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    Joe Jr. needs to be fired right now!

    I jumped on that bandwagon at least a year ago.
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    RJ to the Yankees, our future rotation

    A season and a half is not that different from a full season. Both are different from a deadline rent-a-play deal for a playoff run.
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    RJ to the Yankees, our future rotation

    And how is this different that the Curt Schilling situation? oh yeah - the D-Backs wanted to dump Curt so they could rent Richie Sexson for one year.
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    RLakin: Funnyball

    Well, yes and no. If you have a low payroll - you really need good management. - A's, Marlins If you have a high payroll - you can survive bad management - see 2001 D-Backs. High payroll - good management = perennial contenders - Yankees But bad management - low payroll = bad...
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    New season thread with Al Pedrique as the manager

    Actually it looks like Pedrique has pretty much run through the whole bullpen - in 9 innings, no less! And I thought Brenly was awful at managing bullpens by running through too many relievers. Serves him right for taking Webby out for no reason in the 6th inning.
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    New season thread with Al Pedrique as the manager

    Nod goes to Seattle for hall of fame induction. RJ has 9 1/2 years in Seattle, only 5 1/2 in Arizona. However, most of his Cy Youngs and the World Series were in Arizona. If the numbers get closer, like 7 or 8 in Arizona, then he will go in as a D-Back. But if traded now, RJ will go in as a...
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    New season thread with Al Pedrique as the manager

    I don't think RJ will be traded. Not a lot of teams can afford his salary, and I don't believe he likes the Yankees. Possibly the Angels, they have the bucks and it's west coast. I doubt he'll go east and I don't see any teams other than the Angels in the west who can afford him. Plus I...
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    Anyone see the irony of the coaching situation?

    I believe Texas is leading the NL West and has a boatload of young talent. Why in the world would Buck Showalter want to come back to the mess that is the Arizona D-Backs? I also disagree with your statement that any monkey could have won with the 2001 team. Do you remember that year? They...
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    Brenly to be fired today

    Inside information from a Phillies phan. Of course he's not the problem. When does Joe Jr. go? He's the one who created this mess of a team. But I think it may at least help the team play better short term. The agony of a manager on death watch is no good for a team
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    Fire Bob Brenly thread

    Go back and look at minor league numbers of most of the players promoted in 2001-2003. The D-Backs farm system was not highly rated in part because they didn't have a lot of real prospects. For the most part the guys overperformed relative to what there minor league records indicated they...
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    Trade rumors

    Yankees really need a second baseman. Alomar would be perfect for them.
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    Yankee fans are pissed

    Yankees and Red Sox in a barn burner extra inning game tonight. Top of the 11th the Red Sox have the bases loaded and no outs and the Yankees get a triple play. Jeter makes a tumbling dive on a catch into the stands in the top of the 12th and is now out of the game, he really banged up his...
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    Season thread - The Road to.......

    I do think that it was mutual to some extent. Curt came to Arizona because the Phillies were going nowhere at the time and he wanted to be with a winner. I think the same was true this past off-season with Arizona. The handwriting was on the wall that the D-Backs were cutting budget and...
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    Fire Bob Brenly thread

    Zenny answered the question partly. I wasn't happy with the Patterson trade either. Randy Choate was just an awful acquisition. Patterson was more ready to pitch in the majors than Fossum, Daigle, etc. Plus we gave the best arm in the Schilling deal to Milwaukee, De La Rosa. I'm not happy...
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    D-Rays

    Don't know much about Tampa Bay's farm system. But at least they don't seem prone to make as stupid a signings now as they did initially and the D-Backs still do.'
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    Alomar Being Reactivated On Monday

    He didn't show up for the game???? As in 24 guys in the dugout and no Alomar? You've got to be kidding. That goes beyond being a cancer. :eek:
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    Fire Bob Brenly thread

    I have no problem with firing Brenly, but I'd like to see the organization set a definite direction and purpose and pick a manager who fits that. If they are going to rebuild, then hire Pedrique if the Tucson kids like him and work well for him. If they are going to spend more money, then...
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    Alomar Being Reactivated On Monday

    I'm curious how Alomar is becoming a cancer in the locker room. I hated the signing when they made it. There is a reason he's a perennial all-star 2B who has played with a ton of teams.
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    Valverde On DL...Lance Cormier Starting Tomorrow..Etc...

    It occurs to me that the D-Backs are not real good putting insurance arms at AAA. Most teams stash a few experienced AAAA starters and relievers so they can be called up in the case of short term injury and at least not put in the kind of performance that Lance Cormier did. Brady Raggio seems...
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    Reggie Sanders shows class

    Wallyburger, your post is disgusting.
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    Does Grace like Schilling?

    Tact has never been Curt's strong point, though I think he's better than he used to be. He was pretty brutal to some of his Phillies' teammates. One story that gets told is how he introduced Randy Wolf to his son Gehrig. Curt asked Gehrig "Can you say one pitch pitcher?" Ouch. BTW, Curt's...
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    Trade rumors

    That would be great as far as I'm concerned. Mayne doesn't impress me, so I'd love to see the Marlins get him.
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    I need to be enlightened....

    Cintron's contract isn't up. He's only in his second full year in the majors. That means he is still pre-arbitration and for next year he will be paid whatever the D-Backs offer him. IOW, one more year of way cheap after this. For the next three years he will be arbitration eligible. He won't...
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    Stephen Drew Thread

    He is J.D. Drew's brother and yes Scott Boras played J.D. in the independent league for a year because the Phillies wouldn't pay $10 million to sign him. We offered like $9 mil or so. You can book that Boras will ask top money and I would be shocked if the D-Backs did not give it to him...
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    Trade rumors

    Our Phillies insider who has posted trades several hours before they hit the wires said that the Phillies are definitely talking with the D-Backs about a trade for Finley.

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