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I have a tendency to draft Cobb because I like the stolen base. :D

But every time I get him he seems to be injured several times during the season. Granted it is only 3 games at a time but crud that leaves a hole in the lineup. On my most recent team he has missed [b:6d5c1a917e]10[/b:6d5c1a917e] games! Why does he get injured more often than other players?

Its those sharpened spikes.
every once in awhile when he is sliding, they get stuck in the dirt, and his ankle gets hyperextended for a few days.....

For me last night, he didn't like the idea of 3 games at Fenway so he took a junket to Vegas for the series. I wonder if he's related to Dennis Rodman? :?

Hangover.

I agree, I think you and everyone else should stop drafting him, he is a bum! :wink:

:lol:

is playing 152 out of 162 games = missing a lot of games :shock:

Let's not forget all the runs that the overrated sociopath gives up on defense and all the runs he doesn't create when he gets thrown out. And then there's the negative effect on the morale of his teammates...

All in all, a very risky pick.

The Georgia Peach was the pits in the playoffs for me. Great regular season, then first game of the semifinals gets injured and misses next three games ... including Game 4, which I lose by a run in 19 innings at home. :evil: I guarantee Jackie Robinson would have played those games, but not that cracker Cobb.

Cobb was the greatest to ever play the game. Remember that he played before surface statistical analysis reduced the game to waiting for the three-run homer. There is no way to quantify errors forced, pitchers rattled, infielders reduced to ineptitude. Sabermetricians will be wiping more and more egg from their faces as managers like Guillen, who actually understand the game, the importance of contact hitters, and the stolen base come to the forefront in baseball.

That is, of course, if they can force their whiney-assed, steroid-ridden, millionaire ballplayers to get their uniforms dirty.