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This article got me really excited. We've uncovered a market inefficiency. Of course other teams are going to start noticing it now and start taking the top college bats at the top of the draft, causing the elite pitchers and high school bats to fall. Hopefully right into our laps as we descend in the draft order the next few years.

 

We should be able to get really good value while improving in the MLB standings.

 

I wouldn't limit it to just college bats but bats period (since they drafted Almora and acquires Russell and McKinney).

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kind of stupid that the one time in my life that the cubs were really amazing kinda cost them mike trout
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kind of stupid that the one time in my life that the cubs were really amazing kinda cost them mike trout

Being good will cost us a lot of good players in the future, I hope. I wouldn't trade that season for anything.

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kind of stupid that the one time in my life that the cubs were really amazing kinda cost them mike trout

 

Oh STFU

Just lamenting the timing. Like when the 2002-03 bulls decided to be slightly less of a dumpster fire than they had been.

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See I just assume we wouldn't have picked him and can be glad I don't have to live with guilt like 20 other teams.

But we would've.

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See I just assume we wouldn't have picked him and can be glad I don't have to live with guilt like 20 other teams.

But we would've.

Is that an actual rumor that the Cubs liked him?

 

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2014/05/a-brief-history-of-the-cubs-and-the-mlb-draft-3-stories-on-how-fate-affected-the-cubs-pick/

 

2. The 2009 Draft

 

Two years later, the Cubs absolutely fell in love with a toolsy prep outfielder from New Jersey, a talented player whom some feared would be behind from a developmental standpoint because he came from a cold weather state, meaning he wasn't able to play year round like other prospects.

 

If you haven't guessed by now. that outfielder was Mike Trout and the Cubs were heartbroken when the Angels took the risk with their 2nd pick of the first round, #25 overall.

 

Even when the Cubs win, they lose, they had won 97 games the year before and picked last in the draft, a pick they used to select Brett Jackson, a similar player athletically but one who had questions about his swing and ability to make contact.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-javier-baez-tv-ratings-20140806-story.html

 

Javier Baez got some Cubs fans to tune into the team again.

 

His Major League debut delivered a 2.0 rating on Comcast SportsNet, up 43 percent from the season average of 1.4 on the cable outlet. That translates to 92,600 homes tuning into the telecast.

 

It will be interesting to see if the buzz from Baez’s game-winner homer spikes the rating for tonight’s Cubs-Colorado game.

 

Not bad for an 8pm game against the only team worse than them.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-javier-baez-tv-ratings-20140806-story.html

 

Javier Baez got some Cubs fans to tune into the team again.

 

His Major League debut delivered a 2.0 rating on Comcast SportsNet, up 43 percent from the season average of 1.4 on the cable outlet. That translates to 92,600 homes tuning into the telecast.

 

It will be interesting to see if the buzz from Baez’s game-winner homer spikes the rating for tonight’s Cubs-Colorado game.

 

Not bad for an 8pm game against the only team worse than them.

 

Is that compared to all CSN games or just CSN+? Slightly more impressive if it's the former.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-javier-baez-tv-ratings-20140806-story.html

 

Javier Baez got some Cubs fans to tune into the team again.

 

His Major League debut delivered a 2.0 rating on Comcast SportsNet, up 43 percent from the season average of 1.4 on the cable outlet. That translates to 92,600 homes tuning into the telecast.

 

It will be interesting to see if the buzz from Baez’s game-winner homer spikes the rating for tonight’s Cubs-Colorado game.

 

Not bad for an 8pm game against the only team worse than them.

 

Is that compared to all CSN games or just CSN+? Slightly more impressive if it's the former.

 

Think it's all CSN games.

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See I just assume we wouldn't have picked him and can be glad I don't have to live with guilt like 20 other teams.

But we would've.

Is that an actual rumor that the Cubs liked him?

It's arguello, but yeah. I choose to believe it since that's depressing.

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2014/05/a-brief-history-of-the-cubs-and-the-mlb-draft-3-stories-on-how-fate-affected-the-cubs-pick/

 

Last year, someone besides Arguello suggested the Cubs really liked Trout on draft day (can't find the link now). He would have fit Wilken's style too.

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See I just assume we wouldn't have picked him and can be glad I don't have to live with guilt like 20 other teams.

But we would've.

Is that an actual rumor that the Cubs liked him?

It's arguello, but yeah. I choose to believe it since that's depressing.

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2014/05/a-brief-history-of-the-cubs-and-the-mlb-draft-3-stories-on-how-fate-affected-the-cubs-pick/

 

Last year, someone besides Arguello suggested the Cubs really liked Trout on draft day (can't find the link now). He would have fit Wilken's style too.

 

and then after two years of people screaming at him from the dugout to swing the bat and not look at so many pitches he'd be broken like everyone else we drafted. let's all be thankful for the greatness of 2008 and not read into anything else.

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and then after two years of people screaming at him from the dugout to swing the bat and not look at so many pitches he'd be broken like everyone else we drafted. let's all be thankful for the greatness of 2008 and not read into anything else.

 

Yeah, looking back at all the guys we could've had who have gone on to great productive careers, I can't help but wonder if they'd have those careers coming up through one of the worst player development systems in the league

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Stupid cubs weren't the worst team in the league when Bryce Harper came out

 

i'm not asking that much. just more kinda wish trout came out a year earlier or we could like switch the order of 07 and 08 somehow

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We successfully received our orange crop reports early.

 

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