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Originally Posted by kpkelley
Maybe the Yanks should sign Hall then.  |
Haha, I was mostly joking, but maybe they should. At least they'd get to sign someone finally (although they did get Martin today, so maybe they're closing down the checkbooks).
I realize Crawford is better for scoring runs, so I intentionally presented the stats that made Hall look like the better hitter.
And defense is completely overrated, as far as I'm concerned. Great fielders save how many runs for their team per year? And how many extra RBIs do great hitters get per year?
Pitching > hitting > huuuuuuuuuge space > defense
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Originally Posted by ChadFL
Put his wife in the stands in Phily with her husband pitching for the opponent's team and she'd probably get much worse. That sort of thing isn't unique to NY. Though I'm sure it did leave some negative impression on the Lee's.
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It was a Phillies fan, after all, that threw up on a little girl at a game. That's a bit worse than spitting, I think (though both are completely uncalled for).
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Originally Posted by ChadFL
I'm confused as to why you think the AL East will be so much more difficult hitting. The Jays and O's have terrible pitching. The Rays and Yankees are pretty good. All in all my guess if Gonzalez will put up at least as good if not better numbers with the Red Sox. He'll also have a better group of guys hitting ahead of him.
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I should've probably thought this out a bit. SF and PHI have the best rotations in baseball, but I still think the AL pitching is better than NL pitching, overall.
I'm not trying to crap on Gonzalez, I'm just not going to fall for the hype until he actually produces. Some people are acting like Boston is the new Murderers' Row because they picked up A-Gon and Crawford. I don't think it's that big of a deal.
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While passing some time, I started to think of what the Yankees could do to make up for their embarrassment (assuming, of course, that there's some embarrassment involved in not being able to "get their guy", or having Lee taken away from them yet again). So...
Felix Hernandez
If the Yankees could somehow work out a deal for him, I think that would create a bit of a shakeup. I know he's only 1 year into his recent 5 year deal, but that doesn't mean the M's won't trade him, if the deal is right. And with the Yankees possibly feeling a need to do something big, the M's might be able to get quite a deal out of them.
Long shot? Yes. Impossible? No.