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  1. JeffH
    OK, that was exaggeration (!), but I don't know why Wainwright is considered so valuable and Wellemeyer is considered to be a throw-in type guy in the trades we dream up. I would never trade Wellemeyer for Wainwright. I would trade Mitre before I traded Wellemeyer.
  2. JeffH
    Orlando Cabrera.
  3. JeffH
    Feel free to call it out, but of course it should be accepted and tolerated.
  4. JeffH
    Exaggeration on an internet message board? Schedule a press conference!
  5. JeffH
    Awful? A little loose with the hyperbole aren't we? 4.17 ERA in the PCL is far from "awful". Wellemeyer is generally considered garbage and he has a 3.16 ERA in the same league, with much better peripheral numbers as well.
  6. JeffH
    Reyes and Wainright [sic] are still more than enough to get that deal done. Wainwright is awful.
  7. JeffH
    Every hitter should be patient and work the count until they see a pitch to hit, and Soriano doesn't do that. What's his P/PA? Soriano sees 3.62 pitches per plate appearance. Of the 160 MLB players with enough PAs to qualify for the batting title, he's 106th.
  8. JeffH
    I just tuned in ESPN radio 790 here in Houston. Nothing about Huff. That would be the lead story.
  9. JeffH
    Again, seller is the wrong term IMO and I'll just stick with "Making the team better" from now on. That's a perfectly acceptable term. My point is that I believe it is extremely unlikely that trading Burnitz, et al is going to make the team better. Have discussions, make inquiries, field offers? Sure.
  10. JeffH
    I should say that I do agree that we should trade Burnitz if, as an example, the Red Sox want to give us Hanley Ramirez for him. It just seems like the "sell, sell!" crowd is in a "dump-these-guys-for-whatever-we-can-get" mode, like the Duke brothers at the end of "Trading Places". What's the point?
  11. JeffH
    Jeff, do you think it's a sellers or buyers market? I think it's a seller's market, but that doesn't necessarily mean that every buyer is just going to bend over and take it. I would say that the likelihood of teams overpaying is rather low, actually. I'm not in favor of "selling" (trading "expendable" veterans) because (1) I believe we're still in it and (2) I don't believe we have anything to sell that's going to bring us any kind of valuable long-term piece. What do we need after all? A young, left handed hitting middle of the order hitter that plays corner outfield. Try getting that for what we've got to sell. Why trade Burnitz for someone else's Todd Wellemeyer? We've got plenty of those.
  12. JeffH
    Teams are willing to overpay Evidence, please.
  13. JeffH
    Why would we DFA a valuable player just to increase the likelihood that Dusty will play the guy we want him to? Either fire Dusty or exercise your rights under the org chart and force him to play who you want. Don't unnecessarily reduce the talent on the ballclub.
  14. JeffH
    Matt Lawton would be nice. Hit him #2 and get Walker back down in an RBI spot. Hairston-Lawton-Lee-Ramirez-Burnitz-Garciaparra-Walker-Barrett Hairston-Lawton-Lee-Burnitz-Ramirez-Walker-Garciaparra-Barrett One of those.
  15. JeffH
    We should have just picked up Alou's completely reasonable option The $11.5 ($9.5 net) reasonable option?
  16. JeffH
    It's called supply and demand... this detemines the relative value of a player and therefore the asking price. It may affect the ultimate price that Hendry pays, but it should have zero effect on the asking price.
  17. JeffH
    If he came out and said Wood was being shut down for the season, some one like, say, Chuck Lamar might bump up the asking price for Baez to be traded to the Cubs. I've never understood this line of thinking. How is another team's supposed desperation going to change what I think my guy is worth and what I'm going to ask in exchange for him?
  18. JeffH
    How much longer do the Cubs have to hide him in the minors? After this season, he'll have one more option year remaining. He was added to the 40-man roster after the 2003 season, so 2004 and 2005 have been option years burned. Coming out of spring training 2007, he'll have to be kept on the 25-man roster (or the major league DL) or be passed through waivers if you want to send him back to the minors.
  19. JeffH
    My question is - if we decided to keep Patterson in the minors for the rest of the season, would he have to pass through waivers on Aug. 1 after the expiration of his current waiver? No. Suppose the Cubs had passed him through waivers but had not sent him to Iowa when they did. They continued trying to coax him through his struggles, with no success. Now, suppose that on August 2nd, they want to send him to Iowa. They would have to pass him through waivers again, because the previous waiver would have expired. I know we'd need new waivers to trade him after the deadline, of course, but if we simply keep him in AAA? Or if we want to call him up mid-August, would he need to clear waivers then? First question - see above. Second question - no (you never need to place someone on waivers to bring them UP). If only "the book" were available to the public. It is. It can be kind of confusing, but here: http://roadsidephotos.com/baseball/BasicAgreement.pdf#search='MLB%20collective%20bargaining%20agreement%20pdf'
  20. JeffH
    Would be very interesting to know who did decide the original deal was too steep. If you believe Mr. Miles, it was either only the Cubs or it was both clubs. If the latter is true, they are way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way apart.
  21. JeffH
    My proposed deal has always been as such: Cubs take Pie and Hill off the table. Reds can choose any two prospects and/or young major leaguers (from the not-completely-established class: Murton, Patterson, Cedeno, Mitre, Novoa, Wuertz, etc. - not Zambrano, Prior, Lee, Ramirez...). Cubs pull back one additional prospect (if he hadn't already been chosen, I would pull back Guzman). Reds choose a third player.
  22. JeffH
    Is there any remote possiblity that GM's, media writer's, etc are forced to downplay trades in progress in an attempt to keep other teams from outbidding the offer at the last minute? GMs, probably. Media writers, zero chance.
  23. JeffH
    It seems like O'Brien is making offers to interested clubs, rather than soliciting them. It would not be particularly surprising if he was then leaking those offers in some sort of misguided effort to gin up fan pressure for the opposing GMs to make a trade.
  24. JeffH
    Dunn is the kind of guy who is underrated in some quarters and overrated in others.
  25. JeffH
    Wasn't Grieve at liberty to refuse the assignment? That seems to be what I gathered from my reading of the CBA.
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