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how can you argue with this evidence ARam's EqA the past four years, by the way: .307, .302, .292, .294 i'm just saying, either braun is a better hitter than ARam, or you're assuming that his minor league and major league performances are both flukes, and his PECOTA projections are too high.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-26-2008
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Nah, he's cooling off- tonight he started out with a HR and 2B with 3 RBI in his first 2 plate appearnaces. well good thing we kept him in florida and tennessee the past four years; finally got him ready to play in iowa. though to be fair, the year after craig put up a .275/.363/.509/872 line in his first season at west tennessee, third base in iowa was being blocked hot prospect scott mclain. so you can't blame the cubs for leaving his career to die in the lower levels. -
If you had made this evaluation a month ago, Ramirez was right where Braun is now(to speak nothing of where Braun was a month ago, or of the fact that Ramirez has done this for the four previous seasons). But Braun is a "middle of the order beast" and Ramirez isn't? yes, because ryan braun is a better hitter than aramis ramirez. I give up then. okay, probably should've given up about 10 posts ago considering the mountain of evidence you were trying to climb.
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it's kinda fun watching the back of their bullpen torpedo the season that's being propped up by that overachieving bunch of a-holes. btw, fernando tatis hit a game-tying homer in the 9th. he's had like 3 or 4 huge hits in the past month... what a weird career resurrection.
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also while we're talking about middle of the order beasts on contending teams, david wright.
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If you had made this evaluation a month ago, Ramirez was right where Braun is now(to speak nothing of where Braun was a month ago, or of the fact that Ramirez has done this for the four previous seasons). But Braun is a "middle of the order beast" and Ramirez isn't? yes, because ryan braun is a better hitter than aramis ramirez.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-26-2008
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
if we need a RH bat off the bench, how about matt craig? (ducks flying objects) (.340/.488/.541/1.029 this year) -
By my standards, 5 innings of 2 hit, 10 K pitching is a quality start, you'd be stupid to think otherwise, official rulings aside. i don't think that a guy who enters a ballgame 4-1 ballgame with the bases empty, 2 outs in the 9th inning and gets one out has really saved much of anything. are we going to stop referring to that as a save as well? likewise, let's stop saying that a pitcher on the wrong end of a 1-0 game got the loss. the offense got the loss; that pitcher was a winner all the way.
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just say cheesesteaks... not cheesesteak sandwiches.
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you beat me to it.
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I didn't remove anything. In fact I specifically said "I'm not saying he's a sub .850 guy". My point is that with two months of the season left to play, making declarative statements about the level of players can be deceiving, especially when they are as hot as Braun is right now, or as cold as Ramirez has been. I mean, Ramirez's GPA has been at least on par with 2008 Braun's(even including his great run right now) for each of the last 4 years. Do you really want to make the argument that Ramirez is no longer at that level because he had a terrible slump in the last month? no, but ramirez' performance is below where it has been the last four years. braun's recent hot streak has brought his performance up to what would be consistent with his play last year and his minor league ability.
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well okay, you can call it flukish, but i'll trust his pecota comps, .947 minor league OPS and .963 major league OPS. plus he's 24 years old. also, can you stop taking hot streaks out of a guy's production and discounting them as flukes? you did this with theriot too; said his hot month last season was a fluke because all his other months weren't that good. hot streaks and cold streaks are part of any baseball player's profile; you can't just remove them to fit your argument.
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today wasn't a quality start technically, though if you tack on marshall's performance it sure seems like one.
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Chris Carpenter to start Wednesday
TruffleShuffle replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
we have a chris carpenter too. -
really? i'd sure like those .315 EqA hitters to reveal themselves, because my eye only sees one guy - and that was just for one season of a 10-year career. Braun's not a .315 EqA guy either, he's probably a little under .300, just like Lee, Ramirez, and to a lesser extent Soriano. well you're going to have a tough time "under .300" assertion with anything other than b.s., since he was at .325 last year, .305 this year, he's not even reached his peak years and his PECOTA projections have him between .305 and .310 for the next several years.
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at least swept, maybe even find a way to lose a game in warmups or something.
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really? i'd sure like those .315 EqA hitters to reveal themselves, because my eye only sees one guy - and that was just for one season of a 10-year career.
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2? i was thinking at least 5.
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good thing the cubs are slipping before the trade deadline; we have some valuable parts we can sell off.
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trade colvin for a reliever... there's gotta be a team out there that's dumb enough to think he'll be a regular starter at the big league level.
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the phillies also have ryan howard. but what do these guys all have in common? they're playing for the teams that drafted them. true middle of the order beasts very rarely hit the free agent market; they're either locked up by the clubs that drafted them, or they're traded (miguel cabrera) to a team that signs them to a long-term deal. if the cubs want a guy like that, they're going to have to improve their draft/development program - either to produce one or produce the talent needed to trade for one.
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i think the cubs need to start scoring more runs.
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point and laugh at everyone who was saying "DFA Fontenot" the first month of the season
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uh wut... this makes me nervous. since when does lou take out starting pitchers who are throwing well and are at 87 pitches?
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if harden can avoid arm trouble through the end of next season, he'll be an extremely wealthy man.