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  1. TruffleShuffle
    Yeah, how could you not be fired up over a guy who played major college ball for three years and then put up a tremendous .313 OBP in rookie ball? he started out very slowly, hit a groove in the middle and tired out at the end and he still had a .796 ops. give the guy some time to adapt to the pro's before condeming him to being a washout as he only had 265 ab's. I'm not condemning him as a washout, but the tone of the article seemed to be that his 2006 debut proved everyone wrong. Uh, not exactly.
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    I can't wait until the Red Sox sign Drew and everyone blames this signing as the reason the Cubs didn't sign him.
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    Not crippling a team is no defense for a bad contract. The problem is Hendry tends to find multiples versions of this contract, which tend to not cripple on their own, but when combined together, hurt the team significantly. I don't give a crap if he doesn't cripple the team. You don't go into the offseason looking for guys who won't cripple the team. You look for guys that will help a bad team get significantly better. yeah, and I'm sure the Cubs are working on that. The guys you're talking about are not going to cost $4M per year.
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    He's certainly better than the anemic Neifi Perez or Ronny Cedeno. Is he? I mean he was last year, but that's 1 year. Neifi's career OPS+ is 63. Cedeno was one of the worst hitters in baseball. Yes, he's easily better than either of them, regardless of what happened last year.
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    never thought I would read that
  6. TruffleShuffle
    I wouldn't think he has enough offense at that position, but another reason I think it's an OK signing is that he can give you at least passable offense at 3B when ARam gets hurt - which will probably happen based on recent years. He's certainly better than the anemic Neifi Perez or Ronny Cedeno.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    Career OPS+ 2001: 91 2002: 101 2003: 84 2004: 59 2005: 98 2006: 106 which one looks like the biggest fluke?
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    You can just as easily say it was brought up by a fluke 2006. Quit making excuses. It's a bad contract. Quit being a pompous prick. Not everyone agrees with you.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    Then deal with the losses the Cubs will produce yet again this year.. Yeah, the Cubs are going to lose because they signed Mark DeRosa to a three year deal. Right.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    So? This is absolutely stupid. DeRosa is a bad utility player. Soriano is an impact regular. This comparison is absurd. Mark DeRosa is not a bad player. Career OPS+ of 90. Brought down to that level by an awful 2004. The last two years he's had an OPS+ of 98 and 106, and will be playing mostly "defensive" positions. He'd be a bad hitter for a 1B or RF, but as a 2B/SS/3B/Util guy, he's clearly not a bad hitter.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    I guess to reiterate my point from the mark derosa thread - signing a guy like Mark DeRosa to a 3 year, $13M contract is not going to cripple a team. What cripples a team is to sign somebody like Neifi Perez to a $2.5M/year contract and then give him a lot of playing time, or to sign Juan Pierre to a $10M/year contract. Teams not named the Yankees or Red Sox can't afford to do that stuff.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    Yeah, how could you not be fired up over a guy who played major college ball for three years and then put up a tremendous .313 OBP in rookie ball?
  13. TruffleShuffle
    Maybe they use him at 2B for a year to keep it warm for Patterson, and then he goes back to being a super sub assuming he doesn't hit out of his mind this year. Of course, maybe the stupid Cubs use it as an excuse to trade Patterson for some piece of trash middle reliever or 5th starter. That's when I go on a murderous rampage and never root for the Cubs again.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    For $10m per? Insane. now THIS is a ridiculous contract
  15. TruffleShuffle
    I picked other. The guy I most liked was Frank Catalonotto - as a bargain anyway. Even though JD Drew gets on base a lot and has a real good OPS+ every year - I can't support him. Just can't do it. And even though he's not a free agent, I want Eric Patterson at 2B :P
  16. TruffleShuffle
    I heard about that....apparently Tom Brady players a LOT better on turf, so they decided to install it in Foxboro...pretty dumb Unless you're kidding, I highly doubt thats the reason. That field has looked abysmal this year. I remember one game the center was basically just a long stretch of dirt, even to the point were sports casters were complaining about it. They've always had a problem with the grass as the season goes on. It's been like this ever since the stadium opened up. Good move by them. That field is always in poor shape the second half of the year, and by home playoff games it's a disaster.
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    So? This is absolutely stupid. DeRosa is a bad utility player. Soriano is an impact regular. This comparison is absurd. Mark DeRosa is not a bad player. He'll have a great 2008, wait and see.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    Chan Ho Park's contract is ridiculous. This is about $1M too much for a utility guy. Not the end of the world.
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    Especially when you have a guy who can do as good or better for $500,000. Theriot might do as well or better. Probably not, though. Will he do $4m worse than DeRosa's career averages? I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I think the answer is "probably not." I think people need to take a look around MLB and understand what people are getting paid these days. I've seen comments in this thread saying that he'd be a good utility guy for under $1 million. Come on. A guy who can be about an average hitter and play solid defense at just about any position on the diamond is going to make more than $1 million. This isn't the greatest signing, but he was going to get at least $3 million from somebody.
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    Especially when you have a guy who can do as good or better for $500,000. Theriot might do as well or better. Probably not, though.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    You ask Burrell to play RF. I'm sure one of them can handle RF semi-good, and even if they're only passable RF's, your offensive output makes up for it. Burrell, I can assure you, would be a terrible RF.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    assuming he actually would play CF and be competent at it. If he wants to play RF, and the Red Sox are interested, that would be a really obvious fit for him. And, given that the Cubs haven't outbid anyone for a premium free agent in 20 years, there's no reason to think they'd start now.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    Hop on the bandwagon, folks! I've made sure there's plenty of room aboard.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    Agree. If Michigan and Ohio State were both 3-8, nobody would give a crap about the game. Army and Navy frequently both bad, and it's still a great game to watch. Plus I was in the Patriot League... I got to see how much the two academies look forward to the chance to beat the other.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    worst post in this thread! His glove definitely isn't ready for the bigs. Maybe. He made 16 errors in about 140 games this year. Seven 2B in MLB made that many errors at 2B this year. I think some people have concluded his defense is horrendous based on a poor 3-4 game stretch in the AFL. He hasn't made an error in probably about 10 games now, so that wasn't a permanent, Chuck Knoblauch type of thing.
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