Re: Darvish

[MSG T]

In the never ending series of contradictory tweets...

 

RT @ChiTribRogers Chances of #Cubs being surprise winners in Darvish bidding? Better than chances of getting Theo Epstein to come to Chicago

 

 

Retweeted by Ace

[SouthSideRyan]

In the never ending series of contradictory tweets...

 

RT @ChiTribRogers Chances of #Cubs being surprise winners in Darvish bidding? Better than chances of getting Theo Epstein to come to Chicago

 

 

Retweeted by Ace

 

So like 120%?

[bukie]

In the never ending series of contradictory tweets...

 

RT @ChiTribRogers Chances of #Cubs being surprise winners in Darvish bidding? Better than chances of getting Theo Epstein to come to Chicago

 

 

Retweeted by Ace

 

So like 120%?

Someone should ask him the chances of getting Varitek and Wakefield to come to Chicago, so we can get a baseline.

[Guest]

Let's hope today is that most special day of the year where Phil Rogers stumbles upon something correct.

[MSG T]

Let's hope today is that most special day of the year where Phil Rogers stumbles upon something correct.

 

That's, by far, the most worrisome part of that tweet.

[MWV]

So there is a better than certain chance that the Cubs have the high bid?

Phil Rogers is a graduate of the Peter King School of Writing.

[Guest]

I'll give Rogers a bit of a pass because he covered Theogate really well.

[mookie]

I don't remember the Dice-K posting scenario, were the Red Sox the surprise victors, or did the rumors pan true in that one?

[bukie]

I'll give Rogers a bit of a pass because he covered Theogate really well.

By calling it Theogate, I hereby revoke your pass.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't remember the Dice-K posting scenario, were the Red Sox the surprise victors, or did the rumors pan true in that one?

 

Doing a little google search it appears that Boston was somewhat of a surprise, that many people had Seattle and the Yankees potentially going to $20-30m despite most people assuming it would be $10-12m.

 

Also, hardball times had a little discussion about Matsuzaka's health and ended with:

In sum, I'm not going to tell you when Matsuzaka is going to become ineffective or seriously injured. All I can tell you is that it will probably happen before he reaches 31 years of age.

[Northside Blues]

Boston came out of nowhere to win the Matsuzaka bid. All of the rumors up to and during the process had him linked to New York with a max bid of like 25m. Matsuzaka was every bit as hyped as Darvish is, and the Red Sox bid for Matsuzaka has set the price for Darvish.

[C.C.]

Boston came out of nowhere to win the Matsuzaka bid. All of the rumors up to and during the process had him linked to New York with a max bid of like 25m. Matsuzaka was every bit as hyped as Darvish is, and the Red Sox bid for Matsuzaka has set the price for Darvish.

 

Matsuzaka was far more hyped than Darvish.

[jersey cubs fan]

Boston came out of nowhere to win the Matsuzaka bid. All of the rumors up to and during the process had him linked to New York with a max bid of like 25m. Matsuzaka was every bit as hyped as Darvish is, and the Red Sox bid for Matsuzaka has set the price for Darvish.

 

Matsuzaka was far more hyped than Darvish.

 

Darvish was more hyped at a younger age, but Matsuzaka's setbacks diluted some of the hype surrounding Darvish is the past 2 years.

[Northside Blues]

Boston came out of nowhere to win the Matsuzaka bid. All of the rumors up to and during the process had him linked to New York with a max bid of like 25m. Matsuzaka was every bit as hyped as Darvish is, and the Red Sox bid for Matsuzaka has set the price for Darvish.

 

Matsuzaka was far more hyped than Darvish.

 

Eh, Darvish generated a lot more interest from middle to upper-middle class teams. And google disagrees

 

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Yu+Darvish&word2=Daisuke+Matsuzaka

[Guest]

Boston came out of nowhere to win the Matsuzaka bid. All of the rumors up to and during the process had him linked to New York with a max bid of like 25m. Matsuzaka was every bit as hyped as Darvish is, and the Red Sox bid for Matsuzaka has set the price for Darvish.

 

Matsuzaka was far more hyped than Darvish.

 

Eh, Darvish generated a lot more interest from middle to upper-middle class teams. And google disagrees

 

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Yu+Darvish&word2=Daisuke+Matsuzaka

 

 

theo nudges out darvish

[WilcoFan]

Rogers seems to have been the most connected to the new regimethus far, at least as far as accuracy of sourced information. granted, no Chicago reporter has been great (my guess is that they're still establishing their connections with insiders), but he's had one or two hits thus far, whereas most of the other locals haven't had any hits.

[Guest]

Rogers seems to have been the most connected to the new regimethus far, at least as far as accuracy of sourced information. granted, no Chicago reporter has been great (my guess is that they're still establishing their connections with insiders), but he's had one or two hits thus far, whereas most of the other locals haven't had any hits.

 

Didn't Wittenmeyer or Levine report interest in Varitek weeks ago? (not that it's necessarily true)

 

Also Levine was all over the Stewart story for a while.

[Guest]

I sure wish I knew what Bruce thinks. I have 100% trust in him.

[RammyFanny]

I sure wish I knew what Bruce thinks. I have 100% trust in him.

Not sure it really matter at this stage. We know we bid, we just don't know who won. If Bruce knew, he'd break it. That's pretty much where we're at.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

signs strong jays & rangers did make serious bids for yu darvish. but could be a #mysteryteam.

Heyman and his damn mystery teams again.

[bukie]

An article on Fangraphs looks to find a current MLB equivalent to Yu Darvish.

 

Darvish: 25 years old, 10.7 K/9, 57% groundball rate, 94 MPH fastball velocity.

 

There were 11 25 year old major league pitchers last year who pitched at least 150 innings. Four (Wade Davis, Dillon Gee, Jair Jurrjens, Josh Collmenter) are soft tossers, and three others (David Price, Gio Gonzalez, Matt Harrison) are lefty.

 

That leaves four potential comparables: Felix Hernandez, Jordan Zimmerman, Johnny Cueto and Yovani Gallardo. How much would you pay to get one of those four players, if all it took was cash?

Edited December 15, 2011 by bukie

[jersey cubs fan]

An article on Fangraphs looks to find a current MLB equivalent to Yu Darvish.

 

Darvish: 25 years old, 10.7 K/9, 57% groundball rate, 94 MPH fastball velocity.

 

There were 11 major league pitchers last year who pitched at least 150 innings. Four (Wade Davis, Dillon Gee, Jair Jurrjens, Josh Collmenter) are soft tossers, and three others (David Price, Gio Gonzalez, Matt Harrison) are lefty.

 

That leaves four potential comparables: Felix Hernandez, Jordan Zimmerman, Johnny Cueto and Yovani Gallardo. How much would you pay to get one of those four players, if all it took was cash?

 

This reads a little weird until you realize it should say there were 11 25 and under MLB pitchers

[UMFan83]

In the never ending series of contradictory tweets...

 

RT @ChiTribRogers Chances of #Cubs being surprise winners in Darvish bidding? Better than chances of getting Theo Epstein to come to Chicago

 

 

Retweeted by Ace

 

Maybe I'm just stating the obvious but my thought was he was talking about the chances of getting theo when the GM search process started. But then if he's saying that, he's saying the Cubs have a better than 2% chance of getting Darvish?

[Guest]

An article on Fangraphs looks to find a current MLB equivalent to Yu Darvish.

 

Darvish: 25 years old, 10.7 K/9, 57% groundball rate, 94 MPH fastball velocity.

 

There were 11 major league pitchers last year who pitched at least 150 innings. Four (Wade Davis, Dillon Gee, Jair Jurrjens, Josh Collmenter) are soft tossers, and three others (David Price, Gio Gonzalez, Matt Harrison) are lefty.

 

That leaves four potential comparables: Felix Hernandez, Jordan Zimmerman, Johnny Cueto and Yovani Gallardo. How much would you pay to get one of those four players, if all it took was cash?

 

This reads a little weird until you realize it should say there were 11 25 and under MLB pitchers

 

Yea. That confused the hell out of me.

[bukie]

An article on Fangraphs looks to find a current MLB equivalent to Yu Darvish.

 

Darvish: 25 years old, 10.7 K/9, 57% groundball rate, 94 MPH fastball velocity.

 

There were 11 major league pitchers last year who pitched at least 150 innings. Four (Wade Davis, Dillon Gee, Jair Jurrjens, Josh Collmenter) are soft tossers, and three others (David Price, Gio Gonzalez, Matt Harrison) are lefty.

 

That leaves four potential comparables: Felix Hernandez, Jordan Zimmerman, Johnny Cueto and Yovani Gallardo. How much would you pay to get one of those four players, if all it took was cash?

 

This reads a little weird until you realize it should say there were 11 25 and under MLB pitchers

Yeah, edited to clarify.