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White Sox DO NOT sign Jon Lieber
BigbadB replied to JeffH's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
The thread has been blown away. Oh, and In After Lock! -
Good. Because your last post was an overreaction to people overreacting. :wink:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2008 Hall of Fame - Goose Gossage elected
BigbadB replied to OleMissCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Of the order of players you listed, mine would be in exact reverse. Of that group, I think Blyleven is most deserving. -
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
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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.
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And he probably juiced to suck as good as he did. Sam Fuld>>>>Scott Posednik
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I'm currently working on a 30 team deal that should make everyone happy. Please stick around and refresh this page often. :D
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Of course they didn't get the memo. When you are king, you answer to no one.
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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
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Hearing featuring Clemens, McNamee, Pettitte postponed
BigbadB replied to fibro's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I would in my front pocket. Chicks dig the long ball. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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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Last isn't really all that bad. If you're team is going to suck, might as well be really good at it, eh?
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Care to elaborate?
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I'm not really sure how much Figgins really factored into offseason plans, but I've heard his name tossed around a few times. But, I've also heard that Anaheim would want Pie. I find that a bit odd considering Anaheim already has a roster crunch in the outfield as it is without including Pie to the confusion. Vlady, Garret Anderson, GMJ, Torii Hunter, Juan Rivera, Reggie Willits. Anaheim could use Pie with other prospects to get Santana, Bedard or Blanton, I suppose.
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Good organizations generate new young, cheap talent every year. I recognize that this is an extremely strange concept to us Cubs fans. Point duly noted. :D
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I do too, but I have no idea how they'd acquire all three. Say they do trade the Seans and Cedeno for Roberts. What is left of value to offer for Figgins and Burnett? Pie, Colvin ... what else? Murton would have value in Toronto, but not necessarily in Anaheim. Veal could be of interest to either team. Patterson, Fuld, Marmol and even some lesser names could be intriguing. Burnett would be more of a salary dump, so there is potential for them to take back a bit of salary in exchange (Dempster or Marquis)
