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  1. BigbadB
    Alright, who's digging up old threads? Tim? B&
  2. BigbadB
    Making an offer like that won't solve the Cubs problem at SS. The Marlins would laugh at our offer and hang up.
  3. BigbadB
    We should pursue Furcal. And as far as what the Dodgers would want in return would likely be the pieces necessary to help them finish up a trade that netted them Johan Santana or Erik Bedard.
  4. BigbadB
    Maybe that is truth because of this : The indians have offered Franklin Gutierrez and Adam Miller for Roberts per Bruce Levine on espn 1000 last night. With the indians now having an offer on the table maybe AM wants to create a bidding war. If he wants to play this game the cubs should just walk away. Roberts is a good player but i wouldn't go higher than Gallagher- Murton- Cedeno for him and that is assuming De Rosa plays SS. If De Rosa is going to be on the bench i am not thrilled about this trade either. Getting Peralta to play SS makes much more sense because it would fill the real hole the team has which is SS although Peralta isn't a good fielder he at least has power and would be an improvement over Theriot. Herein lies the problem. Hendry wants a speedy, lefty hitting top of the order guy and Roberts fits his description. Peralta does not. Nor does Khalil Greene. Hendry cannot see the forest through the trees. Hendry cannot see that we don't really need a speedy lefty hitting top of the order hitter. WE NEED A GOOD SHORTSTOP, and Theriot ain't that guy. And if and or when he trades Cedeno for Roberts, he may have actually gotten rid of "THAT" guy.
  5. BigbadB
    That's good stuff. Here is a quick list of all the other lead off hitters that should lose their jobs as lead off hitters because they either failed to get their team to the playoffs, or they lost in the playoffs: Ichiro, Hanley Ramirez, Curtis Granderson, Jimmy Rollins, Brian Roberts, Jose Reyes, Grady Sizemore, Rafael Furcal, Johnny Damon and David DeJesus. These guys ALL failed to come through for their respective teams. Shame on them.
  6. BigbadB
    The thread has been blown away. Oh, and In After Lock!
  7. BigbadB
    Good. Because your last post was an overreaction to people overreacting. :wink:
  8. BigbadB
    Ryan Dempster's walk rate is and always has been a concern of mine. If you stick him in the rotation, he's going to walk a lot of guys who in turn score a lot of runs.
  9. BigbadB
    That's reasonable enough. However, I think Zambrano can be way better than he was last year and I think one of Marshall or Gallagher can be good enough to neutralize any decrease by Lilly or Marquis. And there is still potential for a deadline deal. If Pie, Cedeno and Soto can be even close to as good as advertised, the Cubs can absorb a marginal decrease in production from the rotation.
  10. BigbadB
    I can't really disagree with alot of this but i would like to at least see if a club would part with a #2 starter for a package built around Pie. Would Atlanta talk to us about Hudson for Pie/Gallagher/Ceda? Why make a move now? Pitching was a strength last year for the Cubs and it has a chance to be even better in 2008. I don't think the Cubs are in a position to trade for an impact starting pitcher without weakening another aspect of the team. I'm perfectly fine going into the season with Zambrano, Lilly, Hill, Marquis, Marshall/Gallagher as the set rotation. Give Cedeno, Pie and Soto their opportunity to see if they belong. If they don't belong, then make some deadline deals to improve.
  11. BigbadB
    I agree that it's hard to say what Hendry really thinks about Pie or even Cedeno at this juncture. What I know is this team has the potential to be REALLY good if Pie, Cedeno and Soto can come close to duplicating their AAA numbers of a season ago. At Iowa last year: Pie: .362 .410 .563 Cedeno: .359 .422 .537 Soto: .353 .424 .652 These are staggering numbers. There is no way any of these guys duplicate those numbers at the major league level. But, if you took 50 points off the their AVG, 75 points off their OBP's, and 100 points off their SLG, I'd still be quite thrilled with that kind of output from them and the Cubs offense would be one of the best in the game. Each of these players needs an opportunity to mature at the major league level. I'd rather have the downgrade at 2b from Roberts to DeRosa than give up Cedeno, Gallagher and Marshall because I think we are giving up much more production than we would be getting. Personally, I'm fine if the Cubs call it an offseason today.
  12. BigbadB
    Of the order of players you listed, mine would be in exact reverse. Of that group, I think Blyleven is most deserving.
  13. BigbadB
    If you want to put it that way, we kind of still owe them for pillaging their roster in 2003 like Pittsburgh was our own farm system. I can't think of a deal the Cubs have made with the Pirates where we got the short end of the stick. I do remember quite vividly these deals, however: Jon Lieber for Brant Brown Aramis Ramirez and Kenny Lofton for Jose Hernandez, Matt Bruback and Bobby Hill. Randall Simon for Ray Sadler
  14. BigbadB
    Well, I would hope that they sent us somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5m or whatever it was Craptastic Izgarbage made last year, but I'm thinking $10 is probably closer. But, it was worth it to get to see him in a Cardinal uniform next year.
  15. BigbadB
    And he probably juiced to suck as good as he did. Sam Fuld>>>>Scott Posednik
  16. BigbadB
    I'm currently working on a 30 team deal that should make everyone happy. Please stick around and refresh this page often. :D
  17. BigbadB
    Of course they didn't get the memo. When you are king, you answer to no one.
  18. BigbadB
    I'm not arguing whether a Brian Roberts trade is or isn't a bigger sports story than a HOF announcement because it doesn't matter what news is more significant. I think it's a somewhat unwritten rule (or even a written rule to all MLB sports teams from the commissioner of baseball) that you don't disrupt a significant MLB announcement with business as usual dealings. It's sort of memorium to pay respects. It's disrespectful to overshadow a major announcement. But, I could be way off base. I don't know. I'm not an insider. :D
  19. BigbadB
    I would in my front pocket. Chicks dig the long ball.
  20. BigbadB
    Huh? Please explain to me why MLB would cover up a trade? Where's Jim Garrison? This is Goose Gossage Day. It's disrespectful to bury Gossage and his election into the Baseball Hall of Fame announcement in the back pages of every major newspaper's sports section by making trades and conducting business as usual. I happen to think there is a trade already in place as well. I think any hold up might be because of the HOF announcement, 40 man roster issues and/or other trades that are being held up because they are semi-related.
  21. BigbadB
    The teams that score the most runs each season are the teams who put up the best team OBP. The more your team is on base, the more the team scores, the more plate appearances guys get. If you go back to Derrek Lee's 2005, not only did Lee suffer on plate appearances because of the poorly constructed line up, he had limited at bats with runners on base. His 99 XBH's that season ranks among the top offensive seasons in baseball history.
  22. BigbadB
    Not a bad argument, but I still see nothing wrong with Soriano leading off. It doesn't bother me in the slightest if a really good hitter is batting lead off. The lead off hitter doesn't have to be just a table setter. Soriano has had 100 RBI seasons as a lead off hitter. If you have solid hitters throughout the line up, everyone can expect a boost in overall production, because the whole team will see more at bats over the course of a season, because more runs are scoring and more guys are getting on base. Soriano was productive as the lead off hitter last year.
  23. BigbadB
    Rogers is behind the times. You can't include Guzman since he's out for the year after surgery. Where's Kevin Hart? I'd have to think he'd be ahead of all of the guys listed. And of all the guys listed as still available on the market, the only one that might interest me is Hernandez, and he'd be too expensive for the value he provides. Rogers did mention Hart...maybe he made an edit. Did anyone else get a little kick out of his potential line-up? I stand corrected. I read the article and he did list him, so my apologies to Rogers for that. But, his line up was rather amusing. Heck, why stop at 6th for Lee. Why not just imagine him in the 8 hole? :roll:
  24. BigbadB
    Rogers is behind the times. You can't include Guzman since he's out for the year after surgery. Where's Kevin Hart? I'd have to think he'd be ahead of all of the guys listed. And of all the guys listed as still available on the market, the only one that might interest me is Hernandez, and he'd be too expensive for the value he provides.
  25. BigbadB
    Yes, people on this board need to take the blue tinted sunglasses off and realize this deal is a steal for us. We getting one of the best leadoff men in baseball, an all-star and another great club house guy for pretty much nothing. You guys are blowing your loads over the 2 pitching prospects that have showed us NOTHING. I'm not sure how a lead off man has anything to do with Marquis and Dempster being better than Marshall and Gallagher in the rotation. So, I'd argue that you didn't really elaborate this for me at all. A guy is not wearing blue tinted sunglasses in believing that Sean Gallagher would be better in the rotation than either Marquis or Dempster. If you are basing your argument on how Mr. Gallagher performed at the major league level last year, then you are ignoring how impressive each stop of his minor league career has been. Gallagher has a career minor league ERA of 2.75. The man just turned 22 a little over a week ago. He is going to be a solid starter at the major league level, and he has a darn good chance of being better than either Marquis and/or Dempster in 2008. Sean Marshall was better than Marquis last year. Dempster hasn't even seen the rotation in how many years?
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