Keith Law=Moron

Suntan Superman

WC's Resident Samoan

1. Aramis Ramirez*
2. Daisuke Matsuzaka
3. Alfonso Soriano
4. Jason Schmidt
5. Roger Clemens
6. Andy Pettite*
7. J.D. Drew*
8. Julio Lugo*
9. Jim Edmonds
10. Carlos Lee
11. Mike Mussina*
12. Ted Lilly*
13. Gil Meche
14. Frank Thomas
15. Barry Zito*
16. Barry Bonds
17. Randy Wolf
18. Justin Speier
19. Dave Roberts*
20. Tom Glavine
21. Mike Piazza
22. Ray Durham
23. Nomar Garciaparra
24. Shea Hillenbrand
25. Adam Eaton
26. Greg Maddux
27. Jeff Suppan
28. Joe Borowski
29. Akinori Iwanurma
30. Mike Stanton
31. Kei Igawa
32. Aubrey Huff
33. Vincente Padilla
34. Rich Aurilia*
35. Gary Matthews, Jr*
36. Kenny Lofton
37. Moises Alou
38. Jeff Weaver
39. Bengie Molina
40. Juan Pierre*


Problems- a. Aramis Ramirez??? Are You Kidding Me? Yea the guy can hit, but he's not an Alfonso Soriano type player. He is not the top free agent
b. Andy Pettite One of the oldest current players and who knows how much longer he's gonna play! Barry Zito anyone?
c. J.D. Drew, OVER RATED *clap* OVER RATED
d. Julio Lugo, See Above
e. Mike Mussina, See Andy Pettite
f. Ted Lilly, hmmm... where has he been? now he's a top free agent?
g. Dave Roberts, and Rich Aurilia, Are how old??
h. Gary Matthews, Jr. According to Law in June Matthews was "one of the Best overall center fielders the game has ever seen" now describes his fielding as average and his hitting sportatic
i. Juan Pierre, GD care to take to this one?

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

1st of all, why is Frank Thomas ahead of Bonds on this list? They are both DH's, and Bonds towards the end of the season started to look like the old Barry. Anything remotely close to the old Barry is better then Frank Thomas.

I'm not trying to knock Thomas, he had a great year, and I think it'll be a decent signing for the Jays, but he's not Bonds.

I agree about Aramis Ramirez. He can really hit, but alfonso soriano is a special player. I'm not sure if he's worth all the money, especially when he'll be getting paid around $17M when he's 38-years old, but when you are the Cubs and haven't won in a century (which is literall, not even an exaggeration lol) then I have no problem with overpaying for this type of player.

Dr. Giganto

Ted Lilly and Gil Meche ahead of Zito...WHA?????

Suntan Superman

WC's Resident Samoan

How about J.D. Drew above Carlos Lee?

I can see Meche above Zito because Meche is an 'unknown quantity' Zito's pretty much reached his potential, but put Meche in the Twins system you could have a good pitcher

Dr. Giganto

Gil Meche has been in the majors since I was like a freshman in college. I GRADUATED over 4 years ago. I know Gil Meche. Well, not personally, but I know how good he is. I also know that I would take Zito before him in a heartbeat.

Meche and Zito are also the same age, both 28

Dr. Giganto

also note that I HATE J.D. Drew, and I would call him overrated, but the only people that overrate him are himself, Scott Boras, and Keith Law

Freak

The only possible explanation I can imagine is that the writer was basing his rankings on "value," given how big a contract he estimated each player would receive.

Otherwise, yeah, I'm a Jays fan and I'd take any of those guys over Ted Lilly.

Dr. Giganto

yeah, I guess that is a possibility. However, if that is the case, I would put Drew waaaaaaaaay down the list.

Ted Lilly is a decent number 3 or 4 starter. Zito is an ace. Maybe not on the Johan/Halladay/Carpenter/Clemens level, but like a second-tier ace.

Suntan Superman

WC's Resident Samoan

They were ranked based on the salaries they should recieve