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  1. Rob
    Brett Jackson with a 3 run jack.
  2. Rob
    BearClaw was pretty clear that we aren't allowed to talk about cutting guys like Rohan, because they're ALL prospects and we don't know what's going to happen.
  3. Rob
    I think Sveum is the real deal. While the bench coach in Milwaukee he showed a willingness to do some pretty risky things when the numbers backed them up (like applying the pull shift to right handed batters). Theo and Hoyer have experience with him from when he worked for the Red Sox. He's not a placeholder.
  4. Rob
    Junior Lake starts to get some reps at 3B and surprises everyone by how good his defense looks there... Jae Hoon Ha's plate discipline doesn't improve, but he continues to keep the strikeouts down while playing excellent defense. And this is the year the power develops. Vogelbach swipes 6+ bags.
  5. Rob
    I knew the G spot was a myth.
  6. Rob
    That's an extraordinarily bold prediction. If you really mean "all-time" he'd have to strike out 1174 times this year to tie the record. (Incidentally, he's struck out exactly 587 times during his five years with the Cubs, which is exactly half of 1174) If you mean single season... (the record is 223, by the way) During his Cubs career, Soriano has struck out 21.8% of the time. At that pace, he'd have to have come to the plate 1030 times to break the record. At last year's accelerated pace of 22.4%, he'd only need 1007 plate appearances.
  7. Rob
    His battle with Charon for his very soul has left him angry and fearless.
  8. Rob
    The added SP depth comes in very handy. Injuries abound this season. Garza suffers through injury and ineffectiveness. On the whole though, he still posts the highest fWAR of any Cubs pitcher. Dempster looks like his old self, but is injured in early June and doesn't return. Maholm makes 4 starts before experiencing shoulder tightness. Returning to the team after a six week absence, he's killed in his second start by a comebacker to the head, prompting rule changes by MLB. Marmol undergoes TJS by mid-May. A ball gets lost in Samardzija's ridiculous hair and is ruled a ground rule double. Randy Wells doesn't make the starting rotation. He's traded to the Red Sox when they suffer their first rotation injury. Mateo and Dolis both establish themselves as good relievers.
  9. Rob
    Jae Hoon Ha will be an injury replacement for Soriano/DeJesus at some point in the second half, with Sappelt and Campana not getting a real shot. He'll perform surprisingly well. He will be the prime candidate to replace Soriano next offseason. Welington Castillo is the starting C by the end of the season. (Or at least has the board outraged he isn't) [justification: if Soto is doing great, the Cubs will try to trade him] LaHair does just well enough at 1B to justify not forcing Rizzo up early. When Rizzo does come up, LaHair gets a quick audition in an OF corner, only to embarrass himself.
  10. Rob
    Not as bad as he thought it would be is not the same as liking it. He's also basing the entire thing on the assumption that catching metrics are way off and Yadi is a 4 WAR player. Everyone knows that Yadier Molina was a 0.3 defensive WAR player the last few years. What this article presupposes...is maybe he wasn't? http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeQQGEHH3dotOVXZCXxAOI_kLg2VInpSRjf35-Q0eguLksqkdshJTRQZeJWw :yahoo:
  11. Rob
    i've been calling you that for years I was wondering why he kept following me into public restrooms...
  12. Rob
    Interesting to see a guy I respect like Bruce take such a strong stance on that situation. Not saying he's right or wrong to do so, just interesting. That's a Castro quote from a Miles article. Not a Miles quote.
  13. Rob
    Seeing how [expletive] crazy that post is makes me wonder whether this board has any bizarre groupthink denial going on about other things.
  14. Rob
    Braun just won his appeal.
  15. Rob
    this is completely moronic, sweat-stained stupidity; his ERA is 6th best amongst active pitchers with more than 250 starts BR lists 36 active pitchers with more than 250 starts, just for the record. Sidenote: Livan Hernandez leads the list easily with 474 starts. Next is Tim Wakefield at 463, then Javier Vazquez (443), Kevin Millwood (415), and Jeff Suppan (411). And of course, Wakefield and Vazquez are talking retirement while Millwood and Suppan are being slowly forced out. Then there's a nice big jump to Tim Hudson at 377 starts. Livan Hernandez is freak of nature.
  16. Rob
    BA Ranks: Brett Jackson: 32 Middlebrooks: 51 Bogaerts: 58 Szczur: 64 Ranaudo: Not top 100 Kalish: Not top 100 Mayo just put Carpenter at #8 in the Red Sox system. :lol:
  17. Rob
    I don't have a BA subscription right now, but I see there's a link to an article talking about where unsigned players would rank. Anybody care to see where Soler would come in?
  18. Rob
    Given the way things seem to be playing out over there, that might not be far off the mark. LL obviously wants to run the show... and Cherington will probably resent being the puppet GM at some point.
  19. Rob
    I'm pretty happy about this. Baseball with Manny Ramirez is just better.
  20. Rob
    What I wont put up with in search of rotation depth at AAA...
  21. Rob
    The PTBNL stuff is just procedural. Theo can't technically be traded to the Cubs... and the Cubs can't just give Carpenter to the Red Sox under the CBA. So the Red Sox have to send somebody unimportant to get the deal done. The Cubs will just send somebody unimportant back to even that part out. PTBNL = nobody. Edit - Ninja'd
  22. Rob
    Chris Carpenter is definitely more than prior precedent but I can't say it's an unreasonable amount to give up.
  23. Rob
    Yeah, thanks for the link.
  24. Rob
    Goldstein says we released Robinson Lopez. Shame.
  25. Rob
    Edit: Apparently everybody else already covered the service time stuff.
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