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  1. John_Havok
    Agreed. If nothing else, helping others out by talking about his work ethic, mental toughness and dedication to competing... very important for all athletes but pitcher's in particular.
  2. John_Havok
    Your joke fell apart when you said you got an email from Russia. They don't have the internetz.
  3. John_Havok
    Also interesting to note, this 1 day contract that Doc signs, he will have provided more value than JPA did all of last year.
  4. John_Havok
    Leave it up to AA to add to the bench and pen while ignoring the other positions that actually play the vast majority of the time. Not that a good bench and pen aren't important, but get a freaking SP and 2B already!
  5. John_Havok
    Give him a minute, it takes a while for her to inflate with a manual pump.
  6. John_Havok
    It does for the Korean team. Can you imagine that board room? THAD FREAKING WEBER!!!!
  7. John_Havok
    No chance. Adding Santos to the pen while trading feliz would be silly. I really hate it when guys break trade rumors from 2 weeks ago and only have 1 guy's name. Drives people crazy trying to figure out hypotheticals
  8. John_Havok
    Good time to go out. He wasn't going to be but a shadow of his former self and with his back issues, it's for the best. I wasn't quite old enough to remember watching Stieb in his heyday, so Doc is the best Jay pitcher I've ever seen (I don't really count Clemens since he was only here short term). I'd put him in the Hall. Counting stats for todays arms will never measure up to the older generation of guys but I don't hold that against him. One of the best pitchers in baseball for a decade. 2 CY's and 8 all star appearances, a nice peak of dominance in the middle.
  9. John_Havok
    Once again, people who have understanding of the projections fully understand that 85-87 is not gospel and the margins of error are absolutely applicable. You have to stop putting one or two people's posts as "you guys portray it as the actual yourselves." If you take issue with how one or two people uses Steamer projections in their posts, take issue with the person, not the projections. And yes, the projections do adjust for possible injuries do try to account for declines in performance. Otherwise Joe wouldn't be projected for less than 600 PA. Breakouts are highly unpredictable, but that's part of why the projections themselves have a listed margin or error. If someone claims the projections are an exact science, they're an idiot, but again, as indicated above that's a failure of the person, not the projections.
  10. John_Havok
    How do you think these projections are formed? By using exactly what information you just said. Adam Lind will likely perform poorly against LHP and pretty good against RHP, so using past performance as a guideline, you can make a very educated guess as to what type of value he will provide the Jays in 2013. Ditto for Morrow and Jose. Just because there's a WAR number attached to it doesn't make it voodoo, magic or uninformed guesswork.
  11. John_Havok
    Both trades(the Happ trade and Fancisco/Napoli) are examples of AA not having proper valuations of players. This is not good for a GM.
  12. John_Havok
    Every front office uses projections. THey may use differing formulas, gut feelings or a Ouija board, but they all use projections to assess their teams true talent level. I suspect it's not projections that you take issue with, but moreso how Steamer presents theirs because you disagree with how they arrive at their numbers.
  13. John_Havok
    It wasn't about the assets traded so much, but that Happ was clearly nothing more than a 5th starter, which are readily available every year in the offseason via free agency, there was no need to give up anything to acquire a SP of Happ's calibre. It's an example of AA fixating on a player(Happ was known to be coveted as a target in the Halladay trade) and having his judgement clouded as a result
  14. John_Havok
    And should also mention that since rosters are not yet finalized, the projections are incomplete for many other teams as well
  15. John_Havok
    The Happ trade was also dumn.
  16. John_Havok

    NBA Thread

    John_Havok replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    So a short bench in LA tonight or will some of these guys be available ?
  17. John_Havok
    You missed the point of his question. The same projections systems are used to project every other team in the league, so are the projections for all the other teams too optimistic too? Even all the team they have ranked ahead of the jays?
  18. John_Havok
    The fact that the ignore function actually removes a person's posts and even threads they start from view is a real blessing. Seriously. MohYou... that moron Caulfield, it's like they don't exists unless someone quotes them in a reply.
  19. John_Havok

    NHL Thread

    John_Havok replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    I thought Neal's action was worse actually. They both deserve lengthy suspensions. Neal was a bit more creative though, Thornton was just dumn
  20. John_Havok
    Unless it's like last season when half their geriatric lineup spends significant time on the DL.
  21. John_Havok
    Jack Z, come on down!
  22. John_Havok
    Yankees Open To Trading Ichiro Suzuki By Charlie Wilmoth [December 8 at 10:14am CST] The Yankees have begun discussing Ichiro Suzuki in trade talks with other clubs, Chad Jennings of the Journal News reports. Jennings notes that this does not mean an Ichiro deal is imminent. The Yankees now have a surplus of outfielders after agreeing to terms with Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran. Since the news of the Beltran acquisition, it's also emerged that the Yankees would be open to trading Brett Gardner, who would make a far more attractive trade candidate than Ichiro would. Jennings notes that other teams are likely to view Ichiro as a bench player. The 40-year-old outfielder hit just .262/.297/.342 last season, although he was effective defensively. Ichiro will make $6.5MM in 2014 in the second year of a two-year deal.
  23. John_Havok
    Ex-Mariners Manager Eric Wedge speaks out on dysfunction in Seattle. Very interesting read. Sour grapes? Or legitimate look at how Jack Z and company are running things out west?
  24. John_Havok

    NHL Thread

    John_Havok replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    That's horrible, Slew-foots him first sucker punches, then I think the linesman falls on Orpik's head trying to get Thornton off...
  25. John_Havok
    They also said Shane dawson was drafted out of Drayton Valley High school, when he was drafted out of Lethbridge Community College. Some pretty basic factual errors.
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