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Would the Yankees eating Giambi's salary be the largest such meal in pro sports? And how much ketchup would they use to disguise the flavor?
Dbacks dumped Russ Ortiz on Jun 13, 2006, when he was in the second year of his 4 year, $32m deal. He collected just around $10m while on the Dbacks roster, meaning the Dbacks kicked him out with around $22m left on his deal.
Small and mid pairs are the most overplayed hands in online poker. God I love it.
The Knicks and Larry Brown have to be in that conversation somewhere - he had something like 4 years and $40 million remaining on his 5/$50 million contract when they parted company. They ended up settling for less than $20 million, I believe.
Where do you guys play now, how do you fund it?
Don't count. Insurance picked it up. They just had to keep him on the DL.
Poker Stars. I haven't had to put money in in a while, but I noticed that they have a few different options that should work for the US based player.
Michael Finley was owed over $30M from the Mavs after being waived.
The guy was a .290-.300 hitter every year until 2003, and he hasn't had even a whiff of .280 since. A good deal of his impressive OPS+ seems to be made up of walks, doubles and homers -- in 2006 he had more extra base hits than singles.
I don't understand why these situations are only presented as having 2 options: keep playing the guy or cut him and eat his salary.
Why not just plop him on the bench? If he's not worse than the 25th guy on your roster, why cut him? Giambi could be a pinch hitter and insurance against an injury to any OF or 1B. Although, in this specific case its hard to envision him pinch-hitting for anyone in that lineup (Melky?)
Not Melky, he's second in HRs on the team.
But if Duncan/Ensberg/Betemit start at first, then he could pinch hit for them, especially if Mike Timlin is pitching.
What if he just did the swinging bunt to third until they stopped with that shift?
Then he'd just be clogging up the bases all the time.
(ducks)
Agreed....however his line drive rate is only 8%. (Lg avg 19%) So it's not like he's stinging the ball all over the place and hitting it right at people either. And his HR/F rate is quite low for him as well.
He's only got 59 PA's, and things can change quickly with one or two good games. But if he does not start hitting more line drives, the Mendoza line could indeed be a barrier up till the all star break or beyond.
Yeah, compare the guy coming off an 80-game 790 OPS season with the guy that's coming off a career year. That'll work.
Chris Webber fake-injured his way to a high-30s settlement from the 76ers. It's amazing how quickly all his ailments healed up after he landed in Detroit.
39M based on this article.
It can if he's incapable of doing anything with fat pitches but foul them off, which appears to be the case.
Yeah, he's a basketball player who just gold-bricked, malingered and extorted his way to a giant pile o'cash.
Zips for the three players...
Delgado: .257/.349/.476 (age 36)
Duncan: .242/.311/.469 (age 28)
Giambi: .241/.398/.482 (age 37)
Factor in baserunning and defense, Delgado and Giambi are essentially equal in value. So it basically comes down to whether or not it's worth $10M to acquire Duncan. And I have a hard time seeing how a 28 year-old AAAA 1B projected to have a 780 OPS could possibly be worth it. The guy's pretty much the definition of replacement-level.
Sorry, I don't see how the trade makes a lick of sense for either team unless the respective front offices of each have diametrically opposed views of the immediate future prospects of the players involved.
Sure, just one under the threshold for Voros's Law to apply. I say give him 2 more PA and if his OPS+ isn't 135 by then, he's out.
How dare you question St. Joe Dumars of the Not Bill Laimbeer or Dennis Rodman? Plus Webber is a U. of M. grad.
Graduate? As in "has a degree from the University of Michigan?" I don't think so. Please don't lump him with those of us who actually obtained a degree.
I'm sure he thought about taking a couple of classes. E for effort!
Do the other four members of the Fab Five? I know King and Jackson do, and I recall Howard pursuing his degree while he was in the NBA? How about Rose?
Well, any effect the shift had would presumably show up his his BABIP, and his sudden dropoff from 2002 to 2003 is pretty startling:
1996: .319 BABIP
1997: .316
1998: .314
1999: .333
2000: .335
2001: .343
2002: .328
2003: .259
2004: .223
2005: .292
2006: .245
2007: .263
2008: .086
Now, there are other potential explanations for that besides the shift, but that drop is pretty freaky.
That was kind of what set me to thinking about the effect of the shift, which would take away singles far more than any other type of hit. Again, I don't know when it was that teams started using the shift on him routinely -- could that be the reason his BA has fallen off so quickly (and, relatedly, why is more inclined to take a walk, thereby keeping his OBP from descending as quickly as his BA -- I just find it hard to believe pitchers have been deliberately pitching around him THAT much in the Yankees lineup)?
On edit: thanks for that, DCW3. I would have guessed that trend from looking at the other numbers, too. I don't remember teams putting a shift on him when he was with the A's -- 2002/2003 would be a logical starting point.
Yeah, I would have sat him today, for example.
What do you mean, he just hit a home run? It's the principle of the thing, dammnit!!
Two queens at Casino Night. I'm going to... drop a deuce on everybody.
they should give him some more time to see if he can turn it around.
Only Tom Brunasky did that.
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