Brandon Phillips Has 40/40 Visions
by Slyde on Mar 4, 2010 10:09 AM EST
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The Reds play their first intra-squad game today. We won't be having a game thread for that since I believe our only updates will come via Twitter and the beat writer blogs. We will be covering tomorrow's opening Cactus League game though, game thread and all.
Hal McCoy has his first piece up for Fox Sports Ohio, and already we've got something to talk about: Brandon Phillips. BP is always one for the good quote:
When it was mentioned that he is capable of another 30/30 season, he said quickly, "Quite honestly, I’m capable of 40/40. It just depends on where I’m hitting and the situations that go along with the game. It depends on the team, really."
For those that have forgotten, only 4 players in history have achieved the 40/40 season: Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Alfonso Soriano. We know at least 3 of those players have something special in common. Basically, it's not a group that you necessarily want to associate with.
However, I both admire and fear for Phillips' belief in himself. I think it's great that he aspires for greatness. You are never going to be anything special by planning on mediocrity. I think this is an admirable quality of BP, even if some might take it as cocky.
On the other hand, Phillips has a tendency to frequently, at least in appearance, try to hit home runs, even when it's not needed. I'm afraid that if he's legitimately got it in his head that he could go 40/40, we might see a lot of BP falling down at the plate as he swings out of his shoes.
For what it's worth, I think BP is just spit-firing here. I don't think he's really set a specific goal to hit 40 HR and steal 40 bases, but I'd be lying if I said my stomach didn't drop for a second when I first read it. BP is immensely talented, but I have always felt that his talents are better served as a line drive the other way type hitter. I'd like to see him talking about that rather than talking about home runs. He's the type of player that home runs should just happen for accidentally. You hit the ball hard enough, it'll go out of the park from time to time. Otherwise, just try to hit the ball hard and hope for the best.
Now before this turns into a BP bashing thread - seriously, I'm not upset at his desire, just wish he'd try to be more like Barry Larkin, not Eric Davis - I want to point out something else that McCoy talked to BP about. It appears Scott Rolen's influence on the clubhouse is greater than we imagined:
"Rolen has definitely taught me a lot about leadership," Phillips said. "How to approach the game. It has made me a better person because when he came here I started being a different player, more of a team player.
"He isn’t just a pro, pro is not the word," Phillips said. "When you watch the way he approaches a game he lets you know what type of ballplayer you are and what you should be doing.
"We have the same agent (Seth Levinson) and he always told me, ‘If you can sit down and talk to him and watch his approach he can make you a better player.’ And I think it really did."
Rolen appears to have brought a maturity to the team that hasn't been there in a decade. If Phillips can feed off of that and grow into a more complete teammate, then maybe Walt Jocketty should win Genius of the Decade.
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If the guy tries to hit 40 HR
He’s gonna end up hitting about .220.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
He's not from Pommy-land, if that's what you're asking
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!
by Brendanukkah on Mar 4, 2010 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Australian Bruce
Here. This is all I got.
My apologies. I knew this was a bad bad song when I was like fourteen. The hand claps are fun but other than that, it’s a bad bad song that has not aged well.
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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 5:53 AM EST up reply actions
Maybe he meant to say that He and Rolen together would achieve 40-40
It is nice to hear BP sing the praises of someone else as a team leader…now if Dudsy would just remove Brandon from the 4 hole..
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
I wouldn't worry about Brandon. He's learned how to be an RBI man, so he'll be just fine
I agree, though. He looks best to me when he turns a pitch inside out and drives it to right field.
And, he has been improving his pitch selection, contact rates, and K rates the last few seasons. I hope he can continue that, but going for 40 HR would kill that progress.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
Good point
even after saying he don’t like no OBP last season, he did slightly improve his walk rate and he curbed his swinging out of the zone a bit.
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And his K rate went way down, but his LD rate stayed steady.
Generally it was a nice developmental year for a 27/28 year old.
The bad part? His ISO has been in steady decline since 2007. 40 HR ain’t happening, and I’d be willing to be 30 won’t ever again either.
Maybe Rolen should teach him how to hit like him too.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
I was going to say this
Phillips shoots his mouth off a lot, usually in an entertaining way. I don’t put a lot of stock in his performance predictions.
I wouldn't try to walk with the line-up he had protecting him for over a month last year
Seriously that was the worst Reds offense ever
You should follow me on twitter @DavefrmLville....the Onion does!
by Dave from Louisville on Mar 4, 2010 7:25 PM EST up reply actions
Brandon has the reputation of saying the right thing to the press and being unpopular in the lockerroom.
Right? So, maybe he’s spitting.
Seems like he's worth a top pitching prospect when you put it that way
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Yes.
And Billy Beane is the cure for the Virus.
Set the gearshift to the high gear of your soul.
by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 4, 2010 11:23 AM EST up reply actions 7 recs
This comment needs more love
"Avoid the Clap, Jimmy Dugan. That's good advice!"
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Set the gearshift to the high gear of your soul.
by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 4, 2010 8:56 PM EST up reply actions
Perhaps one of the more sabermetrically inclined people can help me out here
Why in the hell does CHONE have BP projected as a -3 fielder this year? He’s been well above average for the past three years and he’s not particularly old, so I’m seriously struggling to see where they’re pulling that number from. I’m already doubtful that projection systems have any real value when it comes to predicting numbers for individual players (or any value at all, for that matter), but this just doesn’t pass the smell test.
CHONE uses TotalZone, which doesn't particularly like BP
Choices are made when a person develops a defensive system, and apparently a choice that Smith made for his system doesn’t work out favorably for BP.
This is why we probably won’t ever get to one “best defensive system” any time soon. Too many issues with trying to translate the underlying data and make it work. I’d consider TZ an outlier for BP. UZR, PMR, and Dewan’s +/- all tend to agree that BP is the snacks on defense.
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speaking of rich...
Somebody asked Baker when Chapman would pitch again and Baker said he would pitch Monday in Goodyear against the Kansas City Royals.
"Will he start?" Baker was asked.
"No, he won’t," Baker said. "But that doesn’t matter right now. We’ll pitch him later in the games so fans will stick around and buy more beer."
Sonny my pitched my wild
For some reason this actually makes some sense...
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Same here. He followed it up by saying
“You didn’t know I was in marketing, did you?”
Good Ole Dusty. (until he says something ridiculous this afternoon and I can’t stand him again!)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
It's just an incentive.
I guess you could relate it to marketing, but… hmm
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
The fact that he was promoting that as the reason
makes it marketing. Anytime you make your company more attractive to the outside world, that’s marketing.
"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK
The thing is
Dusty seems like a smart and likable guy, I can see why players enjoy playing for him. He seems like he generally has a good relationship with his players, but I can’t really tell you if that over rules his poor in game strategy.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
by justin007000 on Mar 4, 2010 12:30 PM EST up reply actions
It's 2010...
“For those that have forgotten, only 4 players in history have achieved the 40/40 season: Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Alfonso Soriano. We know at least 3 of those players have something special in common. Basically, it’s not a group that you necessarily want to associate with.”
I don’t have any issue with Brandon Phillips associating with Latin Players. Come on guys…
Bruce Bonser? Boone Bonser? Boot Bonser? BOOSE BONZER?
by Lakeman on Mar 4, 2010 11:49 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
I believe this to be true
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
I too think that Ichiro would associate with Latin players
if he wanted to.
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“That’s a problem a lot of times, guys are throwing to radar guns, not to get out,” Baker said. “If they had radar guns, I don’t think Greg Maddux would ever be signed. I’m sure they’ll be some there. If you notice, most of the pitches that score the highest mph, the ball is high and way out of the zone. They say ‘woo’ but it’s not worth a shit.”
I guess Cnati will give us the unedited comments which is kind of nice. No more “My arm feels like (garbage) today.”
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
this should be a tweet
but i just love the month of march… not as much as october, but still. there is so much awesome in march.
Sonny my pitched my wild
i was conceived in March
So I would have to agree.
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 1:02 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
and the "didn't have $300 or a rusty coat hanher handy" birth!
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 1:11 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
but mine rhymes with immaculate
and coincidentally both happened about the same day of the year.
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The Immaculate Conception
refers to Mary’s own beginnings. Common misconception.
Before the curse of stastics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgement.
-Hilaire Belloc
Well, there's 12 years of Catholic schooling down the drain
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Mary
is the only person who was born without original sin staining her soul. Even Jesus had original sin. I guess ’cause god wanted him to be one of us.
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Again.
Twelve years of Catholic school down the drain.
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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
He'd have a nose ring and wear number 48 for the Reds?
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
... according to the kind folks that brought us the bible ;)
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
not quite
I think this is a traditionally Catholic doctrine that not every sect of Christianity believes.
Then again, I’m pretty far out of the loop on this subject.
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yes
Heck, all Christians don’t buy the whole original sin thing, let alone that god protected Mary from it at the moment she was conceived.
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The University of Dayton
Is the largest Marianist college in the country. Please direct all future queries about Mary, the mother of God, to them.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 5, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
But not to their venerable alums.
As demonstrated by me, we are fairly useless in this department.
by the finest muffins on Mar 5, 2010 11:46 PM EST up reply actions
Should we ask Dan Patrick?
Before the curse of stastics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgement.
-Hilaire Belloc
My 17 years of Catholic schooling (take that, Slyde!)
only left me with enough knowledge to drop that “yes” above, so I’m not an expert by any means. But the “Jesus had original sin” bit doesn’t sound right to me.
by the finest muffins on Mar 5, 2010 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
I'm a vegetarian.
So I enjoyed my vegetables today.
by the finest muffins on Mar 5, 2010 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
Eat that, obc!
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
Right, the whole point of Mary not having original sin was so Jesus wouldn't either
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
My kids are soooooooooooooooo screwed
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
Wait a minute - Jesus = God Incarnate
Therefore Jesus by virtue of being both the Father and the Son could not exist in sin, God is beyond sin, death and taxes..says so in Revelations.
I mean think about it…Mary (MOG) could have been a bar room pole dancer and it wouldn’t have mattered… weak argument there Church Gang…“One man’s sin is another man’s opportunity for redemption” St. Paul of Goshen
One man’s sin is another man’s wife" St. Mads
Gleet:The chronic morbid discharge as from the nostrils of horses.
And this Madville is where Unitarians came from
They formed because they couldn’t make heads or tails out of the holy trinity and didn’t believe Jesus could be the son of God.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
and they wanted to be part of a club that made them feel good without any personal responsibility
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
and Mads, I don't personally believe the immaculate conception idea...that's specifically a Roman Catholic thing
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
The immaculate conception sounds too prissy anyway.
Sounds like a description made up by clement the First.
The Roman Catholic Church has continued to rewrite the history of the world for over 2,000 years. Impressive
Gleet:The chronic morbid discharge as from the nostrils of horses.
Totally misread that as
Right, the whole point ofMaryMarty not having original sin was so Jesus wouldn’t either
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
Well he pretty much always spreads pollen around...
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
for the record
Exactly who in the National League can hit 40 home runs in a single season?
Howard
Dunn
Pujols
Fielder
A Gonzalez
I am running out of names.
Point is, I think BP’s focus should be somewhere else.
I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)
dang, I forgot about those guys. Sorry.
I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)
Chad Ochocinqo
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
by Madville on Mar 4, 2010 2:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Just wait until he
has a mohawk, changes his name to “cuarenta/cuarenta,” and proposes to the batgirl after he hits a home run.
Tanzen!
(I'm actually a big fan of both the ocho and the Phillips Brand...)
and I think the key here is what BP at the end: “It depends on the team, really.”
I take this to mean that if Dusty wants him to only try to hit home runs then he thinks he could hit 40, but if the team needs him to be on base more and spray the ball the opposite way and leg out a league leading quantity of bases clearing triples, then that is what he will do.
Right, Dusty?
Tanzen!
by Verka Serduchka on Mar 4, 2010 1:40 PM EST up reply actions
In intrasquad news
Chapman hit Frazier on the leg with a 95 MPH fastball. Frazier had to be helped off the field.
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I think Johnny was on Chapman's team
Which is probably why no one charged the mound.
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The 2010 Reds ain't dummies.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige
Wonder how much miles paid Androidis to him ti hit Todd.
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
Nothing gets past Ramon
Catcher Ramon Hernandez caught Chapman and says his stuff was good, however his control needs work.
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he'll live
Mark Sheldon says a bruised right quadriceps for Frazier. No x-rays needed.
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at least he can start hurting other teams players on Monday.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
Dunno where else to put this.
LINEUP OMG
Friday’s lineup v. Cle: Stubbs 8, Cabrera 6, Votto 3, Phillips 4, Rolen 5, Bruce 9, Gomes 7, Hernandez 8, Nix DH
Lincoln P (lol)
So Gomes in the OF and Nix at DH?
I mean, I guess it’s spring training and it’d probably be good for Jonny to get some work in the OF, but I think we all know that if it was an interleague game they’d still be arranged that way.
except Nix will be in AAA
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
where does he fit?
Bruce, Stubbs, Dickerson, Gomes, and Balentin. I say that the outfield is pretty much set barring an injury.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
by justin007000 on Mar 4, 2010 11:24 PM EST up reply actions
Left Handed power bat off the bench who can play all 3OF positions
Balentien is more likely the odd man out now that Gomes is signed.
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
No way
Wladdy plays everyday for at least a month.
Before the curse of stastics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgement.
-Hilaire Belloc
Can we talk about porn again?
Before the curse of stastics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgement.
-Hilaire Belloc
Porn again, Christians?
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:03 AM EST up reply actions
What are the hitting results for this game?
How did Stubbs do, how did Rolen do and how did my favorite Canuck do? Did BP hit for the cycle?
they all played
It was an intrasquad game.
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I don't know if they're available anywhere
It was only a 6-inning instrasquad game. It doesn’t “count,” even as much as spring training counts.
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pitchers were throwing to batters even after 3 outs were recorded in an inning
dogs and cats were seen sharing a sundae in a baseball helmet down the first base line. Jeff Brantley didn’t have seconds at the buffet.
It was a very unnatural day.
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by Slyde on Mar 4, 2010 7:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
So you're gonna get press access to ST next year right?
They’re trying to get us into the draft and training camp and stuff. And we had a guy at the combine.
NFL is MUCH more open to new media right now
which is sad. Bloggers are getting more front office access to MLB, but player level access is still fairly restricted. Rumors are around though that it was recommended to teams to take some of the more established blogs a little more seriously. That being said, I’m not sure how anyone could take this site seriously with the crap that goes on here.
For what it’s worth, I’ve never been motivated to get player access. Active players know how to say as little as possible. It’s not like having me in the clubhouse is suddenly going to get new answers that we’ve never heard before.
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Yeah, true.
I don’t know if we’ll have any player access. The whole thing is still up in the air. But one of our guys got to sit down at the same table as Joe Reedy and Geoff Hobson with Marvin Lewis at the combine for a locals only interview. I mean, obviously, he’s not going to say much, but it was pretty cool.
I’m not sure bloggers are equipped to deal with professional athletes anyhow.
As is the NBA
I casually follow Blazers Edge (part of the SBN network!). Their level of access is equal to the MSM’s. Really great site.
by ken on Mar 4, 2010 7:49 PM EST up reply actions
Hockey blogs are practically the mainstream media for the NHL
and apparently the SB Nation blogs particularly rule the sport.
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I'm jealous.
But I’ll be living in Madison, WI next year, so unless SB gets rich and starts paying for my flights, it’s all a dream.
I meant whereabouts in Madison
Regardless, it’s a great town. Enjoy.
by ken on Mar 4, 2010 9:04 PM EST up reply actions
Ah Madison...lived there in '69, '70 and '71
Spent part of my time living in Marshall, small town outside of Madison..easier for the band to find a practice place there.
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
We wouldn't get a Dickerson interview.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
maybe we would
If we sent Daedalus. He might agree to an interview just to get in her face.
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I don't remember a PF Changs
but then we didn’t go all the way to Glendale and it sounds like that’s where all of the good eats are. We stayed in Avondale, and there were strip malls and chain restaurants, but besides that there wasn’t much of an interesting food selection.
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yeah I don't know where Dusty meant
and maybe he was imagining it (like he imagined that Taveras was a lead-off hitter). If there is interesting food, I think that Brantley might find it, but his taste might not be that discerning now that I think about it ;)
That’s too bad there wasn’t much interesting. Whenever I go to the Pacific Northwest I always come across some awful themed place like “Bigfoot Grill” or soemthing (never actually been to a Bigfoot grill). I have never been to the Southwest, but my goal is to make to Roswell with my conspiracy theorist brother, we’ve been talking about going there for years (that may not come as a surprise lol)
If you make it to Roswell..
You gotta try the penne with pomodoro at Illuminati’s.
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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:11 AM EST up reply actions
Isn't Roswell where they've hidden the flying saucers and the dead aliens
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
thgat makes sense
I guess I will just have to wait until tomorrow to get more legit numbers. And I expect some power hitting from Jonny Gomes. Haven’t seen a homerun in so long!
In other news, I saw a little Rolen interview on the local news (channel 5) today and I must say that Jocketty’s “man crush” is worthy of attention. He is not traditionally handsome, like Votto and Janish, but he is appealing too (especially his height which I didn’t notice until I saw him play at GABP). Like I said, were Janish the starting SS we would have the hottest infield in baseball! That being said O. Cabrera isn’t too bad.
Cabrera reminds me of Jessica Lange.
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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:12 AM EST up reply actions
Aaron Miles fractured the tip of finger during fielding practice
From Mark Sheldon:
Infielder Aaron Miles suffered a fracture on the tip of his right middle finger on Tuesday while fielding ground balls. The injury wasn’t considered serious. Once the swelling goes down, Miles can resume playing.
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So it's safe to say his opinions on Alonso, and Chapman in particular, aren't all hype?
If Chapman was as good as they’re saying, I’m even more excited.
I suppose
His opinion is just an opinion, but it should be a reasonably educated one. He said this evening that if he redid his rankings right now, he’d put Chapman at #2 on his list. To which I say, better make him #1 or he’ll give you the Frazier treatment!
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I don't get it.
But I thought he was talking about a league-wide list, didn’t know it was a Reds only list
WTF
Buster_ESPN
Heard this: The Reds are interested in acquiring Gary Matthews, Jr. from the Mets in the event Angel Pagan wins NY’s CF job (as expected).
100 bucks it comes out from Baseball Digest in the next day
that the Reds and Mets are still talking about an Arroyo or Harang deal
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Not saying that
but the guy who runs the BD twitter account is clearly a Mets fan and frequently links them to deals that seem impractical for the other side in the deal.
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I hear Arroyo for Reyes is in the works.
Wright and Rolen have also been rumored to be included in the deal.
wrong
it’s a 3-way deal. the Reds will be getting Hanley Ramirez. Sources are solid on this one.
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Word is that it's a straight up 3 way trade of shortstops
Challenge deal OCab → Mets, Reyes → Marlins, Ramirez → Reds
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Can we get somehow ship Pujols to Japan while we're at it?
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
My sources say Pujols, Ramirez and Carl Crawford
will all be Reds by the end of the season.
Mark it down, done deal. I have a friend that’s a real estate agent that showed Pujols a house in Covington last week. Also, my sources say that Carl Crawford boarded a plane 30 minutes ago and is in route to Cincinnati.
I'd really just rather send Pujols to Japan.
I really don’t like the guy…
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Apparently my roommate knew someone who was killed by the guy's cousin or something.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
I just watched Matthews hit a home run
in the encore showing of today’s Mets game.
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They had crazy winds there today
So wind was probably blowing out. I watched some of it on MLB Network. Saw Rasmus misplay an easy fly ball.
Matthews is terrible. He’s no better than any of the Reds multiple options for LF. I guess he’d be fine defensively, but that’s about it….
My fantasy football team this year? Lippincott's Shorts
by cesarhernandez on Mar 4, 2010 8:13 PM EST up reply actions
it was a meatball
Knuckleball that didn’t knuckle.
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That's about all he can hit now that the roids are out of the picture,
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Fay debunks the deal
#Reds source on Gary Matthews Jr.: Zero interest. Listed 5 OFs in camp he’d take over Matthews.
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um, BP has already hit 30
so by definition, that would at least be his ceiling.
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what about his 2010 ceiling?
plus, that last one was a wallscraper, iirc.
He fixes the cable?
by Colin Auscapee on Mar 4, 2010 7:53 PM EST up reply actions
just givin' you a hard time anyhow
relax…it’ll be a lot easier.
He fixes the cable?
by Colin Auscapee on Mar 4, 2010 7:54 PM EST up reply actions
here we go
johnfayman
#Reds source on Gary Matthews Jr.: Zero interest. Listed 5 OFs in camp he’d take over Matthews.
oops slyde beat me
GM rankings
SI’s list has Jocketty at #14, in the middle of the pack.
You could certainly make an argument that Jocketty should rate higher given his great success with the St. Louis Cardinals, the best team in the National League last decade. Given how much of that success came down to Albert Pujols’ reign of terror, the presence of all-time great manager Tony La Russa and pitching coach Dave Duncan’s ability to nurse terrific performances out of incredibly sketchy pitching talent, though, there’s only so much credit to go around.
Andrew Friedman of the Rays is in first place. Dayton Moore of the Royals is last.
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re: Moore
SBNation’s team previews have been great. The Royals preview is my favorite so far.
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:44 AM EST up reply actions
LOL
He must be bummed that the Yanks snatched away Randy Winn.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Shouldn't Jocketty get credit for hiring LaRussa and Duncan, and drafting Pujols?
I would’ve moved Walt up a little higher, but I’m biased.
That list is not kind on the NL Central, which is fitting.
by ken on Mar 5, 2010 7:59 AM EST up reply actions
I was thinking the same thing about Walt.
As long as he did in fact do all of those things. I don’t know, did he?
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 8:04 AM EST up reply actions
Hmm..
Then that kinda makes Tim Marchman’s snack-on-the-run commentary look like half-baked pretzel logic, no?
14. Walt Jocketty, Cincinnati Reds
You could certainly make an argument that Jocketty should rate higher given his great success with the St. Louis Cardinals, the best team in the National League last decade. Given how much of that success came down to Albert Pujols’ reign of terror, the presence of all-time great manager Tony La Russa and pitching coach Dave Duncan’s ability to nurse terrific performances out of incredibly sketchy pitching talent, though, there’s only so much credit to go around.
I mean, it appears that Tim Marchman was just trying to mess up the hair of one of the league’s best executives some but what Tim Marchman did was say, “Hi. I’m Tim Marchman from Sports Illustrated. Don’t ever take too seriously anything of mine that you read.”
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
I generally like Marchman
But yeah, he was bound to make mistakes like this in doing a scattershot exercise on such a broad topic.
I wonder how The Franchise feels about projections
ESPN projects BP to only hit 21 HR
Bill James projects BP to only hit 21 HR
CHONE projects BP to only hit 21 HR
Marcel projects BP to only hit 20 HR
40, eh Mr. Phillips?
Projections are like bellybuttons. Everybody's got one.
And Brandon’s is just twice as big as Bill James’s?
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 7:35 AM EST up reply actions
Madville project BP to hit 20 HRs.
Votto 31 HRs
Bruce 36 HRs
Gomes 25 Hrs
Cabrera 2 HRs
Rolen 10 HRs
Stubbs 15 HRs
Hernandez 7 HRs
Jannish -3 HRs (minus 3)
Balentien 5 HRs
Nix 14 HRs
Dickerson 2 HRs.
Sutton 2 HRs
Hanigan – 1HR
Miles 0 HRs
Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.
Nix 14 HRs
so you’re counting AAA homers too?
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
We'll see...
Would you rather have Sutton coming off the bench to pinch hit for Cabrera in the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs and runner on second, when the opposing manager brings in the big right handed closer…or Laynce?"
And don’t say Dickerson – his OBP won’t drive in the winning run and he’s not a consistent PH.
Gleet:The chronic morbid discharge as from the nostrils of horses.
I'll take Wlad
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
You'd rather have a rookie RH batter up against a top MLB right handed closer than Laynce...?
To quote HilifeMan21 – Fail
Gleet:The chronic morbid discharge as from the nostrils of horses.
Yes, Wlad might actually take a pitch, has as much power as Nix, hits righties better than lefties, and has waaaaaay more upside
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
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