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  1. BigbadB
    2b. I'd put Roberts at SS. Everyone else is playing out of position, so why not do the same with Roberts.
  2. BigbadB
    Well, let's hope it's Marshall if they are giving up 3 guys.
  3. BigbadB
    it's funny to me that cabrera was traded for a guy (miller) who's a year older Miguel Cabrera: 24 Andrew Miller: 22 Must be that "new" math I keep hearing about. :D :D
  4. BigbadB
    WTH? It's 5:34 in the midwest and I still haven't heard a thing. :D
  5. BigbadB
    I'm not convinced it's the Cubs, though they have treated Fukudome about the same way they treated Soriano last year in that they basically made it sound like no one would outbid them.
  6. BigbadB
    Haha. Good point. The Reds like relievers. Cotts and Marshall please.
  7. BigbadB
    Hey. What happened to the Swisher rumors and the Hamilton rumors and the Teahen rumors? All of a sudden we're back to adding more lousy back up 2b's?
  8. BigbadB
    Agreed. Heh. I wonder if Beane sending Bellhorn to Chicago was his way of attempting to show Hendry/MacPhail that there are other breeds of cats worthy of some love? Mark Bellhorn, still to this day is the best lead off hitter the Cubs have had in the 2000's, and other decades as well. I liked Kenny Lofton. Don't get me wrong, Bruce. I liked Kenny Lofton, too. Lofton leading off for the Cubs in 2003: .297 .354 .452 Bellorn leading off for the Cubs in 2002: .274 .389 .542 Bellhorn wins in a landslide. Of course, Lofton has always been a great lead off hitter, and Bellhorn, well, not so much.
  9. BigbadB
    Another glaring reason we need a new GM. Bradley had an OBP over .400 and an SLG over .500 playing in the worst hitter's park in MLB. Put this guy in the NL Central and watch him go.
  10. BigbadB
    Agreed. Heh. I wonder if Beane sending Bellhorn to Chicago was his way of attempting to show Hendry/MacPhail that there are other breeds of cats worthy of some love? Mark Bellhorn, still to this day is the best lead off hitter the Cubs have had in the 2000's, and other decades as well.
  11. BigbadB
    At the time, Lugo was much better than Maddux. Not even a question. Hendrickson was better than Maddux that year. Dessens was more of a way to get rid of Perez. Argue who was better all you wish. I don't care about that. Trading Maddux for Izturis was absolutely stupid.
  12. BigbadB
    Almost any player would have blown up with the way the umpire behaved that day. It was a fluke he ended up getting hurt in the melee.
  13. BigbadB
    He'd already be signed if I was running things. He'll be relatively cheap for the value he provides. Get him now. Instead, Hendry will lose out on Fukudome like he lost out on Furcal and have no one else to go to.
  14. BigbadB
    Here are the Dodgers deadline deals in 2006. I would have taken any of the other deals over the one they made for Izturis. And Maddux was the best talent they received in any of those deals. Elmer Dessens: Odalis Perez, Blake Johnson, Julio Pimental Julio Lugo: Joel Guzman and Sergio Pedroza Mark Hendrickson and Toby Hall: Dioner Navarro, Justin Ruggiano and Jae So Greg Maddux: Cesar Izturis
  15. BigbadB
    No. It's because when you have given up hope on the season, you don't just trade the equivilent of a rent a player for a crappy shortstop. You hold out for something better, and if you don't get it, then you just keep the player. It looks like the Padres signed Maddux a day or two after the arbitration deadline, so I can't be sure whether the Dodgers got a sandwich pick for Maddux or not, but even gambling that they might get a supplemental pick would have been better than just giving him away for a player who had a ridiculous contract guarantee for the following year. If the Dodgers really wanted the pitching help bad enough, Hendry should have made them cough up a prospect or two. Especially considering how the Dodgers trumped Hendry on Furcal and Milton Bradley, and also snuck in and grabbed Nomar.
  16. BigbadB
    Anyone who could afford Lee's contract could have done it. Lee was on the market for a whole year prior to the Cubs trading for him, and yes, it was a shining moment for Hendry in a tenure that has featured way more poor decisions than moments of brilliance.
  17. BigbadB
    He also gave him away for nothing. How does that make it a good trade if you gave up nothing to get him and turned around and gave him away for nothing?
  18. BigbadB
    How did the Pierre trade end up being the "signature" bad trade? While that one was most certainly horrible, I like the Greg Maddux for Cesar Izturis one better. Not only did the Cubs just give away Maddux to a team in the hunt for the playoffs, but when they realized just how bad Izturis was the following year, they traded him AND cash for a PTBNL. And another one that some may like but I absolutely despise is the trade where the Cubs just gave away an outfielder (Jacque Jones) for crap, and paid cash to make that deal as well. What we end up with that deal is Jacque Jones and Will Ohman for a minor league reliever. Should I bring up the Steve Tracshel trade, or have I just pissed off the entire board for reminding them again that the Cubs actually made this deal? The Sammy Sosa trade still pretty much sucks, also.
  19. BigbadB
    Christian Guzman got a 4/16m contract. Can Eckstein get what he's asking for? I have no doubt. Jim Hendry outbid himself for Jeromy Burnitz after watching Burnitz put up artificial numbers in Coors Field. What we should all be real scared of is that Hendry would likely consider Eckstein an upgrade at SS.
  20. BigbadB
    This would be incorrect. Hendry is going to sit on his hands and everyone will be gone by the time he decides to fill the RF spot. I predict Hendry trades half the farm for Nate McLouth.
  21. BigbadB
    Or, the Red Sox are anticipating that Manny is playing his last year with Boston in 2008 and Ellsbury can ride it out in AAA while Boston fields a super team for a year.
  22. BigbadB
    Coats was likely traded from the Reds to Toronto, since that's the last organization he was with.
  23. BigbadB
    How is his name even remotely hard to say or pronounce? It's basically phonetic. It's phonetic, but the vowels are sounded out differently than the cologne of the same name. Ramirez is Uh-Rah-Miss The cologne is Air-uh-miss
  24. BigbadB
    I think Josh Hamilton will end up being better and at 1/5 of the price Fukudome will cost. Hendry has the talent to get a guy like Hamilton, and if I were him, that's where I would be spending my time. Or maybe a 3 way deal could be worked between Cincinnati, Baltimore and the Cubs where the primaries would be Bedard to Cincinnati, Tejada and Hamilton to the Cubs and everyone else to the Orioles.
  25. BigbadB
    :pig: We can't get this guy I have just master how to say Aramis's name. I couldn't even gues how to pronounce "Chone" is there an accent mark at the end? It's pronounced as "Shawn".
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