Astros Pitcher Roy Oswalt signed to 73 million contract - Page 3

prohornblower · #21 08-31-2006, 12:44 PM

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Sample size or not, have you watched his AB's? I doubt it. He has a very polished, relaxed swing which lends itself to both power and average. Now if his swing resembled the chaos that is Morgan Ensberg's, then your point would be more substantial.

Scott looks like he could easily be a 30/100/.285+ type of corner OFer. That's why the Astros could easily get rid of P-Willy.

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lol. so what was that argument again about liriano not having enough starts to prove he's awesome?

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See, the difference is that I'm not making dumb comments like "Manny Ramirez and Travis Hafner don't belong in the same sentence as Luke Scott".

TuneTools · #22 08-31-2006, 01:26 PM

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Sample size or not, have you watched his AB's? I doubt it. He has a very polished, relaxed swing which lends itself to both power and average. Now if his swing resembled the chaos that is Morgan Ensberg's, then your point would be more substantial.

Scott looks like he could easily be a 30/100/.285+ type of corner OFer. That's why the Astros could easily get rid of P-Willy.

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lol. so what was that argument again about liriano not having enough starts to prove he's awesome?

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See, the difference is that I'm not making dumb comments like "Manny Ramirez and Travis Hafner don't belong in the same sentence as Luke Scott".

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ManRam and Hafner are the two best hitters in the AL right now.

Buehrle etc are league average.

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prohornblower · #23 08-31-2006, 02:31 PM

Go away.

crockpot · #24 08-31-2006, 04:57 PM

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hey, greg maddux signed for five years in the 92-93 offseason. that almost makes up for the hundreds of millions handed out to park, dreifort, neagle, millwood, burnett...who am i missing here? the non-maddux division reads like a who's who of the worst free agent signings of all time. (edit: especially if you include contracts even longer than that, like the ones for brown and hampton)

b.j. ryan looks okay now, but what are the chances they don't regret that contract before it's over?

Jack of Arcades · #25 08-31-2006, 05:00 PM

You got neagle, but not his teammate, Mike Hampton. Boy that's an awful contract.

crockpot · #26 08-31-2006, 05:02 PM

i was looking for exactly five years. certainly there are some longer ones that turned out awful also, although also one that worked out pretty well (pedro).

Jack of Arcades · #27 08-31-2006, 05:04 PM

Also it should be noted that Oswalt will be 35 when this contract is up. Wow.

technologic · #28 08-31-2006, 07:09 PM

no i think i was more saying like they don't belong in the same sentence as say,

dave dellucci or jay payton

TuneTools · #29 08-31-2006, 07:12 PM

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wow what a great argument.

the point stands that buehrle is a league average to below league average pitcher this year, while Manny and Hafner lead the AL in offensive production.

damnit you MUST be right though. because you coach a bunch of 35 year old guys who couldn't even be utility players on an A ball team.

THAY3R · #30 08-31-2006, 07:36 PM

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wow what a great argument.

the point stands that buehrle is a league average to below league average pitcher this year, while Manny and Hafner lead the AL in offensive production.

damnit you MUST be right though. because you coach a bunch of 35 year old guys who couldn't even be utility players on an A ball team.

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While I enjoy you making fun of PHB, you do realize that you are admitting you are Dead right?