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  1. TruffleShuffle
    yeah there was some babip fun in that first daytona game. the cubs' pitchers struck out 7 in 8 innings but still allowed 9 hits; bradenton's pitchers had zero strikeouts but only allowed 2 hits. them's the breaks, i guess. daytona is losing 3-0 in the 2nd inning of game two. wallach has allowed 5 hits, 2 bb and 3 runs in 3 innings, but isn't getting much help behind him. peoria has made 4 errors in the first 3 innings. DSL Cubs 2 (bad news bears most years, it seems) lost 12-8 and made 8 errors, 3 by steroid bonus baby wilson contreras. on the plus side, a guy who's only 16 years old hit a home run. DSL Cubs 1 won 7-2 and my favorite prospect i know nothing about, michael hernandez, was 2-5 with a SB. high school draftee ryan hartman had another good outing for arizona, striking out 2 and allowing 1 hit in 2 innings. he's yet to give up a run. golden has a double, ground out and K in 3 ABs.
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    let's just get rid of the cubs
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    Homers are down and no-hitters are up, duh! http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/pitch.shtml http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/pitch.shtml lowest runs allowed by NL and AL pitchers since 1992. so yes, relative to where we've been the past 15 or 20 years, it's a pitcher's year.
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    i wouldn't necessarily say that. he threw a ridiculous slider pre-surgery (a la 1998 kerry wood) and there were questions about whether he would/should be able to throw it again after surgery.
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    you're being pretty generous in saying that vitters made significant progress - yes he walked more than last year, but his walk rate still sucks. and his K's went from 65 in 120 games last year to 63 in 91 games this year (in other words, significantly worse). plus it's not like vitters only has one weakness - his power has come and gone and he didn't show much of it this year, and his defense is still bad. overall brett jackson is easily the better player right now because he really has one hole (strikeouts), vitters has a bunch.
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    i don't think their player development was really terrible, it just wasn't good enough to produce a completely home grown team that was good enough to rival other teams that used free agency extensively. and i think the pirates are putting a lot more emphasis on player development, draft spending and international free agent spending... at least since they basically gutted management and started over.
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    none of those teams should agree to it. you'd have this year's 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th-biggest payrolls in the same division. then you have the AL southeast with a bunch of small to mid market teams.
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    Just because he was a short white guy doesn't mean he had lesser talents and got the most out of what he had. i don't know if he got the most out of what he had, but he certainly had lesser talents.
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    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/where-not-to-locate/
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    I could care less about a bb/k ratio on a guy hitting .321/.350/.554, 130 OPS+, 21 HR, 68 RBI, 15 SB and a Gold Glove caliber defense. His home/road splits are simply atrocious though. one probably should care, since some of that value is tied up in the high batting average, and unless he plans on keeping up a .374 babip forever, he's not going to keep hitting over .300 (and if he doesn't start walking, he'll have a soriano-like line with an average obp.)
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    i still don't get the not offering lilly arbitration thing. if you offer arbitration, aren't you required to offer something like 80% of the previous year's salary? so neither the cubs nor the dodgers would offer lilly $9.6 million for one year? if he takes it (unlikely) then you've got a good pitcher for a reasonable price. if not then you get draft picks.
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    jeez what has happened to gaub? i was pretty high on him coming into this year, at least as far as his ability to be a decent middle reliever at the big league level. seems like he's a mess now. nice to see kirk and reed keep throwing well. pierre lepage probably doesn't need to be in boise any more, but peoria doesn't really need middle infield help. aaron kurcz probably will go to peoria at some point if he keeps this up. and why is alvaro ramirez in boise? he's 24 years old.
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    when you consider that gose isn't even 20, he's been reasonably good in high-a. definitely needs to improve his pitch recognition, though. brett wallace will hit, but he's a fatso and is probably going to be bad defensively no matter where he plays.
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    guyer has been really good this year. jae-hoon ha has also been doing reasonably well for a 19 year old in full season ball, but the guy needs to learn how to take a walk.
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    you guys seem to be assuming that other general managers are too stupid to look at silva's contract and performance prior to this year.
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    marshall is a pretty terrible option in coors - he relies heavily on his breaking stuff and those types don't do well in the thin air. that being said, i'm glad they put him in so that the cubs could lose. schlitter would've worked too, because he's awful. gonzalez is pretty good, but have you seen that bb/k ratio? 18 bb, 94 k. yuck.
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    dolis is 22 years old and (i think) throws at least 95 mph... diamond is 27 and (again, i think) only touches 90.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    colvin has 6 walks in his last 10 games... his k/bb ratio is still lousy but at least it seems like he's making some strides.
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    I highly doubt it since he has only thrown 28 innings in AA. With Bibens-Dirkx, Jay Jackson, Samardizja, Mathes, Atkins and Coleman all already in Iowa, they don't need another starter. I would hope for Cashner to go back down and get back to starting. Carpenter could also be moved up, I think. And Hung-Wen Chen is also at Iowa. Mathes is at the point where hes just wasting a roster spot. Maybe hes a good mentor to the kids, but he really shouldnt be holding anyone back. I understand them feeling that Archer isnt ready yet, espcially with the control issues and small sample size at AA, but there are other guys who should be give that spot. like who? there are a lot of guys at AAA that are "wasting" playing time, like scales. sometimes there's roster filler at AA and AAA. it's really not a big deal.
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    dementia or not, jim bunning is just a complete douchebag
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    i love this guy
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    it's also very unlikely that he'd get picked.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    great signing. just a bang-up job by the cubs as usual.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    carpenter was doing well until he [expletive] the bed in the 4th inning.
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    that being said, he can't have much worse discipline than junior lake had last year, and he seems to be coming along... so maybe i should give golden more credit. isn't there another highly-touted korean prospect who supposedly runs like the wind? ping chieh something or other? hard to keep those guys straight until they debut over here. i could see myself putting h-j lee at the top in the post-season list with jackson and archer behind him.
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