that showed Joyce was looking the other way when Craig first made contact with Middlebrooks. So I don't even think Joyce saw Middlebrooks legs up.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 26, 2013 -> 11:40 PM) I think his feet were in front of third base, which is how Craig tripped. I think Craig tripped more towards Middlebrook's butt. Also when Craig starts running he is looking behind him. No matter what Middlebrooks does Craig stumbles over him

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 26, 2013 -> 11:33 PM) The obstruction call in baseball is fairly stupid. If the fielder gets into a bad position from trying to catch a throw (like in the case of Middlebrooks) and he just happens to be in the basepath, it's obstruction. I know it's hard to judge intent, but I really feel obstruction should be a judgment call based on the fielder's intent. I remember a play at second where on an errant throw into CF, the SS would stay on top of the diving runner to prevent him from going to third base. How the hell is that not obstruction? Was Middlebrooks in the basepath??