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Giants just signed Affeldt for 3 years/$18M...but he's no Brandon League...
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Bob- I'm not exactly sure it would ROCK as you say it Byron.. it may be cool, by typical text book descriptions. Your opinion of this is shallow and poorly constructed, but allow me to re-craft your initial thought into something tangable.
An interesting, although insignificant minor league trade occurred on November 1. The White Sox traded their ex-GM's son Kenny Williams Jr to the Rockies for their ex-manager's son Mark Tracy.
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No, he's even a worse signing. Giving a three year deal to a righty specialist is stupid. Giving a three year deal to a lefty specialist is beyond stupid. In a vacuum, I think anyone would prefer the righty specialist. Of course, your GM is probably as big a moron as ours so both signings make tons of sense to both of their pea brains.
Brandon League
Career OPS vs. RHB - .590
Career OPS vs. LHB - .765
Jeremy Affeldt
Career OPS vs. RHB - .738
Career OPS vs. LHB - .701
LOL, indeed.
Indeed, it was a pea brain signing by a pea brain GM whose pea brain-assembled team has won two of the last three World Series. Perhaps the Giants' pea brain GM is unable to pass his particular pea brained results on to his pea brained acolytes who move on to become pea brained GMs elsewhere, in the same way that such NFL luminaries as Jimmy Johnson and Bill Belichick have been unable to transfer their success to their minions, but he has had some pretty good results himself. For a pea brain, that is.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
No, he's even a worse signing. Giving a three year deal to a righty specialist is stupid. Giving a three year deal to a lefty specialist is beyond stupid. In a vacuum, I think anyone would prefer the righty specialist. Of course, your GM is probably as big a moron as ours so both signings make tons of sense to both of their pea brains.
Brandon League
Career OPS vs. RHB - .590
Career OPS vs. LHB - .765
Jeremy Affeldt
Career OPS vs. RHB - .738
Career OPS vs. LHB - .701
LOL, indeed.
Affeldt was one of only 4 LH relievers in baseball to combine a 55% GB rate with 8Ks per 9, can you name the other 3?
"You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus Kinski
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