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  1. Rob
    So now that there's an extra mod in the mix, which one of you is gonna be assigned to personally follow me around and fix the situations I create?
  2. Rob
    IT WAS IN AAA DUH At a hitter's haven known as Colorado Springs. I'm not saying it should be discounted but that has to be taken into consideration. Even if we were to adjust for the park factors, his OPS from tonight's game would be off the charts.
  3. Rob
    Sean Casey begs to differ. He's only worth 18 this year, but you knew darn well going in that you had nothing to be worried about with him.
  4. Rob
    This is why Kevin Towers is a good GM. Most GMs wouldn't have the balls to trade a proven, solid contributor in the midst of a playoff race, but he got good value for Linebrink and made the deal. I don't hate the deal from the Brewers' perspective; they haven't made the playoffs in 24 years, so it's hard to blame them for going all-out now. Inman is certainly not a can't-miss prospect, but they still paid a steep price for a moderate upgrade. I thought Unfiltered posts were available to everybody, not just members.
  5. Rob
    Same boat for me, IIRC.
  6. Rob
    Are you seriously using win/loss as a basis to your argument? Hill gets no run support, and win/loss is a terrible stat to judge a pitcher The man thinks Don Kessinger was good. What did you expect? Nice, attack someone without provocation. Good for you. I was being sarcastic since I assumed you were too. The good news is that now that I know you were expressing your honest opinion, my comment still works... even sans sarcasm.
  7. Rob
    I was against the signing. If he helps take us to postseason glory, I'll conceed the point. But it's important to remember that there's still 3 1/2 more years on this contract at a pretty high price. That all being said, I'm really loving the way he's pitching right now. He's exceeded my expectations to this point by quite a bit.
  8. Rob
    Someone brought it up when he was raking at AA, and I wanted to wait and see how he handled AAA since AA had never been the problem with him. After tonight his OPS is now north of .950 at AAA, with 15/20 BB/K in ~130 PA's. I'm really curious to see if he could handle a big league spot in some capacity, but the circumstances just don't seem to be right with the 40 man roster as it is. Hendry's 40 man roster management this season has been pretty horrible. Does anybody remember who all is eligible for the Rule 5 next year?
  9. Rob
    Joe Jackson and Pete Rose for sure. If I remember correctly though, Cicotte's numbers don't stand up too well. I know the comps you put up there were mostly considered mistakes.
  10. Rob
    Do you know the difference between hating a player, and being able to objectively assess his strengths and weaknesses?
  11. Rob
    I doubt it. If memory serves, Elias determines free agent rankings based on IP, ERA, W, and SV for pitchers. Linebrick has a solid ERA, but not much in the way of the others, being a setup man. Then again, I could be completely wrong about how Elias works out those rankings.
  12. Rob
    FYI, Inman ranked #3 on the BA prospect list for the Brewers, behind only Gallardo and Braun.
  13. Rob
    They gave up Inman for Linebrick? :P
  14. Rob
    I couldn't agree more. Kendall has a past, and the hope was to catch lighting in the bottle. Maybe coming back the central will wake up his bat. I don't see the big deal, its not like Bowen or Hill are any good anyway. I still hold out hope he'll adjust to NL pitching soon and help the club. Soto may be good. He was the only guy who actually stood a chance of doing something good this year. Look I don't know anything about Soto, but why didn't he come up before Hill if he's so good? Why didn't he come up after Barrett was gone and we had Bowen/Hill up? Is it really everyone blocking him? I would think if he's so good, he'd been given a chance. Its not like guys aren't getting chances this year from the minors. Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus ranked Soto the #3 catching prospect in the minors right now (not including new draftees).
  15. Rob
    Are you seriously using win/loss as a basis to your argument? Hill gets no run support, and win/loss is a terrible stat to judge a pitcher The man thinks Don Kessinger was good. What did you expect?
  16. Rob
    Your avatar is gonna give me a seizure, man.
  17. Rob
    Oh noes! I have to choose between hearing Len and Bob, or watching the game in HD.
  18. Rob
    Mind you, that's a play that Theriot very well might have needed to dive at just to get to. As such, there's no guarantee he would have made an error. Better range gives more chances to make "errors."
  19. Rob
    Since you're here, I was wondering if you could let us know if Hendry has been in at all on Wily Mo Pena or Bobby Kielty. They seem like the kind of guys Hendry would acquire to help out in right, and I'd heard rumors at least of a deal falling through for Pena going to an unnamed team I thought could have been us. I hadn't heard that such a deal fell through. Hendry and Co. no doubt are looking at both. Alrighty, thanks Bruce!
  20. Rob
    Since you're here, I was wondering if you could let us know if Hendry has been in at all on Wily Mo Pena or Bobby Kielty. They seem like the kind of guys Hendry would acquire to help out in right, and I'd heard rumors at least of a deal falling through for Pena going to an unnamed team I thought could have been us.
  21. Rob
    Which is what you should do. So you are confirming that you haven't heard anything about this? I would be absolutely shocked if this actually happened. Trolls start trade rumors on blogs at every trade deadline. Did anyone check whether this was the blogger's first post (or one of them)? It was his first post. It's not a surprise. Thank god we have Bruce here to keep us in check before we get too rumor crazy. To be fair, I am very impressed with the restraint shown by everybody here. I half expected this thing to balloon to 30 pages inside of 4 hours.
  22. Rob
    I'm in the same boat. I'd love to see it happen, but I wont believe it til Bruce Miles clues us in or the Cubs.com website makes an official announcement.
  23. Rob
    Yeah, Bruce said right field, and I'm inclined to believe him on that account. At any rate, using somebody with Soriano's skillset outside of CF or RF is about as dumb as it gets... especially when failure to do so relegates a cheap and effective player to AAA duty because he has no position to play.
  24. Rob
    http://allstar.rotoworld.com/scb/lm/reports/player.asp?sport=BB&Leaguenum=9592&Mode=&X=7670&Y=0 Note: the source is the Chicago Sun Times To me, it couldn't sound any less like Lou had any confidence in Theriot at short in that one... a sort of "my back is to the wall" moment for him. Referring to SS http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/358886,CST-SPT-cubnt26.article Interestingly enough, Theriot played 86 games at 2B compared to 36 games at SS in 2005 (the year Theriot refers to).
  25. Rob
    You're saying this like you have. i've heard him say it before. And everybody else has heard him say we'd "try him out" at SS. Which meant he'd try him as a starter Considering his only goal was to replace Izturis, who is one of the singular worst hitters in the league, and average at best defensively. Obviously, Lou knew that Theriot couldn't hit any worse. He was questioning if the offensive boost would be worth the downgrade on defense. Downgrading on average defense = Bad defensively Bad defensively = Not a "natural" SS
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