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  1. TruffleShuffle
    i prefer this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/lshawelu/THATSRACIST.gif
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    Doesn't he have a history of doing that though? I remember somebody breaking down his numbers in the minors and he had a weirdly high infield pop up rate if I'm remembering right. If that's the case, he could just be a statistical outlier in the fly ball pitcher category. his pop up rate is almost 17% this year, which is higher than previous years in the majors, and his home run rate is 4.5%, which is well below his home run rate in the last two years. i think he's shown improvement, but really it depends on how much he costs down the road. according to fangraphs his options the next two years could be worth as much as $6.5m (total). i don't know what he has to do to earn that money, if bonuses are involved, etc, but my point is that giving him these options should not be a no-brainer (unless they're like $1m base salary each year with $4.25m in bonuses if he wins the cy young or something)
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    Why? They're not any good now, their farm system is in the bottom 3rd of baseball and their ownership doesn't spend money. Good for them that somehow Maholm and Karstens have insanely outpitched their peripherals, but it's not going to hold up. I just love myopic opinions like this. yeah that was a pretty bad post by the cow.
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    i think that's almost always the case, though, with the exception of teams like the braves who have teheran, minor, vizcaino and delgado at AA or AAA. usually teams have lots of live arms in the lower minors - guys with strong fastballs and poor secondary stuff. then they also have guys with solid secondary stuff and fringy fastballs who get hitters out on guile and command (kirk may fall under this category), only to get beat up on by more advanced hitters. my point is that there are lots of prospects in the low minors who have developing to do, but don't end up making it because their secondary stuff doesn't come along, their fastball just isn't good enough, or they blow out their arm.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    Samardzija's walk rate has been getting better every single month this year though. If he's a 5.8 BB rate type of guy as he has been cumulatively for the season, that's a problem. If he's a 3.5 to 4.5 type BB guy as he's been since early in the year that's a whole lot better. Of course his strikeout rate has been dropping as well, but not nearly as badly. if you take his numbers since april 23rd, which is being as generous to him as possible, he has 20 bb and 41 k's in 40.2 innings. that's pretty good. so is 31 hits in 40.2 innings. my main concern is that he's only allowed 3 home runs in that time, and his IsoP is around .120, which is pretty low for a guy who's giving up so many fly balls. he should be giving up more extra base hits (including home runs) than he has been. it's not a surprise that he has a low babip during that time, since he's been fly ball heavy, but he should be more prone to the big hit than he has been.
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    quade's performance? he was given a mediocre roster that suffered a lot of injuries, so they turned into a downright bad team. granted, quade has managed those bad players poorly, but i really hope they weren't pinning this poor year on mike quade. the guy just doesn't matter that much.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    i don't know what tapatalk is, but i can say that trying to use nsbb on an iphone sucks balls... trying to click on page 379 of whatever thread and getting the one below it or the wrong page. so count me in to this tapatalk business.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    Seriously. Amazing that Hendry simply ignores all of those young, unemployed former Cy Young winners that are just looking for a team, and signs Dave Bush instead. Yes, we know that Tim Lincecum and Tommy Hanson arent out looking for work, but the point is theres no point signing any of this tripe at this point. This team is done. cooked. demised. Stick with what we have, and if they need someone else, just call back Casey Coleman. He might be garbage, but hes our garbage. I dont know how much theyd have to pay Bush if they called him up, but Im assuming its money that could be thrown at some of the lower profile, mid/late round draft picks. He may be younger than Davis, Ortiz, and Lopez, but the fact is that his ceiling is Dave Bush. they probably have to pay him minimum mlb salary, just like they'd have to pay coleman the mlb minimum. do you really think that signing dave bush to a minor league contract will prevent the cubs from signing draft picks? come on.
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    i really do not trust samardzija still. his walk rate is awful, and his ERA is good because of a low HR rate and BABIP. he's certainly not as big a joke as he was last year, but unless his command improves i can't think of him as anything more than a middling back of the bullpen guy.
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    that would be fantastic, but it's phil rogers so it's probably wrong.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    that's not fair to compare him to those guys. jake and rebel actually know how to take a walk.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    Congrats! I will pick up the slack and sleep 10 hours a day now, to make up for the sleep you won't be getting.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    the only difference between wright and montanez is that wright hasn't had 5 years to firmly establish himself as AAAA material. he doesn't have the bat for corner OF and doesn't have the glove for CF.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    I'm glad you've come around on this. It's really disheartening to watch. do you not remember people booing the [expletive] out of jeff blauser and steve buechele?
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    it's actually pretty brilliant from a marketing standpoint. I remember the 2008 asg game thread on here being really long because the cubs were really good that year and lots of us thought they might make the world series (joke was on us!) I guarantee you that fans of good teams were into the 2011 asg too. It's a dumb way to decide home field advantage but from a marketing standpoint, it's actually quite shrewd.
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    maybe law watched only his two MLB starts and while watching them, forgot that teheran is 20 years old? i dunno.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    I hope Tony Pena jr made it. He was one of the most incompetent (non pitcher) batters I've ever seen.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    I can live with the fan voting, but you can't have fan voting AND player voting AND manager picks AND 1 player per team minimums. The players vote from the pool of all player, and then their consensus gets voted by fans so you go to their 2nd pick, but then he gets hurt, and their 3rd pick was chosen by the manager, so you go to their 4th pick and Scott Rolen makes the all-star team because 8 moron players happened to vote for him. The manager has to take 1 2003 Devil Ray, but all the position player slots have been filled, so he can't take a worthy Aubrey Huff, so you wind up with Lance Carter, all-star. at least he was balanced out by the pirates' mike williams, who was sporting a 6.44 era at the all star break
  19. TruffleShuffle
    dsl cubs 2 threw a combined no hitter. almost a perfect game actually - the 9th inning reliever walked someone and penalver made an error somewhere along the way
  20. TruffleShuffle
    a friend of mine still plays soccer in a rec league, and red card in that rec league means the same as a red card in fifa. maybe little kid rec leagues are different? but i can't recall many cards being given out at that age anyway. high school was another story though.
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    well then no offense, but perhaps you can understand why everyone is so incredulous. i didn't play soccer through high school, but i went to some games. it's almost inconceivable to me that someone could play soccer for 12 years, including at the high school level, and have no idea that a red card means you play shorthanded. nor have i ever heard of a level as advanced as high school where a red card just you have to be subbed out.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    MFer Windermere Nice, I was always a midfielder since I was also a runner and played Leftoutside MF in high school. I always made the joke that I was playing Left-out and had to explain that it was an actual position. wait so you played for your high school against other high schools?
  23. TruffleShuffle
    sick burn.... wolf you mineaswell just quit posting on this board now.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    dsl cubs 1 allowed 12 walks and made 8 errors =D> given some of the players who have moved over to dsl cubs 2, it looks like they're making that the good team and letting dsl cubs 1 turn into a joke. they seem to do this a lot... i remember last year or 2 years ago dsl cubs 2 was easily the worst team in the league while dsl cubs 1 were really good.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    you'll never guess who gave up 4 hits, 2 walks and 3 runs in the first inning for the azl cubs :x
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