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NBC Sports/Pouliot: 10 most likely to be traded - Outfielders
missed this yesterday…
Matt Holliday (Athletics) - The early-month surge hasn’t held up, as the A’s have gone 3-6 since interleague play resumed. While Oakland is still just seven games back, there’s nothing to suggest the team will ever get healthy enough to make a real run. Holliday, who has been an above average regular since the end of April, even if he’s still not playing at his usual level, would have no problem bringing back more than the A’s could get if they held on to him and let him go for draft picks at season end. San Francisco makes more sense as a possible destination with every victory and every Fred Lewis strikeout.
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Josh Willingham (Nationals) - Willingham’s incredible nine-homer, 13-RBI season to date is worthy of its own post, but while he has been a huge failure hitting with men on base this year, it’s not a career-long trend. Willingham doesn’t offer a whole lot on defense and his history of back troubles would make him a poor choice for a long-term contract, but he’s a legitimate 25-homer guy and he hits righties better than alternatives like Spilborghs and Ross. He’d be a great fit for Minnesota’s lineup.
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I will now stop reading the comments. That's enough.
Then what is he doing on your "most likely to be traded" list. Because he's not likely to be traded.
He's still likely to be traded, since Atlanta seems to finally be fed up with him - it'll probably just be a challenge trade.
Franceour for Delmon Young would be kind of interesting.
I did not realize Willingham was having a 9 HR 13 RBI season. That is incredible.
He's hitting .282/.401/.446 (131 OPS+) since the end of April. That's pretty close to his 140 OPS+ from last year, especially given the change in leagues.
There is probably a pretty big adjustment in approach going from hitting in Coors to hitting in Oakland.
I don't think this would hold up a trade if the Giants came correct.
On July 9, 2000 Luis Castillo, over 312 PA, had managed to bat .369/.468/.446 with only 4 RBI.
Anyone else got some "how on earth" kinds of combos?
He also ended the year with 626 PA and 17 RBI. Of course, in his defense, he was hitting behind both the pitchers and Alex Gonzales in his OBP season. Basically, on the rare occasion that he came to the plate with someone on base, he needed at least a double to drive them in, which is not one of his major skills.
Mike Krukow started 28 games in 1987 and got only 11 decisions (5-6).
Eric Young hit 15 home runs - surprising enough, with 34 RBI in 541 PAs in 2003.
Enzo Hernandez had 618 PAs in 1971 with 12 RBI. Twelve.
He's got 16 and 31 right now. Is hitting (only) solo home runs a repeatable skill?
That is a heck of a season. He had 137 total bases. For comparison Albert Pujols already has 173.
Luis Castillo had 626 PA and 17 RBI in 2000.
Rob Deer was at 32/64 in about 450 in 1992.
C'mon Rich, you're better than that. I would jump at that trade in a second if I'm the A's. If I'm the Giants, I send an F-You message to Billy across the bay using the stadium lights. Buster Posey is going to be a star.
Check these records:
Mike Scott, 16-13 3.23
Nolan Ryan, 8-16 2.76
Danny Darwin, 9-10 3.56
Jim Deshaies, 11-6 4.62
Apparently, Jim Desahies just knows how to win.
I know that's cheating. What I didn't know is that the A's had designated pinch runners at least through 1977. I always thought Washington was the only one.
Among real players (say, three plate appearances per game played) Dell Alston was caught stealing ten times out of the 46 times he reached base in 1978.
Hell, forget Springer. They can have Wuertz and Holliday for Posey. Josh Donaldson, too, if they want a catcher back.
And immediately made note that it was the 7th consecutive Tuesday in which he had spontaneously ejaculated, eclipsing the previous record held by Charlie Steiner.
Almost as bad - in 1985, Dave Stieb threw 265 innings and led the league with a 2.48 ERA for a 99 win team, and finished at 14-13.
As they say, you have to be pretty good to lose that many games...
(My money had been on "jazzercized"...)
1988. He threw exactly 400 IP over 1988-1989 and gave up just eleven home runs although that probably speaks to how cavernous Busch Stadium was back then.
For an earlier version of that - Brook Jacoby (1987) 0.300 BA, 155 G, 620PA, 26 2B, 4 3B, 32 HR, 69 RBI. It looks like he spent a lot of time hitting behind Joe Carter, Mel Hall, and Cory Snyder, in some of their more outtastic seasons.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.
Stop reminding us of Castillo and pop ups.
If you ask him nicely, I'm sure he'll drop the subject.
Love it. Perry's games include a 16(!) inning shutout that he won 1-0, and an 11-inning game that he lost 2-1.
He's obviously weak-minded and more than a little tainted by steroids.
This stat makes the Di Maggio hit streak pale in comparison. Forget Ryan's KO record or Cy Young's 511 wins....this is the unbeatable stat of our time.
I thought Archie Moore had the KO record ...
Luke Appling in 1943:
-Led the league with 155 games played
-Led the league with a .419 OBP
-Stole 27 bases.
-Scored 63 runs.
Did I misread the tone of this thread or use the word inexplicable incorrectly, or did you just want to jump in randomly and be a dick?
Come on... you have to era adjust the Carolingian Renaissance.
But.... keep in mind that Brian Sabean did make this trade: November 14, 2003 -- Joe Nathan, Boof Bonser and Francisco Liriano* to the Minnesota Twins for (one season of) A.J. Pierzynski. As you know, the problem with Posey, just like the problems with those pitchers, he is not a proven veteran.
*If Liriano had stayed healthy, that could have gone down in Bay Area lore with the Robert Parish and Kevin McHale for Joe Barry Carroll deal. As things have played out with Liarano (injuries) and Boof (poof), it's on par with the Tim Hudson for Juan Cruz, Dan Meyer and Charles Thomas trade. ... I had such high hopes for Charles Thomas. Boy, was I wrong.
Joe Sewell 1925-6: 129 bb, 10 so. And in 1932-3, his last two years, he had 127 and 7.
Somewhat less strange, but still fun: George Uhle 1926: Led the AL in H allowed, WP, HBP, and BB. Oh, and he was 1st in W and W%, 2nd in ERA+, and 6th in K/BB ratio.
??? What was wrong with that post?
I did. I was only mock admonishing ya!
??? What was wrong with that post?
It depends on how you read it, I guess. I've had a couple so it read as sarcastic and condescending. If it wasn't, mea culpa. I screw up a lot. It's what I do.
Indeed, and then it was followed by a 21 SB/4 CS season.
However, Castillo's most legendary season was the oft-cited 2000 campaign, in which he had 62 steals, 21 CS, 101 runs scored, 180 hits, 78 walks, a 111 OPS+, and 17 RBI.
Can someone please figure out if that's the most CS by anyone in a season where he had more CS than RBI? That seems virtually impossible.
Miller has now appeared in 202 consecutive games without being the losing pitcher, which is also a record. He hasn't lost a game since 30 July 2006. He's 6-0 with 4 saves in that period.
You would certainly never be the losing pitcher if you only came in when your team was losing. I don't know how many times Miller has pitched with a lead or in a tie game during that span. From memory, though, his streak is something like 70 games longer than the second longest undefeated streak.
Only if you were always removed as soon as your team gained the lead. Otherwise you could come in while your team was losing, have your team gain the lead, and then give up a couple of runs. At the least, you would have to be removed whenever you had put the tying run on base. </nitpick>
It's close:
Cnt Player CS RBI Year Age Tm+----+-----------------+--+---+----+---+---+
1 Burt Shotton 32 30 1915 30 SLB
2 Miguel Dilone 23 14 1978 23 OAK
3 Luis Castillo 22 17 2000 24 FLA
4 Herb Washington 16 0 1974 22 OAK
135 games played
292 PA
59 H
23 BB
50 SB
23 CS
34 R
14 RBI
.229/.294/.271
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