EVIL~! alkeiper

For $1.20, you wear the damn condom.

My asshole is perfectly tangible, I assure you.

The Phillies announced their 2007 Spring Training NRIs (Non-Roster Invitees. C Tim Gradoville C Jason Hill C Jason Jaramillo C Lou Marson C Dusty Wathan 1B Randall Simon 3B Brennan King IF Andrew Beattie OF Ron Calloway OF Greg Golson SP J.A. Happ SP Kyle Drabek SP Brian Mazone RP Joe Bisenius RP Ryan Cameron RP Jim Crowell RP Kane Davis RP John Ennis RP Jeff Farnsworth The NRIs are interesting because they give you a good idea of what a team's AAA roster will look like. I like the acquisition of Farnsworth. Joe Bisenius is a darkhorse to make the bullpen. Randall Simon could be an excellent bench bat. The reason there are five catchers on the list is that teams carry extra catchers to handle all the pitchers.

It's depressing to leave the house, take two finals, eat three meals, come back and not have missed a single MLB post. With that, I'm closing this thread as it's length has become unwieldly. Look for the MLB Offseason Thread, Part II.

That's enough of that.

You and al are two of the biggest b.s. stat-homers. Prove it. Without using statistics.

It wouldn't, because you didn't go so far as to claim that Phil Garner is a good manager.

What I find impressive is that Viva can spin a paragraph on command. I often don't have that much to say.

Eh, it's a slow time of year. Let's run with it. I just don't want to hear it when you win. :-)

I use Firefox V. 1.0.4

Well, last year might have been an aberration. There's a chance Marquis returns to his 2004-05 form, and if that happens it's a better deal.

Trying to edit my post, I hit "complete edit" and it just flips me to the top of the screen.

In fairness, he's also now one of their most disciplined hitters.

I was going to mention Air Bud. The Land Before Time deserves a mention. They stopped numbering those damn things.

The player option isn't so bad, because at least it sets a deadline.

I'm not supporting a case here, just relaying statistics. Morris was hurt by a few bad years near the end, so I looked for peak values. Morris's lowest ERA was 3.55 after the 1987 season. His RSAA was 139 at one point. He retired with 78.

What hurts Gossage is that he gave up two big home runs. In Game 3 of the 1980 ALCS, Gossage gave up a three run home run to George Brett that gave the Royals the lead, the game and the series. In game five of the 1984 World Series with the Tigers leading 5-4, Gossage insisted on pitching to Kirk Gibson with first base open and again surrendered a three run home run that iced the game.

I wonder if somewhere Anglesault is forgiving Andy Pettitte.

Like with Bret Saberhagen throwing over 250 innings three straight years did not end being a good idea. I'm coming around on Jack Morris, and this is part of the reason why. While all these guys pitched and flamed out, Morris averaged 227 innings a year over a 12 year period. But here's my main consideration. CAREER WINNING PERCENTAGE >= .570 WINS W PCT 1 Cy Young 511 .618 2 Walter Johnson 417 .599 T3 Grover C Alexander 373 .642 T3 Christy Mathewson 373 .665 5 Warren Spahn 363 .597 6 Kid Nichols 361 .634 7 Roger Clemens 348 .662 8 Tim Keefe 341 .602 9 Greg Maddux 333 .621 10 Steve Carlton 329 .574 11 John Clarkson 328 .650 12 Eddie Plank 326 .627 13 Tom Seaver 311 .603 T14 Old Hoss Radbourn 309 .613 T14 Mickey Welch 309 .594 16 Lefty Grove 300 .680 17 Tom Glavine 290 .603 18 Randy Johnson 280 .656 19 Jim Palmer 268 .638 20 Bob Feller 266 .621 21 Jack Morris 254 .577 22 Carl Hubbell 253 .622 23 Bob Gibson 251 .591 24 Joe McGinnity 246 .634 25 Amos Rusie 245 .585 26 Juan Marichal 243 .631 27 Herb Pennock 240 .597 T28 Three Finger Brown 239 .649 T28 Mike Mussina 239 .641 30 Clark Griffith 237 .619 It is HIGHLY unusual for a player to match Morris's wins and win percentage and not make the Hall.

This may be sacrilige, but I think Kevin Thompson is probably a better player at this point.

It does raise an interesting point though. If there were no other teams involved, how did the Giants end up paying $16 Million?

Line from Jim Caple's column...

If Piazza is gay, I would hope he has better taste.

ESPN reports a done deal.

Bravo sir.