Quoth a local rotochamp:
Hmmm…trying to find evidence that Young is a good outfielder and not finding it. ALL the defensive metrics hate him (plus/minus, PMR, UZR, and RZR). It limits his upside a bit as hes going to HAVE to mash to be a star.
1. His career range factors are above average at LF and at RF. http://www.baseball-reference.com/y/youngde03.shtml
Ping. If he pulls off Morrow and a salary dump for Young and then signs Bobby Abreu…I think we have a chance to win the West in 09 and we’re set up beautifully for a a healthy future.
Pong. Justin was also psyched about Young-Ichiro-Abreu. For Dr. D this is in the "far too good to be true" category ... if and when the Mariners hinted about Ichiro moving over, then I'd allow myself to go beatific. :- ) ... Taro, IceX, is Ichiro playing CF for Team Japan?
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Wow!
I don't ever remember seeing the MC crowd do this, vote 3-vs-20 in the direction opposite of the one D-O-V was going. This is awesome. :- )
On an emotional level, I want to see Felix-Bedard-Morrow. I think Morrow could be Jim Palmer, right now.
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Justin:
I do think it’s Delmon Young considering he’s been rumored in other places… and whose two most similar by age comps are Tris Speaker and Carl Yastrzemski.
Which are two references I'm sure are lost on most of you kiddies ... ;- )
Bill James once said of Tris Speaker, "Imagine George Brett playing CF like Cesar Geronimo." Which, come to think of it, are going to be two more references that sail past...
Vlad Guerrero, okay?
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For the second consecutive time this season, the Huskies bounced back from a disheartening conference loss with a big win on the road; last time, they crushed the Oregon schools after their triple-overtime thriller versus Cal; on Saturday, January 31st, they scored a much more impressive victory by beating the #14 ranked Arizona State Sun Devils, in Tempe, 84-71. After a tough road loss at Arizona two nights before, the significance of this victory cannot be overstated.
Strong first half sets the stage
The Huskies finally fell back to earth with a painful loss to the Arizona Wildcats, 106-97, in Tucson on Thursday night. After an impressive run of 6 wins in 7 Pac-10 contests—with the sole loss a triple overtime thriller against Cal—the Huskies conceded a road loss to one of the historically best teams in the country.
Arizona down but still dangerous
I received a tip today from a friend of the site about a potential payroll-moving trade by Jack Zduriencik, and in following up on it, there might be something to it - or at least there may have been at some point.
What I dug up/have been told is that the M's are working on a trade that would rid themselves of either Jarrod Washburn, Miguel Batista, or even Carlos Silva to an AL Central team.
Q. Put me in the camp with Sandy about being ambivalent about the trade. Don’t like losing Heilman but like having pressure on the middle infielders to perform, which Z has explicitly stated was his intent. Also a move to make the pitching more left-handed.
A. Is everybody clear on the point that Jack Zduriencik and Don Wakamatsu are making the trades with chemistry as a dominant concern?
Sweeney was, from about 1998 to 2005, the Royals' version of Edgar Martinez. He'd hit .320 with lots of walks, a .400-ish OBP, forty doubles and 25 homers. He's also an awesome human being by all accounts.
He was the quintessential Barking Spider for many years -- a small-market, underrated roto commodity who gave Mikey Jay as much production as the hyped guys drafted far ahead of him.
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DISCLAIMER DEPT. I liked Olson coming out of AAA and worked hard to get him onto my roto teams. I'm hardly biased against the lad.
And his life is hardly over, after a couple of bad trips around the league.
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Justin, who lives in Baltimore, won the ESPN All-Star league this year. He was one of the original 1995 STATS AOL brat pack that dominated local cyberspace during its first couple of eons. :- )
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