[USML Announce] Beware Mark Kerber!!

[Brad Jansen]

Jeffrey, if Chris Carter were on the trade block, wouldn't the Astros be
playing him?
--Pissed and pissed off in Maui
     Brad Lee Badtai

P.S.  Didn't bother to bring onroto password, but* * can only guess I'm in
6th now. Any keepers besides Machado and Profar left???

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Winick <jhwinick at aol.com> wrote:

> But for a slight miscalculation on Eric Hosmer (which apparently only Rick
> Gammons was wise enough to foretell - and yes, there should be lots of
> apologetic emails to Rick for the criticism he had to endure), Mr. K has
> been simply brilliant this year.  One great trade after another.  Consider
> what's he's managed to accomplish:
>
>  He turns Chris Carter (now rumored to be on the trading block) for the
> $1 Nate McLouth
> He turns CC Sabathia (and his obviously fading stuff) into Eric Hosmer and
> Chris Tillman; and
> He turns Valverde (once again a complete bum) into a $2 Chris Parmelee,
> top bean George Springer and Japaneses wunderkind Masahiro Tanaka.
>
>  But his greatest masterpiece has to have been turning perhaps the single
> greatest disappointment in the American League in 2013 into one of the
> leading candidates for the Cy Young award, the $5 Yu Darvish.  Here's what
> Buster Olney just reported on Mr. Verlander:
>
>  • Justin Verlander<http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/6341/justin-verlander>
>  got hit around late in his start Tuesday,<http://www.freep.com/article/20130710/SPORTS02/307100039/tigers-white-sox> pushing
> his ERA to 3.71.
> Some opponents see a major difference in his raw stuff. "Not even close,"
> said one hitter. "He’s trying to trick you now. He didn’t have to do that
> before."
> The White Sox racked up 23 hits -- six of them<http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-0710-white-sox-tigers-chicago-20130710,0,684873.story> by
> Alex Rios.
> From ESPN Stats & Information: For the fourth time this season, Verlander
> allowed five or more earned runs. That is one shy of his total from the
> previous two seasons combined.
>
>  Fair warning - he's a sneaky one that Mr. Kerber.  And he clearly knows
> what he's doing.  Of course, I say that with great admiration.
>
>  Jeff
>
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