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  1. Rob
    Bradley talks crap about the Cubs fans and organizations... how much money do you think we lose? Bradley helps take the Cubs to the playoffs next season.... how much money do you think we gain? I'll give you a hint. One of these numbers is MUCH larger than the other. So now you are arguing with me on the point that I agree with you on? This thread is getting funny. Forgive me for not understanding that you tried to agree with part of my post... yours was kind of a mess of disjointed thoughts with no real coherence to it. Not to mention that the conclusions you are drawing from my post are absurd... Where did I try to say it was good business to alienate the fans? I just said winning was more important.
  2. Rob
    Something tells me you don't understand the logic if you are trying to extend it to those guys.
  3. Rob
    Bradley talks crap about the Cubs fans and organizations... how much money do you think we lose? Bradley helps take the Cubs to the playoffs next season.... how much money do you think we gain? I'll give you a hint. One of these numbers is MUCH larger than the other.
  4. Rob
    If you owned the team you'd have a different view. It's bad business to have anyone insulting your product. You have to have some kind of rules in place or your organization goes really bad in a hurry. The fact remains that Bradley was a bad business decision in every since of the word this year. It's absurd that you think insulting fans and the organization is acceptable behavior. In baseball, the fanbase is pretty much set already. The question is whether or not you can get them to pay attention. You know what accomplishes that? Winning. And like it or not, Bradley can help us win. I have a very hard time believing the millions upon millions he can help bring in if we get to the playoffs next year is really outweighed by a few inappropriate comments that probably wont have any effect upon revenues. That's not to say I agree with what Milton is doing. He's a jerk, and I don't much care for him on a personal level. But this kind of decision is bad on the business end and the baseball end. If you feel the need to stop him from making those comments, you need to find a better way to accomplish it. This wasn't productive.
  5. Rob
    The fans already booed him every step he took. The status quo was unacceptable. They couldn't just have Milton repeatedly insulting the organization and the fans, refusing to play and fighting with personel. It's a perfectly valid suspension and it's laughable that you think otherwise. Every team knew the Cubs/Milton relationship was growing sour, the fact that Hendry acknowledged it with a suspension is meaningless. Guys can't be given all the rope they want. At some point in time, you have to call them out. He didn't screw up a damn thing. Bradley could walk through Wrigley after every home game and personally flip off each and every single fan and I couldn't care less, just so long as he doesn't hurt himself walking up and down those stairs. He's paid for his production on the field. Likewise, Hendry isn't paid to have the happiest team in the league. Hendry's entire job consists of getting the best team out on the field. This suspension is counterproductive to that end. And for what? What possible gain is there to be had from this? It's not even as if Bradley was breaking any laws... oh, which reminds me. Players have not been suspended this long for beating on their wives. In what world is this punishment remotely fair or justifiable?
  6. Rob
    He handled it fine. In your opinion, and in our opinion he didnt. You have a ridiculous opinion. A repeat a-hole got suspended toward the end of a wasted season. BIG FREAKING DEAL. Jim doesn't want to talk about it with the media anymore. BIG FREAKING DEAL. I've been the biggest anti-Hendry person on this board for several years but there's nothing wrong with how he's handled this so far. If he dumps the guy for nothing and pays him to play elsewhere, that's a problem. But he hasn't done anything worth whining about in regards to the suspension. This is absurd. The fact that Bradley was suspended is Hendry handling the situation badly. That's all the proof that's needed. At best, Hendry doesn't screw up further by trading Milton, but even at that, he's turned the fans even further against a volatile player. At worst, he completely tanked Bradley's value and feels forced to ship him out of town for nothing to save face with the fanbase. There is absolutely no valid case for this suspension from business or baseball perspectives... and Hendry's job is managing those two interests. He screwed up badly. The fact that a handful of players on a non-playoff team are going to be happier for the final three weeks of the season does nothing to alleviate that.
  7. Rob
    Oh god no. We can all agree that Hendry is likely to trade him. It takes a lot of absurd rationalization to think that's the best thing for the team... crap like chemistry and pretending his production was counterproductive to the team (which is really only true of Soriano, Gregg, Miles, Cotts and maybe on a smaller scale a couple guys getting paid league minimum being a few runs below replacement.) No, the smart play is to try to salvage what we can from Bradley's contract.
  8. Rob
    Average defense.
  9. Rob
    And the burnout rate for pitchers was a lot higher "back in the day." Is it true that organizations may have gone overboard in "babying" pitchers? Sure. There are quite a few pitchers who can easily surpass the arbitrary 100 pitch mark without significantly increased injury risk. Young pitchers with an already huge jump in their workload though? Come on.
  10. Rob
    You may want to rethink that comment.
  11. Rob
    You def want the dude who doesn't know how to take a walk batting in front of Lee and Aram. Hopefully the thought was more "this season is toast and I'd like to get Colvin some extra at bats up there at the top" rather than "hey, he hits lefty with a line drive stroke!"
  12. Rob
    Bob really needs to lay off the Bradley hate.
  13. Rob
    So with that logic we just bench the entire team I guess? Nice. Many of them, sure. Why would you be opposed to letting Marmol, Z, and Ramirez, and Lilly take off early? because if I wanted to watch prospects play I'd go to a minor league game. As a business it does them no good to sit all their stars and recognizable names. As a business decision, they have to decide whether or not boosting attendance for the last few games they have this season is worth potentially injuring a player and hurting them next season... when they'll be aiming for big playoff bucks.
  14. Rob
    Quite well. 11.3 runs above average each of the last two years according to UZR... though he did that in a mere 119 games last year, so he's probably declining a bit.
  15. Rob
    One way or another, the Cubs had to pay Bradley. If it's an official suspension, the MLBPA would have stepped in and filed a grievance they would have easily won (considering the complete lack of precedent for such a stupid suspension). If it's an unofficial suspension, they have to pay him. Hell, even if Bradley came out and said he didn't deserve to get paid, the MLBPA still would have filed and won that grievance. They wont let there be a precedent set that will allow players to forgo guaranteed money.
  16. Rob
    ^^ Two thumbs down to everyone that expects and anticipates injuries, just because it's a young pitcher/player. I'm not expecting it just because he's young. I'm expecting it because there's a very high risk associated with jumps in innings as high as he's had... Risk versus reward, folks. What do we stand to gain from running some of these players out there the rest of the season? Very little. And in some cases (pitchers with large jumps in their workload, other players who have a history of injury) the risk is too high to justify it.
  17. Rob
    Pros: - Less likely to injure his arm. - End his season on a good note. - Keeps trade value high. - Give other rookies valuable experience in the bigs. - As the potential replacements aren't as likely to perform so well, increased likelihood of losses could result in the Cubs getting a higher draft pick. Cons: - It sucks to watch the Cubs lose. Gee, this is a tough call.
  18. Rob
    Do you think Hendry deserves to keep his job? I think he deserves to keep his job unless we find a better GM to replace him. I wouldn't see much point in firing him if we couldn't get a Logan White or Mark Antonetti... it may actually make our team worse.
  19. Rob
    http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1070&position=OF#value Take a look at the last two columns. Dollars is how much money he was worth. Salary is self explanatory. So if I'm reading that right, he's been worth more than he's been paid every year but 2005? Far more. Yes. If we could get him on a one year deal for 10 mil, we absolutely should.
  20. Rob
    What about his EqA, BABIP, LD%, and RC? Something about this post seems sarcastic...
  21. Rob
    http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1070&position=OF#value Take a look at the last two columns. Dollars is how much money he was worth. Salary is self explanatory.
  22. Rob
    Mike Cameron is criminally undervalued. The problem is that all of his value comes from things that the casual baseball fan can't appreciate. He takes a ton of walks and hits for a bunch of doubles while playing an exceptional defensive center field, but without the flashy catches you'd see from a Jim Edmonds.
  23. Rob
    Jim Hendry made a lot of good moves this offseason... including the DeRosa deal. Personally, i had always been of the mind to play Pie and let him adjust (which he's finally done), but once Lou decided he couldn't bear to witness a young player trying to adjust slowly, signing Bradley was actually a good move considering what was available and the pricetags associated. He could've done better had he known Abreu's price would drop so drastically, but nobody knew that. Just because the moves didn't pan out doesn't mean he made the wrong ones. We can only judge him with the information he had available at the time.
  24. Rob
    I love how so many people that aren't racist take it personally when a player talks about racist fans. He wasn't talking about you. He was talking about the racists.
  25. Rob
    Procedural question: can stuff like that be a reason to put a guy on the DL? Because that would have been a more elegant way out of this mess, obtaining the same result (getting Bradley out of the clubhouse for the rest of the season). If we had Bradley's permission, I know it wouldn't be a problem. A lot of players have gone on the DL in the last couple years with psychological issues... Zack Greinke, Joey Votto, Dontrelle Willis, Justin Duchscherer, Khalil Greene... As to whether we could do it without his permission? I'm not sure, but I'd sincerely doubt it. At the least, I can't imagine Bradley would consent to an evaluation, which would give him a slam dunk case when the players association decides to file a grievance on his behalf.
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