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I don't like this deal. You're trading one established young pitcher and a solid ML ready left fielder capable of an .800 OPS for a young catcher, who, at best, will play about 3/4 of the team's games in a season, and a soon to be FA that plays the same position as one of the prospects. A starting pitcher of Hill's caliber is better than a catching prospect (don't we already have one sitting in AAA for no particular reason). Murton may well put up a similar or better OPS than Dunn in a few years without costing as much.
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You can't possibly be serious. We know nothing of the kind. True, but if you said that about every rookie coming up from AAA, you'd be right more than half the time. The pecentages are in his favor.
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Awesome, a court battle is just what we need to prolong the sale process and further guarantee that the Cubs will do nothing in the offseason.
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Do we want Carlos in the ASG?
Amazing_Grace replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I think that if the same question were asked of Cub fans in general, as opposed to NSBB members (many of who think more deeply about issues) the results may have been different. A lot of people who post here think. fixed -
Al Bundy disagrees. Uh, no Peg. (sound of toilet flushing) ROFL. I always loved the way that show juxtaposed the stereotypical male and female nuptual relationship, with Al nagging Peg about everything and Peg begging for sex.
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I said he's my favorite, and he is good he just needs more playing time, something cedeno had plenty of last year and still sucked while murt led the team in BA Yeah, and then Murt completely blew during 2007 in the majors. Why does he get room for aches and pains and Cedeno doesn't? And honestly, how good do you think Theriot and Murton can be? I wanna hear this. good to close to great starters, neither will be great. i never made the aches argument for Murt. What in the blue hell has Theriot done to make you think that? Murton I can understand, kinda. Theriot though. Tell me why he's going to be anything more than a decent utility player. Tell me why he didn't get a regular stay in the majors until his age 27 season. Bad scouting, good hitting gives me the idea that and speed and D Punctuation is your friend.
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Neifi was a demigod with a bat for almost a solid month. Yuck. Really? I don't remember that. I still stand by my opinion, however that Neifi was a decent 25th man. The problem was that he was used more that a 25th man should be used. and paid more than a 25th man should be paid.
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Theriot obviously doesn't have any power. For him to be worth playing, he has to keep his OBP up at least over .330. Even that isn't great, but it's not terrible considering he's a SS. He's still in his first full season and bound to have slumps and struggles. I think it's too early to write him off completely, given the fact that there just aren't that many offensive powerhouse SS out there. If he gets hot again like he was at the end of last year and the start of this one, his OBP will climb into an area of respectability for a SS. He also steals bases fairly effectively. It is obvious Theriot is never going to be an all-star SS, but he's cheap and we could and have paid more for less production. If the Cubs got an impact bat in RF, and Pie started playing up to his potential, I think the team could live with Theriot at SS and still be a winning team. That said, if Theriot's OBP continues to hover around the .320 mark, Cedeno should probably get another shot, as his ceiling projects a lot higher than Theriot's does.
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Dodgers. and they send us back Todd Hundley. ROFL
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I dunno. At this early stage in his career I'd rather see him continue to exercise patience, even if it doesn't work out as much. I'd hate to see him go 'first-pitch crazy' like CPatt did. Yes, his swing is much better than CPatt's, but still. How did Patterson make it to the majors with that terrible loopy swing anyway? You don't see many quality four seam face-high fastballs and sliders low and away at AA and below. He never learned to recognize those pitches and it's just absolutely creamed him at the major league level. That makes sense. It's kind of odd that none of the ML hitting coaches he's seen have been able to improve him much. The whole Patterson saga was bad coaching from a lot of different people. He never should have been allowed to get to the bigs with the kind of problems he had.
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Given what we've seen this season, I think it's a good bet Marmol will be the closer eventually anyway. If someone will take Dempster's whole salary, we should deal him.
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I dunno. At this early stage in his career I'd rather see him continue to exercise patience, even if it doesn't work out as much. I'd hate to see him go 'first-pitch crazy' like CPatt did. Yes, his swing is much better than CPatt's, but still. How did Patterson make it to the majors with that terrible loopy swing anyway?
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And that sort of deal wouldn't solve anything. We'd still need to get rid of a crappy player somehow.
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I'm guessing this offseason is going to be a disaster. :cry: I'm promising this offseason will be a disaster.
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Only if they take on Jones or Eyre. Them taking on Izturis wouldn't help because he's a FA at season's end just like Izturis is.
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Wow, if that's true, just wow. It's not like the Cubs are taking on 10M extra dollars of contract. They're paying Jones to play for another team. They pay his salary either way. What has debt got to do with anything? Not to mention Selig has no right to interfere in the finances of major league teams. The league has to approve all trades, but I don't recall a trade ever being vetoed because of some aspect of the team's internal finances.
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I sorta always thought that the NBA had more time off between games because it's a much more energy draining sport and needs more time between games for rest. I doubt anyone takes issue with the length of the NBA regular season. It's when they extended playoffs and nearly half the field qualifies to play in the post season that people lost interest. That and Michael Jordan retiring from the Bulls, which was my reason for giving it up. :D Back when I watched the NBA, when Jordan played, the first round was 5 games and they typically played at least 2 of the games in each series back-to-back (meaning only 1 back to back situation per series). They did take more breaks because basketball is more physically draining to play every day but it was, at most, 1 day off between games in a single series. 2 days off was extremely rare. It was nothing like it is now. They really do go well out of their way to get more telecasts.
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Depends on the DH With DH Albert Pujols Alex Rodriguez (playing SS) Miguel Cabrera David Ortiz Manny Ramirez Without DH same except Carlos Beltran instead of Ortiz
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i'm pretty sure it's happening this year. It is (or at least has the potential to); the start of the Series is being pushed back because of low ratings during the weekend. Making decisions based on TV ratings is not good business for professional sports, IMHO. The longer the season gets, the more people will lose interest, especially if the team they follow is out. If you must fret about TV ratings, put the games in the afternoon against lower quality regular programming. Don't throw in an artificial gap of several days which will cause pretty much everybody to forget the baseball playoffs are going on. You're trading the long-term health and popularity of the sport and the integrity of it's playoff system for a few million dollars in this season.
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I'd like to hear any arguments in favor. At the moment, I can't think of any. I'd hate to see baseball end up in the same mess as the NBA, with a postseason lasting months on end, so that by the time the championship series has started, I have all but completely lost interest. Agreed. That's the one thing I hate about the NBA is how the postseason is essentially a second season. Soooooooo long. The reason the NBA is like that isn't because of the number of games though. It's because they try to televise almost every single game, sometimes taking 2 or even 3 day gaps between games. They never have back to back games either. Baseball should avoid this at all costs. Dragging the playoffs out just to televise every game of the first 2 rounds pretty much guarantees people will lose interest if their particular team is eliminated.
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Well, for Selig it's a way to get the MLB central administration more money. Two games at "neutral" sites would presumably see a majority of the gate receipts going to MLB, rather than to the WS teams. I don't really see why Boras would care. Giving MLB central more money doesn't help him in any way because the teams are the ones that pay his clients. It would shorten the period between the end of the WS and arbritration/FA type decisions, but that would really only affect two teams per year and a shortened period doesn't necessarily favor players anyway. There must be some angle he's playing, but I don't see what it is.
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We have plenty of statistical evidence to show Soriano hits much better in the leadoff spot over the course of his career. There's no obvious or logical reason why he should be better at leadoff, but he is. Whether it's all in Soriano's head, or whether there's some cosmic gift to hitting leadoff that he possesses, or whether he has to hit leadoff as part of the terms with his deal with the devil is irrelevant. The best indicator of future performance is past performance, and he hits best in the leadoff position. And really who else are we going to put there? Theriot has slumped. Fontenot probably will slump. Lee is our best hitter period. Ramirez has hit as many HR as Soriano. The only other halfway decent choice would be DeRosa, the only other player with an OBP over .350. DeRosa would be OK, but he hits for decent power as well, and moving him up and Soriano down wouldn't make a huge difference even assuming Soriano continued to hit just as well in another spot.
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If we weren't playing the Brewers, I'd say yes, he has to go 5 or 6 at least. However, in a series as important as this one, you burn everyone for a W against the division leaders and then let the next guy go 5-6 minimum.
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If this move leads to the release of Scott Eyre, I'm all for it. If all we're doing is optioning one of our good relievers to Iowa, I'm against it. If it would allow us to trade Dempster and be rid of his 5M contract next year, that would also be acceptable.
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Bullpen
Amazing_Grace replied to badgercub's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Eyre shouldn't be in the bullpen at all. Lou won't play him, and rightly so because he's sucked for 1.5 years now. The Cubs are paying his salary whether he sits on the roster or not and there are plenty of minor league players you can use to fill that spot that stand a very good chance of being something of an improvement over Eyre. He's a waste of a roster spot that could go to someone that might help the team win games. He should be told to either accept demotion to AAA or find another team that will pay him. If he found one, hey, we saved half a million as his new team will pay him league minimum. If he didn't (more likely), he'd either accept demotion or retire. Anyway about it, he'd be off the team.