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  1. Rob
    Jones is too young to play in SF. You need an AARP card to be a Giant. Cubs get: Baldelli or Crawford + Reid Brignac (ss prospect) Giants get: Jones, Dempster, $6mil from Cubs Marlins get: Benitez, Scott Moore, Giants prospect + $6mil from Giants D-Rays get: Cedeno + Nolasco + Marlins pitching prospects fair? Just trying to get a centerfielder outta the deal. Jones, Dempster, Moore, Cedeno and 6 mil might not be enough to get Baldelli, Crawford, or Brignac (who is easily one of the top 2-3 SS prospects)
  2. Rob
    :shock: I guess he's like Juan Pierre but not as fast and not as good a hitter? I can see what makes him so likable. :twisted: I thought Pagan was faster than Pierre by a good deal til he pulled his hammy early in the season. Seemed like that pull really dropped his speed in a hurry and he never did quite recover all the way during the season, though
  3. Rob
    I liked Pagan too, but only as a fifth outfielder/pinch runner. He shouldn't have gotten nearly as many PA's as he did.
  4. Rob
    Taken from the Baseball Prospectus "Player Profile - Marcus Giles" article of Sept. 28, 2006...
  5. Rob
    Zambrano, Prior, Hill
  6. Rob
    They were both pretty atrocious.
  7. Rob
    Considering our CF situation, I think we pretty much have to be interested at least a little.
  8. Rob
    Non-tenders just become free agents, IIRC. No order about it. They sign wherever they want to.
  9. Rob
    didnt you have brain surgery OH SNAP!
  10. Rob
    Once again proving that not every bad player is a bad person. I am truly grateful for guys like that.
  11. Rob
    I think your use of "needs to be shot" is juvenile and should be pulled as a comment. Little wonder people look at messages boards as something populated by childish minds. sorry Rob, but you should find a different way to post your continual displeasure with the team. Maybe you should find a different team. The "needs to shot" comment is way over the edge. Oh yeah? Well I think your mom is juvenile! On a more serious note, I could have sworn I typed "in the big toe" after "needs to be shot." It was an attempt at being humorous, but finals season stress has my brain shorting out and I guess I just got sidetracked before I typed it. Rest assured, I was not seriously advocating non-funny violence on Jim Hendry. Your mother, however, remains juvenile.
  12. Rob
    If we don't even make an attempt to sign him, Hendry needs to be shot. This would be a huge upgrade to our team. Giles 2B >> DeRosa 2B DeRosa SS >>>> Izturis SS
  13. Rob
    I absolutely do not want the Cubs wasting precious resources on a "closer." The cash and talent spent to acquire somebody to do that job wouldn't be near as much of an upgrade (if at all) in the bullpen than it would be if it were spent on SS or CF. Wood Howry Eyre Dempster Ohman Wuertz That's a freaking stacked bullpen. (relievers not listed in order of talent, but in the likely hierarchy Lou sees them in... Wuertz for closer, w00t!) how is that a stacked bullpen? besides wood, it's the same pen they had last year, and it wasn't anything special. There are enough people better than Novoa that he becomes relegated to towel boy? Most of the criticisms of our pen as a whole last year came about because of guys like Rusch, Ryu, Guzman, etc... coming in in long relief and giving up a good deal of runs. The core of the pen is very solid, and if we're smart enough to keep Wuertz up all year that's just icing on the cake.
  14. Rob
    Question: If I were to completely reverse course and predict that Hill, Lilly, and Marquis would post sub 4 ERAs over 80 starts between them, but that this would be the year that Z's arm blows up Livan Hernandez style from all the abuse and he posts a high 5 ERA over his 32 starts, would that be optimistic or pessimistic?
  15. Rob
    I absolutely do not want the Cubs wasting precious resources on a "closer." The cash and talent spent to acquire somebody to do that job wouldn't be near as much of an upgrade (if at all) in the bullpen than it would be if it were spent on SS or CF. Wood Howry Eyre Dempster Ohman Wuertz That's a freaking stacked bullpen. (relievers not listed in order of talent, but in the likely hierarchy Lou sees them in... Wuertz for closer, w00t!)
  16. Rob
    Is Matsuzaka some sort of Japanese cipher for Matt Harrington?
  17. Rob
    Yeah, I touched on this and then touched off a few pages of debate on another thread, the one that speculated on Hendry having to step down. I'm in the minority around here who thinks Gary Hughes is a darn fine baseball man and evaluator of talent. I might be a little biased because I know him and have talked a lot of baseball with him. He's got a pretty cool World Series ring from helping the Marlins procure some good players. But he didn't know what "DIPS" meant, and that made him an idiot to a lot of people. I don't think anyone doubts Hughes' scouting prowess. I think what that roundtable showed was a dismissiveness and a lack of tolerance for new ways of evaluating performance. That's pretty much what I took out of it. I've got no problem with Hughes being the #1 man on the scouting side, but I'd like for a GM to be the guy who mixes the opinions from the scouting side with the stats side. Hughes just hasn't given me any indication he'd be up for that role.
  18. Rob
    If I were giving Hendry a grade, I'd give him a C-. A good chunk of that is because it appears all of these contracts are backloaded, so any incoming management group is going to have a very hard time adding any quality talent for the next 3-4 years... and if the incoming group wants to cut salary... we'd be boned. This team is essentially the team you're going to see for the next few years, barring a nice trade. And I think we can all agree this isn't exactly a powerhouse of a team.
  19. Rob
    Very good signings: Aramis Wood Miller Bad money/years but decent players: Soriano Lilly DeRosa Meh signings: Blanco Ward Horrible signings: Marquis
  20. Rob
    The impression I've gotten is that Beane is losing faith in Dan Johnson. If all things worked out, Johnson would be at first... but if he's got a chance to upgrade the OF, he'd move Swisher to first.
  21. Rob
    We can't just send them down, IIRC. We could, however, cut them. At that point, any team who wanted them could pick them up and only be on the hook for a prorated portion of a league minimum salary.
  22. Rob
    I can't decide which I would rather have... Russ Ortiz at 4 years and 33 mil, or Jason Marquis at 3 and 28.
  23. Rob
    In the past, the Cubs have made the mistake of relying on the health and performance of Prior and Wood to get them to the postseason. We've finally learned our lesson. This year, we're relying on Prior and Hill to make or break the pitching staff. Thank the lord we've learned from our mistakes.
  24. Rob
    If we're throwing those guys in... Veal > Gallagher > Guzman > Pawelek > Marmol > Huseby > Marshall > Ryu > Mateo
  25. Rob
    That's about best-case scenario. Best case scenario is that some legal-minded individual files a case contesting the contract on the grounds that Hendry is not of sound mind or body.
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