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  1. AAApittsburgh
    LOL. Cubs had a chance to get Mazzone and Girardi. WTG!
  2. AAApittsburgh
    He had Kevin Brown, Livan Hernandez, and Al Leiter. Not like he wasn't given much to work with there. I think if you give most pitching coaches Wood, Prior, Zambrano, and a fairly deep farm system full of pitchers they would be pretty good too.
  3. AAApittsburgh
    I don't think it has anything to do with team chemistry or "playing their butts off". It's their pitching. And it definitely has nothing to do with Ozzie-ball or smallball like all White Sox fans and idiots on ESPN seem to think. So they win despite Ozzie?? EDIT: I have to say that anyone who thinks chemistry and playing your butt off is irrelevant knows very little about sports. Even without Colon, the Angels have good pitching too. I don't think they win despite Ozzie, but I also don't think he's as good a manager as everyone seems to think. He makes his fair share of dumb decisions as does any manager. I don't think chemistry is irrelevant, but it's not nearly as important in baseball as it is in other sports.
  4. AAApittsburgh
    I don't think it has anything to do with team chemistry or "playing their butts off". It's their pitching. And it definitely has nothing to do with Ozzie-ball or smallball like all White Sox fans and idiots on ESPN seem to think.
  5. AAApittsburgh
    Or you can pick up his option and trade him to a place where he wants to go.
  6. AAApittsburgh
    I don't know much about their system either, but I thought they already had a really good 2B prospect.
  7. AAApittsburgh
    Don't get it.
  8. AAApittsburgh
    Yah, darn that Aramis. Playing through an injury for most of the season. Who does he think he is? Seriously, it was probably a bunch of crap from Sox fans on the Score who probably want him playing 3B on the southside next year.
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  10. AAApittsburgh
    I think there are better options. Gordon is just too old. I'm not sure he'd stay healthy. Hendry needs to look at the stacked Indians BP and pick up one of those guys.
  11. AAApittsburgh
    Old correlation doesn't mean causation argument. Just because some playoffs teams have defensive shortstops, doesn't mean that's the reason they made the playoffs. The White Sox are a seriously flawed team. Angels' offense isn't all that great either.
  12. AAApittsburgh
    Because it seems like teams hire coaches based on their history as a player. Former players know people and they get the job. And since they're former players, they sometimes rely on hunches, gut feelings, and old baseball myths to make decisions. The best manager would probably be some no-name stat geek out of college who has never played the game. However, he might end up overmanaging, like TLR.
  13. AAApittsburgh
    Only the Mets would be dumb enough to give him SS-type money to play 2B.
  14. AAApittsburgh
    Good, if they threw in Majewski or something.
  15. AAApittsburgh
    Nice. Now maybe we can get Gomes without giving up Z, Prior, and $50 mil.
  16. AAApittsburgh
    That type won't get us anywhere. You can take that to the bank. We all know that but, such a move screams of Hendry, Encarnacion, Preston Wilson, Jacque Jones or Jose Cruz Jr. (although he'd be a FA signing) these are what we can expect. Last offseason maybe. I'm not sure Hendry is dumb enough to make those kinds of moves this offseason if he wants to be GM of the Cubs for much longer. We're already hearing a lot more rumors involving the Cubs than we were last year during this time, which leads me to believe that we'll see something significant happen.
  17. AAApittsburgh
    Which is why the Marlins wouldn't do it. But if it did happen, I'd put Cabrera at 3B and trade Aram for a good pitching prospect and a corner OF.
  18. AAApittsburgh
    Send me a bleacher plz. Thx.
  19. AAApittsburgh
    What if Hendry looks at the success the White Sox had this year and says "Hey, I should build a team like they have". Does that scare anyone else?
  20. AAApittsburgh
    And people complain about Walker's D. :shock:
  21. AAApittsburgh
    Except, neither Kearns or Pena are very good. They would give you about the same production as Burnitz, and the idea is to upgrade RF.
  22. AAApittsburgh
    I think it's because good teams usually have good pitching, and good pitchers usually throw strikes. Cubs swing at anything, but it's still easier to hit a pitch in the zone. Bad pitchers don't throw strikes and the Cubs will still swing at them.
  23. AAApittsburgh
    He should be managing a veteran AL team where he doesn't have to do anything.
  24. AAApittsburgh
    dunn
  25. AAApittsburgh
    Exactly how foolish would it be? The guy has excelled at every level he has played at and his teams are consistently winners. I would much rather the Cubs consider bringing up Pie than getting another stop gap like Burnitz or Hollandsworth, or worse yet letting Patterson come back. His plate discipline in AA is worse than Patterson's was in AA. Please explain with numbers :D I was looking up Pie's stat line this year and it pretty impressive .349 OBP, .554 Slg, .304 Avg and he only struck out at a rate of around 1 time every five ABs. His Steal ratio looks really bad, but there is nothing in those numbers that says he cannot be successful in the future. BTW I think it is unfair to compare everyone to Corey Patterson, Patterson's problems appear to be mostly mental. From everything I've read about Pie they have two entirely different outlooks on the game. Pattersons IsoD in AA was .073. Pie: .045 If it wasn't for his high BA, his OBP would be pretty low. The numbers are decent, but I don't see anything there that screams major league ready. He needs a season in AAA.
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