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great work, they've thrown over to first 35 times, maybe they're a little concerned about the run. just a thought, they might pitch out.

harvey has 133 walks and 586 K's in 525 games. the cubs gave him a chance; he couldn't hit offspeed pitches and his plate discipline sucked.

just like guillen planned it! http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/01/best-system-ever.html one of the dumbest articles ever written.

exactly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_named_in_the_Mitchell_Report note the huge number of nobodies on that list. the real steroid list will be similar.

That's my assumption. He's going to be 23 years old at the end of this season, and probably won't yet have 100 professional innings. Combined with his 2008 college season he'll have maybe 150 IP over a 2 year period. This team has been obsessed with finding bullpen help for several years, and after going through this extremely disappointing season from the bullpen, I'd have to think they will be looking anywhere they can for help, including Cashner. It's tough enough for guys to make it as major league starters when they've built up plenty of starting experience in college and the minors, but it's got to be even tougher when you have basically no history of throwing 6 innings in the same game. Id guess hes one of those guys who starts out in the pen and they go from there, IE Adam Wainwright. wainwright is different - he started all through his minor league career, but the cards shifted him to the bullpen after being called up. cashner is a college reliever. he's regarded as more of a two pitch guy. i'm fine with him being used in the bullpen. obviously he'd be more valuable if he became a good starter, but if he's only got two good pitches and his stuff is better when used in short spells, that's still useful. the cubs need relief help and if cashner can give them good performance at a cheap price for several years, then that's a first round pick that was spent well.

if notre dame is relevant then they'll get great ratings, but what NBC is finding out is that the Big Ten/SEC/Big XII feature games will blow ND out of the water if ND isn't in the national title picture.

flaherty has, to me, been a disappointment this season. i thought that he'd handle low-a pretty easily, being as it's his second year out of college and he hit cleanup for a big-time NCAA program. instead he's puttering along with a .233/.308/.427/.735 line.

i'm trying to figure out what they're going to do with cashner. you can't be a real starter if you throw 4 innings and then come out. my instinct is that they see him as a reliever and are starting him just to get him innings.

Neither Flynn or Curry are going to be long-term starters. In fact, I bet both will be the first guard off the bench for the better part of the careers. I like both players games, but neither strikes me as a player who can start for a championship team, or even a contender. I see Flynn in the Nate Robinson/Earl Watson energy guard role for the Wolves. And Curry to me looks like a guy you bring in for a clutch 3 pointer. Both will be solid players, but neither are long term starters, IMO. did anyone really think that rajon rondo or derek fisher would be players who started for a championship team when they were drafted?

Not what I said, and you know it. If you refer back to page three you'll see that I said "making yourself look worse." Stop making things up. Again with the childlike retorts. i strongly suggest you do what most people do and just put dexter on your foe list.

perhaps he read the "Hendry's regime" thread to come to that conclusion, in which case, i can't really blame him.

(a) you're judging only first round picks. the cardinals' first two picks in 1999 were chance caple and nick stocks. i guess we could call that draft a bust, except that they got albert pujols in the 13th round. (b) hendry doesn't have much to do with drafting any more. the drafting falls mostly on tim wilken and the scouts. © if you are going to give an assessment of hendry, then give him credit for good signings and trades as well as the poor ones. if you bitch about signing miles and don't give him credit for the derosa signing, it's clear that you're taking an excessively-negative stance on him and are being unreasonable.

we need more rawdog posts.

yeah he seems to have a lot of outings like 4 IP, 8 K or something.

how can a GM that most would rate as decidedly average be overrated? well he's apparently the worst in baseball so clearly the people rating him as average are overrating him.

redverbs : objectivity :: jim hendry : general managing by the way hendry might be the worst manager of all time. i'm not talking just baseball, i'm talking about everything. it's possible that nobody has ever managed anything as poorly as jim hendry has generally managed the cubs.

look you just equated chris perez, a guy who can throw 100 mph and struck out 12 guys per 9 IP, to a pitcher with 4.5 K/9 IP and a 1:1 K/BB ratio the past three years. if you don't want to be goofed on, don't do things like that.

some guy in their minor league system. that wouldn't make any sense. it's either a true PTBNL, or it's a guy who just hasn't been identified by the media yet. if it's a PTBNL, then it will be the indians' choice of a few guys down the road, or a guy who was drafted last season and hasn't been in the cards' system for a year. if the indians already know who the guy is that they want and the cardinals agreed to trade him, he'd just be announced as part of the deal right now.

hey here's a trade idea - cubs get hanley ramirez for 3 PTBNL.

(a) chris perez is better than the names you listed. (b) i like how your PTBNL is just a five-letter asset that apparently does not differ from one team to another.

yeah that's worse than what we gave them. hopefully he really loves the cubs and pulls an aaron miles for the cards.

actually he has 35 home runs now.

if i had to strangle someone to get an in 'n out burger within 5 minutes of my house, i'd probably do it.

if there was nobody at #4 who was worth slot, then they did the right thing. i mentioned in the draft thread when people goofed on the pirates' pick that they spent a lot on the draft last year, and were probably saving money to spend either later in the draft or on some latin american bonuses. i like the people running the pirates right now, it seems like they know what they have to do as a small market franchise.

made a little addition for you