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Haha, I had google translate the entire webpage for me and it called Jimenez a gardener, not an outfielder. Makes much more sense now.

I sincerely hope this is just Bowden f***ing with us, if true.

Alex Rios?

Apparently, in Bowden's last article, he mentioned rumors of a Buehrle/Ethier trade? Can someone copy/paste? http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/the-gms-office/post?id=6861 I would assume it's that one but I'm not sure, just going off what someone said in the sportsnet chat. That would be a f***ing horrendous trade.

Hey, Kelly Gruber, would he work? I guess he did eventually succumb to injuries, though, as did Grady Sizemore.

Lawrie has a .240 BABIP with a 14.4 LD%, I would expect that to improve at least a little.

But Wieter's career OBP is passable and JP's is f***ing pathetic so his comparison of the two is still moronic. His point was that Wieter's hasn't found his bat, and that he's not living up to the hype, which is ridiculous.

So then he was arguing that we should toss out his career numbers for 60 odd games he's played this year, in which case he's still a moron lol.

At the very least.

If you're looking for late bloomers, Jeff Kent?

Just wanted to bump this to say something. Mike Wilner, Wednesday June 11th Blue Jays Talk, discussing the Struggles of J.P. Arencibia: "Matt Wieters is in his 4 1/2th season in the MLB, and he's got an OBP of .301. He was the most highly touted catching prospect, maybe in history, so he still hasn't found the bat maybe everyone thought he was gonna find. He's, I think, uhh, the same age as JP, or maybe a year younger, sometimes it takes catchers a lot of time, sometimes it never happens." (sic) He then went on to talk about how JP hasn't necessarily peaked. In 571 games in his major league career, spanning from his age 23 season to his age 27, Matt Wieters has a career OBP of .325, not .301, and a career wOBA of .324. He has also developed fairly quickly, putting up 4.7 fWAR and 3.9 fWAR the past two full seasons, his age 25 and 26 seasons. While obviously catchers do take slightly longer to develop, here is another example of Wilner talking out of his ass and bullshitting about stats, but using his baby-gloves tone of voice to make it seem unquestionably true.

Aren't the D-Backs outperforming their pytho? Too lazy to do the math haha.

I'm not wrong. Apparently JPA for Niese and JPA for Wade Davis was discussed. http://mlbbuzz.yardbarker.com/blog/mlbbuzz/article/will_jays_deal_catcher_add_pitcher/12338308?new_post=true AA was probably the one to hang up lol.

You know what I find truly saddening? I could be completely wrong on this, but I think I heard a JPA/Wade Davis rumor before he went to KC. That would have been an awesome trade. A controllable young power pitcher for possibly the worst catcher in the league.

Not your best trolling work lol

So this "Muz" thing is your new shtick now, eh?

I put emphasis on seriously. Even as a dumb casual (opposed to a dumb serious fan) I knew Doc's significance and was quite upset to see him go.

Are you just constantly drunk?

That, and that wasn't even this offseason, he was in India helping stop human trafficking, wasn't he? Completely irrelevant to his problems.

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What the f*** is going on in this thread lol

f***, he isn't even hitting dingerz to build up his value to Ruben Amaro.

Theo's smart and saw Zobrist first hand when he was with the Red Sox. Fully expect them to get him.

Isn't that just walking up a path as opposed to actually hiking? No clue where I read that so I'm probably wrong.

Agree with everything but this, I'd think that 24 is alright for a catcher.