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  1. Rob
    Seeing how [expletive] crazy that post is makes me wonder whether this board has any bizarre groupthink denial going on about other things.
  2. Rob
    Braun just won his appeal.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. Rob
    I'm pretty happy about this. Baseball with Manny Ramirez is just better.
  8. Rob
    What I wont put up with in search of rotation depth at AAA...
  9. 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
  10. Rob
    Chris Carpenter is definitely more than prior precedent but I can't say it's an unreasonable amount to give up.
  11. Rob
    Yeah, thanks for the link.
  12. Rob
    Goldstein says we released Robinson Lopez. Shame.
  13. Rob
    Edit: Apparently everybody else already covered the service time stuff.
  14. Rob
    Something tells me I'm gonna be in Peoria a lot more often this season.
  15. Rob
    If the rumors are true and we've signed Soler, I think he has to immediately jump to #1 on my list. And I don't see how anybody could possibly rank him lower than #4.
  16. Rob
    Soler has been the guy this offseason as far as I was concerned. I'm ecstatic to have him in the system if true. That said, $27.5 mil seems a tad on the crazy side. I'll reserve my opinion until more info is available, but wow.
  17. Rob
    Oh wow, it's a 4 year deal with immediate Free Agency afterwards. I'm kinda glad we didn't beat that.
  18. Rob
    I'm sure our front office could have beaten that. The fact they didn't makes it seem they didn't think he was worth it.
  19. Rob
    Mystery Team strikes again.
  20. Rob
    Goldstein just tweeted "Rumors out of the DR today that the Cubs are making a very very big play for Jorge Soler." Take it for what it's worth. Also, wrong thread. But whatever.
  21. Rob
    If Rizzo is like Derrek Lee, it's more likely the version of Lee from when he was on the Marlins. Rizzo's swing has me thinking he's gonna strike out a good deal more than Lee did in his time with the Cubs.
  22. Rob
    Torreyes posted a .101 ISO last year as an 18 year old in A ball. LeMahieu only posted an ISO over .100 twice. Once was during a 3 game stint in rookie ball. The other time was to start the 2011 season, as a 23 year old in AA. At every other stop along the way he was at .087 or lower. There's reason to be a bit more optimistic about Torreyes' potential power output.
  23. Rob
    You can be disappointed the Cubs are opting to rebuild instead of go for the quick fix but that doesn't make it a bad offseason. The front office has a good plan and they're executing it almost flawlessly.
  24. Rob
    Average fWAR over the last 5 years: Pujols - 7.8 Fielder - 4.4 Hamilton - 4.2 Victorino - 4.2 Ichiro - 4.1 Upton - 4.0 Pence - 3.9 Swisher - 3.2 Soriano - 3.1 Ethier - 2.7 Quentin - 1.4 Young - 0.1 Ethier's not the answer. His average season is about as good as you'd get from giving Sam Fuld a full time job. (1.9 fWAR last year in 105 games.)
  25. Rob
    Jae Hoon Ha might be ready by 2013. I'd like to see more power/patience from him, but his contact skills and defense should make him a pretty decent player regardless.
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