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Master Jansen,<br>
<br>
Apologies for my delayed response. Several points ...<br>
<br>
1. Jeff Winick -- you know me better that. I did *not* wash down
the Vicodin with cheap wine. It was 12-year old Macallan whisky.
Give me a little bit of credit.<br>
<br>
2. As for the pitchers, I scoured rosters for someone as valuable
as, say, a $10 Martin Perez who might be sporting a 5.00 ERA in
AA. But, alas, no such creature was available this year. So I took
two 23-year old guys who are likely to have rotation slots next year
with a combined salary of $7. They might end up being shitty. But
if they rise to even below average, they fit the K9 strategy pretty
well.<br>
<br>
3. As for A-Gone, he is $35, not $31. And when I traded him to the
Brats, he had only 10 homers for the year. I had no idea that he
would go absolutely bonkers the minute he left my roster.
Apparently John did. Of course, that's why John is making zillions
of dollars for people on Wall Street while I'm toiling away teaching
fledgling lawyers in Indiana. (And looking back on my earlier
trade, how the hell did John know that Jeff Keppinger was going to
turn into Ryne Sandberg?! Really, people, we need to stop
squabbling about baseball and start buying John's investment
newsletter!)<br>
<br>
That is all ... except that I still plan to finish in fifth place to
earn next year's first rotation-round draft pick. And if I do, I'm
going to pick a bean. You heard it hear first!!<br>
<br>
That is all.<br>
<br>
-Andy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/13/12 7:46 PM, Brad Jansen wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CABMf1OrqRS3-XoJ7Nk7Mx00SMnvo6nYxPhBqKxqkJxUY_MyQcA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">When will the Professor weigh in on this?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM, JOHN
FRUIT (NUVEEN INVESTMENTS I) <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jfruit1@bloomberg.net"
target="_blank">jfruit1@bloomberg.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">well, the market
for the $31 A-Gone was pretty thin by our trading deadline.<br>
Netting any prospect rated as high as Two Eggs was a better
proposition than<br>
letting Gonzalez rot on the Professor's roster ( pun slightly
intended).<br>
Besides, I'm pretty sure Andy was strung out on Vicoden and
cheap wine, not<br>
Demerol.<br>
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