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  1. TruffleShuffle
    surprise, preseason
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    that was my first auction draft and i really enjoyed it, except for my connection crashing a couple of times and ending up with a couple of guys i didn't want. i was using a combo of my expectations and the BP player valuation tool, which is why I went for both pujols and reyes - they looked like bargains to me, even as two of the highest-priced guys in the draft. my offense is beastly. pitching..... not so much. C Ryan Doumit 1B Albert Pujols 2B Brian Roberts 3B Aramis Ramirez SS Jose Reyes 2B/SS Kelly Johnson 1B/3B Ryan Howard OF B.J. Upton OF Jacoby Ellsbury OF Corey Hart OF Adam Jones OF Mike Cameron UTIL Chipper Jones BN Bengie Molina (autodraft) BN Ramon Hernandez (autodraft) P Mariano Rivera P A.J. Burnett P Francisco Cordero P Ervin Santana P Randy Johnson P Wandy Rodriguez P Dan Wheeler P Fausto Carmona (autodraft) P Joel Hanrahan (autodraft) BN Troy Percival (autodraft)
  3. TruffleShuffle
    minnesota started this lineup against the sixers tonight: G Bobby Brown G Kevin Ollie C Craig Smith F Brian Cardinal F Rodney Carney that may not be the worst starting lineup of all-time, but it's close.
  4. TruffleShuffle
    it's actually Lou Piniellas Cubs, there are no apostrophes allowed in this poll.
  5. TruffleShuffle
    oh i'm not saying that he's not worth the contract; Lord knows that $4M per year for a league-average innings eater is a bargain. lilly has struck out almost 8 guys per 9 innings the last 3 years. floyd has struck out just over 6 per 9. that's a pretty significant difference and once floyd's performance on balls in play goes back to normal, and some of those fly balls start going over the fence when runners are on base, his ERA will go back to 4.5-5.0 which is where it "should" be. he already gave up 19 unearned runs last year so his RA was 4.67, and that's with an unsustainable BABIP, so it's not hard to see how he'll regress.
  6. TruffleShuffle
    it probably shouldn't have been under 4, but close to 5 would be really high with a 1.26 whip he wouldn't have had a 1.26 whip if his babip wasn't .259.
  7. TruffleShuffle
    that's because he happened to have two good years when nobody else was that good. schilling had years where he was just as good as glavine, but had the misfortune of pitching when randy johnson and pedro were even better. schilling had 9. not saying glavine isn't a hall of famer - i just think it's close to a no-brainer that schilling should be too.
  8. TruffleShuffle
    what are your realistic, bold predictions for '09? just curious because your contributions to this thread: "shut up meph", "2 1/2 men" and "seriously though" don't really seem to add much to the baseball discussion. truffle will talk about matt wieters more than the cubs umfan and eric will ruin the game threads more to come way to stick your neck out there as usual
  9. TruffleShuffle
    good luck keeping an era under 4 with 30 home runs and 70 walks allowed. his era should've been close to 5 last year, not below 4. he sure looks like a #4/5 guy than the front of the rotation guy that everyone thought he'd be.
  10. TruffleShuffle
    bradley doubled and was lifted for a pinch runner. he ended up 3-4 and a triple short of the cycle. when he is healthy we are going to enjoy him a whole lot.
  11. TruffleShuffle
    samardzija continues to stink it up, giving up 3 hits, 1 walk and 2 runs in an inning of work.
  12. TruffleShuffle
    top 10 in ERA+ 10 times, including 5 in the top 5. top 6 in whip 11 times. plus the great numbers in the postseason. his profile is basically just as strong as bob gibson, who's revered as a great pitcher and a no-doubt hall of famer. he belongs in.
  13. TruffleShuffle
    what are your realistic, bold predictions for '09? just curious because your contributions to this thread: "shut up meph", "2 1/2 men" and "seriously though" don't really seem to add much to the baseball discussion.
  14. TruffleShuffle
    my predictions: -milton bradley stays relatively healthy and gets close to 600 PAs. -rich harden doesn't pitch much. -marshall posts and ERA close to 4.00 -miles gets way too many ABs but isn't as much of a waste of space as we expect him to be. -heilman bounces back and has a solid season as a 7th/8th inning guy. -the cubs win at least one playoff game.
  15. TruffleShuffle
    wrong discussion.
  16. TruffleShuffle
    i don't understand signing miles rather than sticking with cedeno, but there was zero reason to give him a chance to start on this team.
  17. TruffleShuffle
    no, i never wrote him off last year.
  18. TruffleShuffle
    wrong. some players don't stop developing until their late 20s. some guys stop developing well before then. just because the average player peaks around age 27-28 doesn't mean that every player follows the same development curve. do you want me to go back to his 2005 season, when he hit very well in iowa, was called up to the big club and hit very well there? should i quote my bp 2006 and ba 2006 handbook that say cedeno was ready to contribute at the big league level? ah right, so despite the arguments that i've laid out for why i didn't think cedeno would be a good player, i just have a "blind spot of hatred" for him. it can't be that someone actually has well-founded reasons to disagree with your opinion, can it? their opinion has to be irrational and wrong, while yours is well thought-out and correct.
  19. TruffleShuffle
    yeah gaudin is pretty extraneous at this point, but i'd like to see him stay in the organization because harden is completely unreliable, zambrano is an injury risk and marshall tends to get hurt as well. plus the cubs don't have a whole lot of options beyond the starting rotation - samardzija looked good at times last year but still has work to do on his secondary offerings, hart is more of a two-pitch bullpen guy, and heilman may or may not be starter material.
  20. TruffleShuffle
    because people talk about age as though everyone who's 23 or 25 or whatever should be considered the same situation. ken griffey jr was ready to be a major league player when he was 19 or 20. chad gaudin was ready by 21 or 22 even though he was never a high ceiling guy. on the other side of the coin, travis hafner wasn't anywhere close when he was 20 years old and wasn't really ready until he cut down his strikeouts; even if he'd been called up at 22 or 23 he still wasn't ready. for whatever reason, some guys develop late and some guys develop more quickly. comparing hoffpauir to cedeno is stupid because cedeno's development came at an earlier age than hoffpauir. of course you don't rush a guy who can't hit A-ball pitching to the major leagues. cedeno had hit AA pitching well and AAA pitching well, showed some decent pop and had acceptable k-rates and bb rates. anyway i don't know why we're still having this discussion because (a) i've said all this 20 times, (b) cedeno isn't a cub any more and © he still sucks. so i'm out.
  21. TruffleShuffle
    as i've discussed on this board, there's a very very poor track record for guys who are epic failures when getting a full year at the big league level. i suppose there was always a chance that he could turn it around and become an average major league player, but the chances were much stronger that he simply doesn't possess the ability - or at least the ability to make adjustments - in order to become a good starting shortstop at the big league level.
  22. TruffleShuffle
    the vast majority of players who completely flop at the big league level (over the course of a full season) do so because they're just not good enough or can't make the necessary adjustments against big league pitching, not because they're too young or whatever. i don't care if ronny was 23 or 33, his performance in 2006 showed there was a strong chance that he could not become an adequate major league player. soto and hoffpauir weren't given the chance at age 23 because they had not seemingly mastered lower levels of play, as it seemed that cedeno had. but once you've done well against AAA pitching then you should be ready to face major league pitching. age really doesn't matter here. your "argument" is bad.
  23. TruffleShuffle
    i'd prefer someone other than cotts
  24. TruffleShuffle
    soto destroyed iowa in his third crack at the league, and pecota still loved him last year - and was justified by his actual performance. i don't think hoffpauir is special, but pecota takes into account repeating levels and still thinks that he'll be a pretty productive player. there's a good chance that a guy who can thoroughly hammer AAA pitching will be at least a pretty solid hitter at the major league level. i'm pretty sure you've had little good to say about aaa numbers when it came to your boy ronny cedeno. in the case of soto (coming into 2008) and hoffpauir (coming into 2009) you're talking about guys who hit very well in their limited exposure to big league pitching. in the case of cedeno (coming into 2008) you're talking about a guy who was one of the worst hitters in all of baseball over the course of a full year of facing major league pitching. big difference.
  25. TruffleShuffle
    soto destroyed iowa in his third crack at the league, and pecota still loved him last year - and was justified by his actual performance. i don't think hoffpauir is special, but pecota takes into account repeating levels and still thinks that he'll be a pretty productive player. there's a good chance that a guy who can thoroughly hammer AAA pitching will be at least a pretty solid hitter at the major league level.
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