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  1. JeffH
    Don't be ridiculous. No way he's signing for only 4 years.
  2. JeffH
    This strikes me as a very dangerous position. It seems unlikely that we'll be able to duplicate this year's CF production. Kosuke is very likely to be a total waste. Theriot had a .340 BABIP. Expect a drop in his numbers. DeRosa seems unlikely to duplicate his performance. Lee is in a steep decline. Aramis should be solid, but he's on the wrong side of 30 now. Soto is terrific, but I would expect there to be an eventual decline in his numbers as his career games caught totals increase. It may be slow, but it will probably catch up to him eventually. I don't think the offense will be a disaster, but, with pretty much the same bunch returning, I would take the under on 800 runs scored.
  3. JeffH
    Is hermida a free agent? No.
  4. JeffH
    Hendry's likely to go after Furcal again, isn't he? If he gets him, Theriot could be prime trade bait. You're playing pretty fast and loose with the word "prime".
  5. JeffH
    Piniella-Huff, The Reunion
  6. JeffH
    I agree it's not the best idea but if you can start getting younger in the OF with a pre-arbitration guy, that'd be a great start. If you're still talking Hermida, I'd be interested in your take on his awful year in 2008. What I'm hearing is that Hendry will be looking for someone from the left side that can produce 30+ HR and 100+ RBI to put between Ramirez + Lee. Good luck with that, Jim.
  7. JeffH
    Cubs under contract for 2009: LF - Alfonso Soriano ($16,000,000) RF - Kosuke Fukudome ($12,000,000) 3B - Aramis Ramirez ($15,650,000) 2B - Mark DeRosa ($5,500,000) 1B - Derrek Lee ($13,000,000) SP - Carlos Zambrano ($17,750,000) SP - Ted Lilly ($12,000,000) SP - Jason Marquis ($9,875,000) RP - Jeff Samardzija ($1,300,000) Total (9 players) - $103,075,000
  8. JeffH
    The bottom line is that we weren't good enough. I stand by my statement. Any team that wins 97 games during the season is good enough to beat another team in a 5 game series. Which team is hot or when a team is going to slump are factors that are impossible to calculate. Any team that wins 60 games during the season is good enough to beat another team in a 5 game series. The way our club played in this particular series shows that something is missing.
  9. JeffH
    Burrell isn't a LH. Milton Bradley is a switch hitter. Jeremy Hermida is too. Hermida is a LHH, not a switch-hitter, which is what I assume you meant.
  10. JeffH
    I'd say the biggest reason is talent, not K rates Obviously, the two are related.
  11. JeffH
    Actually, scoring more runs than your opponent does. Oddly, scoring runs factors into that.
  12. JeffH
    how so? injuries? or has he lost speed on his pitches? I havent seen him pitch much this year, so I only really know he is healthy.. Mostly because, if he's starting, our rotation has been devastated by injuries. More specific to him, Guzman has remarkably poor command and not enough of a repertoire to be facing hitters 3 three times a game. I would put the over/under on his ERA as a starter at 5.50.
  13. JeffH
    I like Guzman, but, if he's in our rotation, we should prepare ourselves for losing 100 games.
  14. JeffH
    The bottom line is that we weren't good enough.
  15. JeffH
    The biggest reason that Dustin Pedroia is a star and Mike Fontenot is a nice role player/possibly decent regular: Pedroia: 52 strikeouts in 653 AB Fontenot: 51 strikeouts in 243 AB
  16. JeffH
    Why didn't you just say so? Don't be ridiculous. If Soriano had a stat line like DeRosa's, but he had dropped a routine flyball costing five runs and later failed to drive in a runner from third with one out in a crucial situation with an extremely poorly executed AB, no one would hesitate to describe his performance as horrible. Just because DeRosa is generally a solid fundamental player, some choose to lessen his culpability.
  17. JeffH
    Everything considered, he was horrible.
  18. JeffH
    I don't think you could make that a worse deal for Florida if you tried. Unlike most of the Cubs leadership team, Larry Beinfest and his associates are not stupid.
  19. JeffH
    You are right that he is untradeable, so no point in discussing how wrong you are on the other stuff. That'd be where we somehow find another lefty bat. Pie would be nice for defense, but we'll see what the offseason brings. Stuck with him. Probably stuck with him, not a ton of better options out there. Someone with an arm would be nice. Our 1B is a well below average hitter for his position and is one of the worst #3 hitters in baseball. Stuck with him. An incredible assumption that I find very unlikely. Shoulder problems like Harden and Zambrano are having don't just go away. Most bullpens are. They've got a couple quality arms, that's plenty in most games. If you need your bullpen in the sixth, you probably aren't in good shape anyways. This is a good post. Maybe we're dealing in semantics. I agree that there's probably not much they can do, largely due to Hendry's remarkable incompetence. That doesn't mean that they don't NEED to do something.
  20. JeffH
    What really needs to happen is for Hendry and his team to go. This organization needs to focus on establishing a world-class amateur player procurement and development organization. Hendry hasn't shown that he can do that. Boston produces Hanley Ramirez, Jon Lester, Jacoby Ellsbury, Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia, etc. We produce Carlos Marmol, Geovany Soto, Ryan Theriot, Rich Hill, Sean Gallagher, Sean Marshall, Jeff Samardzija, etc. Marmol and Soto are quite good. The rest of them are role players, at best. Role players have value, of course, but they don't "make a difference". We can go only so far signing free agents and hoping to trade with economically distressed teams. Having our farm system produce a bunch of role players isn't going to cut it. There's no reason the Chicago Cubs shouldn't be one of the very best organizations in baseball. We are anything but.
  21. JeffH
    Please be kidding. What would you have them do? I don't know, but to say that they don't need to do much of anything is just plain wrong. Most of the time, our LF is a horrible player who offers nothing to help his team win. Admittedly, the other 10% of the time, he's one of the best players in baseball. Sadly, he is untradeable. CF needs to be addressed somehow. Our primary RF hits like a mediocre AAA backup catcher. Again, untradeable. A legitimate major league SS would be nice. Our 1B is a well below average hitter for his position and is one of the worst #3 hitters in baseball. Starting pitching is in pretty good shape, assuming everyone is healthy. The bullpen is a disaster.
  22. JeffH
    Please be kidding.
  23. JeffH

    NFL Week 5

    JeffH replied to ELCABALLO45's topic in Other Sports

    The Chicago Cubs have just traded Geovany Soto to the Houston Texans for Sage Rosenfels.
  24. JeffH

    NFL Week 5

    JeffH replied to ELCABALLO45's topic in Other Sports

    The Houston Texans are challenging the Cubs for the title of worst organization in professional sports.
  25. JeffH
    Evidence of how badly we played: It doesn't sound completely ridiculous to say that DeRosa "showed up". He was horrible, just not as bad as the rest.
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