Is He Done?

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THT Live:Frank Thomas or Carlos Delgado?
Published 4/22/2008 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
Frank Thomas or Carlos Delgado? by Dave Studeman April 22, 2008 I've been developing ideas for my column this week, but David Cameron just took one of them . This business is getting harder every day! Dave is the manager of the ...

Game 19 Open Thread: New York Mets @ Chicago Cubs
Published 4/22/2008 by Jessica Bader at Take the 7 Train
... , and Delgado’s performance against Lilly (mainly back from when Carlos was still good) looks an awful lot like his current state of cliff-diving. ...

THT Live:Is Thomas done?
Published 4/22/2008 by Bryan Tsao at The Hardball Times
Is Thomas done? by Bryan Tsao April 22, 2008 Dave Cameron looks at Thomas' power numbers and doesn't think so, but finds a better collapse candidate in the process. Bryan Tsao is the editor for The Hardball Times website. He welcomes comments, questions, and suggestions for both himself and the site ...

The Cliff
Published 4/22/2008 by Dave at U.S.S. Mariner
... However, the Thomas discussion simply leads to one larger point - how do we know when a player really is done? I wrote up a post on Fangraphs about this topic this morning, but wanted to delve into a little more detail here, since this is an issue that Mariner fans have some experience with and it relates strongly to the 2008 roster. As Derek noted yesterday, there are some signs that perhaps Brad Wilkerson is finished as an everyday player. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think Jose Vidro’s career is basically over at this point, and we’ve talked ...

Baseball Today: Wednesday, April 23
Published 4/23/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... . "We'd usually dump on anyone who came up with this sort of fanciful BS notion of returning a player to the team for completely sentimental reasons," admits Tao. "But there's something about the idea of seeing Delgado back in Toronto that melts away all of our reason and good sense." A suggestion, Tao: Take a look at this post on FanGraphs before starting a full-fledged We Want Carlos! campaign. ...

The Hardball Times:Ten things I learned from the THT Team page
Published 4/24/2008 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
... over the past two years (sparkline minimum is .240, maximum is .270): image Our measure of his true talent has risen from .252 two years ago to .262 today; in fact, just a year ago, it was only .245. Seems to me that 17 points is a significant increase, enough to say that Figgins has permanently upped his game. Frank Thomas vs. Carlos Delgado Dave Cameron must be a genius, because he had the exact same idea I had a few days ago, comparing ...