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Perfect example of using stats as a drunk would use a light pole. In 2004 Aramis was 4th in OPS in MLB for 3rd baseman In 2005 Aramis was 4th in OPS in MLB for 3rd baseman In 2006 Aramis was 5th in OPS in MLB for 3rd baseman. He is top five 3rd baseman in baseball. Pay him like one. EDIT: The only other 3rd baseman to finish in the top five in OPS for the last three years is A-Rod.
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It bugs me that Hendry won't just give him 5/75 if that is what he wants. This is getting ridiculous. I can't believe Hendry won't give him that. Either the tribune is wrong in the price or Hendry is being way too stubborn. Boy, I don't like Hendry. What benefit does a take-it-or-leave-it offer have for the Cubs. Resigning Aramis only keeps the status que, loosing him means Hendry will have to replace another hole. Why is it always one step forward, two steps back with the Cubs?
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What leverage does he have now? The only leverage Hendry has is the threat that he'll withdraw his offer. I'll admit, it's weak leverage considering Hendry's position, but you can't let the negotiations go on forever while other potential candidates are signed by other teams. After Saturday Ramirez becomes an auction process. Well, if you were Aram's agent, what would you advise him to do? I'd tell him to pass on the Cubs' offer and play the FA market. Unless I thought: 1) there was a chance it was the best offer he'd get; and 2) the Cubs threatened to withdraw it if the deadline passed. But if Ramirez is at all serious about wanting to stay in Chicago it might not have to be the best possible offer- only in the neighborhood of what Soriano is looking for. This is going to take a long time. If I were Hendry I tell him to bring back the best offer he gets from another team and try and match it.
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The Marla Collins slip has to be his best. Something about seeing Marla without her shorts on for the first time.
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Wow. Matsuzaka for under $20 Million posting fee would be a steal. Hopefully that is true and the Cubs win (I know thw Cubs never win). I wonder if the posting fee is too low that the Lions might pull him back. I think they want to get the money to get another player and pay some off their debt. Maybe no one will get him?
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Without touching the ball.
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Wasn't it you or UMfan? I always do poorly but it is a great contest. I hope Tim has the time to put it together again this year.
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YAY I will never forget that 8000000000 mile blast he hit a few years back (98..99?) that was amazing. That was amazing! I've never seen a blast like that since. It was the second most amazing HR I've ever seen. The first was a Barry Bonds broken bat HR in Miami.
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I also like the idea that someone else had that bidding on two players is better than bidding on one. I think it may be important to have another guy that speaks the language on the club.
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I have to say I disagree with this. Threads over 30 pages should be archived and a new thread started. No one wants to read this whole thing and you end up getting repetitive posts. How would you eliminate repetitive posts simply by starting a new thread? Yea, how would you eliminate repetitive posts simply by starting a new thread?
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It's too bad they are comming to the realization at such a late date and with a depleted talent pool. Imagine if Hendry would have had the epiphany when the Cubs had a lot of power.
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Rutgers? I don't think they'll beat either Louisville or WVU. Anyway, I guess they've played a marginaly tougher schedule than Louisville. I imagine the winner of the UM/OSU game would only be favored by 30 in the national title game. The Big East is a joke.
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Besides, signing relievers is not proactive. It's going straight to the used car lot while everybody else is looking for new models. It's not much of an accomplishment to come away with the premier middle relievers on the market. Middle relievers don't win you baseball games. They help you not lose them. But the Cubs have had lineup and rotation weakness for a while now, and Jim ignored both to solidify a secondary unity. I don't agree with this assessment. Signing middle relievers can be as you described, but the Cubs signed the premiere middle relievers available in each of the years we're talking about. These are all guys who had stellar numbers at the time of signing with closer potential. That helps you win. There is no such an animal as a "premire middle releivers". There are only middle relivers who stink and those who are medicore. The very nature of pitching in middle relief spells medicore. I understand what you're trying to say, but it's wrong. There are premier middle relievers. Premier meaning the best of the best. So they are the best of the best of what they do....pitch in middle relief. Some players consistently perform extremely well in the middle relief role and I would consider those players premier middle relievers. I guess. It's like picking the skinniest pig over 300 pounds. The difference between Bob Howry and [insert name here] is not that much.
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Besides, signing relievers is not proactive. It's going straight to the used car lot while everybody else is looking for new models. It's not much of an accomplishment to come away with the premier middle relievers on the market. Middle relievers don't win you baseball games. They help you not lose them. But the Cubs have had lineup and rotation weakness for a while now, and Jim ignored both to solidify a secondary unity. I don't agree with this assessment. Signing middle relievers can be as you described, but the Cubs signed the premiere middle relievers available in each of the years we're talking about. These are all guys who had stellar numbers at the time of signing with closer potential. That helps you win. There is no such an animal as a "premire middle releivers". There are only middle relivers who stink and those who are medicore. The very nature of pitching in middle relief spells medicore.
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Number 1 was so good, I can't wait for 2 :D ND sucks. Their fans are more whiny than Sanoma and they don't deserve to be in any BCS bowl game ever, no matter what their record because they don't play in a conference.
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Are you serious? Feliz, Wright, Rolen, Zimmerman > Ramirez. Wright was among the worst fielding 3Bs this year by BBTF's metric. Most scouts and analysts expect Wright to be a very good defensive 3B, but he wasn't this year. Nor was he last year. The discussion almost got me in big trouble, with the big man. God got angry at you for your opinions on David Wright's fielding? No God's right hand man, Tim.
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Is June "Run-N-Shoot" Jones still their coach?
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I hope so too. But I fear he will just look pathatic. I'd rather remember Sammy as he was in 1998.
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That's some interesting logic. Again, because the costs of doing it are much worse than the costs of not doing it, given the fact that if the team scores a run the odds of the player playing a part in that run are pretty slim. So, putting a defensive upgrade in is a bad move. It's a coaching move that is made based on conventional wisdom that more often than not results in no benefit, and could ultimately result in a bad outcome should the inferior hitter ever come to the plate later in the game.
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The best defender does not make the best team. You defended a move by saying you have to trust the players. Making a change already indicates you don't trust your players, and simply trusting them is not justification enough for making the move. You have to make the best move for the team, and often times in baseball, that is no move at all. A defensive upgrade is not necessarily the best move just becasue it's a defensive upgrade. There are other factors to consider, and you can't dismiss them simply by saying you trust your players to make those other factors moot. For most of the game I agree with you. But if I have a lead in the ninth, I'd certainly be more inclined to put the better defender to help keep that lead. i think that the benefits of doing that are negligible at best. the chances that the player at said position will make an error to cost the team the game are far less than the chances that the opposing team will tie the score through hitting a home run or driving the ball into a gap, thus making it likely that the player in question will have to come to bat. OK, but why take the risk? Because the costs of doing it are much worse than the costs of not doing it. And the benefits or doing it are so insignificant as to make the move foolish. I haven't heard a good reason to keep a guy on a team soley for defensive purposes in all this debate. If people agree that it shouldn't be done (keeping a guy on the team) then putting him in is a bad idea too.
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Does it really matter? He's stated he's going to play both sports. IMO, the only way he doesn't is if some team drafts him and sweatens the pot so he doesn't play baseball. I think in that type of scenario he'd have to drop baseball eventually. Maybe he'd be able to be in the minors for a year or two, but his resolve would give out when he's making lots of money in the NFL before he ever got to the majors in MLB. Not to mention the fact that the Cubs would be on the hook for a lot of money.
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Does it really matter? He's stated he's going to play both sports. IMO, the only way he doesn't is if some team drafts him and sweatens the pot so he doesn't play baseball.
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That is completely ridicilous. Louisville has beat up on the likes of Temple, Kansas St, Middle Tenn, Cincinnati, and Syracuse. The only half-way decent teams they've beaten are the vastly over-rated Miami and West Virginia. They would get pounded by any number of teams below them including Texas Tennesse ND Auburn USC The Big East is a joke of a Football Conference. When they play in the title game, if they beat the might Rutgers team, they are going to get crushed.
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A-Rod and Sheff updates
CubinNY replied to Post Count Padder's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Notice there is no mention of the Cubs. Shef could have a helluva year in the Juice Box. -
Are you serious? Feliz, Wright, Rolen, Zimmerman > Ramirez. Wright was among the worst fielding 3Bs this year by BBTF's metric. Most scouts and analysts expect Wright to be a very good defensive 3B, but he wasn't this year. Nor was he last year. The discussion almost got me in big trouble, with the big man.