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  1. Rob
    Trying to tie together two topics here, but the fact that Quade went with Cashner over Silva makes me hopeful that he's smart enough to correctly handle Reed Johnson (ie, as the outfield Jeff Baker. Should avoid letting them face righties at all costs). If he is indeed smart enough to correctly utilize Reed Johnson, it may well prove Reed to be a more valuable player than Max Ramirez. I've always been a big fan of speciality guys on the bench... whether they be lefty mashers, guys who pound high fastballs, top-notch defenders, etc... the trick is finding the specialty players that fill a void on your team. In the case of Reed Johnson, we could really use a lefty mashing OF to cover the deficiencies of Colvin and Fukudome in that regard. If Quade was a moron who couldn't be trusted to push the right buttons, I'd take Max Ramirez in a heartbeat. But picking the right guy for 5th SP gives me hope that he picked the right guy for 5th OF as well.
  2. Rob
    He actually did pretty well as a starter (8 starts) towards the end of the season, posting a 3.33 ERA with a 1.356 WHIP and going at least 6 innings in all but the first one. His numbers are skewed due to giving up 6 ER over 2.1 innings in his first outing of the year (from the BP). He also doesn't strike anybody out. Oh, and he walks too many people. Basically all of his successful starts last year were lucky.
  3. Rob
    releasing silva would help here. it'd be great if there wasn't the risk that silva pitched well in a couple long relief outings and boom, cashner gets yanked out of the rotation. but i have faith that quade is going to show patience. he seems to make solid decisions and not give a [expletive] if morons like kapman don't agree with him. Even if Cashner crashes and burns, Coleman, Jackson, and Carpenter should all be ahead of Silva. Even if Silva could be an OK 5th starter, we have younger and better. It isn't too far down the road that Z and Demp leave town, and we shoulld be auditioning our guys for the future. I'll probably agree on Carpenter, but Coleman is god awful and absolutely should not be in front of Silva. And reports have Jackson's velocity around 87 this spring and speculation is that he's injured.
  4. Rob
    This is the best part of all. Now release Koyie Hill and let's start the damn season. Well, the BEST part of all would be getting something for the sack of crap, but I can live with a release. Carlos Silva is probably not the best option for our 5th starter. As a team needing to make up some degree of ground for any hope at the playoffs, we need the upside play at #5. But let's not get out of hand here. Carlos Silva pitched well for us last year, to the tune of of 3.75 FIP and 3.90 xFIP. That's not to say he's particularly likely to repeat that, but he's certainly not without the potential to give us a decent number of league average innings. If there's a way to keep him around in the bullpen as a swingman without him being a negative clubhouse presence or the Cubs FO yanking one of our more deserving starters out of their spots to make room for him, I'd certainly like to see him stick around. If those criteria cannot be met, I'll be sad we had to cut a valuable asset... not relieved to be rid of that "sack of crap."
  5. Rob
    This is already being discussed elsewhere.
  6. Rob
    I'll believe it when the Cubs confirm, and not a moment before.
  7. Rob
    Quade really took his time naming Wells the #4 starter. I don't anticipate knowing who is the #5 starter until June 1st.
  8. Rob
    Given his particular skillset, I wouldn't be shocked if a contending team took him and tried to stash him on the bench. You think Mike Scioscia wouldn't love to have him around as a late inning defensive replacement and pinch runner? For a non-contender, it should be a no-brainer.
  9. Rob
    Defensively, he's the best of the three. Offensively, he's Ryan Theriot lite.
  10. Rob
    They're gonna want to have Cashner throwing on back-to-back days before the season starts. I'd be shocked if he starts Sunday. I know I'm missing something here, but I'm not following you for some reason. Do you mean they'll want him pitching back to back days so he'll be coming out of the pen and Silva basically won the job today? If so, then it'll be really interesting to see IF Cashner actually does start Sunday then. Because then anyway, it'd at least appear as if it'd be likely to see him move to AAA and continue starting possibly. If he's going to be in the bullpen to start the season, they're gonna want to have him able to pitch on consecutive days. So yeah, if he makes his start Sunday, that's a pretty good sign he'll be starting either in the majors or in Iowa. But I sincerely doubt we'd let an arm like his get reps in Des Moines when he could be helping in the big league pen.
  11. Rob
    They're gonna want to have Cashner throwing on back-to-back days before the season starts. I'd be shocked if he starts Sunday.
  12. Rob
    Signed with the Nats already. Thank god.
  13. Rob
    He did? Yeah, he did. If you provide enough value with your defense and baserunning, you really don't have to hit particularly well. Pierre was excellent in the field for us (god bless Wrigley being small enough his arm never mattered), and while he didn't add much with his SB totals, he was excellent in the other aspects of the running game. Any way you want to cut it, 2.9 WAR. We gave up too much for him, but he was a valuable player for us.
  14. Rob
    The gist of the article is the black hole the Cubs have had in CF for decades. Might be a nice problem to have 2 great young CFs. Of course, we haven't really had a black hole in CF. Maybe we haven't had superstar production, but we've only really had 3 bad years in the last decade. 2010 - Marlon Byrd was great. 2009 - Kosuke Fukudome was good offensively, not so much on defense. 2008 - Jim Edmonds was great, Reed Johnson was good. 2007 - Jacque Jones was solid on both sides of the ball. 2006 - Juan Pierre hit just enough and played good defense. 2005 - Corey Patterson was awful. 2004 - Corey Patterson was good. 2003 - Corey Patterson was great, Kenny Lofton was great. 2002 - Corey Patterson sucked. 2001 - Gary Matthews Jr. sucked, Michael Tucker was good.
  15. Rob
    How dare you speak about Starlin Castro in such a way. Love him for real life value. But as far as fantasy is concerned, I'd be happy if he helped with batting average and didn't hurt anywhere else.
  16. Rob
    I think that's because if a catcher sucks at hitting, people automatically assume he's good defensively. Jason Kendall is my favorite example. He was always considered a great hitter with an awful glove when he was in Pittsburgh. Now all the talking heads wont shut up about what a great defender he is. To be fair, he was one of the worst at throwing out baserunners before Ned Yost got to him. Jason Kendall's rSB from 2003 through 2010. -4, +2, -4, +4, -8, +8, -2, -1 Yeah, he had one very good year after going to the Brewers... but he's coasting on the reputation of a fluke year.
  17. Rob
    http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/search?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=shoulder&t=52078&sf=msgonly&ch=-1&start=0&p=2080638&view=show#p2080638 208 page thread. 14 results when searching for "shoulder"... most of which are referring to other people entirely. Strangely enough, Kyle was the only one harping on his shoulder back then.
  18. Rob
    I think that's because if a catcher sucks at hitting, people automatically assume he's good defensively. Jason Kendall is my favorite example. He was always considered a great hitter with an awful glove when he was in Pittsburgh. Now all the talking heads wont shut up about what a great defender he is.
  19. Rob
    SS is a wasteland too. Hanley/Tulo > Reyes >>> Jeter/Rollins > Drew/Alexei >>> junk
  20. Rob
    I don't have a problem with Samardzija getting a shot in the bullpen. I do have a slight problem with Reed Johnson over Perez and Ramirez. If we wanted a platoon hitter we should have gone with Ramirez. If we wanted a good defensive OF, Perez.
  21. Rob
    Koyie himself was surprised when people started referring to him as a good defensive catcher. When he was an actual prospect, everybody always said his bat (which actually profiled well at the time) would have to carry his defense.
  22. Rob
    And he has a better than 50/50 shot of living to the age of 60. Getting your hair caught in a car door and being dragged to your death can strike at any time.
  23. Rob
    Yeah, that snuck up on me a bit even though I'm in an auction league. There just aren't as many top tier OF as there were 5 years ago. The good news is that there's plenty of guys who aren't bad.
  24. Rob
    Quade referred to Castillo as a nice catching prospect in the pregame. I think if he were getting the backup catcher gig, Quade mightve said player instead of prospect. And Mojo, stop pretending Hill is a typical backup catcher. He's bad even by that admittedly low standard.
  25. Rob
    Don't go forgetting we get Garza for an extra year over what the Brewers get from Greinke.
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