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Walk off, babeh Q. How much of a deterrent is it, losing your 1st-rounder to sign a Type A free agent?
A. I dunno. Supposing you could trade Josh Fields or Greg Halman or Dennis Raben for an MLB player who would start for you, and who was paid market rate?
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MLB
Seattle Mariners
Marco Scutaro
Josh Fields
Walk off, babeh Q. What a letdown -- Marco Scutaro at third base?
A. Here are Scooter's runs created per 27 outs the last four years, followed by Adrian Beltre's:
2009 - 5.8
2008 - 4.5
2007 - 3.8
2006 - 4.6
2005 - 4.2
LIFE - 4.5
Established performance ...
MLB
Marco Scutaro
Seattle Mariners
Adrian Beltre
You re in my plans, son Q. Was the Scutaro rumor okay by SSI?
A. But of course, m'sieur.
I think Geoffy is being held to quite a double standard in the blog-o-sphere. :- )
If Prospect Insider, or USSM, or somebody, had alerted their readers "What I'm hearing is ...
MLB
Marco Scutaro
Seattle Mariners
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Serpentine Smile Dept. Not that Edwin Jackson is
the #1 target of the offseason ... but it...
is an interesting question whether the Bora$ factor rules Jackson out as a Mariners option. As Sir Anthony would say, this is Mission Impossible. ...
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Scott Boras and Arbitration Clients - I
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Part I
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Cool Papa continues with interesting remarks on Boras' intentions ...
One thing to keep in mind is that Boras is probably not motivated simply by a desire to make the most money for himself. He seems to genuinely hate the teams and be driven to ...
MLB
Scott Boras
Seattle Mariners
Edwin Jackson
A Gone Q. Do you buy into the rumors?
A . You know as much as anybody else does:
1. Zduriencik is attached to all of the biggest names available in the trade market. He'd love to cash in Bavasi's prospects for impact veterans of his own ...
MLB
Adrian Gonzalez
Seattle Mariners
Edwin Jackson
Curtis Granderson
A Gone Q. What's that Stars & Scrubs thing again.
A. Stars & Scrubs puts your $$$$ into the top of the roster and leaves the bottom of the roster fluid.
Honda Civics lock MLB(TM) production in, up-and-down the roster.
With Stars & Scrubs, the bottom half of ...
MLB
Adrian Gonzalez
Seattle Mariners
John Lackey
Ryan Rowland-Smith
Sorry, just polishing my MVP Larry Stone with a column out, this one on the MVP vote .
It was Bill James who pointed out that when a Hall of Fame vote is taken on a top-echelon player, such as Roger Clemens, the discussion afterwards will consist of arguing about why he wasn't ...
MLB
Seattle Mariners
Hall of Fame
Bill James
Roger Clemens
Let s see what we got here Q: Are RE24 and REW important? If so, how important?
A. Dr. Naka points out that the Mariners almost look to be using RE24 and REW as key factors in their roster decisions -- if not overtly, than intuitively.
If you're not familiar with ...
MLB
Seattle Mariners
Go get em, pheenom Dr. D was a middle infielder himself, a lousy one compared to Dustin Ackley or even TopCat, but I know what the ball looks like out there. And what great middle infielders look like.
The fundamental act of fielding a hot-shot one-hopper off a MOTO hitter's bat is ...
MLB
Seattle Mariners
Adrian Beltre
97 standin still Q. The debates are heating up these days!
A. I loooov eet.
The fact that you're seeing various blogs show their teeth :- ) really just means that people are getting into the game, driving the paint, throwing some elbows.
Nice to have a ...
MLB
Edwin Jackson
Seattle Mariners
Part I
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Do somethin about it : ) === Roto, Accountability, and Predictive Validity ===
There aren't any charts keeping track of bloggers' predictions on which pitcher will jell. Nobody goes back and says, "How many Lincecums did this guy have and how many Schmidts did ...
MLB
Edwin Jackson
Seattle Mariners
Part II
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THAT s on top, Brandon === Capt Jack Dept. ===
If you don't like Mikey Jay or Cool Papa or Mat Olkin :- ) that's cool. I feel ya.
Ask Jack Zduriencik, then. If you're going to be "ignoring anyone" who doesn't agree with you, that "Jackson isn't very good," ...
MLB
Edwin Jackson
Seattle Mariners
Brandon Morrow
Sizzlers and fizzlers dept The idea of Ryan Doumit is gaining traction. Lonnie, the big cheese at Mariner Central, started the idea on Nov. 12th .
Dr. D egged him on :- ) because, whatever Doumit's other plusses and negatives might be, the fact that he's a legitimate* ...
MLB
Ryan Doumit
Seattle Mariners
Put me in, coach Probably old news to you guys, but I hadn't seen t his from last week: Ackley Named Decade's Top Hitter
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Dustin Ackley , the first three-time All-America in North Carolina history ... added another bullet point to his collegiate resume this ...
MLB
Seattle Mariners
Put me in, coach Q. What's the upside?
A. In terms of game theory, it's called "agility." Agility is a Golden Principle. Every master, of every game, wants to multiply his attacking options.
As mentioned before, if this were Strat-O-Matic, then moving Ackley ...
MLB
Seattle Mariners
Thanks to Geoff Baker for linking us to Bill James' system for predicting "UP" ballplayer seasons .
I'll use this system heavily in roto. I expect it to be my biggest "secret weapon" since the days when Ron Shandler used to be secret.
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Thx in advance! Q. ...
MLB
Bill James
Seattle Mariners
300-n-plenty Q. How about Branyan, who is 4th from the bottom of James' entire list?
A. James' system doesn't know as much about Branyan as you do; don't be afraid to use intuition to override a simple automated result.
James' system tells us this, no more and no ...
MLB
James Brown
Seattle Mariners
Russell Branyan
Bill James
FLIP: Crawford is a fine player , but he's not worth some of the insane prices I've been hearing. No .332 OBP "lead-off" hitter is.
CHOP: If the essential point here is that Carl Crawford is not an 8.0 RC/game franchise player, I agree with that.
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MLB
Seattle Mariners
Carl Crawford
Johnny Damon
We mentioned yesterday that Tampa fans, generally, see Carl Crawford as deserving an MVP-type trade return, and Carlos Pena being available for a bag of spike-doctored baseballs.
They see Pena as being, like, their 7th-best player but highest-paid, along with a guy who has a ...
