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which is why you obviously don't trade baez right now.
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i like john baker a lot, but he is a terrible baseball player. just give him some money to be a clubhouse leader/mascot and do media interviews.
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Russell Martin
TruffleShuffle replied to EhDubya's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i love his conclusion that he is worth $8 or 9 mill, tops. fans who have no concept of player valuation are the best. also a big fan of his comparison with soriano, as if it's somehow instructive to compare the offensive output of a player at the bottom of the defensive spectrum with the output of a player at the top. -
Russell Martin
TruffleShuffle replied to EhDubya's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
this line made me laugh: what is this, 2002? i'm pretty sure that even the non-forward thinking front offices would still be pretty keen to grab a catcher who posted an OBP above .400 in a season when the average catcher OBP was .309. -
that's literally the first time i've posted there in years. some of the stuff was so ridiculous, i couldn't help myself.
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It's something to be looked at, but there's probably far more value in finding pitchers who were unlucky on balls in play or who happened to pitch in front of lousy fielders. I.e., fly ball pitchers on the Cubs last year would have been significantly hurt by bad outfield defenders.
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maybe the cubs will feel bad about how this turned out for oakland and just agree to cancel the ptbnl.
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Molitor is going to be the new manager and Bosio played 7 seasons with him. Yes, and the idea was that Molitor was going to gather a "reunion staff", completely composed of old Brewers teammates. It sounds like something a reporter made up on a slow day, to be honest, but as far as Bosio is concerned I think it's a tempest in a teapot. what's teddy higuera up to these days?
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the giants' lineup in 2007 was benjie molina (32), ryan klesko (36), ray durham (35), omar vizquel (40), pedro feliz (32), barry bonds (42), dave roberts (35) and randy winn (33). next-most at bats was rich aurilia (35). they were a bad team that year, with a roster that was very old. it's pretty impressive that they went from that to winning a world series in 3 years. sabean was at fault for letting his position players get so bad and so old in the mid to late 2000s, but he's had a lot of prospects pan out and also brought in a lot of cast-offs who played really well in san fran.
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even running the catcher up the line, they'd still get posey out. given where gordon was, the throw pretty much would've had to miss the catcher completely, and i can't believe that a major league shortstop is going to screw up that badly more than 15% of the time. http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/sending-gordon/ i just don't think that the odds are good enough that crawford - a good fielder with an accurate arm - throws it away. and if the throw were accurate, gordon would have been out by a comically large distance. if the third base coach sends gordon and the ball ends up in the catcher's mitt with gordon still 40 feet from home plate, everyone spends the next week making fun of the third base coach and he's probably looking for a new job.
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I heard that comment too and was about to steer my car into a light post if not for the fresh pizza sitting on my passenger seat. If you want to say they are 2-3 years from reaching the peak of their collective performance, I suppose that argument could be made, but 3 years away from even being a playoff competitor is ridiculous. I don't think people who think like that realize exactly how bad Jaxon, Schierholtz, Lake and Olt were last year and how much playing time those guys were given. Plus Javy being about as bad as he could possibly be. If the Cubs do nothing but replace those guys (plus Veras) with slightly below league average guys they'll be a .500 team. plus all you have to do is look at one of the teams that made the world series this year to know how ridiculous that statement is. the royals were 72-90 in 2012, and their rotation was "anchored" by bruce chen, luke hochevar and luis mendoza. if a team with limited financial resources can pull off that kind of turnaround in two years - hell, in ONE year they improved by 14 wins - then i'm pretty sure the cubs can probably manage to do it as well.
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by the way, how about da bum's contract? 15:$6.75M, 16:$9.75M, 17:$11.5M, 18:$12M club option ($1.5M buyout), 19:$12M club option they basically control a very good, durable starting pitcher for about $10m a year until he reaches age 30. must be nice.
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if he came out after 4 innings and someone else blew the game, i'd say give it to him, but it's hard to imagine him winning the series MVP after blowing the game in the 9th inning. perez and infante have pretty good series numbers, so if either of them does something positive in the 9th inning to help the royals win, maybe they could be the choice.
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i do feel a bit bad for renteria. if someone like valbuena gets pushed out of a starting role by younger, better players, he's clearly proved that he's valuable enough to continue to get regular playing time as a super-sub, or would be appealing to other clubs as a possible starter. renteria did fine in his first season, but i doubt he's done enough to prove that he is definitely deserving of another shot at managing a ballclub. that being said, it's a business and the cubs have the opportunity to get one of the best managers in the game for nothing more than money, so it's pretty much a no-brainer.
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ned yost is wildly incompetent as an in-game manager. just terrible. i genuinely think he might be worse than dusty baker in that respect.
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well, he has probably tried.
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joe maddon poll (BUT MOSTLY STUPID MOJO TALKING SHIT ROCK)
TruffleShuffle replied to treebird's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
There's no right horse in that scenario unless you're just talking money. Or possibly getting to meet Dave Chappelle. Otherwise it's pick your poison. i just meant in the sense that john mayer is apparently worth a quarter of a billion dollars while howie day may be waiting tables at this point. -
joe maddon poll (BUT MOSTLY STUPID MOJO TALKING SHIT ROCK)
TruffleShuffle replied to treebird's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
she had a choice between howie day and john mayer and ended up with howie day? talk about hitching your wagon to the wrong horse. -
gonzalez is definitely an appealing target; i'm just trying to figure out what the nats' motivation would be in trading him. ian desmond is fine, and while they do have a deep rotation, fister is a free agent after 2015 and isn't as good as his ERA the last year or two, and roark is nowhere near as good as his 2014 ERA. plus jordan zimmermann gets way more expensive in 2015 then becomes a UFA. strasburg is represented by boras and isn't likely to be signing a team-friendly deal anytime soon. i would think that some as good as gio gonzalez, while signed to a very team-friendly deal through 2018, is about the last asset they should be looking to deal.
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Fangraphs/BP/BA Cubs Top Prospects List
TruffleShuffle replied to Transmogrified Tiger's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
i forgot that kiley mcdaniel was doing fangraphs' prospect stuff now, and as i was reading i was thinking "jeez this is way more insightful than fangraphs' usual prospect stuff." -
i can understand not using him there, although his rationale was lousy. but i really do think that matheny is a pretty bad in-game manager. i wonder if there's any chance of him getting sacked. mozeliak seems like a smart guy and he has to know that matheny is making some pretty glaring mistakes. although he's been to 3 straight NLCS, so they can probably overlook his bad in-game decisions because he consistently gets a lot out of the players he's managing.
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who cares? those are easy to make fun of and maybe if we're lucky, a couple of mlb franchises will decide that they need more grit and bunting instead of players who are actually talented.
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btw, if the game had gone into extras, here was the cards' lineup: carpenter 5 jay 8 wacha 1 peralta 6 descalso 3 grichuk 7 wong 4 cruz 2 taveras 9 with the only players left to pinch hit being pete kozma and aj pierzynski. :lol:
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when the giants were facing the nationals, i said that i was really pretty tired of things going the giants' way. amazing how quickly that turned into "God i hope this team wins the NL"