chrbal wrote:How did we miss this. Casey Fien was released about two weeks ago by the Astros. He had about a 5.5 ERA with their triple A team. its time to bring him back.
Delmon Young has hit about .300 since June 1st. I did know it was a good move Ajax82. I'd really like TSE to eventually look at facts and reality.
Hitting a high streak for a short time doesn't make a player's value fully the same as what he produces during that short sample time and hot streak. His season avg and career average are below .300, and that holds more weight to me than what he did over a 75 day period. Plus I don't use BA as a single stat to qualify or disqualify a player, I look at the totality of all their stats and consider defense plus age plus salary plus character, plus contract length/ownership etc. So I don't understand why you debate me on this with only a single stat and not a relevant enough of a stat as it is inconsistent with that player's historical performance. I think your comment here supports my POV more than Ajax actually. You may have more reasons for why you like DY, but they can't be inferred from the post you made which doesn't have any qualified legitimate objections to my analysis of him.
Plus, you have to keep in mind that I'm coming from a position where I don't accept us to be anything less than the best team in baseball, so if you are happy with the level we are at then that is going to change the dynamics of what players are acceptable to you vs what is acceptable to me. If my goal was only to be in at least the top 10 every year and be happy with that, then DY might be a player I would like, but I'm interested in building an uber-elite dynasty, and for that level DY doesn't qualify and he just detracts from that goal, that's horrible imo, and a completely different agenda then what you imply you are looking for from the team to be satisfied. Different strokes for different folks.
elmon Young (he did hit a home run first at bat )
