Pirates get Akinori Iwamura

Anyone think we should've made a deal to get him?

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No. On a related not, Jesse Chavez is insanely small in real life.

"At least he didn’t nail the bitchy fat girl from Hell's Kitchen."
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by cbwilk on Nov 3, 2009 10:06 PM EST reply actions

Not really

Isn’t there already enough debate at the happenings at second base?

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Nov 3, 2009 10:17 PM EST reply actions

My thinking was if we got Aki then that would solve them. Drop/non-tender/whatever KJ and use Prado off the bench.

(Yunel is still the Queen of Hearts)

by GoBravesNY on Nov 3, 2009 10:20 PM EST up reply actions

We would have had to pay him $4.85 million which isn’t a good idea when we need to be putting all of our remaining resources into OF, 1B, and RP. If we could have picked him up for a much smaller salary then it might have made a little more sense.

by ajones2522 on Nov 3, 2009 10:42 PM EST up reply actions

Not only is he expensive, but he’s 5 years older and hasn’t had a season in the US that’s been even close to as good as Prado’s this year. GoBravesNY, I have no idea why you think he would start ahead of Prado.

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by cbwilk on Nov 3, 2009 11:05 PM EST up reply actions

The whole reasoning would’ve been based on the year he had 2 years ago when the rays made it to the WS. But now that I look at the stats he wasn’t even that great. That was half. The other half is because there is a group here that don’t think Prado should start and can’t put up those numbers for a full year (even though he basically did that).

Doesn’t even matter though. I like Prado. Prado’s our starter. Prado’s good. Aki is in Pittsburgh and were here.

(Yunel is still the Queen of Hearts)

by GoBravesNY on Nov 3, 2009 11:30 PM EST up reply actions

Word. Personally, I thought Aki had been better too.

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by cbwilk on Nov 4, 2009 1:05 AM EST up reply actions

Are they planning on playing him at 3rd...

over little LaRoche, or 2B? I’m guessing 2nd, which wouldn’t help the idea of a Capps for KJ trade.

by Mr. Sanchez on Nov 4, 2009 7:46 AM EST reply actions

I’m assuming they’ll flip him to another team. This makes no sense for Pittsburgh.

Here are Pujols's stats: 1.000/1.000/4.000/5.000. That's right. He is batting a thousand, with a thousand OBP (naturally), and every hit has been a home run, and thus his OPS is a perfect 5.000.

by TradeAndruw on Nov 4, 2009 11:50 AM EST reply actions