HarleyQuinn

Ah...cool

Just curious, how'd you manage to figure that Rob? That'd give him 42 HR's, 167 Hits, 107 Runs, 27 Doubles, 5 Triples, 84 Walks and a .281 BA

Revised the numbers since I was looking at the cap hits instead of the salary

2004 Salaries(Credit DugoutDollars: http://dugoutdollars.blogspot.com/) Shawn Green: $16 Million Darren Dreifort: $11 Million Todd Hundley: $6.50 Million Paul Shuey: $3.80 Million Adrian Beltre: $5 Million Juan Encarnacion: $3.65 Million Total b/w those 6: $45.95 Million Hideo Nomo will be making $8.00 Million and Odalis Perez will be making $5 Million as well. Jeff Weaver's primed for $6.25 Million too.

I can't get ever the fact that he does so poorly going up against the freaking DEVIL RAYS! Man...he does worse against them then he has against the Red Sox and Athletics who both have great pitching staffs. Only team he's done worse against is the White Sox.

It's more just to compare how he did vs the Sox in case they meet in the playoffs and end up playing each other another 15 games or whatever it was last season. Anyways here's stats since 1987 vs AL East teams. vs Red Sox(85 games, 329 AB's) .289/.368/.514/.881 vs Orioles(83 games, 332 AB's) .328/.398/.620/1.019 vs Blue Jays(76 games, 304 AB's) .345/.410/.711/1.121 vs Devil Rays(59 games, 240 AB's) .254/.323/.508/.832 That's including both home & away games. Here's his rates vs other AL teams also incl. home & away games as requested by TC, didn't incl. NL teams since I don't know the interleague schedule. vs Angels(117 games, 455 AB's) .336/.415/.695/1.109 vs White Sox(89 games, 333 AB's) .243/.320/.435/.755 vs Indians(77 games, 299 AB's) .304/.393/.559/.952 vs Tigers(78 games, 310 AB's) .348/.402/.648/1.050 vs Royals(89 games, 341 AB's) .311/.409/.610/1.019 vs Twins(83 games, 317 AB's) .331/.401/.650/1.050 vs Athletics(114 games, 453 AB's) .274/.342/.528/.870 vs Mariners(60 games, 224 AB's) .286/.390/.603/.992 vs Rangers(51 games, 195 AB's) .318/.398/.508/.906

Any players in mind?

Those were the #'s vs the Red Sox in Arlington. The #'s at Arlington in general was listed in the Hitting on Grass at Home category.

Baltimore Sun Apparently the Orioles are looking at moving either Brian Roberts or Jerry Hairston Jr. possibly for starting pitching and are looking at a possible scenario of involving the Yankees since they are in need of a 2B.

Smart move by Texas and with the other free money, they can lock up other key prospects like Teixeria and Young.

WEEI is saying that Maddux is supposedly going to sign with the Yankees by the end of the week.

Man...such a difference in splits. He basically hit above .310 in the home splits of the categories listed and hit no better then .294 in the away splits of the categories listed. That's almost a .20 difference in terms of BA just between Arlington and every other stadium in the MLB/AL using the min. .310 and max. .294.

Edited for ya Al, kind of amazing how different some of the splits are

A-Rod's #'s last year vs Boston in General vs LHP: .250/.500/.250 vs RHP: .333/.486/.481 At Fenway vs Red Sox .111/.333/.111 At Arlington vs Red Sox .409/.552/.591 vs Yankees at Yankee Stadium .208/.345/.542 vs Yankees at Arlington .429/.429/.786 vs LHP Away in MLB .292/.370/.656 vs LHP Home in MLB .319/.436/.648 vs RHP Away in MLB .277/.390/.540 vs RHP Home in MLB .312/.394/.610 Hitting on Grass Away in MLB .294/.396/.605 Hitting on Grass Home at Arlington .314/.407/.621 Not exactly the most stellar numbers. Shows his numbers were greatly inflated by playing at Arlington Park.

Yankees payroll is now at $184.60 Million. Still, I find it somewhat hard to believe that teams like the White Sox($57.49 Mill), Blue Jays($45.28 Mill), Reds($35.82 Mill), Braves($69.73 Mill) and Astros($62.20 Mill) couldn't spend upwards of at least $70-80+ Mill like the New York Mets, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies?

Their rotation alone could be deadly with Wade Miller, Tim Redding, Clemens, Pettite and a bullpen with Dotel. Also their lineup is still great with Kent and the Killer B's II(Biggio, Berkman, Bagwell).

I take back my Bellhorn being injured. He was placed on the 15 day DL on 8/2/2003 for right shoulder tendinitis but that's it. Reese's only injury came on 5/14/2003 where he missed 4 months due to a torn ligament in his left thumb. Still, kinda worries me that both guys have seen so little action in terms of playing a full season.

Also Pokey's a huge injury risk, having never played more then 149 games in a season and has played 130+ only 3 times in his career. I'm really not liking our 2B options... Bellhorn played 146 games in 2002 but otherwise has never played more then 100! games in his career(68, 11, 9, 38, 146, 99). The man if healthy would be a great OPS player but looking at both guys' histories I'm not too optomistic on either starting. I'd probably start Bellhorn just for his OBP skills and then take him out in the 7th/8th for Reese when defense becomes more important.

Pokey's never hit better then .285 in a season FS...

Thanks Al, was looking for something like this and should be quite helpful for future references.

Hey Al, have you done the 2003 WS for A-Rod and Soriano? I got A-Rod at 54 and Soriano at 50(using the av. Linear Weights given by tangotiger and multiplying the offensive LW by 3 at the end after adding the outs(AB-H)) and was curious if you got the same or not. Also in Pokey's lone season of 149 games(Hasn't played 140+ otherwise or gotten more then 518 AB's in a season since) he managed to hit .285/.330/.417. If he can manage to stay healthy throughout a season he could prove to be valuable, at least as a bench player/defensive replacement for Bellhorn.

Why would we want Soriano? As mentioned, horrible fielding 2B and we already have a potent hitting lineup. Pokey is a FAR better fielder as a 2B and could be a decent #8/#9 hitter for us.

Heck, improved teams this offseason include the likes of Baltimore, Toronto, Anaheim, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Oakland, Kansas City as well as other teams expecting stars to return like San Diego(with Nevin). To say that in essence, a salary cap would improve teams to make the league competitive would just be redundant as teams are already improving, granted maybe not as much as you want but it's still there.

and baseball also has the MLB Extra Innings pack with DirecTV as well as the local channels

Hell, even with the Sox charging $42 per ticket we still sell out most of the time and considering that most teams' ticket prices range from $14-$20, it isn't that costly to attend a game thus that also helps with the high attendance rates. *Figures taken from the site I posted on the previous page*