The Genius of Shapiro

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Eduardo Perez's lefty splits

 

2002: 997 OPS in 70 ABs

2003: 1126 OPS in 102 ABs

2004: 623 in 27 ABs

2005: 897 in 135 ABs

 

2006: 2500 OPS in 2 ABs

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Eduardo Perez's lefty splits

 

2002: 997 OPS in 70 ABs

2003: 1126 OPS in 102 ABs

2004: 623 in 27 ABs

2005: 897 in 135 ABs

 

2006: 2500 OPS in 2 ABs

 

and it counts! or will count in 20 minutes.

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sorry, but the more I look at this it seems people will give Shapiro the benefit of the doubt for making the same decisions they would crucify the Cubs for making.

 

Well thats because he seems to have an actual plan, unlike the Cubs. He actually runs an orginization that seems to run smoothly, that has not fallen after a teeny bit of success but has BUILT on it. He has injected youth and excitement into the team by using trades to rape teams (the Expos and Boston). He has kept the orginizations solid farm and let it mature while still drafting and injecting yet more and more youth that looks damn good.

 

The Cubs have not done any of those things in my eyes. None of our young players stand out like Sizemore, Marte (will), Hafner, Martinez, and guys who will be up this year and next (Snyder, Sowers).

 

Worse, no orginization seems to pussyfoot like the Cubs. Why is Dusty still here after at the very least, expectation fall every year with im? There is no more optimism, we had THREE prime pieces that most franchise would care about more than anything, and we went and threw them out there to average 115+ pitches a piece at ages 22 and slightly older. All for one year of success when we could have had many more, sometimes I actually sit and wonder if we had sucked in 2003 what would be going on now.

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I think Dubois's lack of success last year would temper much of the enthusiasm for having him on the roster. The annoying part of Holla over Dubois was that we knew Holla sucked but didn't know that about Dubois yet.