Gimps trade Denard Span and Marco Scutaro to Andrew Wiggins for Magglio Ordonez and Alexei Ramirez

So Chris Liss (coupled with an annoying refusal to give me Alberto Callaspo) has been saying a number of things I want to respond to. The debate begins in my last post 'Intuition v Quants' and continues in the comments area, and then on to Chris' post on Rotosynthesis. 

Chris has a number of objections, but the one I'd first like to tackle is his complaint that baseball is not a math game, and that since a baseball season is "organic", or non-repeatable (2010 only happens once) all of our projections will be 'wrong'. 

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So Bill and I have a tendency to get into minor arguments over most players. Especially if some of those players are on my team, and some of those players are on his team. 

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"How terrible is wisdom if it brings no profit to the wise?"

- The Devil, Angel Heart

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I tend to be a fairly frenetic trader, and I made another deal today……

I sent Mike Aviles, Brett Gardner, and 40 claims dollars to Brian Hastings for Alex Rios and Matt Gurerrier.

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