Dr. Dinger

I confirm. This pick is currently on the clock, yes?

I offered speedy the same deal but if he doesn't take it, you're on.

Anybody interested in MiLB 59 + waiver pick 99 for an upcoming pick?

Yep. I've lost count of how many times I've gone to click a league link when the page is loading only to have the images shift and accidentally click a daily league spam banner. Super annoying, although I can't fault them for wanting a piece of that pie.

Dear Yahoo, Thanks for spamming daily $ league banners on every single page of your fantasy site so that my URL filter at work flags you as a gambling site. Best regards, DD

Ok that's fair. You can be Stone Cold and we'll switch FTD to Kurt Angle.

I didn't say I strongly believe, I said there's a "pretty strong chance." I think his bat is comparable to Evan Longoria, who didn't quite get to .900 OPS but nearly did on several occasions. I think if after Longoria's rookie season, you took a poll asking people if he would get 2 .900 OPS seasons in his career, the majority of people would probably have said yes. You want to play the odds, and I get that. Most prospects bust, even the good ones usually don't become elite. I believe Seager has an elite bat, and obviously I put my fantasy money where my mouth is. However, even if he's more like a 20 HR, .825 OPS bat, that's still a borderline 1st round redraft pick and a much better asset than Kyle. I'm not going to make any black and white declarative statements like you did, I couch everything with IMO. You don't know what will happen and neither do I. Let's completely disregard Seager's absurdly good line and call it a BABIP mirage, that's fine. You can't fake a 12.4% BB rate and .224 ISO, nor can you fake a 45% hart-hit ball rate. Those are real, elite underlying abilities. I also heavily consider his AA performance, since AA performance is a KPI for me. If you mash AA at 20/21, it bodes very, very well for your future.

Nah, just do you. We know we're good. I actually look forward to you performing adequately in DDL in the coming years and gaining some measure of redemption. As for cyborg, I'm not going to take his hypothesis at face value just because he has analytical chops. I would like you to stop being so black and white on semantic issues, though. Whether or not Kyle Seager is a "monster" is not something that can be factually proven, because we don't even have an agreed-upon definition for that term. And stop putting words in my mouth, because I never said that Corey Seager had a .900 OPS floor or will approach a career .900 OPS, in fact in each case I made it very clear that I was NOT insinuating those things.

WCW Kevin Nash/Diesel was a force to be reckoned with, fo sho.

He was so old by then though.

Some quick wrasslin' comps: NJH - Triple H - whiny/bossy/plausible champion Silvergun - Lesnar - unstoppable juggernaut FTD - Stone Cold - one trick pony and former champion BTS - Kevin Nash - sometime contender if you squint, never quite gets his shot in WWE Dinger - Bret Hart - brash, technically sound, championship calibre, screwed repeatedly by fate North - Gold Dust - self-explanatory Boxy - X-Pac - got in league with a bunch of troublemakers, bark worse than bite Hurl - Shawn Michaels - old and sexy, weak finishing move GP - Big Boss Man - self-explanatory Spanky - Mick Foley - offbeat, colourful, well-liked by most

I was thinking more like when 1-2-3 Kid turned into X-Pac.

boxcar8 was a face, Boxy turned heel.

Boxy has been abused, but I was the one that usually stuck up for him. After awhile he just started lashing out at everybody and I wasn't spared. If a dog bites me though, better believe I'll smack it back. Underneath the bickering we are still good.

Boxy opens himself up to a lot of criticism by being abrasive and getting overly personal. Other owners with s***** records don't take any heat, probably because they don't go picking fights.

You know, the scouts never loved Mahtook, so his power outburst should raise eyebrows, but Boxy doesn't care about that. Boxy's keen statistical analysis has helped him uncover many a gem that prospectors have missed on, for example AJ Pollock.

At the Mariners' annual FanFest event on Jan. 31, third basemen Kyle Seager was faced with a question he's likely been asked for years: Who is better, you or your little brother? And, apparently, Kyle couldn't help but give his most honest answer. "He's good, sorry," Seager responded to a cascade of laughs. "I'm sorry he's better; I'm trying, I promise." --- Case closed!

That probably won't be necessary since he has no path to playing time. He's probably going to be ticketed for AAA.

Good pick

You should change your team name to BALCO Pham Team.

Good pick, tho.

I don't think you understand how floor works, or humour.

Who needs basketball when you have a sponsorship deal and a lifetime of free Xarelto?

Actually, Kyle is the littler Seager.

Ah nuts. Good pick.