2013

[Sammy Sofa]

Lonnie Chisenhall: DEFINITELY can contribute.

 

Anthony Rizzo: ehhhhhhhh, MAYBE he can pull it out of his butt.

[Guest]

Castro, Rizzo, Castillo, and Shark might be future contributors.

 

 

...and we're done here.

[davell]

I think one of Cabrera or Dolis becomes a solid bullpen piece for us next year.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I think one of Cabrera or Dolis becomes a solid bullpen piece for us next year.

 

I hope they do it starting from deep in the bullpen, because they've sucked enough at this point to not be counted on.

[abuck1220]

I feel like we should do something fun like figuring out potential WAR totals if we went with the somewhat reasonable Upton + two non-Greinke starters plan.

 

As soon as the season is over, I'm going to do a massive post outlining, among other things, the 2012 Cubs' WAR by position and outlining why we were so bad. It'll be a nice jumping-off point for what to do in 2013.

can I sign up for some kind of alert so I know when you're doing this?

[abuck1220]

like an alert so I can be sure to avoid it.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

As soon as I saw that abuck had posted, I thought "Post taking a shot at me, shot at someone else, or relevant baseball post? I'll go with 70/20/10."

 

I hadn't even considered a single shot at me spread out over two posts. Well played.

[abuck1220]

can you email it to me in PDF format so I have an actual hard copy that I can physically throw in the garbage?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

can you email it to me in PDF format so I have an actual hard copy that I can physically throw in the garbage?

 

Someone was clearly influenced by the paperbecause commercials.

[Sammy Sofa]

Dude thinks he's relevant baseball posts. And people.

[Guest]

Dude thinks he's relevant baseball posts. And people.

 

loooooooooooooooooool

[Guest]

I feel like we should do something fun like figuring out potential WAR totals if we went with the somewhat reasonable Upton + two non-Greinke starters plan.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjL2eBSl-d4RdEpNRk1wZl9kb2FBUWpGbUEyYllfLWc

 

Edit to your heart's content.

[SouthSideRyan]

Let's pair it up with davell telling us his hopes for 2013 for the bajillionth time.

I'll use live action smilies and possibly some porn for the landmark bajillionth one.

 

I hope it's not the porn equivalent of the 2013 team you want.

[treebird]

Let's pair it up with davell telling us his hopes for 2013 for the bajillionth time.

I'll use live action smilies and possibly some porn for the landmark bajillionth one.

 

I hope it's not the porn equivalent of the 2013 team you want.

 

it won't be a lemon party without old davell

[davell]

If porn is included, it won't be the one eyed, wooden legged, 300 pound types, which I expect the following season to be.

[davell]

How about Barney, Brett, Wood, and Villanueva for Upton? Vitters, Szczur, and LaHair for Chisenhall and sign McCarthy, Villanueva, and Liriano? Decent? Or way too little for Upton?

[imb]

If porn is included, it won't be the one eyed, wooden legged, 300 pound types, which I expect the following season to be.

 

volgelbach will still be in the minors

[WrigleyField 22]

I feel like we should do something fun like figuring out potential WAR totals if we went with the somewhat reasonable Upton + two non-Greinke starters plan.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjL2eBSl-d4RdEpNRk1wZl9kb2FBUWpGbUEyYllfLWc

 

Edit to your heart's content.

A team of all replacement players would project at like 45-55 wins right?

 

 

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[Hairyducked Idiot]

The average team had 22.8 fWAR going into today, so I guess that would mean Fangraphs is setting replacement-level at 58 wins.

[SouthSideRyan]

The average team had 22.8 fWAR going into today, so I guess that would mean Fangraphs is setting replacement-level at 58 wins.

 

Wouldn't that set it at ~38 wins?

[Guest]

I feel like we should do something fun like figuring out potential WAR totals if we went with the somewhat reasonable Upton + two non-Greinke starters plan.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjL2eBSl-d4RdEpNRk1wZl9kb2FBUWpGbUEyYllfLWc

 

Edit to your heart's content.

A team of all replacement players would project at like 45-55 wins right?

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

That calculation uses some broad ranges, but in that case it's more like 40-45.

[sneakypower]

Vitters, Szczur, and LaHair for Chisenhall

i wonder if there's any player you could try to obtain with that package, that wouldn't make the opposing GM crack up

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The average team had 22.8 fWAR going into today, so I guess that would mean Fangraphs is setting replacement-level at 58 wins.

 

Wouldn't that set it at ~38 wins?

 

Then wouldn't the average team have 61 wins?

[SouthSideRyan]

The average team had 22.8 fWAR going into today, so I guess that would mean Fangraphs is setting replacement-level at 58 wins.

 

Wouldn't that set it at ~38 wins?

 

Then wouldn't the average team have 61 wins?

 

I have a learning disability you jerk

[Guest]

Stolen from the other games thread...

 

Here's something that might break your brain. Using fWAR....

 

 

                  Cubs   A's   O's
5+ WAR players     0      0     0
4+ WAR players     1      1     2
3+ WAR players     2      2     0
2+ WAR players     2      5     4 
Total wins:       60     93    93

 

                  Cubs   A's   O's
<= -0.5 WAR players     7      1     3

 

The Cubs' problem isn't so much the stars, it's the scrubs.