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ops above .500! \:D/
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halladay really isn't that sharp tonight. almost 42% of his pitches have been called balls.
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soriano is just terrible. ops below .500.
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i don't know how campana was caught stealing 31% of the time in 2010 (with tennessee). he's really damn fast.
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Does he have to fall of a cliff for this to be a terrible contract? He doesn't have to pull a soriano. If he's merely above average for his position for 6-8 years of the contract, was it a bad deal? yeah, if he steadily regresses from very good to good to mediocre to lousy during the life of the contract, maybe producing like a superstar for a year or two, that's not a good signing. $25m per year is superstar money. dude has to be one of the five or so best players in the game during the next decade for the angels to get the production they're paying for.
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Yeah, his approach at the plate has gone in the crapper. You used to never see Albert expand his zone, now he does it with regularity. There is the possibility that he is pressing so far this season because of the contract, but that still doesn't explain last season. His approach is a huge part of what has made Pujols great and if what we have seen from him since the beginning of last year is indicative of what he has become, the Angels are going to wear that contract. This isn't bad luck, he's simply not the same player at the plate right now. You guys are reading that entire article, right? It's point IS that he's likely a different player, but not that that definitely means he's a bad one. I mean, the author even goes out of his way to end it like this: that does little to refute my stance that they should have worried about it roughly five seconds after he agreed to their offer. he's already past his prime, he'll be 42 when the deal ends, his walk rate nosedived and he's coming off his worst season in about a decade. there are plenty of reasons for concern.
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pretty happy that the flyers definitely avoid the rangers next round, with the caps knocking out the bruins (flyers lost all 5 games with the rangers this season)
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they probably should have started to worry about it roughly 5 seconds after he signed the offer. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=16628
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Betances, Banuelos, Sanchez? mason williams
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Prospects who were never Cubs
TruffleShuffle replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
is it possible that mike trout, at age 20, is already too good for AAA? he's hitting .419/.483/.649 in 19 games. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-24-12
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
my 2011 baseball america prospect handbook states, "Chicago pulled the first huge surprise of the 2010 draft when it selected Simpson with the 16th overall pick. Considered as a fourth- to sixth-round talent by most clubs..." and "They project him as a No. 2 or 3 starter with four average or better pitches, including a knee-buckling curveball, hard slider and effective changeup, not to mention plus control and command. Other teams don't rate his stuff quite as highly and think he'll have to add life to his fastball and work lower in the zone. They also wonder if he has the size to hold up as a starter." it also says that the cubs saw him working at 96-97mph in a division ii playoff game. now yes, it is true that he has gotten hurt and also had mono, but isn't it quite possible that some of those other teams are right? other pitchers get dinged up and maintain their stuff, or see it come back much more quickly. maybe they saw simpson throwing very well in a game or two, and overrated him based on that. i guess one way to look at is that the cubs got unlucky that their pitcher had some injury and illness issues; another way is that the guy really didn't have the consistent ability and frame to overcome setbacks. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-24-12
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I never give up on 1st rounders until they turn 26 but I'm hoping for a 7th inning arm at this point. what if the first rounder should have been picked like 3 rounds later? Based on the arbitrary pre-draft rankings that come draft day more than one team seemed to be willing to ignore if we believe THOSE rumors are true? Not much. So because one or two other teams might have been willing to take him in the sandwich round, that means that he should have been selected in the middle of the first round. Right. The bottom line is that very few talent evaluators saw him as a first round talent. The Cubs did, and they were wrong. -
Was thinking the same thing. It is rather worthless. it also told me that samardzija was running out of gas after throwing a 90 mph cutter, and then one pitch later told me that he was still going strong at 85 pitches because his last 10 fastballs had averaged 93 mph.
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that scout thing that mlb.com has in gameday is completely worthless. it's telling me that the cardinal pitcher may have to go after soriano, whose ops against the four seam fastball is .364 this year, rather than facing david dejesus (whose spot is like 6 batters away!), since his ops against the four seam fastball is a terrifying .465.
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our bullpen is walktastic. what's jason neighborgall up to these days, he'd fit right in.
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no, $9.8m in 2013 then he's a free agent.
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oh, so because he may not INTEND to piss people off by only posting when things are going badly for the cubs, it's not trolling. got it.
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michael bowden looks mentally handicapped in his mlb.com photo
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except you don't post when things are going well, you just turn up like 3 seconds after the ball clears the fence to give the cardinals the lead. congratulations, you're trolling the message board of a team you root for. because there has been an abundance of things going well over the past 3+ seasons so what? if the only time you're going to show up is to bitch about the cubs losing, then leave. nobody likes a miserable turd who trolls the team he supposedly likes.
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except you don't post when things are going well, you just turn up like 3 seconds after the ball clears the fence to give the cardinals the lead. congratulations, you're trolling the message board of a team you root for.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-24-12
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I never give up on 1st rounders until they turn 26 but I'm hoping for a 7th inning arm at this point. what if the first rounder should have been picked like 3 rounds later? -
posts by aramis fan in the 1.5 hours with cubs leading: zero posts by aramis fan in the 3 minutes since cubs lost the lead: two
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Prospects who were never Cubs
TruffleShuffle replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
also fun is that dylan bundy was facing matt barnes, who was drafted by the red sox and has also been completely lights out. barnes' line was 5 ip, 3 h, 0 r, 2 bb, 9 k. barnes' line on the year, after tonight's start: 21 ip, 9 h, 0 r, 4 bb, 34 k. so the combined season line for the two starting pitchers in that game: 34 ip, 9 h, 0 r, 5 bb, 55 k. and it probably cost like $10 to watch them up close. awesome. -
shawn camp? do not want.
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yet his last start blew. at least he's showing the ability to be dominant when he's on... hopefully consistency will come next.