grover posted this in Conversation starter, groverbaiting on August 11th, 2010
The question is simple.
Can the A’s afford to pay Carl Crawford, arguably the top FA in the upcoming offseason, what it would take to dress him in Green and Gold and still field a viable team around him? I can see at least 4 big budget teams interested in Crawford come November and it’s not [...]
nevermoor posted this in Conversation starter on August 3rd, 2010
The transition is complete, and I think I got everything that I was worried would be lost.
For those of you who visited after the transition but before right now, there’s a chance unread comments that I just pulled over will be considered read by the system, so don’t be too shocked if that happens. There [...]
nevermoor posted this in Conversation starter on July 29th, 2010
This arose out of a set of emails at work, and I figured I’d post it here since I hadn’t really thought through it before. First off, here’s the list (the third column is career ERA+, by baseball-reference, as a starting point):
Dallas Braden 05-09-2010 96 Oakland 4, Tampa Bay 0
Mark Buehrle 07-23-2009 121 Chicago [...]
I’ll leave the links to you, but I wanted to talk about the first challenge since Obama’s election where us Californians can have an impact: Filibuster reform.
Be warned, this is going to be liberal advocacy, so feel free to skip it and drop links, etc.
Zk extended.
four years at a guaranteed $16.25 million, and a fifth year, 2014, that kicks in with a vesting option based on games played, with the number just under 120 games
gso already hit the obligatory insta-joke reaction. What’s everybody else think?
Interesting Beane interview by Kawakami. (His column based on it is utterly useless, and another example of PF/AM in the trad journo trade; also, while the interview itself is worth reading because Beane seemed to be wearing his emotions and opinions on his sleeve a lot more than he typically does, Kawakami hardly engages Beane [...]
Hunh. How did we miss this? FoS claims it was posted last Wednesday, but there’s no clear indication of date (either on the page or the source code, that I can see).
Is this new? If so, why now? This sure feels like a first-shoe-dropping sort of thing to me — prelude to … something. Lew [...]
Jesus fucking Christ, Lew, take the maximalist position, why doncha?
Here are the owners’ relative stances (just heard recently):
Wolff’s preferred position: Make the Bay Area a shared two-team market, with no county designations for individual teams. No compensation to the Giants.
Wolff’s fallback position: Minimal compensation to the Giants, but only after the move and measured relative [...]
Mazzaro v Carmona
Crisp
Barton
Sweeknee
Circust Circust
Ellis
Gross
Rosales 3B
Powell
Cliffy
Addenda/pregame conversation starters:
Jim Thome for the Hall?
Jackson likely to DL
No Cust again today, again vs a RHSP. Jackson at DH, Gross in RF, Rajai in LF. Crisp leading off. And Rosales gives Cliffy (at least?) one day off.
Byg Twyt speculates a roster shakeup a-comin’ — I agree. The Fox/Patterson DFAs were likely the initial volley. He thinks Cust is gone in a couple weeks [...]
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