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What's wrong with Crisp or Hudson? Provided either is cheap enough, they'd be excellent additions. Likewise, I'd love to get my hands on Chris Young and see if he can't develop a bit more... depending on the cost, of course. -
Re: Kerry Wood: Black players got racist mail
Rob replied to 17 Seconds's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Goodness... Nobody, not even Milton Bradley, meant it as a personal affront to all Cubs fans by calling the few racist Cubs fans out. -
Sarge Jr. wants out of L.A.
Rob replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
That'd be about right. Trade a productive malcontent for an awful player who is also a malcontent as well as a steroid user. -
He's also had a repuation as a malcontent the last two years. I wouldn't even consider dealing for him unless the Angels assumed all of Bradley's contract, plus enough of Matthews that we could cut him when he does terrible and starts bitching about his new bench role.
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And obviously can never improve from his struggles last season. He could improve, but I highly doubt he will. Gut instinct, or do you actually have reasons? I guess you could call it gut instinct if you want, but from everything Ive seen of him, and taking his minor league numbers into account, I dont think he will ever be a servicable ML starting pitcher. I think he could possibly be a decent/good bullpen arm, but as a starter, I dont think he will ever be good enough. With Samardzija more than most, his numbers don't do a very good job of describing him. He's had very specific instructions as to what he was supposed to be working on most of the time, and wasn't left to his own devices of just burning fastballs by the hitters to get out of a jam.
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Re: Kerry Wood: Black players got racist mail
Rob replied to 17 Seconds's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I still think he accused the racist fans of being racist. I don't think he accused all Cubs fans of it. -
Wow. Articles like that are the reason that the public is stupid.
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And obviously can never improve from his struggles last season. He could improve, but I highly doubt he will. Gut instinct, or do you actually have reasons?
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I think it would be a great idea to bring Bradley back next year (rather than get nothing), but I don't have to play with him or be around him for 3/4 of the year. His statement about "nuked bridges and burned the blueprints" , although greatly exaggerated is probably closer to the truth, than any chance that Bradley returns. I'm not debating that at all. Really, I'm just nitpicking some sloppy logic from people. Will we keep him? No. The front office seems to have decided (for right or wrong) that he's too much of a distraction and we need to get him the hell out of here. But how some people make the jump in logic from we wont keep him to we can't keep him, is beyond me. If the front office had decided it was the best course of action to keep him around and try to salvage some value from the contract, things could have been glossed over in the clubhouse fairly easily, at least to start the year. Players get into fistfights with each other, use steroids, beat their wives, etc... and the situations are "handled" easily enough with an apology. And there is nothing from any of our players to indicate that if Milton came out the first day of spring training and said, "I'm sorry folks. I was an [expletive]. I'm in therapy now," that they'd tell him to get the hell away.
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You didn't actually respond to anything I posted. The issues of whether or not the human aspect makes a difference is a contributing factor to the question of "should we keep him?". It has no value in determining whether or not we are able to, which was the crux of my post. Asserting that he has "nuked bridges and burned the blueprints" would seemingly imply that there is no possible way he can make a return... and that's simply not the case at all. He hasn't done a thing that the team cannot forgive him for. There are plenty of players in MLB who have done much worse things and their teammates have forgiven them. Hell, Zambrano has done worse things by actually assaulting a teammate and he's still on the team. You can say you don't think it's a good idea to bring him back. And I'm sure you can make an argument for it like you tried to above. But when people here are asserting the he burned bridges to the point that there's no way he can possibly return to the team, they're quite wrong. And please, when I say in the post itself that something is a horrible argument for certain things, don't go ahead and assume that I wanted you to respond to it as if I meant it for that. The "watching games" is simply a way to refute "all you stats geeks do is play video games." Nothing more. I said that in the previous post, but apparently that was lost on you.
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It's mindboggling to me that anybody would be behind Miles at this point. ](*,) Agreed. That does not compute. That's like saying somebody was behind Neifi and Macias a few years ago. Blanco, maybe. Miles, no way. I'm not saying that he poses a significant roadblock. But if Theriot goes down and is only expected to be out about 3 weeks, I don't see us starting Castro's arby clock. Lou likes Blanco enough he'd be willing to keep him the lineup and make due with Miles as the backup.
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I think drafting Sonny was more to build a connection to the team in case we try to draft him in the future. Maybe get us a bit of a deal. Plus the extremely minor chance he would change his mind when we put the money on the table.
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This kind of sentiment is beyond absurd. He nuked bridges and burned blueprints? Just what exactly did he do? Did he beat his wife? Kill somebody while driving intoxicated? Is he raping the other players dogs? No. He's just a bit of a dick. If he made a nice little apology in the locker room and meant a word of it, the team would forgive him in a second. And for god's sake, please stop the "you'd only think that from playing video games" argument. Most of the people making the argument that he can still stay are some of the more passionate fans on this board, the ones that watch every single game (which is another bad argument to make, but probably neutralizes the stupid video game thing).
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Realistically, if Theriot goes down for an extended period with an injury, he's still behind Miles and Blanco at this point. He needs to have a hell of an AFL, maybe some winter league action, and a very nice spring training for any of that to change. Though I think given the way he's forcing the issue, he may have guaranteed himself a ST invite. That's a great start.
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Gaub gave up 4 ER in 1+ IP today. Ouchies. Castro was 1-4 with a double and a strikeout. Castillo was 0-3 with two strikeouts.
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Yeah, Lou totally gets the credit for ARod. Lou got very upset with the front office for drafting ARod in the first place. He wanted bullpen help and Darren Dreifort was supposed to be able to slot in at the major league level almost immediately after signing. If memory serves, his quote was something to the effect of "why is this even a discussion?"
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I remember when Soriano's road beef was posted up here and everybody was all "I could do better than that" and I didn't believe half of them... If anybody wants to say it now, I'll believe them.
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Buzz is an idiot. I'll never forget him launching into Will Leitch on some tangent about how his website was condoning all sorts of horrible acts... and to prove his point, he was reading the comments of the posters on deadspin. If Tim were judged by the posts on this board, he'd be in jail.
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Aramis Ramirez, though I don't see him developing the patience Aramis has in the last few years.
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Castro does a much better job of staying back on the ball than Theriot does. I have no reason to doubt he'll end up with better power.
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http://www.baseballamerica.com/online/majors/espn-chat/2009/268994.html I guess on talent/ability, Vitters is more likely, but one of the shortstops will have to definitely switch a position if they develop. It does make me wonder on the potential for one of the shortstops to go to 3rd, although I still think it's more likely that one of them goes to either 2nd (Castro) or CF (Lee). I wouldn't move Lee to 2nd as I think he can be better utilized in CF. If Castro makes it to the bigs as a SS and it looks like he's gonna be able to stay there, I wouldn't be surprised for Lee to turn into trade bait.
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You are the new GM of the Cubs
Rob replied to LuvChicagoSports's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I really wish people would stop suggesting Brad Hawpe. His defense is so bad that if there were a Hall of Fame for terrible defenders, he'd be an inner-circle first ballot king of the freaking Hall. I would legitimately rather run Fuld out there every single day. -
Burke probably does have bad range if you're looking at him as a CF.
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He had to rack up 682 PA to put up those numbers. And he ranked 10th in the league in outs.
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Soriano was bad in Texas, especially considering the ballpark.
