MurphDogg

Gotta lose tomorrow or it turns into one of those flukey streaks that can be entirely ignored.

Few 25+ home run players go through long careers without three strikeout, one home run games. Cal Ripken had one in his MVP season in 1983. Manny still has an above average strikeout percentage (meaning fewer strikeouts per plate appearance than the average player).

Well he already decided he was going to appeal, that's what kept the suspension from starting immediately. Whether he drops his appeal or has a hearing technically remains to be seen, but dropping an appeal prior to a hearing is a procedural move I have only seen used for pitchers so that they miss the minimum number of starts or relief appearances (drop the appeal the day after they start or the day after they have pitched in two consecutive games with the effect being shortening the suspension by a day). I don't know why a position player would drop his appeal (except maybe a catcher in a day game after a night-game situation), suspensions are never lengthened upon appeal.

Replacement level thus far this season. Ridiculous signing by the Braves, doesn't fit into their plans.

Yup. The Red Sox have played the easiest schedule in the Majors thus far and the O's have played the 7th toughest. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/rpi/_/sort/sos

At least the suspended player is ineligible for the post season now.

Will do.

Relying on 75 plate appearances over a full season is foolish. Schoop will probavly be fine. Looking forward to bumping this post.

He is 24 and had an OPS of .788 last year. But sure, stick to those career numbers.

Amen..

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You think players would just get a larger piece of the net revenue pie? I doubt it.

The reason that this exists is because there is too great of a difference in salary between free agent players and pre-arb players. The MLB minimum should be higher which would in turn lower the salaries for mediocre free agents. It is crazy how much more money mediocre free agents make than pre-arb and arbitration eligible stars.

That is pretty sweet. Wonder if that was a handmade project.

Yup 9+ K/9 3:1 K/BB, 3 ERA reliever. What garbage.

Wire to wire in '97!

Yeah, the chances he adds two more pitches are pretty low. Let him work on his control and let it rip in the pen.

Hard throwing lefty out of the bullpen? Nothing wrong with that. If he can get the walks down in the 3 per 9 innings range he could be a tremendous asset in the back end of the bullpen.

I would be interested in seeing a list of 4-year free agent contracts where the player accrued under 2 WAR in the first season of the contract while playing 140+ games. I can't imagine that many such deals were considered successes after the fact. The fact that a team with no intention of winning for the first two years of his contract ultimately signed him makes the deal all the more baffling. I wish that Nick had stayed here for his sake, he could have been an inner-circle Orioles Hall of Famer and been a celebrated member of the franchise's history for decades to come. To have given that up over a relatively small amount of money will always bum me out a little.

Markakis continues his march towards a 1.8-2 WAR season. Riveting stuff.

Welp, his OPS is now over .750. It was too early.

9 games for a position player is ALWAYS way too early. Let's not go nuts on how good he would have to be to get to a .750 OPS. There are 51 games left and he has played in 9 games. In order to finish at .750 at the same rate he has been playing, he would need to OPS .779. Hell, if he led off tonight's game with a home run his OPS would jump from .584 to .696. The eyeball test isn't great but I think it has as much if not more value than 41 plate appearances worth of stats.

Let's just hope that Parra maintains his current pace. If he does, then I have no complaints at all.

Seconded. Trading for someone (Parra) at the apex of their value seems unwise. What is the perception of the package the Jays got for Revere? The high walk rates of both pitchers jumped out at me.

Technically that was before the window, as our season had yet to end. The window is the two weeks ( I believe) after the World Series.