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  1. TruffleShuffle
    walk where? he wanted more than 3 years, $45 million. who was going to give him that?
  2. TruffleShuffle
    $8 million for a guy who can't hit lefties and who's going to be bad in LF? no thank you. though the cards can probably mitigate his bad defense more than most teams since they have a ground ball-heavy staff and rasmus has good range.
  3. TruffleShuffle
    Is it like in wrestling where Nebraska is going to show up to Big Ten games with the Big XII trophy? *cotton-eyed joe plays over PA system* AW MAH GAWD, IT'S...IT'S...BO PELINI! carl pelini bashes someone over the head with a folding chair when the ref isn't looking.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    that's playing 3B. he would not have been a 2.1 and 2.3 WAR player if he'd been playing 1B during those years. plus the evaluation of him as a +8.6 run 3B in 2007 is questionable, given the scouting reports and the fact that he has been moved off of 3B.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    50 million is not chump change. they have a good farm system because they spend a lot of money in the draft and in int'l free agency every year. you know, things that the cubs should be doing.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    that's not really a fair way of looking at it. say the cubs put, i dunno, lahair at 1B and he produces 1 win a year for the league minimum. then the $13M+ that they saved by not signing dunn is spent on, say, two pitchers who produce 3 WAR. they've done better than if they had signed dunn. the objective is to maximize the production per dollar, not get as much production out of one position as possible regardless of cost.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    i remember sickels being high on beliveau and liking him as a sleeper before that year, and the continued low hit rate and high strikeout rate shouldn't give him any reason to change his opinion.
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    =D>
  9. TruffleShuffle
    heinz field after a pitt game and high school championships.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    i don't agree with those odds. i mean, you would have looked at the travis hafner deal (4 years, $57 million) as a reasonable deal. they signed it when he was 29 and he was coming off two years where he OPS'ed over 1.000. but the contract has been a disaster. i was okay with the idea of 4 years, $40m because i figured dunn would produce enough on the front end to mitigate what i expect to be a steep decline on the back end. tack another $4m per year onto the contract and i just wouldn't do it.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    I think they understand the old saying, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him take a bath in it. well at least someone understands that, because i sure as hell don't.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    right but if dunn turns into a complete turd within 2-3 years for the reasons that myself and TT and Rob have mentioned, doesn't that pretty much mean the cubs did the same thing that's gotten them into problems from 2009-11? sinking pretty big money into players who aren't worth the investment and don't provide star-level production? i want them to upgrade at 1B but not if the player is unlikely to produce to the value of the contract. i like the nick johnson idea. he's undervalued and yeah he'll get hurt, but he'll hit when he's in the lineup and we have four OF. one of them (i guess colvin) can fill in there when johnson goes down.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    Pena's awful year last year probably has a lot more to do with a BABIP that dropped 30 points from 2009 and 70 points from 2008 than anything. With an 18% LD%, there's a really good chance Pena will see a big upswing next year. pena is pretty much the poster child for players who won't age gracefully. he has old player skills out the wazoo and also peaked late, and players who peak later than normal tend to turn bad pretty quickly.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    actually this is the type of player you're supposed to avoid as they get older. bill james described these (walks, power) as "old player skills" and found that players who got by on "old player skills" stayed productive for significantly less time than players who got by on "young player skills" (speed, batting average). i guess the idea behind it being that the old player skills guys already have pretty marginal athleticism, so aging a little bit may rob them of a lot of their productivity.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    annnnnnnnnnd here we go...
  16. TruffleShuffle
    i didn't realize how well he had been doing until i saw his hat trick last night and then checked the stats. on a related note, what the happened to malkin? i don't know. there was a time where i felt like malkin was the better player. now it's not even close. crosby has continued to improve (which is pretty impressive considering how good he was at 20 years old) but malkin has regressed.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    that's a really nice idea. how about doing those things WHILE he was alive.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    http://www.csnchicago.com/pages/video?PID=8jF52FxUEAGWjhtuFroNMkoDiEXIS3Ba CSN did it this morning. please credit @thekapman when linking to this video.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    hopefully ronnie is in a place where you don't need to eat a snickers bar in the dugout, don't lose your legs to diabetes, and there are video games where you can gleefully murder everyone who irrationally opposed your hall of fame candidacy. http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/6487/why-isnt-ron-santo-in-the-hall-of-fame rest in peace ron.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    Is he saying that we didn't have enough white people on the team last year? damn, i was gonna go this route
  21. TruffleShuffle
    because adam dunn is the difference between the cubs being decent and bad, while the hope is that bradley was the difference between being very good and world champion.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    okajima and delcarmen were good relievers not that long ago. fred lewis is pretty much the ideal fourth outfielder but the cubs already have four. john maine was a solid back of the rotation guy but his stuff was never that great, so if injuries have caused him to lose a little, then he's useless. we could get our hands back on augie and donnie veal!
  23. TruffleShuffle
    i like how getting $10 million a year is "barely getting a job" in this fantasy world.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    this would probably send cynosure into a murderous rage, but sidney crosby has been incredible this year. stamkos is getting more press but crosby had another hat trick tonight, scoring all of pitt's goals. he has 21 goals in 27 games; malkin is next on the pens with EIGHT. he has 44 points in 27 games and next for the pens is letang with 24. he's carrying that team.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    our defense [expletive] sucks
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