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| Mike Cuddyer |
Alex about 2 hours ago
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And he needs three more games to qualify at second in most leagues. In leagues that are slack about this requirement, major bidding wars. |
| Nelson Cruz |
Alex about 2 hours ago
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Hit .243, slugged .518 before the All-Star break. Hit .292, slugged .431 after it. So his hamstring problem must have caused him to cut down on his swing. Until the postseason. |
| Adam Wainwright |
Alex about 3 hours ago
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In the Previews and Predictions section of the Major League Baseball Yearbook and Fantasy Guide, the Cardinals are picked to finish third in the NL Central. With a record of 80-82, the World Series champs are going to lose more than they win. Fair enough. Here's how the magazine projects the won-lost records of the Cardinals' rotation: Chris Carpenter 15-8 Adam Wainwright 16-8 Jaime Garcia 13-8 Kyle Lohse 12-10 Jake Westbrook 11-9 No losing records here. The five pitchers combined will win 67 games. Lose only 43. So everyone else will be 13-39. This isn't a knock on the magazine. I think it's great that they have team projection pages. But it does point out the problem with almost all projection models. They look at players individually; they do not look at teams as a whole. When I grab a set of projections from a web site, the first thing I do is sum the win and loss columns, and the win totals always are higher than the loss totals. Because pitchers who win games have more seasons on which to base a projection than pitchers who lose games. |
| Andres Torres |
Seadogs about 3 hours ago
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so I shouldn't be building my draft strategy around a Torres rebound to 24? |
| Angel Pagan |
EugeneFreed about 4 hours ago
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Unless those stats are just misleading. Pagan's OPS w/ 2 outs RISP is .743 Late and Close .783 Overall he's .750. I wouldn't say he's outside the statistical norm for a player with his career stats. He pretty much does the same thing in "clutch situations" as he does every other time up. No measurable effect. |
| Andres Torres |
Alex about 4 hours ago
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Pagan was just a small underachiever on the Mets compared to the way Torres underachieved on the Giants. And now -- wouldn't you know, if you're a Mets fan? -- Torres is the Mets' center fielder. The Mets signed him to a one-year contract for a modest $2.7 million, which surely explains why they traded for him. I mean, what else does? |
| Angel Pagan |
Alex about 4 hours ago
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Next up on my newsstand: 2012 Major League Baseball Yearbook and Fantasy Guide. It's not bad. A bit of a yearbook (concise team previews with projected lineups) and a lot of fantasy. Hitters and pitchers listed alphabetically (I'm with Rotoman and anydpro: it's the only way to go), position rankings and analysis, prospects near and far, auction drafts, snake drafts... 170 non-glossy pages of no-nonsense info. Trying to prove it's up to date, it has Albert on the cover. Wearing the Halo's cap. It doesn't pick up VMart's injury, much less VMart's replacement. But that will happen. It's only a magazine. Good for reading on the train. Or wherever. I learned this morning, just flipping the pages, that Angel Pagan "has always been clutch (.314 BA, .856 OPS career with RISP)..." Little factoids like that, picked up wherever, might make the difference when he reaches the tipping point in your auction. |
| Patton Co League |
Seadogs about 7 hours ago
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It's not allowed based on the book, but it doesn't say one way or another in our rules. |
| Zach Cone |
Alex about 7 hours ago
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You gotta love Baseball America. Just got the Prospect Handbook in the mail. Thirty players per team, 900 altogether, just isn't enough. A 15-page bonus supplement is included. Thirty more players, the 31st-best prospect in each organization. Zach Cone just misses out to Nomar Mazara as the 30th-best on the Rangers. I mean, just misses, because they both have the same grade. BA Grade 50 Extreme The grades are new this year. Both Zach and Nomar are being told they have a shot at making it to the big leagues and even becoming regulars, but it's an extremely long shot. Nomar, signed by Rodolfo Rosario/Mike Daly out of the Dominican Republic during "the July 2 international signing frenzy in 2011" for "4.95 million" -- that's a frenzy, all right -- will "debut in the Arizona League in June," hence has no stats to show, hence is not in the database. Hence the posting under Zach. "After struggling in his pro debut -- which included a 2-for-55 slump -- last summer, Cone will spend 2012 at low Class A Hickory." |
| Patton Co League |
NSh58 about 7 hours ago
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I should know this but don't..may teams trade reserve picks? |
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