Bruce Levine Reporting that Remlinger Will be DFAd...

[badger1679666666]

What the heck does being a grass fairy have to do with DFA'ing Remmy?

[AI]

What the heck does being a grass fairy have to do with DFA'ing Remmy?

 

I love soccer, but that is freakin' hysterical.

[ToupeeOnFire]

Glad to see Remlinger get the heave-ho. Of course, watch the Braves pick him up and have him prosper down the stretch. The next guy that needs to go is Rothschild.

[USSoccer]

Ouchies? :binkybaby:

 

What, no polo or badminton stories of your own to share?

 

Ok, big shot.

 

After being an All Conference keeper in middle school, I attended a high school with an established keeper. So, wanting to play immediately, I switched to center midfielder and was pretty good.

 

Anyway, the first game of the playoffs in my senior year, I raced for a loose ball. Their sweeper, a Norwegian exchange student who I battled in an epic 5 set tennis match earlier that year, was going for it also. We struck the ball at nearly the identicle moment. However, a bone on the top of my foot fractured and I went down. The referee, with no medical training, grabbed my foot while I was on the ground. He bent it toward me, asking if it hurt, and I exclaimed, "F#%$ yeah, it hurts!" He then gives me a yellow card!

 

Regardless, we won that game and I attended the next game in a case. The guy replacing me moved up from left fullback. The guy replacing him was a freshman.

 

The freshman tried to clear an in-coming ball about 10 yards out from the goal by one timing it. The ball went of the outside of his foot and spun into the goal. We lost 1-0. Mostly because I broke my foot in the last competitive soccer game I ever played. (While I play some indoor now, its not nearly the same.)

 

Now, one time in badminton, I had this shuttlecock...

 

Haha. Consider yourself lucky, nowadays it's an automatic red for saying the magic word. Of course, it does take quite a bit of non-profane berating to get a card where I played.

 

My freshman debut on varsity, I said "let's keep the gd ball down there" (gd obviously spoken). I got a yellow. 45 seconds into my debut.

[otis89]

Confirmed. Mitre also sent down.

 

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[AlwaysaCub]

Our Pen Just got a bunch more righty.

 

So Garciaparra is being called up in place of Hairston, meaning Cedeno is staying up. I think that is a tremendous waste of Ronny Cedeno, because moving to third on the depth chart means he will not get into another game this season. Shoulda called up Greenberg for him.

[gerby23]

Confirmed. Mitre also sent down.

 

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I like this part:

Remlinger was 0-3 with a 4.91 ERA in 35 games for the Cubs - and had held right-handed batters to a .210 batting average. The left-hander was on the disabled list May 21-June 5 with a non-displaced distal phalanx fracture in the fifth finger on his left hand

Just rub it in that he may have been effective had he been used right.

Cubbie from TX in AR

[BobRoss139]

 

Just rub it in that he may have been effective had he been used right.

 

Don't say that! We're all supposed to celebrate and agree that Remlinger sucks....

[Blueheart05]

Glad to see Remlinger get the heave-ho. Of course, watch the Braves pick him up and have him prosper down the stretch. The next guy that needs to go is Rothschild.

 

I doubt it. His tour of duty with the Braves came and went years ago.

[Warren Brusstar]

Great move. It's good to see. Remmy definitely was a huge bust in Chicago. I'm not sad to see him go.

 

Think about it. Over the 2004 and 2005 seasons, the Cubs had invested close to $18M in Remlinger, Hawkins and Borowski. That amount would have paid for Jeff Kent. I know - it's not an apples to apples comparison.

 

Whether it is or is not, it's just further proof that paying obscene amounts for bullpen arms is a waste of money. The correlation between salary and success is lower in the bullpen than anywhere else on the field. As the Angels have proven the last 5 years, great bullpens can be made for very, very cheap. Yet, the Cubs continue to pay millions to guys based on 60 good innings the previous season. Yet, the difference between a 3.00 ERA and a 4.00 ERA over that many innings is 7 runs, within the whim of pure luck, and certainly not enough to conclude that the guy with the 3.00 ERA is the better pitcher. Yet, teams are falling all overthemselves to acquire the guy with the lower ERA. (See, e.g. Kolb, Danny.)

 

Position players are much safer bets because the sample size is so much larger. Yet, our "genius" GM keeps throwing money at the bullpen. It's simply a waste of money.

[brinoch]

Great move. It's good to see. Remmy definitely was a huge bust in Chicago. I'm not sad to see him go.

 

Think about it. Over the 2004 and 2005 seasons, the Cubs had invested close to $18M in Remlinger, Hawkins and Borowski. That amount would have paid for Jeff Kent. I know - it's not an apples to apples comparison.

 

Whether it is or is not, it's just further proof that paying obscene amounts for bullpen arms is a waste of money. The correlation between salary and success is lower in the bullpen than anywhere else on the field. As the Angels have proven the last 5 years, great bullpens can be made for very, very cheap. Yet, the Cubs continue to pay millions to guys based on 60 good innings the previous season. Yet, the difference between a 3.00 ERA and a 4.00 ERA over that many innings is 7 runs, within the whim of pure luck, and certainly not enough to conclude that the guy with the 3.00 ERA is the better pitcher. Yet, teams are falling all overthemselves to acquire the guy with the lower ERA. (See, e.g. Kolb, Danny.)

 

Position players are much safer bets because the sample size is so much larger. Yet, our "genius" GM keeps throwing money at the bullpen. It's simply a waste of money.

 

I think this is a very keen point. I would argue that someone with a long history of excellent pitching out of the bullpen is worth a good contract, but I just can't support it. They tend to break down. Certainly, guys like Billy Wagner and Eric Gagne are tremendously valuable, but how much more than a position player at the same price?

[Jazz]

closer and MAYBE setupman is the only place you should be spending money on the bullpen, the rest should come from within the system, thats how most great bullpens are made.

[MembersOnlyJacket]

Remlinger's closing thoughts:

 

"If this team doesn't do what it's supposed to do, then it's going to come down to him, and that's the nature of the game," Remlinger said. "I don't have any simple answers. I don't think you can criticize any aspect of Dusty's managing. But for whatever reason, things haven't clicked."

 

Excuse me ?

[Exile on Waveland]

A little late, but on the subject of soccer injuries:

 

About a month ago now, I go up for a headball and a thug on the other team shoves me in the small of the back. I go flying and try to catch my fall with my right hand. I was rather unsuccessful; I completely broke my ulna in half and also broke the radius. I then called for a sub and drove myself to the hospital -- nobody on the team even knew I was injured until I called one of them. That's right, I'm stuffed full of machismo.

 

Anyway, to make matters worse, this happened on my first day of law school -- literally about an hour after class ended. And, naturally, I'm right handed. (Note: IU has a summer-start program consisting of one class, for those of you wondering how I started so early).

 

 

On the bullpen topic, spending big free agent money on relievers isn't typically the way to go. Now, I wouldn't refuse B.J. Ryan, but, with some exceptions, 3-year, 10-million dollar contracts for a reliever aren't good ideas.

Edited August 6, 2005 by Exile on Waveland

[CubfaninCA]

Great move. It's good to see. Remmy definitely was a huge bust in Chicago. I'm not sad to see him go.

 

Think about it. Over the 2004 and 2005 seasons, the Cubs had invested close to $18M in Remlinger, Hawkins and Borowski. That amount would have paid for Jeff Kent. I know - it's not an apples to apples comparison.

 

Yep, Kent would really help. If Hendry just passed on Burnitz and Walker, the Cubs would have been able to afford Kent though.

I think most, including myself, were pretty fired up about the signing of Hawkins, and the Cubs had no relief prior to Remlinger's arrival.

[chopsx9]

Well just imagine if Dusty had used either of them correctly?

 

I have seen numerous quotes in papers about Remmy's L/R splits; its not like it was secret, but Dusty knows better.

 

Hey just imagine if Baker had used Dempster as the closer right after Borowski imploded instead of forcing Hawkins into a role he had failed at, at least twice. (Not to mention half the country was speculating about Dempster as the closer in the offseason). Hawkins carrer may well be ruined.

 

How much difference would those have made in the season?? Maybe not enough to put the team in first but they would certainly be closer than they are now.