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and walked only 34 times AND hit like crap with MOB.Sigh.Now all we need to do is sign Mike Piazza to catch, DFA Ausmus, trade Burke, Lidge, Lane, Hirsh, Ensberg, Sampson, Pence and Albers and any young player who hits worse than Berkman or pitches worse than Roy for Wily Mo Pena and some LOOGY and we will be all set.I'm replica Breitling A2736215-C Men's watch Roger Clemens will be HAPPY to sign with a team that will score a whole lot of runs, but will make the Yankees fielders look like the 2000 Mets, so he can watch his ERA go on up to 5.Sigh.Husband says look Baby, these guys KNOW the market this year is very expensive and they hafta make stupidly long contracts in order to sign a guy for 1 year or even 2 years.

In 08, after 220 AB at A+ with a .685 OPS, he was promoted to AA, where he suddenly hit like a man possessed posted an .870 OPS, seemingly because he learned to hit for both average and power, and was promoted to AAA, where he had 100 lousy ABs.Last year, he was hurt for around 2 months, and when he returned to AAA, posted a .784 replica Longines L4.741.0.17.6 watch over 324 AB.Like a good little Astros prospect, he doesn't walk, and that should please Astros fans with fond memories of Miggy Tejada.Actually, his fielding should do even more to please Astros fans as he racks up as many errors as Miggy did.

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This signing has all the earmarks of a stupid team overvaluing a player signing for big bucks a corner outfielder (not properly adjusting for defensive position) who is past his prime, just had a career year in offense, has good garbage stats, and is a terrible defender.”Can I think of something good to say about this deal? I'll try.At least Carlos Lee actually replica Breitling A7836315-C7-140A Men's watch to play here, unlike that freaking ($^! Carlos the Jackal, who was signing a book deal called “My First Year In Pinstripes” while offering the Yankees a below market deal, all while he was supposedly negotiating with the Astros, then came out with a supposed demand for a no trade clause AFTER he had already signed with the Mets.

So that is ONE good thing I can say about THIS Carlos.And I'm reasonably certain we can get one good year of hitting, unless he gets hurt lugging all that lard around.I'm sure the fans who have been screaming for us to DO SOMETHING are ecstatic.They replica Breitling Windrider Chronomat watch will be the same ones screaming how Carlos sucks and is hurting the team and let himself go to heck with conditioning as soon as he had the security of that huge contract.Well, at least Carlos will ground out instead of striking out because that is really really important for the fans.HOW you make the outs counts for a LOT.

Last year, over 467 PA, he hit .247/.314/.367/.681Pedro Feliz, age 35, RHB, 3B: came up with the Giants in 2001 and signed a FA contract with the Phils, and has played with them for the past 2 years.His career line is .254/.298/.422/.715 and last year, he hit .266/.308/.386/.694.He used to have a little bit of power, but his replica Longines L3.661.4.56.6 Men's watch (isolated slugging percentage) over the past 5 years has gone .209/.184/.165/.153/.121.while his OPS+ have stayed a nice steady 85/79/80/80/81/81 (Geoff Blum territory, just to translate.)Chris Johnson, age 25, RHB, 3B: the guy the Astros fans are already rejecting before he has even gotten to ST: the Astros 4th round pick in the 06 draft: In 07, his first full year, he split the year between A and A+ and had around a .700 OPS.

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We are going to end up eating a LOT of that contract because Lee is, I guess, unwilling to not see if he can get fatter than Bartolo Colon and Kirby Puckett combined and Lee will need to be traded to the AL as a DH in a few years, that is, if he can manage replica Breitling A4935011-G5-4 Men's watch not to break his back or knees with all that excess fat.So I called Mama.She was grim.Unless every pitcher manages to induce grounders to short, he's gonna see his ERA go up by at LEAST 1.5 runs.And, she said, because of the terrible defense, they are gonna try to strike out every hitter and home run field will return.This was a really stupid signing, she said.Every stat geek she knows agrees.

(Mitchel Lichtman, a well known defensive stat geek says “This is the worst signing of the off-season.It is horrendous.I defended the Soriano and replica Breitling E7536210-B5 Men's watch Matthews signings.This one is indefensible.Lee, by all rights, is a terrible defender at this point in his career (interestingly, prior to 05, his UZR was above average).His baserunning lwts also took a nose-dive in 05.That and his UZR decline suggests that he has lost his speed.He is an average left fielder overall at best.At best.

I've discussed him several times these past few months, and remind everyone that although he hits mostly lefty, he has essentially the wsame offensive numbers as Pedro Feliz over the past 4 years, in spite of the fact that the Astros Organization is portraying Feliz as the second coming of Scott Rolen 04.Blum did a better than average job with the glove, too.This year, he is ostensibly the LH PH off the bench, backup 3B and replica Longines L2.642.8.51.2 Men's watch backup 2B and SS as well.

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Too stupid for words.And to respond to all the emails telling me I am a stupid moron for not liking this deal, let me say this Lee might could be fine next year.But there are FIVE more years after that and a whole lot of people out there can't seem to replica Breitling A7438010-G5-81 Men's watch understand that fat outfielders do not continue to produce at the same level they did when they were 29.And we will be paying him 16.6 mill a year for all those lousy years.)I have NO freaking idea how that outfield is supposed to field.

I guess this means both Jason Lane and Luke Scott are going to be traded Lane, because he failed last year and Luke Scott, because he's a LF without a position.And with Orlando Palmeiro, we don't need another lefty off the bench.Hey, maybe we can replica Breitling K2332212-B Men's watch sign Aubrey Huff to play right and give him a 7 year contract at 12 mill a year! Of course, he's alousy RF.Well, I don't guess that matters, seeing as how people really think it does not matter if a fielder can catch or throw a ball, as long as he hits home runs.

He's in the last year of his contract and will either be playing for a new contract, playing to get the Astros to pick up his option for next year, or hoping to get traded to a contendah at the deadline.He was hurt some of last year, and had a terrible start to last year replica Longines L2.142.0.51.4 watch didn't hit for spit until mid May, which earned him the undying enmity of many Astros fans who felt that maybe if he had thrown things of kicked some rookies, he would have done better.Hopefully, with a better manager and coaches, he'll have a great year.Geoff Blum, age 37, LH 3B (can play some 2B and supposedly SS although I bet he'd make Loretta look like Adam Everett).

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And actually, I didn't my cell battery died around noon.So I got just a lil impatient and said out with it.Deep sigh.The Stros signed Woody Williams to a 2 year contract with a 3rd year option (actually 2 years for 12.5 mill with a club option for a 3rd year at 6.5 million…) Well, that's fine with me.Woody must be one of the happiest guys in the replica brand watches majors he's always wanted to play for his hometown Astros he's only said so on the record bout a zillion times and 6 mill a year is very good for a decent SP even if he IS 40 years old.Heck, there ARE guys who can pitch at age 40 Kenny Rogers, Jamie Moyer, Roger Clemens…

And I LIKE having homies on the roster I do NOT like that seems we only have scouts in California and not Texas.)But that ain't all.Nope.Deep breath.Carlos Lee was signed for 6 years 100 million.I had that very bad feeling that we were gonna do something that freaking stupid, so I wasn't as upset as I would have been for, say, signing replica watch gift Gary Matthews Jr for 5 years 50 mill or Soriano 8 years for 136 mill.All I want to know is was Drayton stupid enough to give that lump of lard a no-trade? Ida know, sez Husband, they didn't say.(UPDATE: 11 25 the first four years are no trade.

I should know it by now, I've heard if so often…Me, I hope that Drayton has or will put a moratorium on his disallowing managers to play young players or give them more than a 3 week chance before discarding them in favor of some worn out re-tread.And I hope that the Astros fans will give rooks a lil more time to establish themselves replica Longines L4.709.2.42.9 watch not everyone comes up and hits .300 and I am sorry that fans these days seem to demand it as a matter of course.sighHere are the position players, including the NRIs:Infielders:Lance Berkman, age 34, SH, 1B: oh my GAWD can Lance really be that old?? In spite of what Astros fans think, he was the best hitter on the team last year 139 OPS+ .274/.399/.509/.907.

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