Comments on: B-Law’s Bad Wing

By: Padre Mike

Padre Mike — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:45:53 +0000

Maybe the Nates could use chan ho park and klesko. KT will even pay for the MRIs.

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By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:15:17 +0000

Heads-up: They're replaying the Khalil-slam-in-the-ninth game on Channel 4 right now.

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By: Lance Richardson

Lance Richardson — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:38:05 +0000

Bad things happen to bad general managers.

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By: Didi

Didi — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:59:27 +0000

Just because I saw it from BTF:

http://tinyurl.com/qm4vt

holy crap, Balco.

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By: Geoff Young

Geoff Young — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:20:52 +0000

Didi, thanks for the Breslow link. Very cool.

BTW, the Nats have signed Pedro Astacio to replace Lawrence in the rotation. Oleanders & Morning Glories has some thoughts on this sequence of events:

http://www.all-baseball.com/ol.....21903.html

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By: Didi

Didi — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:08:21 +0000

From Gaslampball:

http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....te?mode=PF

nice article on Breslow. I wish him the best.
The same to Brian.

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By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:09:13 +0000

I think we all knew that B Law was a pretty gutty pitcher, this just proves it. He was getting major league hitters out with an 82 mph fastball, a torn rotator cuff and who knows what else. He had a terrible record last year but he did pitch well at times, that frisbee fastball he throws can be tough.

I always assumed it was standard procedure to get an MRI on any pitcher in a trade. That’s amazing that they skipped it on B Law. There was probably an (unspoken?) agreement on both sides that since both guys were damaged goods they’d just swap them and take their chances.

I see that Andy Ashby says he feels good, maybe we can trade him the Nats too.

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By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:33:50 +0000

USA Today’s “NL West Top 10 Prospects” list is out … http://fantasybaseball.usatoda.....ryid=19949 … it’s really got a Top 15 … nothing surprising/controversial to me … Carillo a clear #1 … Barfield a clear #2 … iffy after that …

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By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:31:28 +0000

TF - re: “missing something about how GMs conduct business” … I’m just now getting around to reading “Moneyball” … wow, what a fun read! It’s a HUGE rant about how GMs conduct business … pretty ugly … with lots of evidence to support …

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By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:00:35 +0000

I agree with my elders above. Just take a look at the myriad transactions teams like the Red Sox and Indians undertook this offseason. How many MRI’s do you think Guillermo Mota has had this offseason? I bet it’s closer to 6 than 0. Anyway, even BLaw himself says he isn’t all that surprised. He says he knew something was not quite right given that he threw around 88-89 only three or four years ago and now was around 82. Bowden’s a great trade partner, we should deal with him some more. By the way, JB, how’s the whole “I’m gonna talk to Soriano, I think we’ll come to an agreement that he’ll play the outfield” thing going? Now there’s rumors that he’ll trade Soriano to Boston for Clement and Loretta…huh!?!?!? Just what he needs, another second baseman.

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