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Now. I'd rather trade Lee for Tejada than Prior for Tejada. I'd rather assess our needs more accurately at the beginning of the offseason, and not trade either.:headache: =D>
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Fred, are you saying this is a trade the Cubs should do? No, not at all. My conversation with Vance began with his assumption that it would come to pass. I'm not in favor of this trade in any way. Ah! Cool. The whole thing seems so ridiculous. Last year, Hendry wanted to be rid of Sammy so bad, he gave him away for a utility guy and a couple of prospects while paying nearly all of Sosa's contract. This year, Baltimore is about to fleece the Cubs again when there doesn't seem to be even the slightest reason to do so. At the trade deadline last year, Hendry was so enamored with Rich Hill, he wouldn't have traded him straight up for Adam Dunn. Now we're offering Mark Prior AND Rich Hill along with Patterson for Tejada and used or spare parts. Why? If Hendry is honestly dangling Prior, he needs to let the other 28 teams in the league know what he's doing so that they can line up with better offers. Of course, I'd just as soon see Prior remain a Cub and trade prospects to beef up the rotation. He dropped the ball on upgrading the offense. Now is not the time to trade from a strength to patch a weakness.
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Fred, are you saying this is a trade the Cubs should do?
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He mentioned adding another starter right out of the gates this offseason. How does he plan to add 2 if he moves Prior? How about we keep Prior, trade Hill and another prospect or two to Oakland for Zito and call it good? That'll free up the salary Oakland needs to sign the Big Skirt. Done! Zambrano, Prior, Zito, Wood, Maddux Prior and Zito probably get along pretty well since they pitched against each other in high school.
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Alright, now pare down your list to just players who give you as much value or more than Miguel Cabrera does for how much he makes. He made 370K last year. In other words, would you rather have Todd Helton and his production at 17m or Miguel Cabrera at less than a million?
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If Maddux kept the ball in the yard, he could easily yield a 4.00 ERA. In April of last year, he had a 4.20 ERA. In May, he had a 3.99. In July of last year, he posted a 4.15 ERA. In Aug, he posted a 3.55 and in Sept, he posted a 3.07 His June was the brutal month, with a 6.48 ERA. Interestingly enough, he went 4-2 during that month. -
It would be unfair to say that that's all he does. He also just plain makes stuff up, too. I'm sure no one has forgotten the time he said a slugger OF was going to be traded to the Cubs any day now. He still hasn't ever followed up on that. Well, you do know what "any" day means, right? :wink:
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I'm going to list 15 different players that never should have had any business batting in the top two spots in the batting order that DID bat in those spots during Dusty Baker's tenure. I left out the one's who were deserving of being there, like Walker, Hairston, Grudz, Lawton and even a guy like Jody Gerut or Ramon Martinez. The guys I'm listing have always featured horrible OBP's, and in parentisis is their number of at bats in those top two spots under Dusty: Alex Gonzalez (315) .303 Tony Womack (42) .316 Lenny Harris (17) .318 Corey Patterson (675) .293 Jose Hernandez (6) .312 Trenidad Hubbard (6) .333 Doug Glanville (32) .315 Tom Goodwin (146) .332 Augie Ojeda (1) .294 Jose Macias (146) .298 Damian Jackson (12) .325 Calvin Murray (3) .315 Neifi Perez (435) .301 Rey Ordonez (21) .289 Enrique Wilson (6) .288 Edited to add career OBP of each player. All totaled, that's 1863 at bats (the equivilent of 3 full seasons) from .320 or worse (mostly worse) hitters at the top of the order. Cool, huh?
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Hmm. I'm in agreement that Hendry deserves partial blame, but I can't blame him entirely. If Dusty runs Neifi or Jacque Jones out there in the #2 spot instead of Walker or Murton, then Dusty deserves just as much blame. Of all the other players in the history of the major leagues to have 99 XBH's in a season, Derrek Lee's 2005 was far and away the lowest RBI output of that group. Why? Because Dusty put Patterson, Neifi, Macias, Enrique Wilson, etc... in the top spots of the order in front of Lee instead of using guys who can actually get on base. If you blame Hendry entirely for not Dusty-proofing the line up so Dusty couldn't mess it up, that's something entirely different. Hendry would then deserve all the blame for not just firing Dusty so he wouldn't put himself in the position of having to Dusty-proof the line up.
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Gotta agree with this, and I hate the White Sox. Though, I have always been a huge fan of Jim Thome. We Bartonville folks gotta stick together. Bartonville people definitely "stick together", that's for sure. 8-[
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I have my money on him hitting 2nd on the rare occasion Neifi gets a day off. When Neifi plays, then sure, pencil in Jones smack dab in between Lee and Ramirez. This is still one of my favorite stats this offseason: Neifi and Jacque combined to hit into 39 double plays last year. :cheers:
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Gotta agree with this, and I hate the White Sox. Though, I have always been a huge fan of Jim Thome. We Bartonville folks gotta stick together.
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He hates paying taxes. I just think the teams he would have interest in didn't offer him that kind of dough. You couldn't blame him for wanting that kind of money to leave. His last contract was dirt cheap for the kind of production he offers.
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No, Giles wasn't one of them. But, lifetime....... At Busch Stadium: 1.169 OPS At GAP: .971 At Miller: 1.000 At PNC: 1.046 At MMP: .915 At Wrigley: 1.173 Giles' road split in 2005 was a 1.008 OPS. Would it have been worth it at all to offer up and pay Mr. Giles 15m a year for the next 3 years to beat up on the entire NL Central. Couple in the fact he has never had two guys like Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez batting around him at the same time. You add Giles, pick up Pierre, fill out the bullpen and bam, got yourself a playoff team. No discussion of trading Prior, Furcal is a distant memory and even Dusty would have a tough time figuring out a way to mess up that line up. But, as I have been reminded time and again, Giles didn't want 15m a year, he wanted to stay in San Diego.
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Whoops. I forgot to include the Derrek Lee trade. Derrek Lee was on the trade block all through the 2003 season and no one wanted him. Hendry made out well on that deal. Lee had only a slight edge in OPS over Choi in 2004, though Choi was strictly platooned. I think the Lee/Choi trade could have still gone down with a Tejada signing. They also could have went with one or the other of Grudz or Walker at 2nd. The real non move would have been the non signing of Maddux. Zambrano, Prior, Wood, Clement and Cruz would have been alright for me.
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They couldn't afford him in 2003 because of the ridiculous contract MacPhail gave to Sosa. Actually, they could afford him. He was a free agent at the end of the '03 season. Cubs management spent money on Grudz, Walker, Hawkins and Maddux to name a few. He also added Nomar at the trade deadline. By the way, Tejada made 7m in 2004 with that shiny, new deal. Affordable? Absolutely. Alex Gonzalez got 5.5m in 2004. Hendry was able to move Hundley and his 6m contract the previous year, so thinking there was no way they could move the guy who botched the ground ball in the NL Championship series is not reasonable. Alex had a lot more value than Hundley did.
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"Word on the street" is that the Cubs have this offer out to Baltimore to reject or accept.
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The Padres have "The Horn". OBP extraordinaire. Backing up "The Horn" will be Geoff Blum. Josh Barfield could win the job in Spring Training. Oh, and Bobby Hill is San Diego's other utility infielder. They could throw Eric Young there also, in a pinch. Chan Ho Park? Can you even begin to imagine how horrible he would be in the hitter friendly NL Central?
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Congratulations St. Louis/Houston/Pittsburgh/Milwaukee/Reds
BigbadB replied to imb's topic in General Baseball Talk
When Pierre and Jones hit 1/2 in the order, I'm sure we'll be seeing the "French Connection" signs. -
What? No love for Robin Yount??????? His 1982 season was a thing of beauty for a SS.
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Sure, he'll need to pitch somewhere before then. 3-5 inning outings aren't recommended at the major league level. It's going to take time to build up arm strength. Maybe by midseason he'll have the stamina to give you 5 or 6 solid innings. Maybe sooner, but I wouldn't bet my life savings on it. That's all I'm saying.
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Why midseason? He got thru the AFL healthy. I think he should be ready to go to start the season barring another set back. I assumed he would go to the minors first, but if he's gonna be pitching somewhere, it might as well be in Chicago. Even still, I would hope the Cubs would put him in Tennessee until the weather heats up. The fact he pitched in the AFL is one reason all by itself. How many innings do you think he can withstand after pitching so few these past few years? He hasn't pitched over 100 innings since 2002. He's one of my favorite prospects, but counting on him to give you 160+ innings as a 5th starter is just not a good idea in my mind. At least not in 2006.
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I wouldn't expect Guzman to be ready for a rotation spot until midseason at the earliest. To count on him even remotely at the beginning of the season is quite a gamble. With all of Guzman's injuries, going more than 125-130 innings next year wouldn't be a good idea, IMO. He needs to be handled with kid gloves, and it's going to take awhile to build up the stamina to go 6-7 innings a game for a full major league season.
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Crime pays and baseball didn't? Readon arrested for robbery
BigbadB replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Nah, he only made 11.5m over the life of his career, and his pension probably doesn't pay him squat, like maybe not even 6 digits. :D Hendry would have taken care of him if he was still around. -
By the way, Castillo was another guy who was available for Hendry to nab as a free agent. He signed a 4 year/21m deal, which is just a hair over 5m a year at the start of the 2004 season. Grudz and Walker made 4.25m in 2004.
