BigbadB

How serious is Cliff Floyd's injury?

Yes. I mean, what could possibly be better than to have our noses rubbed in the hopes that a Cubs prospect achieves success at the major league level by a supposed fellow Cub fan? Stay classy, Hardcore! :roll:

No he doesn't. Maybe, but probably not. No, he doesn't, and I'm not sure it's even close. Maybe, but again, probably not. I admire your keen ability to distinguish between sarcasm and reality.

Yes. But, I'd prefer to see him at 2nd.

Now I see what you're referencing. Just wasn't clear how we got to Coco Crisp since it seemed to be more a debate about what if any value Lofton or Bonds would add to this club. The answer to either is not much since neither would have a true spot to play once Soriano comes back in little over a week. Agreed. Besides, we are facing 4 lefties in the next 6 games. Murton will be fine filling in for Soriano during that time.

This seems misplaced. Though I agree San Deigo needs Crisp much more than the Cubs do now. It probably is misplaced. But it was more of a response to the person who referenced Gammons stopping the Crisp to Chicago nonsense.

Rich Aurilia and Omar Vizquel are the Giants infield of the future. :D

San Diego is the team that should be shopping for Coco Crisp. They really screwed up when they picked up Edmonds to play CF. From what I've seen so far, Edmonds looks like he has lost several steps, which doesn't bode well for him when you consider how he positions himself. I've seen balls drop in front of him and balls get over his head. Yesterday, on a double steal attempt, Josh Bard rifled the ball to 2nd and only because Khalil got a nice bounce did he glove it. What was Edmonds doing on the stolen base attempt? He certainly wasn't backing up the play. If the ball gets by Greene, the guy on 3rd scores easily. The Padres need Coco Crisp.

Sam Fuld equals Carlos Gomez. Sean Marshall equals Philip Humber Jose Ceda equals Deolis Guerra Billy Petrick equals Kevin Mulvey Now that Johan has incensed the Mets organization, think they'll take that offer? :D

Newsflash: Recent studies prove the sun rises in the east and that the sky is blue. Corey Patterson batting first for Dusty in '04: .261/.317/.486 in 265 PA's Corey Patterson batting second for Dusty in '04: .260/.310/.403 in 213 PA's Corey Patterson batting first for Dusty in '05: .211/.263/.359 in 139 PA's Corey Patterson batting second for Dusty in '05: .179/.220/.308 in 82 PA's "Gotta have a speedy lead off hitter, dude." Neifi Perez batting 1st or 2nd for Dusty in '05: 403 PA's I'd post the stats for Neifi batting first or second, but do you really need to see them? They are god awful. Freaking Rey Ordonez, he of the lifetime: .246/.289/.310 started 6 games for the Cubs in the 2 hole. While that might not sound like much, he was only with the team for about a month, if even that long. Here's his 2 hole stats: .143/.143/.286 Sure, you can make the argument that there was no one else to bat at the top of the order, but you'd be wrong. Grudz, Walker, Murton, Hairston just off the top of my head between '04 and '05. Dusty wants a speedy lead off hitter and a guy who can bunt the speedy guy over batting 2nd. That's all that matters. Dusty purposely doesn't put good OBP guys in the lead off spot because OBP is a new school line of thinking and bucks his old school way of thinking. He just won't have that. In May, it will be enjoyable to read Reds44 correspondence when Dusty leaves Homer, Edinson and Johnny in blow out games after they have thrown over 120 pitches. In Dusty's eyes, April is to get these guys stretched out. In May, Dusty won't trust his bullpen to hold a lead and he'll let the young starters burn themselves out. Book it.

Right you are. Gm# Date Opponent Score Starter Opp Starter .19 Mon 04/21 New York N - Zambrano Maine .20 Tue 04/22 New York - Lilly Figueroa .21 Wed 04/23 @ Colorado N - Hill Morales .22 Thu 04/24 @ Colorado - Marquis Cook .23 Fri 04/25 @ Washington N - Dempster Perez .24 Sat 04/26 @ Washington - Zambrano Chico .25 Sun 04/27 @ Washington - Lilly Lannan But after this stretch, they shouldn't see another lefty for 2 weeks. That should be just enough time for Lou to have worked out all the kinks in Felix's swing. Plus, Soriano should be back not too long after this Sunday's game.

If we take away all the home runs Derrek Lee hit so far this year, he'd have zero right now. That's appalling. Something needs to be done.

Looking at the schedule, we have 4 more lefties squaring off against the Cubs by this coming Sunday. I hope they keep abusing lefties the way they have. Washington is greeting the Cubs with 3 straight lefties in Odalis Perez, Matt Chico and John Lannan. The 4th lefty is Franklin Morales, who the Cubs face Wednesday, I believe.

Although if you are talking since WWII (1945), you'd be almost correct (Milwaukee, SD, Colorado) I think this is probably what I heard. And it looks like I typed a 2 where I meant to type a 3 in my original post. Couldn't recall the teams, but seemed to remember hearing San Diego in the group.

Why would you want to see that? Very depressing information. I believe I heard the other day that there are only 2 teams that the Cubs have a lifetime winning percentage that is above .500.

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Is that the way it's done in the majors? It doesn't matter to me that much, but I would think that a team that used their waiver claim for a player would then drop to the bottom of the list and everyone else would slide up a spot. Not that you could make that waiver claim and have the number 1 waiver claim again the next week when it reset itself again.

I love what Reed has done thus far. However, he will be overmatched against RHP most of the time. That is the time to get Pie into ball games. Especially a junk tossing righty. Against someone like Peavy or Cueto, I might go with Johnson. But, it doesn't do the team any good to lean on Johnson and have Pie continue to struggle and not get major league at bats. The health of CF depends on the success of Pie against RHP.

I'm crafty like that. I have noticed that a lot of players have been picked up through waivers already, so I would have guessed that I'd be somewhere close to the top of the list. I also thought that the first waiver order was based on either the draft order or reverse draft order. If everyone is 0-0 with zero points to start the season, how can you set a waiver order based on standings/points? If you set the waiver order based on last season, I'm guessing it would either be in draft order or reverse draft order.

I'm dealing with the same problem to begin this season as I had last season. I'm scoring okay, but my opponents always break out the week they play my team. I'm 3rd overall in points, but my opponents have outscored me. I'm sitting at 899.8 points and my opponents have scored 904. Hats off to Eyes Of Texas for the fine week they had this week.

Anyone in the database can be claimed off waivers. I think it lists the waiver order on the add/drop page. The order resets with each waiver claim. Found it, Juan. Thanks. Cool. I'm first on the waiver list. Quick, someone drop Pujols or the like.

Is there a place that lists the current waiver order? And does it change each time someone claims a player off waivers? I didn't want to waste a good waiver spot (if I currently have one) to pick up Kelvim Escobar, so I waited until he was a free agent this morning to pick him up. But, for future waiver claims, I'd like to know where I'm at and if it changes.

An all righty attack.

This is wrong. Sabean has decided this year he no longer likes old guys. Now he likes really bad young guys. He's trying to replace each of the old guys one by one. His list of bad young guys to replace old guys is quite lengthy.

I don't think home/road splits has anything to do with the player. It has more to do with the dimensions/dynamics of the park itself that give these stats value. Someone posted Khalil's balls in play graphs for last year, and a high percentage of his outs were deep fly balls that would likely have left the park if you moved the left field fence in about 20 feet and removed the moisture from the air in San Diego. On the road, Khalil was essentially hitting those same balls over the wall rather than in front of the wall. The stat oriented crowd that hangs out at NSBB was adamant that Jeromy Burnitz would not be a the great signing that Jim Hendry thought it would be because we can read and comprehend meaningful stats. Burnitz spent the 2004 season in Colorado, one of the best hitting parks in baseball. Here are Burnitz' split stats from that year: Home: .322/.386/.670 Road: .244/.327/.448 Burnitz career overall stats: .253/.345/.481 Burnitz 2004 overall stats: .283/.356/.559 If you ignore the park effect of Coors Field, one could make the argument that it would be great to have a guy fresh off a .283/.356/.559 season in the heart of your order. This is exactly what Jim Hendry did. For further proof, look for Hendry quotes where he is excited to add 37 HR power to the line up. Burnitz hit 13 HR's outside of Coors in 2004, making him more of a mid 20's power guy. What did the Cubs get from Burnitz in '05? Low mid 20's HR power with .258/.322/.435 stats that compare favorably to his road stats of 2004. I'm sure there is a bit of a comfort level when playing on your home turf. But, the level of comfort is not measurable considering that the pitching you face has a lot more to do with how well you hit on any given day. If you took out all the dramatic park effects and made each park equal, and weather played no part, I don't think you'd see much difference in home/road splits.