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  1. Rob
    Miles was a FA when Cubs signed him, Cardinals didn't released him. Cubs traded him to A's, then A's traded him to Reds, then got released by the Reds, and finally Cardinals picked him up... Then he goes .281/.311/.317 in 139 ABs which was about 20 times better than what he did with the Cubs and about on par with the Cardinals earlier in his career. Miles was a FA when the Cubs signed him because the Cardinals had non-tendered him. There's not much difference between that and releasing him.
  2. Rob
    Perhaps the most important part of picking up Hudson would be that it would allow Dewitt to become he primary backup at 3B. I'm tired of seeing Bobby Scales get called up, or Jeff Baker facing a righty.
  3. Rob
    Roberto Alomar Jeff Bagwell Bert Blyleven Kevin Brown Barry Larkin Edgar Martinez Mark McGwire Rafael Palmeiro Tim Raines Alan Trammell Larry Walker
  4. Rob
    A's and Iwakuma making me look bad. #-o http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=reu-japaniwakuma Not as bad as the A's front office is going to look. How much did the flush down the toilet for the posting fee $14million? It's my understanding that the posting fee is only paid if he signs with the club. NPB will have some incentive to talk some sense into the guy.
  5. Rob
    I'd love to have him in the system. He'd make an adequate backup at the corners and still has a nice ceiling. I just wouldn't want to trust him with a starting job out of the gates.
  6. Rob
    That's stupid. The difference between Adam Dunn and Lyle Overbay is 2-3 wins.
  7. Rob
    Good luck getting the O's front office to agree to a reasonable package.
  8. Rob
    I was just thinking of putting up another one of these posts. Thanks for making life easy on me.
  9. Rob
    Robin Roberts. Acceptable.
  10. Rob
    I'm giving him a freebie this year on account of the TJS. All I was looking for was a healthy first full season back and he delivered on that. His results next year should be much more indicative of his prospect status. It'll be important to see him start throwing that splitter again though...
  11. Rob
    You're my new best friend. I'll edit in some comments later: 1. Brett Jackson, OF 2. Chris Archer, RHP 3. Ken McNutt, RHP 4. Josh Vitters, 3B 5. Junior Lake , UT 6. Hak Ju Lee, SS 7. Jay Jackson, RHP 8. Chris Carpenter, RHP 9. Reggie Golden, OF 10. Brandon Guyer, OF 11. Hayden Simpson, RHP 12. Kim Jin-Yeong, RHP 13. Jae-Hoon Ha, OF 14. Brooks Raley, LHP 15. Robinson Chirinos, C 16. Dae-Eun Rhee, RHP 17. Wellington Castillo, C 18. Ben Wells, RHP 19. Chris Rusin, LHP 20. Darwin Barney, SS 21. Aaron Kurcz, RHP 22. Alberto Cabrera, RHP 23. Ryan Flaherty, UT 24. Robinson Lopez, RHP 25. Brett Wallach, RHP 26. Nick Struck, RHP 27. Austin Kirk, LHP 28. Austin Reed, RHP 29. D.J. LeMahieu, UT 30. David Cales, RHP 31. Marquez Smith, 3B 32. Charles Thomas, RHP 33. Matt Cerda, UT 34. Rafael Dolis, RHP 35. Matt Szczur, OF
  12. Rob
    Well make sure to post something about it tomorrow. I don't want to have to do the work myself. On that note, I'm waiting for somebody to post their top 50 or so so I can just copy and paste names in the order I want. Typing it all out is more work I don't want to do myself.
  13. Rob
    I don't want Ryne anywhere near this team, even if it's only as bench coach. I have terrible visions of us bunting in the 1st inning with our #3 hitter. Ryno will be our manager at some point. There's simply no avoiding it. I'd rather get it out of the way while we're in a transitional phase.
  14. Rob
    What moron ever decided to start spouting off about consistency in the first place anyways? I'd much rather have a team full of streaky guys.
  15. Rob
    My sentiments exactly.
  16. Rob
    5/58 is probably too high. He's a 3.5 - 4 win guy, but 30 years old and already playing bad defense at a position up the middle. If he loses another step, he's gonna finally have to move off 2B, which would put a pretty big hurt on his value.
  17. Rob
    Does this refer to Zambrano's verbal confrontation with DLee, or the front office and management's mishandling of him all season long?
  18. Rob
    I read that as "I don't understand that wins are a team statistic, and mean almost nothing at all for individuals." Carlos Zambrano was our best starter last season. And given what the rest of the rotation has done this year, he would have been #1 again this season if the front office hadn't bungled things so awfully.
  19. Rob
    QFT
  20. Rob
    Geovany Soto spent 3 years at Iowa before coming up at age 25. Chirinos is 26 and has put up ridiculous wOBAs the last 2 years including .428 this year. I'm not saying he is anywhere near the caliber of Geovany Soto but you can't tell me that no team would consider him a decent inclusion in a trade package. Obviously he isn't a centerpiece, but he has value. He was available last offseason to any team that wanted to take him in the Rule 5 draft. Nobody did. That would have cost 50k (25k really if you offered him back to his original team and they took him back). I'm quite aware of that. Did I suggest otherwise? Not at all. It was just additional information I thought would-be beneficial to anybody whotrying to put an approximate dollar vale on him.
  21. Rob
    Geovany Soto spent 3 years at Iowa before coming up at age 25. Chirinos is 26 and has put up ridiculous wOBAs the last 2 years including .428 this year. I'm not saying he is anywhere near the caliber of Geovany Soto but you can't tell me that no team would consider him a decent inclusion in a trade package. Obviously he isn't a centerpiece, but he has value. He was available last offseason to any team that wanted to take him in the Rule 5 draft. Nobody did. That would have cost 50k (25k really if you offered him back to his original team and they took him back).
  22. Rob
    I think statistically, 1st and 2nd, no outs with ordinary hitters both at-bat and on-deck, sac-ing is slightly better than batting in that situation. Run expectancy isn't much different with runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out versus 2nd and 3rd with one out. So even if you assume a successful sac bunt, you haven't really gotten anywhere. And there's still that chance to fail.
  23. Rob
    Cubs currently with the #9 pick.
  24. Rob
    Alfonso
  25. Rob
    Yeah, I can hardly thank you fine folks (and all the contributors) enough. I may not post enough in this forum, but you bet your buns I'm reading every thread and absorbing every little piece of information I can.
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