EVIL~! alkeiper

Current Rodriguez numbers BA: .304 OBP: .405 SLG: .575 HR: 198 RBI: 563 SB: 101 The only Yankee infielder with a higher career OPS (minimum 500 games) is Lou Gehrig.

While we wait for CanadianChris, no harm in showing my hand to speed things up. If CC for some reason does not pick Babe Ruth, that's my pick. Otherwise I'm taking Mickey Mantle with the 2nd pick.

Here is the draft order. I ranked the posters by post count, and this will run serpentine style. 1. Canadian Chris 2. alkeiper 3. Bored 4. Brooklyn Zoo 5. Smues 6. 161st and River Drafters will need to fill the following roles: * A starting lineup, with eight position players and a DH. * A starting rotation consisting of five pitchers * A bullpen with three relievers * A bench with one catcher, one infielder and one outfielder * A manager If the draft goes well and there is interest, we will add five more rounds at the end, allowing for three pitchers and two bench players apiece to round out the rosters to 25 men. In addition, with your first selection please select a nickname for your club. The name must be one used by a New York City team. Possibilities include the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Highlanders, Mutuals, Cubans, Gothams, Dodgers or Excelsiors. Check out Baseball-Reference.com for easy information on players. The Yankees' Franchise Index will link you to lists of Yankee starters, player registers, leaderboards, managers, etc. Canadian Chris is free to make his first selection. A couple notes to add. Official range is 1903-2008, we're going to exclude their two initial years as the Baltimore Orioles.

I'm not a big fan of using single years for anything, because you tend to get a lot of fluky performances. The top 20 hitting seasons by Yankees in terms of OPS+ are all owned by Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig and Joe Dimaggio. Fifth is Bobby Murcer, quite a fine player for some time but not a player among the team's legends. Pitching is even more random.

Just once. Dreamed I was a ring announcer, completely blanked on the name and announced a competitor as "Guy Whatshisface!" I actually woke up laughing.

Honestly, I struggled to make it through the show. I have trouble watching a lot of ECW's long matches, they just seem spotty with little build until they decide it's time for a finish. New Jack/Mustafa was pure crap. Agreed. Obeying tag rules in a promotion that prides itself on no DQs is really laziness.

Bored's in, we have our six. I'll need to hear from the two others to proceed.

I've seen it since they air during Phillies games. Didn't catch anything too noteworthy about them.

Brett Myers is working his way through the minors. His next start is Saturday for the Reading Phillies.

Here we have a Wawa station that offers gas at 4.05/gallon. Drive two miles up Route 115 and you'll find a station by the I-80 interchange that charges $4.29.

David Crockett is at his absolute peak during the six-man tag match.

This trading deadline is already more interesting than last year's. Harden is a risk, but the Cubs did not give up a single crucial piece of their ballclub. Acquiring Chad Gaudin in the deal as well is a nice touch. Even if Harden blows up, this is a risk the Cubs have to take. For the A's, I imagine they have a higher opinion of the B level prospects than the Cubs. Eric now has a .301 batting average in the minors. Murton is a 294/362/448 hitter in the majors, but somehow only got into 19 games this year. Gallagher is the type of guy who would thrive with the A's emphasis on defense. Donaldson, we'll see. For Cub fans, I noticed Jose Ceda has gone apeshit on the Southern League since his promotion. 10 innings in six appearances, where he's struck out 17 and walked two. 0.90 ERA.

Pedro Feliz. Low sliders.

They've got to let the tying run get to the plate before I'd say verge.

Flipped over to the Phils/Mets again in time to catch R.J. Swindle's debut appearance. Swindle did not make Baseball America's list of top 30 Phillies' prospects, and was not even listed with their unranked players on the Phils' prospect depth chart. Three months later, he's the LOOGY.

Bingo. And to think they made the great commercial parodying the Wii.

I've lost patience for the Phils/Mets game, and the patriotic pandering Southwest commercial sealed the deal for me. Instead it's game two of the 1975 World Series via Netflix. Bill Lee FTW!

Correct.

That 1994 one should be decent at least. Dusty, Dustin, Arn Anderson, Terry Funk, Terry Golden, Rob Fuller, the Nasty Boys. Every one of those guys is either a good worker, or well suited for that type of match.

Possibly. But if you have a player who is clearly blocked at two positions (he's been put in left but Ryan Braun is now there), you need to do something with him. And besides LaPorta, the Brewers now have a prospect named Mat Gamel who is hitting .381 at Huntsville. Gamel's a third baseman with an .870 career fielding percentage, so obviously his future lies at another position. Figure he could step in by 2010, and again you have a talent surplus.

I'm waiting on doing an MLB draft until a later date. However, I'm interested in doing a sort of mini-draft on my blog. An All-Yankees draft. I'd want no more than six people for it, myself and five others. Only serious inquiries. Anyone interested?

1. Sabathia is a free agent after the season, while Bedard had two years left until free agency. The Brewers are guaranteed less than three months of Sabathia's services. 2. LaPorta has slugged .616 career in the minors. He's an elite hitting prospect, probably better than any individual player the O's got.

He pitched 7 innings in 7 games, one of which came in a 9 run deficit, two outings were with 3 run leads, 3 others came with two run leads and he pitched one game with a one run lead. So he pitched in a grand total of one tight game since his last blown save, and blew another two run lead today against the division leading Mets' daddy Phillies. Wagner comes up small whenever the Mets NEED him to close out a win, and he loves to blow the few amazing performances our starters have given us with "unlucky" pitches. How come those three games with two run leads don't count and this one does? The problem is that fans have this mindset, usually with superstars but often with all closers, that they must come through in EVERY situation. Baseball is a competition. Across from the pitcher is a talented hitter, and vice versa. Jayson Werth is a very good hitter with a .500+ slugging percentage career against lefties.

I hope to God Czech doesn't see this. Because of the IronPigs or the "my favorite team won a game" angle?