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  1. TruffleShuffle
    I'm no draft expert, but I don't understand that at all. It seems to me that a team would want to go with BPA AND need. To me that was clearly Weiters. Now if the Cubs have concerns that he won't stick at catcher, I could see drafting someone else. I just seems that a team would want to at least think about the mid term future of their ball club when drafting. It'd be great if they worked together, but if the Cubs feel that Vitters is the BPA, the player they liked the most from the start, followed the most during his HS season, etc. should they pass that to the side b/c of a need on the 25 man roster? Btw, when Vitters gets to the majors the Cubs might be looking to trade Ramirez. You're playing the "what if" as far as trying to project what the roster will look 2-3 years down the road. Who's to say that Soto won't an everyday C and Ramirez is playing more like a 1B at 3B b/c of a career of leg injuries who can't stay healthy? Their biggest need is getting the best talent at any position. The problem is that Wieters is not some late-first talent who you're overdrafting because he's a quick fix. He already was the best talent at any position. But never mind that, because thank God we have Jeff Samardzija.
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    fixed for appropriate pessimism.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    contract the giants... what a miserable team
  4. TruffleShuffle
    A baseball player is the sum of his parts. Barrett may not have a good glove or be an astute baserunner, but his offensive contributions made him a far superior baseball player than many of the other more defensive-minded catchers who you probably think were better. Just so I know for future reference who are the defensive minded catchers that I think are better? I don't know, but I compare a player to his peers. Barrett has been better than probably 2/3 of the starting catchers in baseball the past three years. The idea that he has been a bad baseball player is absurd.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    giants normal position players this year: C Bengie Molina (age 32) 1B Ryan Klesco (age 36) 2B Ray Durham (age 35) 3B Pedro Feliz (age 32) SS Omar Vizquel (age 40) LF Barry Bonds (age 42) CF Dave Roberts (age 35) RF Randy Winn (age 33) Talk about old/washed up. And the next guy with the most ABs is Rich Aurilia (35). I guess the Cubs could be in worse shape after all...
  6. TruffleShuffle
    Details. That's a game I actually care about. They didn't do anything specifically bad, they're just a tremendously bad baseball team if Barry Bonds isn't hitting HRs, which he hasn't been doing for the last month or so. i was a big brian sabean fan, but i'm starting to think that a lot of their past success was due to barry bonds and a fair amount of luck. That team has just been old and mediocre the past three years.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    A baseball player is the sum of his parts. Barrett may not have a good glove or be an astute baserunner, but his offensive contributions made him a far superior baseball player than many of the other more defensive-minded catchers who you probably think were better.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    I think everyone on this board with any baseball sense has agreed that the argument you stated above is moronic. Did that come out wrong? i'd say awkward, not wrong :lol:
  9. TruffleShuffle
    I think everyone on this board with any baseball sense has agreed that the argument you stated above is moronic.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    Not really. Harvey, when drafted, had a star ceiling but as we've seen, a big bust potential too. A guy like Theriot or Murton has a lower ceiling, but a better chance of becoming a big league ballplayer. My beef with the Cubs is that when they've gone for high-ceiling players, they go after a Harvey or Dopirak who swing at everything and have long swings. They don't get the proper coaching and voila, there's another wasted draft pick.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    I would, but we don't have WGN. I'm sure someone on here has TiVo/DVR and would be able to do it for you.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    I want to believe this, but the Cubs have never shown much to make me think that Soto is really in their plans for the future. Signing Blanco to a two-year deal when it seemed Soto was major league ready would suggest otherwise.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    i'm in a good mood, so i won't bust out the eye roll
  14. TruffleShuffle
    i remember the WS org getting pissed off about BP's projection that they'd win only 72 games. That's looking pretty good right now...
  15. TruffleShuffle
    isn't it time for geoff jenkins to get hurt again?
  16. TruffleShuffle
    especially ronny's call of the final play... what a classic
  17. TruffleShuffle
    This is not a big deal. People are getting pissed off at the Cubs for trading for Burke, but I think he had next to nothing to do with the deal. The Cubs wanted to dump Barrett and in return, get a guy who can at least not kill them while playing every day this year. Burke is just a throw-in, a high-ceiling guy who has a lot of flaws right now.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    eff you, ump
  19. TruffleShuffle
    i said when he was struggling that if his arm was sound, he'd be fine. Yeah, he doesn't have much of a repertoire, but he locates really well and throws deceptively hard. He's a good pitcher... I'm glad he's come around.
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    Or Cubs fans who voted nobody (like me :o) I voted for Piniella.
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    Again, not a great prospect. Very low chance of being a MLB player. But I'd prefer a guy like him to trading for another Sam Fuld or Ryan Theriot... we have mediocre MLB talent out the butt already, don't need more low-ceiling guys (which oh by the way, we keep drafting).
  22. TruffleShuffle
    The Cubs organization never viewed Harris as a SS. Why? They buy into the traditional baseball wisdom (or stupidity is more like it), that SS is a defense first position. They'll trade hundreds of points of OPS for a marginal defensive upgrade. Besides Izturis, we've had Alex Gonzalez and Neifi Perez when we could have put guys like Theriot and Brendan Harris at that position. I hope the new ownership fires Hendry about 5 nanoseconds after buying the team. You mean the Theriot with a 692 minor league OPS and a 669 OPS this year? I said we had better options, not that the options we had were all that great. .669 is better than .613. your "hundreds of points of OPS" was a gross exaggeration.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    Petrick's last 10 outings... 15.2 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 4 BB, 23 K. I still have some hope for him. I really hope he can find his way back into the rotation. you think he profiles better as a starter? or you just want him to get more innings? I've been really impressed with his work as a reliever; maybe that's the best place for him, especially given his health history.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    i don't know why the hell that deal would even have been reported. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And the Padres are really going to give up a young, relatively productive shortstop for two pieces of trash and a half-season upgrade at catcher? Come on.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    I didn't read a word you said. Couldn't keep my eyes off of Josie. qft
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