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  1. TruffleShuffle
    if they did sign quality free agent relievers and they played well, i'm sure your response would be whereas if they sign scott eyre v2.0 and he sucks, you'll grumble all day long about how relievers are volatile and shouldn't get multi-year deals.
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    no, it's that your response would bash them for not signing puig and darvish but then ignore the truckload of bad signings that the cubs haven't made. not only do you expect them to know more than the consensus of fans and media, you expect them to sign every player who turns out to be awesome (thereby outbidding the other 29 teams for every good signing, all while working within a more constrained budget than most of us had anticipated) while also avoiding every bad signing.
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    agreed. a lot of people wanted pujols or fielder (i was in the pujols camp) after the 2011 season. it's still early, but those contracts are looking pretty disastrous at this stage. i'd say the new regime deserves credit for avoiding the obvious solution to plug a gaping hole (lack of power; no first base prospects in the system) and ending up with rizzo, who may end up being better than pujols and fielder for the next several years at a fraction of the cost.
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    portland and ???? charlotte definitely has the population to support a MLB team, maybe raleigh-durham also, but they could be too into nascar and college basketball. sacramento? salt lake city? columbus? i guess i'll say salt lake city since there are a lot of white people there and presumably there's not much to do.
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    Trying to save the bullpen from the extra innings games against Pitt. plus he sucks and won't be pitching in the playoffs if they make it, and they'll buy him out after this season, so who really cares if his arm falls off.
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    nice to see that westbrook's numbers have started catching up to his pathetic K/BB ratio.
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    yeah, arrieta definitely has the type fo stuff you can dream on. problem is, he's 27 and you feel like he should have figured it out by now. hopefully a change of scenery and some different coaching can help him realize his potential.
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    I assume that means Sandberg will be the new Phillies manager. IMO charlie manuel is a really good manager, and should get multiple job offers in the offseason. ruben amaro jr, on the other hand, should have fired himself.
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    Jersey's? What wasn't right? 4 straight years of being abysmal, 5 straight years with an average payroll, etc. too lazy to break it all down. but it sucked. I suppose abysmal is subjective but they've been bad for each of 2010, 11, 12, and now 13. abysmal means extremely bad. the 2010 cubs were not extremely bad. but the payroll thing was egregiously false.
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    Jersey's? What wasn't right? 4 straight years of being abysmal, 5 straight years with an average payroll, etc. too lazy to break it all down. but it sucked.
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    No.
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    Almost everything in that post was wrong, and you choose to quibble with the part about attendance?
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    the problem with doing that is if he truly is as horrific as dunn was once he started to lose his athleticism (like mid 2000s), then his bat loses a lot of value. with dunn, you're talking about a guy who was cranking out a wOBA around .390 every season, which was damn near elite, but he was ending up anywhere from a 1 to 3 win player because he gave back so much value on defense. and there's certainly no guarantee that abreu's bat is as good as in-his-prime adam dunn. you can get as much value in LF with a platoon like schierholtz/hairston at a fraction of what abreu is likely to cost. to me, the only realistic option if you sign abreu is to turn around and trade rizzo. i don't like the idea of playing abreu at 1b and rizzo at lf, because they're both going to leak value defensively, and abreu will probably be a joke in lf (and may not even sign to play a new position).
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    Yeah, probably should have looked up Dave McKay's role in the organisation. Definitely pulled a WSR there.
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    where is abreu going to play and where is rizzo going to play?
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    what about little league and the japanese central league? Who cares? well, little league is the largest organized baseball system on earth, and the central league is half of japanese professional baseball's highest level, so that would tend to contradict your statement about it existing at every level and in every organization except the NL. not to mention all the times that pitchers bat in AA and AAA when national league affiliates are facing each other.
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    what about little league and the japanese central league?
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    i agree with this and think it's the part i would miss most. i remember like 20 years ago, cito gaston went something like 50 games without making an in-game change besides replacing one pitcher with another. i like the strategy involved with national league games.
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    so get rid of the DH in the american league, problem solved.
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    the post said current hitting ability, not potential.
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    found from maples' start against everett. they only had about one inning's worth of radar readings, but he was sitting 93-94 with the fastball.
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    maples: 5 ip, 1 h, 0 r, 2 bb, 9 k, 1 hbp. love it.
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    at least a few years ago, DH had the highest average compensation of any position in baseball. not having the DH keeps their payroll marginally lower, rather than needing to find/pay another very good hitter. That's horrible logic and I want to fight you for it, you Ricketts narc. well then look at it another way; if they have (hypothetically) $125m to spend, replacing a $10m DH with an extra bench bat or an extra relief pitcher gives the cubs several million extra to spend elsewhere on the major league roster.
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    at least a few years ago, DH had the highest average compensation of any position in baseball. not having the DH keeps their payroll marginally lower, rather than needing to find/pay another very good hitter.
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    dillon maples: 3 ip, 1 h, 0 r, 0 bb, 4 k, 1 hbp. seems like the switch has really flipped for him. he was walking almost 1 batter per inning at kane county, but in his last 4+ outings he's pitched 23 innings and walked only 2 batters.
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