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  1. TruffleShuffle
    i'm glad they're all really young guys and not 21 and 22 year old guys beating up on the kids.
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    boy it's a good thing lee hit that double with 3 guys on base, or he'd be having yet another horrendous game (2 k's, 2 gidp)
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    frankly i'm stunned that soto is playing
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    they never acted bored when tiger woods was winning majors by ten strokes. to me it's more interesting when a no-name has the four days of his life and doesn't crack under the pressure than it is when by far the best golfer in the world plays like by far the best golfer in the world.
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    "here's my case, i have no evidence to support my position but trust me i know i'm right anyway"
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    coming up through the minors, hill always had the reputation of being an offensive catcher (lol). the reason everyone thinks he's much better defensively than soto is because he can't hit and people assume there must be some reason that he's on the team. hill has 30% caught stealing in his career versus 26% for soto, and his wild pitch rate is a little lower, but his passed ball rate is higher. is he better than soto defensively? maybe a little bit. enough that it's worth talking about or enough that a defensive replacement should be made in the 9th inning of close games? no.
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    mathes' numbers got even worse, as inherited runners scored (11 ER allowed). but his ERA coming into today was only 4.30 (jumped almost a point today). he's not a future chicago cub and is basically roster filler, but you always have a handful of guys like that in AAA. bobby scales is still farting around there. iowa is down 16-2; bibens-dirkx has been bad as well but he has been smart enough to give up runs after errors, so none of his five runs allowed are earned. not many k's for rhee but a solid outing nonetheless: 6.0 ip, 2 h, 1 r, 1 bb, 1 k, 10 go/6 fo. junior lake has another home run. vitters has a single and a walk. chirinos' OPS in july is approaching 1.500.
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    uzr had him below average last year and well above average the previous two. this year he's close to average. i think saying he's a bad defender is pretty out to lunch.
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    reading is a skill. wells STUCK UP for soto - said that you're bracing for the collision, and soto rushed it - i don't think he was afraid of getting hit. piniella is a dick for throwing him under the bus in the press conference, just like he's a dick for continuing to play his boy koyie hill, who hits like some of us would, instead of one of the more productive catchers in baseball. he's a bad manager and i can't wait for him to be gone.
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    I can't stand Josh Lewin. He is whiny and filled with cliches. He's a whiny-voiced version of Chip Carey. Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy don't get the credit for being tough on the team and critical of decisions while maintaining professionalism. People think they are homers because they, especially Remy, speak with a Boston-accent, but they are a good balancing act. Both know baseball. they're also pretty funny.
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    it would seem that jimenez' luck on batted balls, fly balls and runners on base is evening out. johnson's babip is just .285... a bit lucky, and his LOB% and HR/FB% are very good, as you'd expect for someone with a 1.62 ERA. still, he's been the best luck-neutral pitcher this year. although how about this, the best xFIP belongs to francisco liriano, whose ERA is 3.76. his babip is .358.
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    I wonder if the Cubs will link paying out for some of these kids to being able to move salaries this deadline. I'd hope they choose to reinvest some of those savings with signing their overslot guys and some international FA's. That's what I'm wondering too......If we are going to focus on our system, as it seems Ricketts wants to do, I'd like to see some bigtime money spent on International signings. If we lose 5 mill or so of Lilly's contract, I'd like to see it get put back into the team this way. the other way of doing this is to trade lilly and send the rest of his salary... that should sweeten the deal for cash-strapped teams and bring back better prospects.
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    hey lou: that's how you stick up for one of your players. instead you have to be a complete dick, throw geo under the bus after the game and pinch hit for one of your best hitters while one of the weakest hitters on the team gets to bat to keep the game alive. can't wait for this d-bag to go away; get someone in here who won't crap all over one of the team's best players.
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    MiLB is effed up today... nothing on peoria and iowa games and it seems to have died part way through the other games.
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    lou is such a dick. and really who cares if we beat houston? i'd rather have us lose games so that the tradeable assets get dealt. the last thing the cubs need is to win a bunch of games, get up to a 5% chance of making the playoffs and have management believing that this year's team could make some noise. just tank it the rest of the way, get a better draft pick and ensure that hendry and lou are gone.
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    cantu is a bad defender; beltre is good or very good.
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    No, but I figure we'd pay quite a bit of it in that situation, and I don't feel it's necessary for a guy who's not an upgrade, in my opinion Isn't Ellsbury at least a decent CFer though? That would make it close to a lateral move which would be worth doing if it saved a couple million. i suppose he's adequate, but his reads just suck ass. he's certainly got the speed and physical tools to be a good CF, but he is just awful at reading the ball off the bat. there's a reason he shifted to left and mike cameron was put in center.
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    i'm still having trouble getting past the chris young/adrian gonzalez/termel sledge for otsuka/eaton trade that daniels pulled off early in his tenure. that deal was bad when it was made and obviously it turned into a disaster for the rangers. the danks trade wasn't so hot either. the teixeira trade, on the other hand, was very good.
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    wow nice game from austin kirk
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    yeah if you can do a deal with the dodgers, go for it. i'd go after miller, since we could definitely use a quality LHP prospect. trayvon robinson seems like a good high-ceiling guy to target. nobody seems to think jerry sands is a great prospect, but he won't stop hitting. and i'd also make them throw in kyle russell, just because his nickname (texas wind machine) is awesome.
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    lucky for them, utley signed a very team-friendly deal through 2013 (7 years, $85M). they're probably getting like $30M/year of production out of him. but yes, they already have howard and halladay at $20M, utley at $15M, ibanez and lidge at $11.5, rollins and blanton at $8.5M, hamels at $9.5M, polanco at $5.25M and victorino at $7.5M. plus a handful of other guys in the $1-4M range. there's no room there. werth is definitely gone after this season (domonic brown, your table is ready). if you want a team to worry about, how about the red sox? yes they have a lot of money committed, but lowell's contract is going away. adrian beltre's option is a player option at just $5M, which he's certainly going to turn down after the year he's having. i'm not going to bother figuring out how much the red sox have committed for next year - it's certainly a crap ton - but their payroll this year is $168M, so one would expect they'd have room for another big contract.
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    lee is now 5-5 with 3 runs and 3 rbi. the chiefs came back from a pretty big deficit and lead by 2, so unless they blow the lead in the 9th, he won't get a chance for a 6th hit.
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