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  1. CubinNY
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/brogler01.shtml (Brogleio) 60s http://www.baseball-reference.com/k/koufasa01.shtml (Kaufax) 60s http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fidryma01.shtml (Fidrych) 70s http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hamptmi01.shtml (Hammpton)90s http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/millewa04.shtml (Miller) 90s http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/martira02.shtml (Martinez) 90s http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boydoi01.shtml (Boyd) 90s That's all I could come up with in a spare five minutes
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    Instead of adding to the irrelevent post counts in this thread you could have just as easily sent a pm to a mod. Exactly how long did it take you to find the date of the posts? 10 seconds. You must have a very busy life. Oh, the irony. :lol: Indeed :D
  3. CubinNY
    Instead of adding to the irrelevent post counts in this thread you could have just as easily sent a pm to a mod. Exactly how long did it take you to find the date of the posts? 10 seconds. You must have a very busy life.
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    ibl viewtopic.php?t=39655&start=120
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    When is the Trib finally going to put a different reporter on the Cubs beat? They used to rotate them regularly, but we've been saddled with him for a heck of a long time. I know. I miss the days of Teddy Greenstein. I guess he was too good.
  6. CubinNY
    Harang is still ugly as all get out and there is no way he can pitch as well as he did last time. Go Cubs!
  7. CubinNY
    What's the point of releasing Prior? He's under contract and the Cubs probably can't get anyone for him until he shows he can pitch. I'm putting him out of my thoughts until he starts pitching in games either in the minors or majors.
  8. CubinNY
    Exactly.
  9. CubinNY
    If Soriano isn't seeing any pitches then the manager should have a hart to hart about swining at junk. That's the problem.
  10. CubinNY
    I'm neither pro nor con Cuban. I think it's really silly to be make declaritive statements when Cuban hasn't said he's interested and the Cubs haven't been put up for sale yet. Cuban is a smart guy. My guess is that if he's interested he'll get his ducks in a row and make a good case and a good offer. Whether its accepted probably has more to do with what other offers are on the table then it has to do with Jerry F. Rinsedorf.
  11. CubinNY
    I guess you don't understand the business of baseball then. Just because all of you think Cuban is the solution and want him to buy to Cubs, it doesn't mean that MLB and the owners agree. He has no chance. Do you have inside information? If so please share. If not, your post is very presumptive.
  12. CubinNY
    Hill wasn't completely skipped. They're just keeping Z on his usual 4-days rest at all times. Z Friday, Hill Saturday. I think this is a good thing. When Z has too much rest it seems as if he is not as effective. His sinker seems to flatten out and he doesn't have as good control.
  13. CubinNY
    FWIW, he was significantly better each of his first two years. 2005: .366/.470/.581/1.051 2006: .355/.480/.606/1.086 He's now up to .336/.467/.588/1.055 He also now has 31BB/21K. I think he was at 20/20 at one point, so he's starting to get hot. Callis said we'd take Wieters in a chat he did today. be still my beating heart No kidding. I saw him on CSS against Georgia the other day. The kid is a monster. I don't know about him sticking behind the plate but with his arm he could hold down a corner outfield spot.
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    Guys drop all the time becuase of signability issues. It's not like scouts didn't know about him. Wilken didn't find him bailing hay in Backass Nebraska. The Cubs gave him first round money and then some. I guess it all depends on one's defention of "steal". Anyway, let's wait until he has pitched a day in the majors to call him a steal.
  15. CubinNY
    Defensive? Carlos Beltran, Mike Cameron, to name two.
  16. CubinNY
    It works in the favor of the Cobs too, who are playing pretty pathetic baseball at the present time.
  17. CubinNY
    what makes middle relievers unreliable from year to year Lack of talent. Really I think it has a lot to do with discrete components. What I mean is that relivers work at most 1 or 2 innings per outing. Such a small performance sample is unduely influenced by luck, both bad and good. I don't think so. In terms of ERA it is, but for looking at the rate at which a pitcher gets people out. OBP against, stuff like that. I think it's more that there aren't a lot of consistently good middle relievers, and teams too often jump at the flash in the pan or the guy in his early to mid 30s who's right about to go downhill. I think you have a good point. If I were going to judge a reliever I would look at secondary stats like WHIP. I haven't given my "discrete component" theory much thought recently, but I think it is so hard to judge a reliever because we doen't yet have real good metrics. Anyway, giving a 38 year old reliever who was comming off of high IP totals the last two years is a receipe for disaster. I'm look at you Mike Remmlinger.
  18. CubinNY
    what makes middle relievers unreliable from year to year Lack of talent. Really I think it has a lot to do with discrete components. What I mean is that relivers work at most 1 or 2 innings per outing. Such a small performance sample is unduely influenced by luck, both bad and good.
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    It's hard to call an 8 million dollar investment a steal. Even if he pans out and makes it to the bigs as a starting pitcher it won't be a steal.
  20. CubinNY
    You shouldn't be surprized when a guy who doesn't get regular playing time struggles. You also shouldn't be surprized when a young player attempting to hang on in the bigs overcompensates and starts trying to hit his way into the starting line up. A platoon is never a good situation for a younger player. Once a guy gets labeled in baseball the label sticks. I'm sure Muton doesn't want to get the "platoon" player label. It will haunt him forever.
  21. CubinNY
    But that doesn't affect those stats. You can't give up 3 earned runs in the first and pretend to not share in the blame of a loss. Sure, but it wasn't a poor outing. No, it wasn't poor, it was terrible. So giving up 3 ER's is terrible? Sure. It's all subjective labels. But it's not 3 ERs it's 3 ERs in x innings. Anyway, he ptched well after he gave up the runs in the first and before he started walking people. Overall, not a good outing, IMO.
  22. CubinNY
    i wouldn't dare on ausmus Ausmus hasn't been a very good defensive catcher in a few years now. True but stealing in this situation is a bad idea.
  23. CubinNY
    Everytime I read one of your posts it's in Butters' voice. :D
  24. CubinNY
    He's a streaky hitter like Sosa, that's the problem with batting him high in the order. He doesn't walk much.
  25. CubinNY
    I mentioned this is int game thread yesterday, Barrett sets up late and hops around too much behind the plate. The pitcher is tryng to focus on amoving target. It is a habit he gets into sometimes.
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