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  1. TruffleShuffle
    Thanks for the input... I assume you are his accountant, gardener or close personal friend to be able to make such a judgment?
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    Yeah but here's the problem with that. Nunez is playing just as much as he did in Pittsburgh, basically as a part-timer and a pinch hitter, and he's all of a sudden gone from a 62 OPS+ to above average. He's being asked to do the same thing he was asked to do in Pittsburgh and is now doing it much better. Tony Womack was asked to be an everyday second baseman last year at the age of 34... did he all of a sudden figure out how to be a good everyday middle infielder at the age of 34? Did the Cardinals coaches find something with him that 10 previous years of coaching could not? Same thing with Carpenter and Tavarez. Carpenter was asked to start every 5 days, just like he was in Toronto, except now he's better at it. Tavarez has been a setup man most of his career. Most of these guys are doing the same thing they've been doing most of their careers, but they're just doing it better. In the case of Tavarez, maybe he didn't start cheating until last year, and that was the improvement. Otherwise, who knows? Maybe it's something in the water, or maybe Mark McGwire left some special pills in the clubhouse when he retired. :lol:
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    The Cubs should offer him $3M to retire.
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    I noticed that the Bass Fishing championships were on ESPN2 today... maybe everyone stayed home to watch that? Or Nascar maybe? :lol:
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    Hey, Tampa had a sweet deal with the Red Sox and the Mets that the Red Sox backed out of late in the negotiations. They were about to steal the Mutts' top 2 prospects and 2 of the Red Sox top 10 prospects. Hard to blame their GM for wanting a lot for Huff & Baez since it was a seller's market and since he almost had a huge return on them.
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    Haha that is pathetic! Maybe it would be best for the Cubs to get a Double-A affiliate closer to Chicago, where people would support the team more.
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    I want the Cubs to get a new RF next year and go with either Murton or Sing in LF next season.
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    It's the Pirates though... they've probably been either apathetic or pissed off for the past 10 years. How much worse could it get over the trade of a pretty good but aging outfielder who wasn't going to be there next year anyway?
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    When I heard the Cubs made a trade I immediately went to the minor league box scores to make sure Eric Patterson and Brandon Sing hadn't been strangely removed from their respective lineups. The guy who was pitching against West Tennessee did get traded by Florida and was removed from the game in the second inning though.
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    To me it means Hollandsworth assumes the role his best suited for PH-4OF, maybe, its for the best, I didn't like the prospect of watching Hill, Mitre or Wellemeyer winning 15-18 games next season for the Reds, Rangers or Devil Rays. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the though of an OK pitcher like Mitre or Wellemeyer being able to win 15-18 games for a sad-sack club like the D-Rays. And good point about the Cards, with their OF woes I would think they'd be interested in a guy like Lawton. I can't believe they couldn't give the Pirates something of greater value than Jody Gerut.
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    I'm happy about the trade because it at least suggests that Hendry is aware of the team's OBP problem, and because the Cubs didn't give up much that was going to be of value in the future.
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    His ERA in July was just barely over 3 coming into today and he has a bad inning so you bump the thread? And now his July ERA is over 4. You can find all the obscure stats you want, but the painful fact of the matter is that he's no longer a good pitcher.
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    Let's classify his starts in terms of quality... we'll go 1-5 with 5 being excellent and 1 being terrible: 5 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 6 K (1.5) 5 IP, 9 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K (2.5) 6 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (3.5) 8 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K (4.5) 6 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (4) 6 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 K (2) 7.2 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 10 K (5) 5 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (2) 7 IP, 9 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (3.5) 8.2 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 0 BB, 4 K (2.5) 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (4) 6 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 K (3) 7.2 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K (3.5) 4.2 IP, 8 H, 7 ER, 2 BB, 3 K (1) 6 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2 K (3) 6 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K (3.5) 5 IP, 10 H, 6 ER, 1 BB, 2 K (1) 6 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 0 BB, 5 K (1.5) 8 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (5) 8 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K (4) 5 IP, 9 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 4 K (2.5) 8 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K (4) 4 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 1 K (1) 5: 2 4.5: 1 4: 4 3.5: 4 3: 2 2.5: 3 2: 2 1.5: 2 1: 3 Average: 2.96 So with 3 as an OK start, he's had 11 above-average starts, 2 average and 10 below-average. That, plus the average score of around 3 per game puts Maddux at exactly what he is - a league-average pitcher.
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    Bumpity bumpity bump
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    I hope these rumors are true... the best way to address the team's OBP problem is by trading for guys who don't get on base much!
  16. TruffleShuffle
    We'll worry about next year in 2006. Right now, the Astros are beginning to pull away from the Cubs too. 4 up. This is just like the Cards did to us in May. Somehow, someway, our boys need to right ship. We've lost 2 of 3 to Arizona, while the Astros have blanked the Mets. Well I've said since the beginning of the year that there are too many fundamental problems with this club for me to envision it making the playoffs... so I'm already looking forward to next season. Hopefully Hendry will address the OBP, bullpen and injury issues in the offseason.
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    I told Brandon yesterday that NSBB has been "sing"ing his praises. I hope by "NSBB" you mean "me". :lol: Just kidding, I know that Ron and a couple of other people are big fans as well. Hope he can keep up the amazing production of the last 1.5+ years. By the way, what is the DJaxx franchise record in HRs... does he have a reasonable shot at it? Even if he doesn't, he still has a pretty good shot at the league HR title, which would be quite impressive given Pringles Park reputation as a pitchers' haven.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    Everyone keep doubting Sing. Your doubt only makes him stronger. He homered again tonight and walked twice to pull his OPS up over 1.000.
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    Am I the only one who doesn't get the big stink about this guy? Yes he has pretty good power, but his plate discipline is poor (averaging a strikeout a game this year and throughout his professional career) and he's really only having a solid year at a level he played at last season. At least Brandon Sing walks a lot and destroyed the levels that he's repeated. I feel like if Moore had been drafted in the 20th round instead of 8th overall, nobody would think anything of him.
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    Well enjoy it now... considering his horrendous 62 OPS+ coming into this year, it's a strong bet that it ain't gonna last. Tavarez and King are still outperforming their career numbers by a fair amount... especially Tavarez. JRod does what most Cardinal call-ups seem to do, play out their butt for as long as they're needed and then fade back into obscurity (a la Bo Hart). Ramirez I still don't agree with given his career path... this is not far from where a guy below 30 with his career path should be expected to be. Rusch and Lee I'll give you, but aside from that... outside of those two and Murton nobody is doing more than expected. And Maddux hasn't had an ERA this bad since 1987. See Remlinger as well. Just because most Cardinals magically get better on the wrong side of 30 doesn't mean that they can all escape the effects of Father Time.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    Great inning guys!
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    OMG Neifi walks for the first time since July 3, and finally hits double digits in walks.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    As usual, the Cubs are doing everything possible to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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    OK, so there's one guy who's having a really bad year and one guy who's having a slightly below average year. What about all the scrubs I listed above who are doing way better than their career averages? Edmonds is doing worse than his career average, but he's not that far off what he would've been expected to do when he signed his current contract - about a .900 OPS, 30 HR and injury prone, sounds the Jim Edmonds we saw in Anaheim. As for excelling over a short period of time, Abraham Nunez has 250 plate appearances and is on track for a career high. I'd say guys who pitch regularly like Carpenter, Reyes, King and Tavarez are hardly guys excelling over a short period of time, too.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    Oh by the way, enjoy that $17.5M millstone of a contract that Pettitte has in 2006 :lol:
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