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1. Churchill thinks that they are giving some serious thought to Ackley in LF for 2011 only, or at least he's "hearing" that.  http://prospectinsider.com/view/about-ackley%27s-call-up/
2. Check out Figgins' bizarro three-part season:
 
BA
OBP
SLG
BABIP
First 14 games
.143
.169
.250
.140
Games 15-33
.293
.354
.373
.324
Games 34-48
.109
.136
.125
.135
Not saying it's all luck, just that there was that tantalizing flash of McLemore numbers in the midst of all the despair.  And his value, if he is to have any, would be in a 3b-LF McLemore parlay as in 01-02.  That's what we thought we were getting, anyway.  Getting Figgins' mental buy-in would be the hard part.
3. Back when a ways we tried to show that Kennedy and Figgins were almost the same player offensively, except for one year that Kennedy was horrible and Figgins was great.  Copy and paste (values are OPS+):
Year
Figgins
Kennedy
2003
90
98
2004
103
100
2005
101
96
2006
85
86
2007
117
50 (mulligan)
2008
82
82
2009
100
110
2010
79
84
Guess we picked the wrong Angel role player to give the mega-bucks deal to.  But we have them both for an average salary of $5 mil!