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other 2 articles Cards/Reds http://cubs.scout.com/2/503244.html Cubs/Astros http://www.baseballevolution.com/previews/nlcentralcubstros.html Authors prediction Predicted Finish St Louis Chicago Brewers Pirates Astros Reds
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Well there is at least 1 statement by the author that doesn't ring true Taking pitches has not been a strength of Pierre's
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Does this get your hopes up at all? http://cubs.scout.com/2/503956.html
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I agree there already exists some imbalance such as the example above. However, the last 2 years (2004 and 2005) the Cards & Royals only had 1 3 game series (both in KC) and this year they have 6 again. I also agree that the "rivalry" series can set up some mismatches BUT just as you pointed out that interleague isn't going away neither are the rivalry series. So I will close with, there is no perfect solution (or at least one that would likely get implemented) but there is plenty of food for thought and some interesting possibilities.
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Some excellent points and one you have obviously put some time and thought into. Thanks
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While I don't disagree, I think the potential for schedule imbalances (such as 2 division title contenders where 1 gets 6 games vs NYY/BOS and the other TB/BAL) It also seems that it would add even more complexity (could be wrong) to making out 162 game schedule for 30 teams.
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To do that would require interleague play the entire season. That doesn't seem like something MLB would go for. Geographically, it would make the most sense to have the SA club either in the NL West OR the NL Central moving PIT to the NL East. If I was to venture a guess as to which would be most likely should the Marlins move to San Antonio. my money would be on the NL West because that would be the LEAST disruptive. I imagine the Pirates don't want to be in the same division as the Braves, Mets and Phillies
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(Pittsburgh to the East, my apologies Raw) AL East? I don't see that happening. If FLA moved to SA and into the AL West, then another team would have to move the the AL as well to have an even number in each league some possibilities if PIT then AL Central move MIL back to AL Central move PIT to NL East and make SA an NL Central team or make SA an NL West team
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Best check that again 2003 was a career year for Edmonds, which he then topped in 2004. 2005 was an off year compared to what Edmonds usually does but still ranked in the top 20 in most offensive stats (exept batting avg of course)
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Good enough to be an MVP but not a All-Star.
Catman61 replied to cubbieinexile's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Interesting Article on the Twins and Contraction
Catman61 replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
SOMEONE had to be in the AL West, the only other even reasonable candidate is KC, maybe MIN, every other team in the AL is east of the Mississippi. As it is the AL West is the only 4 team division in baseball Of course what was really crazy was back in the 2 division setup, Atlanta and Cincinnati being in the WEST despite both being farther east than either STL or CHC. -
I am unsure of all the exact details but IIRC the stadium will be short about 6,000 seats when it opens and the rest of the seats should be completed approx mid-season. All of the "short seating" is in the LF area (closest to where Busch II stood) I assume that includes at least some bleacher seating. Anyone curious about the progress can access the stadium cam here http://www.kmov.com/stadiumcam/ image is refreshed every 10 minutes
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Calling someone out for claims they cannot and have not made any attempt to support is "aggression and angst"? Rather telling that you choose to attack the poster rather than make any attempt to support your allegations.
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Oh, so now he is just AVERAGE in the field, what happened to To go from that to average is quite an upgrade. In regards to the "marketing and hype" there are some questions just begging to be asked such as until last season Pujols got very little national exposure and had virtually no major endorsement contracts especially in comparison to players on either coast, particualrly the east coast. Next, are you suggesting that MLB has cowed every baseball writer, every media covering baseball, every scouting source (such as Baseball Prospectus, Hardball Times, Lindys, etc) as well as every baseball geek blogger to not expose Pujols subpar/average (depending on your post) defensive skills? FACT: 4 : something that has actual existence 5: a piece of information presented as having objective reality To suggest something as FACT implies that it is provable, that was the thrust of my post. If Pujols is in FACT "a DH playing in the national league " or "average in the field", shouldn't you be able to provide some source other than your own obviously biased opinion (as testified to LOUDLY by your choice of moniker) I find it rather incredulous that EVERYONE has sacrificed their personal ethics to kowtow to the wishes of MLB regardng Pujols.
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Obviously you watch with your Cubbie blue tinted shades on then. Pujols is neither "awkward" nor "uncoordinated" http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=3603 Baseball Prospectus on the 2004 GG awards. Now why would Baseball Prospectus say that if Pujols was a liability in the field, as well as being awkward and uncoordinated as you claim? Then we have his ESPN scouting report prior to the 2005 season Its hard to imagine that if Pujols was as defensively deficient as you claim that major baseball news sources and publications (such as Lindys and Street & Smith) wouldn't be make note of or commenting on this flaw in Pujols game. Can you direct me to, quote from or link to an article that talks about Pujols subpar defensive skills?
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McLane said a bulldozer has been on Oswalt's wish list almost from the day he moved up to the majors in 2001. The model he purchased for Oswalt cost about $200,000. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2265422
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So basically, Cubs fans are right, and the rest of America is wrong? Didn't BP do a feature a while back touting Lee for MVP? As did Dayn Parry for Fox Sports. Eric Neel had an article discussing Jones/Lee/Pujols a while back, a lot of it was blowing up the Andruw hype. Since it is no longer free content but part of ESPN Insider, I don't remember for sure who he favored but IIRC I think he leaned at least slightly in favor of Lee. Obviously as a Cardinal fan I wanted Pujols to win but it would have been hard to make much of an argument had Lee won. Lee should have at least been a close 2nd, JMO but he had a MUCH stronger case for MVP than Andruw.
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Seems to me that Pujols SIGNIFCANTLY outperformed Lee in 2004 and he didn't cost 11.05M either
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Just to be clear, it would be hard to argue if Lee was voted as MVP. I also think that Jones deserves no better than 3rd (distant 3rd)
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EXCEPT that that 83 Braves team was 2nd place in a 6 team division, just 3 games behind the Dodgers and had a winning record (88-74) In this case, Lee was on a team that finished 4th in a 6 team division and finished under .500
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2005 avg .263 career avg .267 2005 BB 64 last 5 years 71-53-83-56-59 Furcal started the year absolutely atrocious and was carrying a .220 avg about the time Chipper hit the DL in June, at which point Furcal proceeded to hit .325 for the rest of the season including hitting .390 for July. Giles had a poor May and poor Sep but hit .323 in April, .302 in June, .319 in July and .324 in Aug Except that ignores that Francouer SCORCHED ML pitching when he first game up hitting .413 with a 1.326 OPS for July then Chipper returned late July after the ASB hitting .302 with a .983 OPS since then. Except that in June (Chipper went down and Andruw "carried" the team) Smoltz, Ramirez and Sosa went a combined 11-2 with a 2.90 ERA. Sosa went 10-3 with a 2.62 ERA in 20 starts (13-3 overall 2.55 ERA), he didn't make his 1st start until mid June. The Braves had the 5th best overall ERA in the NL and 3rd best starters ERA in the NL.
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Braves had decided to have Hudson start Game 1 and Smoltz Game 2 or at least that is what they are showing on their MLB site
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Voting ended yesterday (Sun Oct 2)
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Problem is that just isn't true http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neel/050914&num=2
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OTOH, Jones has had the most RBI chances in the majors. Andruw has had 170 AB with RISP and 70 RBI, over 40 more than Pujols(128AB 64RBI) and over 50 more than Derrek Lee(117AB 62 RBI) In percentage terms, the difference is huge 33% more RBI chances than Pujols and a whopping 45% more than Lee. Jones actually has the worst RISP avg(.224) on the Braves of any player with semi regular playing time (over 40 RISP AB)