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1. Halofan Posted: August 23, 2008 at 07:53 PM (#2914024)This team is in some trouble right now. It' too bad that the Yankees' demise coincided with the Rays' rise.
Only if he's willing to be the donor to an arm transplant for Beckett.
There would be more, but a couple of folks are missing their laptops.
Lester Buchholz ByrdBowden will pick up the slack!The Rays are going to win the division though despite the injuries and will probably be back at full strength for the playoffs.
Even though he only missed one start between his time with the Twins and the Rockies, and the Rockies have given him 3 starts already, he is just giving up too many hits (and walks) to stay in a game for more than 4 innings. If he can just get his WHIP down to the 1.6 or so it was early in the season, he could pitch a few complete games and make it interesting, but unless the Rockies really get into the spirit of this potentially amazing feat and pitch him every 3 days, it's not going to happen.
Hey, that's totally unfair. In one of his Rockies starts, Livan lasted six innings.
It looks like he won't get another start with the Rockies, but he really deserves some credit for his extraordinary push toward 300. In his three Colorado starts, Livan averaged more than two hits allowed per inning.
So does #14. Well done, guys.
RDF.
I wish I could make fun of the Red Sox here, but it's kind of hard to do when my team is spending a lot more money to finish 5-6 GB of them.
If it makes you feel better, your team is also spending a lot of money for the Rays to finish ahead of them.
I agree, but it's always funny to watch the experts predict the world series and only go by the win/loss record of the team, and then get upset when a team with a bad record, but a healthy lineup wins the world series.
Drew since the break: 209/395/360
Are one incredible month this season and two very good ones last year worth $14 per?
to the brilliance that is the Red Sox management I'm sure it is. of course this is an area of the country that actually believes Tom Brady is one of the 10 greatest quarterbacks of all time, and Jim Rice is a hof'er, or a kennedy in office so it's not like we are dealing with an area known for rationality.
I'm on the left also, but anyone named kennedy is overrated by the left, and the one still living is a waste, in my opinion
And as for Beckett's injuries, this completely unrelated to anything he's dealt with before. Any pitcher can develope an arm problem at any time. It's just the nature of the beast. The injury problems that he's dealt with in the past are in the past. He shouldn't be considered an ace because of his relative health, he should be considered an ace because of his performance (notice I said performance, not results. It's not his fault he's been incredibely unlucky this year.)
I agree, Prior is also an ace. well, with the exception that unlike Beckett, he's actually pitched at an ace level for three seasons.
The Cubs lost Soriano and Wood for about a month each. Also, the Angels missed Lackey for a month and a half at the beginning of the year.
Cubs are paying Fukudome like $10 million per for a month and a half of offense, pretty good defense, and a name that almost doesn't make it through this site's cyber nanny.
On Beckett, if we're talking about the fan perception of him as an ace of the highest level, I agree that that's a bit strong for his performance so far. If we're talking about the 'brilliance that is the Red Sox management,' they signed him for 3/32 (or 4/40), so they've done fairly well there after what I thought was a not-so-great trade on their part.
Count the rings!
But in all seriousness, Beckett's xFIP suggests he's been a lot better pitcher than both his ERA and W-L indicate. While he's certainly not in the Santana/Lincecum/Sabathia/Webb echelon, he's easily a top-15 starting pitcher, which cements his status as a legit #1... at least mathematically. He's locked up very affordably through 2010, at which point I'd be happy to bare him farewell. Given that his command of the curve and changeup are sometimes non-existant, I don't think he's going to age particularly well when he starts losing ticks off the fastball velocity. He gave up his first crack at FA, so I assume he'll be going for huge money. No thanks.
Kelvim Escobar, also.
I'm assuming the original poster meant "without any major injuries" come playoff time.
EDIT: sorry, that should be "at some point in the 1990s" rather than "in 1990." I misunderstood what I'd read.
**puke**
a. List NFL QBs who have had clearly better careers than Brady. They exist, but naming 10 may prove difficult. Lots of passing yards and a great % despite no marquee targets (until Moss last year), wins galore, and 3 rings.
b. I wouldn't vote Rice into the HoF - I think Dawson, inter alia, blocks his path - but I've seen fanboy campaigns candidates much worse than Jim Rice.
c. We're not responsible in any way for John Ashcroft.
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How about have more than one good year and win a ring without the cameras?
I read this the way I read #9 (though that was intentional). If you just keep casting about for a stat that lives somewhere near the stathead mainstream, you can prove that your guy is actually underappreciated.
SNARP says that Carl Pavano is the best pitcher in the American League this year, for the fourth consecutive year. Also, it reminds me that the Yankees never signed Tony Womack.
He is allowing a lot of line drives this season though, career worst 25.1% LD rate, relative to a career average of 19.4%; and his infield fly rate is at a career low of 9.7%, compared to a career average of 12.8%.
Not to mention an area that gave us John F. Kerry masquerading as a legitimate candidate for president. Thanks so effin much for that one, Massachusetts.
That wasn't my idea. (I lived in Virginia in 2004, but I'm a Mass. native all the same.) He chose to run, and Iowa Democrats thought that was a better idea than Dean, Edwards, or Gephardt. And so did New Hampshire Democrats. But that's a long story.
Yeah, I guess his 2006 season, where he IIRC threw for more yards than Peyton despite having a deservedly obscure corps of WRs, wasn't any good. Whatever.
Al Gore, there's a moderate underperformer. But ultimately, elections are determined by structural factors outside the control of a candidate (well, except for major, known shifts in ideology). And John Kerry had a relatively bad year, and he lost. American elections are such massive, dispersed events that outcomes are rarely affected much by candidates.
You're thinking of 2005, I believe. Brady was first in the NFL with a little over 4100 yards.
I'm thinking its pretty likely Brady is one of the 10 best QB ever. I don't think he is as good as Peyton (who I believe has a chance to go down as the greatest ever) but I gotta think Brady either is or will be among the top 10 QB of all time.
Are there any areas of the country that ARE known for rationality? Is it even possible for an area to be know for rationality? Are we all now expected to be rational about things like sports and politics? I might need to retire from life if that's the case.
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