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mussina is known to be a big east coast guy. his family is in eastern PA and he's never going to play anywhere outside the mid-atlantic states at this stage of his career. why would we even want mussina? he's still a pretty solid pitcher. not a top of the rotation guy any more, but he's fine as a #3 or #4. i wouldn't really be that interested, though, just because i think the cubs need a guy who can slot in behind zambrano in the playoffs, someone like harden or burnett.
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mussina is known to be a big east coast guy. his family is in eastern PA and he's never going to play anywhere outside the mid-atlantic states at this stage of his career.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-6-2008
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
traded for rich harden -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-6-2008
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
leverton had a 2.5 GB/FB ratio coming into this one and has 5 ground outs to 0 fly outs so far. wonder if he is supposed to have a good sinker... that is my new fetish, pitchers with moderate k-rates but good control and a heavy sinker. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-6-2008
TruffleShuffle replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
this is the same cub organization that left soto at iowa most of last year and has basically never moved matt craig past AA. don't be so sure. -
Sig. i'll play your game, you rogue!
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Are you kidding me? You should be embarrassed about typing this. yeah i didn't realize weeks had fallen apart so badly. last year weeks was easily the better offensive player.
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i think the compensation system is kinda dumb. i wish they'd either take one of the two picks away, or put in a clause that teams cannot be compensated for a player acquired within the past year. it was designed to protect small market teams, but it's not really working out in that manner.
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](*,) dave kingman: 608 BB, 1816 K in 7429 PAs. (8.1% walk rate, 24.4% strikeout rate). career OBP: .302 prince fielder: 190 BB, 327 K in 1759 PAs (10.8% walk rate, 18.5% strikeout rate). career OBP: .366 Augh! Meaning that he will likely end up being that type of player. Prince will be a DH in 5 years and will do nothing but swing for the fences as his career moves on. that's nice. if you swing for the fences but are good at hitting home runs and drawing walks, you are a good baseball player.
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they should trade gamel too. that guy is a complete butcher; he needs to be the AL far more than laporta does.
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](*,) dave kingman: 608 BB, 1816 K in 7429 PAs. (8.1% walk rate, 24.4% strikeout rate). career OBP: .302 prince fielder: 190 BB, 327 K in 1759 PAs (10.8% walk rate, 18.5% strikeout rate). career OBP: .366
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So, at worst the offense is a wash. And the starters? And the pen? Mets and Mets. The Brewers aren't that good. hitter VORP this year: brewers 107.2, mets 99.9 pitcher VORP this year: brewers 85.5, mets 64.6 other than that your analysis is spot on. and really, the fact that someone is arguing that the brewers' rotation - with sabathia - is inferior to the mets rotation... that kinda makes my brain explode.
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Lee has better numbers then Fielder pretty much across the board. And that's with Lee having perhaps his worst stretch as a Cub mixed in. That, too. can we also take into account the fact that prince fielder played well below his expectations for the first month and a half?
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Who cares about last year? We're talking about this year. And Lee has clearly been better, offensively and defensively. ok well if we're evaluating teams like that, then ryan ludwick and aubrey huff are better than mark teixeira and miguel cabrera.
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i'm not really judging on this year; i'm judging on their expectations for the rest of this year. cameron is better than an edmonds/johnson platoon at this point. of course edmonds' numbers look good if you take out his horrid first month and a half in san diego, btw. and for the "fukudome > hart" folks, you're seriously underestimating hart. he's a very good player. hart's EqA is .291; fukudome's is .286.
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holy crap, weeks has been bad this year. ok derosa is easily better. i won't give lee the edge over fielder because fielder's VORP was 69 to lee's 48 last season, but i can see the argument that they're even. and yes, everyone knows lee is a good defender and fielder is bad, but we were talking about offense. the original post was that the cubs are better offensively than the brewers even without soriano.
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Pirates Option Gorzo
TruffleShuffle replied to Jake's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
yes plus the cubs have really done a lot of that, acquiring every mediocre pitcher who has been let go. -
That's not even close to a good comparison. do explain. vitters is somewhat of a project whose trade value, if he pans out, is likely to be highest 3 years down the road when he's continued to hit well into AA. wieters is a known commodity who is likely to come in and destroy minor league pitching right away. wieters offers more trade value on the open market at this time, which is something that should be very important to a "built to win now" team like the cubs.
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O RLY? on the cubs' side: soto is way better than kendall derosa at this point is a little better than weeks ramirez is easily better than hall on the brewers' side: hardy is better than theriot fielder is marginally better than lee cameron is better than edmonds/johnson braun is way better than whoever's playing left in soriano's absence hart is probably slightly better than fukudome, but it's close the same mets that trail the brewers by either 5 or 6 games, pending the outcome of their game today? BP has the NL east at roughly a 10% chance of winning the wild card, so your confidence in this respect is unwarranted.
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laporta is obviously the brewers' top prospect. another guy in the deal is 3B taylor green, who BA ranked as milwaukee's #17 prospect, but that seemed too low to me. this year he's posted a .298/.382/.448/.830 in the florida state league. they rate him as an "adequate" fielder. drafting best player available is a shrewd move. everyone wondered what the hell the brewers were doing when they picked laporta, given the presence of braun and fielder, but look what they've turned him into. as an aside, that's another big reason why you pick wieters and not vitters last year.
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(a) the brewers' offense is a lot more "hit" than "miss" (b) does the national league still have a wild card slot?
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I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. LLF is the only person on this board who thinks that hoffpauir is a good hitting prospect. frank thomas and jack cust are way better hitters than those guys if they're both in the lineup. ellis isn't bad. suzuki can hit okay for a catcher. their offense isn't very good, but they have very good pitching and a solid bullpen. billy beane isn't going to just say "gee whiz, we're pretty weak on offense!" and give away their most attractive asset for a handful of marginal starters.
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Rays interested in Murton
TruffleShuffle replied to Guancous's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
if they trade for murton we'd be getting a mid-level prospect back, certainly not a price, davis, mcgee or brignac. -
he'd only thrown over 200 innings once in his career before last season, and he threw 241 last year, plus another 15 in the playoffs. he threw nearly 1000 more pitches than he threw the previous year. i think his arm was just exhausted at that point. given that sheets has been abused by yost this year and sabathia is on pace for another high inning count, their effectiveness in the playoffs (if they get there) may be limited. i suspect that yost will ride them very hard, since the brewers' bullpen sucks and they're in the thick of the race.
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brewers are for real and i think they'll get the WC with an outside shot at the division. cards should not have enough to hang in the race.