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  1. TruffleShuffle
    cubs win this one. or lose, i'm not really sure.
  2. TruffleShuffle
    That'd make the Pac Rim haul pretty darn impressive this season if true. If there's one thing that Jim Hendry has done real well on, it's allocating his resources to the Pac Rim. We're getting a lot more bang for our buck out there than we would be duking it out with all the other teams in the Dominican, Venezuela, etc... i'm suspending judgment until i see if any of these guys turn out to be good players.
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    yeah i like all the "find good 2B/SS" posts funny, like those positions aren't difficult to fill and the cubs have lots of money laying around to upgrade.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    this was a great prediction, except that's his line when he's 33.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    hopefully you mean in his tools, because hermida was about to make his major league debut at this point. the ronny cedeno is strong in that one.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    ... with injured ball. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/08/13/mariner.beltre.ap/index.html wearing a cup might be uncomfortable, but not nearly as uncomfortable as what he's dealing with right now.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    wow this guy is looking like a big-time prospect.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    yeah i wasn't thrilled about the deal either, but the cubs were so friggin bad in 2006 and they had a lot of money to spend, so they had to do something. i would've said that signing beltran would've been much better, but his knee issues this year are troubling and could be a long-term concern.
  9. TruffleShuffle
    huseby gives up a cheap run in the 8th... looks like he K'ed the leadoff hitter but the guy reached on a wild pitch, stole second, then scored on 2 ground outs before huseby K'ed the fourth batter of the inning. that's what i surmise from the box score anyway.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    burke is getting very intriguing. power is starting to blossom (6 homers in july/august), walk rate is up from last year, K-rate is down. he was 5th in the league coming into tonight in OPS (top 10 in BA, OBP and SLG) and he's still only 21. it'll be interesting to see if he gets moved up to daytona this year, and if they consider jumping him to tennessee next year.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    i miss his corn rows.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    earl weaver was a great, great manager, but he's been out of the game for almost 25 years and is probably senile.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    sort of. 4 walks in 5 innings is bad, and it seems he was pretty fortunate on batted balls (2 hits and 16 batted outs). antigua gave up 4 in the first 2 innings but has pitched shutout innings in the 3rd/4th. 4 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 K. burke is 2-2 with a home run (he's been really good lately), ridling has homered and walked, flaherty has 2 singles and jackson has walked and K'd.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    lol
  15. TruffleShuffle
    uhhhhhhhh
  16. TruffleShuffle
    good. i went to florida with two friends in the summer of 2002, and one of them had a friend who played for jupiter, an affiliate of the marlins. i'm fairly certain that nic ungs was the starter that night. that was 7 years ago, and he's moved up one level.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    tennessee is being no-hit by nic ungs, who has been a "prospect" in the marlins system for about 35 years.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    power pitchers who lose velocity tend to suck. dave duncan is good at turning junkballers into sinker experts with good control, but i can't see smoltz changing what type of player he is after 20+ years.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    i still don't think soriano will be on this team for the length of his contract. i think he'll become very unpopular among the fan base and they'll eat most of his contract to have him play for someone else.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    no. there's no way a GM would have time to do all of those things effectively. the farm system is managed by someone else, foreign acquisitions (except for maybe one top guy, if you're signing a guy like inoa for $4M) are done by other people, and the drafting/scouting is delegated out too... the GM may have some input on the first round selection and strategy later in the draft (how much can be spent, mostly - whether to draft with the intention of signing guys above slot) but generally those things are done by the draft director and scouting department.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    Like Dayton Moore. Or Josh Byrnes Or Jon Daniels. Jack Zduriencik seems well on his way with some weird moves made by the Mariners this season. i loved the branyan signing but what was the point of trading for jack wilson and ian snell??? still, i can't imagine that zduriencik could be worse than bavasi. what a horrible gm he was.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    please get miles off this team. i can't watch him any more.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    just for consideration: 2010: 19M - zambrano, 13.5M - dempster, 12M - lilly, 14M - fukudome, 11M - bradley, 13M - lee, 16.75M - ARam, 19M - soriano 2011: 19M - zambrano, 14.5M - dempster, 14.5M - fukudome, (12M - bradley), (14.6M - ARam,) 19M - soriano 2012: 19M - zambrano, (16M - ARam club option), 19M - soriano, (15M - dempster player option) 2013: (19.25M - zambrano... probably unlikely to vest though), 19M - soriano 2014: 19M - soriano 2010: 118.25M for 8 players (!!!!) 2011: 93.6M for 6 players 2012: 69M for 4 players 2013: 38.25M for 2 players 2014: 19M for 1 player next year they're going to be able to do very little to improve the team because of all the big-money commitments. i'd shop lilly in the offseason, but i don't believe that TrannyTiger's proposed trade with the mets would be nearly enough to get reyes. still, lilly may be the most tradeable "expensive" commodity and it wouldn't be a bad idea to see what we could get for him.
  24. TruffleShuffle
    we're going to lose. hope that was helpful.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    of course that [expletive] drops in for a double
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