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Q. Does EVERYbody in the blog-o-sphere like Chrissy Cap on the cheap?
A. Yes, up to and including Spec.
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Q. Surely this obligates Fronk'n'Furt'r to go contrarian. What's the case against Capuano, 1 year, $7M?
A. Well, that's the Dodgers' official position: Capuano is not worth 1 year, $7M. So obviously there is one.
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The Kansas City Royals are finally good after many years of being bad.
Same with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
How'd they do it?
Spoiler Alert: With a few exceptions, they built their teams in the 2004-2009 drafts.
And they are finally good ... now. In 2013.
And there are lots of win totals that start with "6" or "7" in between (and a few that start with "5" -- ugh).
PHXTerry turned us on to Ryan Divish' column. First look was pretty solid. Good call bro'.
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Q. Is there anything cool about having Ramirez in the bullpen?
A. Ryan's take was that if Erasmo is sent to the bullpen, it will be for positive reasons -- he's the one who is good there, and he's the one who can go three, four innings as needed.
Dr. D, as you do, loathes the idea of having Erasmo throw MEANINGLESS innings out of the pen. If he went to the pen to get into 7-1 games, that would be a bummer.
But that doesn't have to be the way. I think of the POSITIVE long man role as the Ramiro Mendoza role.
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Q. Ramiro Mendoza role? Is that like a "piggyback" starter?
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Q. Seven innings, one run. Why would he ever get knocked out? What does a bad Blake Beavan game look like?
A. Why did Fister ever get hit last year?
These guys don't get lots of strikeouts. Sometimes the grounders go through holes. And sometimes it's Adrian Gonzalez at the plate.
This is a 9-part series ... the click-through links are bottom right.
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Q. What do you mean, the M's can't get complacent?
For the second generation, Aaron and Alice first had a pair of twins, which I named Bob and Baxter. I initially chose Baxter to be the heir, since he seemed a bit more studious. This left me free to let Bob become a vampire, just for fun.
Unfortunately, this decision would cause me some problems later on.
