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Yes but Arnold Leon is relevant again (though maybe not for long) in 2016.
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How has this not been posted yet?
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Or alternatively, his injuries could have been related to steroids: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/nfl-players-who-use-steroids-have-m-2009-02-20/ FWIW, that's what I'd be more inclined to believe.
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Baseball Stars 4 evah.
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There was speculation that he might be a guy and it was weird that there even need for a third prospect given who the others were but yeah no one cries about a guy like this when a future ace and future starting catcher are the other two pieces.
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Isn't Napoli a total party animal? That mentoring would have just accelerated the decline (which in hindsight would have been for the best).
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People weren't arguing he was great. The argument was that he was potentially useful and that two years of Napoli was worth more than one year of Francisco + cash + draft pick. A lot of people were making that argument. That being said, much like the Gomes swap and the Marlins deal, it's one of those trades whose negative impact was underestimated by all but the harshest critics.
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No you're not "just biased". You're merely "biased" and you're the one who decided to turn that into a big deal rather than acknowledging as much and moving on.
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As concerns Alvarez himself, I really think NJH has already said all there is to say on the matter. It just doesn't really seem worth exploring. A potentially expensive lateral move. Edit: Just read Z3R0S post above.
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No of course it's not enough. No one said that. We even acknowledge it's inherent lazyness but it is nonetheless relevant. That you don't even seen to want to acknowledge the possibility is making you look incredibly foolish and destroying your credibility. At most there is maybe a weak argument in to be made in favour of Alvarez and it's argument that you as an Alvarez owner in fantasy are the most likely to make because you've already made that argument to yourself in deciding to keep rostering him in the hopes what he will give you value. This is all pretty reasonable stuff. I've yet to see anyone react so poorly to having it pointed out.
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It's neither weak nor an argument. It's just a possibility. One that it would be foolish not to acknowledge.
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Sure it's lazy but it's also fair. Yes you can compartmentalize but the fact that you even need to compartmentalize means that there is a bias there you may not be properly adjusting for despite your no doubt sincere attempts to do so. You should acknowledge as much rather than try to hand waive it away. I don't see anyone else arguing for Alvarez here. Do you? So maybe put your big pants on and admit that you have a stake in Alvarez that might be causing you to squint a little too hard. SMH.
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The point is that having him in fantasy may make you view him more positively than you would otherwise.
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This is patently false.
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Well Bonds, if accounts are to be believed, got jealous of the players who were putting up big home run totals, people like McGwire, Sosa and Griffey. People forget that Griffey had his own Marris chase but it was washed away by the 1994 strike. Like I said, I have no idea if Griffey used or not but I don't have any particular reason to feel he was clean. His decline doesn't really sway me one way or the other.
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Griffey really gets viewed through rose coloured lenses. There's an assumption that he must have been clean because he wore a backwards baseball cap and smiled and whatever but any other player who put up similar power numbers is assumed to have cheated. I obviously don't know more than anyone else does but making assumptions that any player was clean from that era seems incredibly naive. The same shadow hangs over everyone which kind of sucks if there actually were any clean players but that's just the reality of that era.
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The difference between now and then is that there's an incentive to stay clean now. It's a very, very small incentive but knowing that there's a chance, even a very small one, that you might get caught (more likely through an investigation than a test) is enough to makes a difference in a player who is on the fence about using in the first place whereas before there was just no incentive whatsoever to play clean, at least none from within the game. That makes a difference but it's probably only the difference between nearly universal then use and rampant use now.
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So much incoherence.... If you more or less admitted to PED use in testimony (McGwire, Bonds) you're out. If you're record is clean but you're strongly suspected you might get in (Piazza) or you might not (Bagwell). You can't even tell what kind of line they are trying to draw.
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Jays active talks with Fernando Rodney
KingKat replied to Angrioter's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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Obligatory Moneyball clip
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Arm accuracy was a HUGE issue. Throwing errors for days.
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I'd give him a mix of RF and DH starts. That seems like a better compromise than asking him to take up a new position altogether.
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He's not into playing the infield and he's not particularly good at it either. He played a serviceable 3B back in the day but much like his current play in RF, his arm was making up for otherwise poor play. Because of that, he's less suited to make the transition than EE was because EE had pretty much the opposite skill set (serviceable fielding but absolutely terrible arm). Would make more sense to DH Bautista and have EE play 1B than to to do the opposite.
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Are you doing this on purpose? It was John Farrell.
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That was Sam Dyson and he's with Texas now.
