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  1. TruffleShuffle
    not positive about this, but i don't think he's far, far more valuable.
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    probably not many since he gave up 4 hits and a walk after that.
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    at this point i doubt that most people around the league know that he still exists, and that goes for cubs management too.
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    bp put our playoff chances at 0.58% before the cardinals game. even if we sweep, the front office should not be considering anything but selling.
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    only 21 years old, had a 63/7 K/BB ratio in the DSL last summer and has 37 K's this year in 32 innings. seems like a guy worth keeping an eye on. tough day for darwin barney, made errors in the 9th and 10th innings to allow unearned runs (iowa led each time by a run) high school draftee ryan hartman pitched another perfect inning for arizona, striking out 1. he now has 3 k's in 2 ip, and has allowed no hits. call him up.
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    Huh? edit...too mean. But I will say: you need to work on your snide quips. That's just...sad. read the past 10 days of minor league discussion and boxes, there have been plenty of people talking about vitters. you popping in here with a "don't look now" is comical, because everyone who follows this section of the board knows he's been hitting better lately.
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    from that article: really??? his value skyrocketed because he had a good start against a bad team? if that's true, mlb GMs are among the stupidest people on earth.
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    thanks for the tip, we'll start keeping an eye on vitters now
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    i see only one solution to this problem - REINSTATE DA BUM
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    http://www.brebeufvb.com/wake-trads-demon-deacon.jpg
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    If they're going to trade what few valuable young players they have it might as well be for Prince instead of Dunn. They'd be getting a much better return. fielder is younger, better and hasn't reached UFA yet, plus he's regarded as part of the brewers' core. the asking price for him is obviously going to be higher than it is for dunn.
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    hahahaha...chris getz is one of the worst-hitting position players in the league
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    not on steroids any more, that's where.
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    rowand had an ops of .905 in 2004 and then .736 in 2005. THEN they traded him. in no way did they trade him at the peak of his value - that would have been after his one fluky year. they got jim thome for him because the phillies needed to get rid of him to give ryan howard a spot. and which wells are we talking about? i guess regardless of whether it's kip or david, it doesn't matter, because either one would be a terrible way to support your argument. kip wells sucked the year before they traded him, they got a lousy return and then he pitched well for two years in a pirates uniform. david wells pitched only one year for the white sox, wasn't very good and left via free agency.
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    yeah but don't you remember what biggie said? mo' money, mo' problems.
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    Theriot has 23 at bats in the 8th spot, and walked 4 times. Hitting 8th is where he has walked the most frequently. yeah i think abuck was thinking of where theriot should have been hitting, instead of lou stupidly plugging him into the leadoff spot every day.
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    That's not really the reason. That's like saying dollars are worth more than yen because dollars come in denominations of up to $100 and and Yen up to 10,000. The scale has nothing to do with it. actually it has a lot to do with it.
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    whitenack has at least sucked less than he did earlier in the year. tennessee is beating up on mississippi 11-2. flavor of the week russ canzler is 3-4 with a triple, homer and 4 rbi, steve clevenger is 3-4 with a homer and 4 rbi, vitters is 2-4 with a double, jackson has a triple but also 2 k's... seems to be in a bit of a funk. brandon guyer is hitting .444 in his last 10 games and is at .293/.359/.502/.861, and his walk rate and bb/k ratio continue to improve. he's still worth keeping an eye on. very nice to see rhee pitching well and throwing a lot of strikes. jeff beliveau came on in relief and struck out 5 in 2 innings. he's got 72 K's in 48 innings this year (13.5 per 9 innings) and 241 K's in 180 innings (12.05 K/9 IP) since being drafted, and has only allowed 6.75 hits per 9 innings. not sure what kind of stuff he's got, but usually K rate and "hittability" are two good indicators of how well a pitcher projects as a major leaguer, so....
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    Im starting to wonder if they should put him in the pen for the remainder of the AAA season and then call him up in September. He seems to have a lot of those games where hes cruising along and then gets in trouble. yeah maybe it's because they pointlessly converted him to a reliever for a couple of weeks.
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    well we will have agree to disagree; i think the cubs bullpen is lousy and has only about 3 guys who have major league ability. when you say he will be much more useful in a trade than if the cubs kept him, you're assuming that they get a prospect or multiple prospects who turn into good players for the big club. that can work out but sometimes it does not, even if it looks like the team got good value for their star (c.c. sabathia trade being a recent example). i guess i don't really trust the cubs to not screw up a trade like that.
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    I think I remember reading a article from earlier this year saying that his velo was down by a MPH or two, no idea if he has gotten it back or is still throwing a little slower than in the past. yeah it's down almost 3 mph from 2 years ago. of course, he's regressed from really awesome to pretty awesome.
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