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  1. Rob
    I will say that my recollection of his was never as the big basestealing threat he apparently was in his younger days. I always liked him more for his power than his speed. But that makes sense, he had 5 season of 30 or more steals (and one with 54, I was shocked to see), but they all happened before my 2nd birthday.
  2. Rob
    YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE THAT OLD TO REMEMBER HIS PLAYING DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm only 27 and I very vividly remember his playing days.
  3. Rob
    Did the Williston Herald get bought out by the Sun Times?
  4. Rob
    There's a hole in my heart for a leadoff hitter to fill maybe?
  5. Rob
    Not picking on you in particular, but I've always wondered where the .5 win decline per season was established as the aging curve. I'd always assumed there'd be an age (probably late 30s or early 40s) where the decline would accelerate. That's not to say your point doesn't stand. He's a hell of a valuable player.
  6. Rob
    Idle speculation with no supporting evidence aside from "well, other guys in TB have left or might be willing to." Rogers sucks for getting my hopes up.
  7. Rob
    Right or wrong, Sandberg strikes me as the type of guy who will "call guys out" to the media
  8. Rob
    He was considered a pretty slick defensive SS and he was moving down the defensive spectrum. Even if the scouting reports on him were a little generous, I was expecting him to be above average defensively at 2B.
  9. Rob
    If the Cubs pick up his option and Ramirez declines, is there any draft compensation if he sings with another club? I realize that this is different than offering arbitration, but I honestly don't know. I would think that Ramirez would be a type A, right? Even if Ramirez declines his option, the Cubs retain the right to offer him arbitration. That's where the draft pick compensation comes from, same as with any other departing FA. And weirdly enough, last I saw Ramirez was projected to be a Type B... which speaks again to the whole "lumping 2B, 3B, and SS together" thing as far as determining status. Jeff Keppinger is a Type A, for heaven's sake. It really is a [expletive] system. It's embarrassing that Keppinger is a Type A, but it's equally troubling for Keppinger because it pretty much relegates him to being forced to accept whatever the Giants throw at him because no one else will go near him. Some players who might walk that boundary of type A compensation are starting to have clauses put in their contracts that would prevent the club from offering them arbitration. I seem to remember Orlando Cabrera doing that a few years back.
  10. Rob
    In the last four years, Aaron Hill has one season where he put up a better WAR than Darwin Barney's 2.2 from last year. Is 2B a spot where we could potentially upgrade? Yeah. But we've got bigger problems with our starting rotation, corner infield, and outfield right now. It doesn't make a lot of sense to sink resources into a 2B upgrade when we've got an acceptable (if somewhat uninspiring) and extremely cheap option there. That said, if another team out there really overvalues Barney and including him in a package would solve some of our more pressing issues, I think his production would be pretty easy to replace internally with some combination of Marwin Gonzalez, DJ LeMahieu, and Ryan Flaherty. But I just don't see acquiring Aaron Hill as being a good move for us.
  11. Rob
    If the Cubs pick up his option and Ramirez declines, is there any draft compensation if he sings with another club? I realize that this is different than offering arbitration, but I honestly don't know. I would think that Ramirez would be a type A, right? Even if Ramirez declines his option, the Cubs retain the right to offer him arbitration. That's where the draft pick compensation comes from, same as with any other departing FA. And weirdly enough, last I saw Ramirez was projected to be a Type B... which speaks again to the whole "lumping 2B, 3B, and SS together" thing as far as determining status. Jeff Keppinger is a Type A, for heaven's sake.
  12. Rob
    If Jose Reyes doesn't come to the Cubs, that's probably a good move. If Jose Reyes does come to the Cubs, it's probably in concert with a few other moves and will end up being a good move. This is the problem I'm having with Theo in charge right now. I can't get outraged over the idea of anything because I know his moves will make sense in a big picture way. As somebody who really enjoyed pointing out exactly how stupid Hendry's moves were, this is really messing with my offseason.
  13. Rob
    What are big boy pants? I'm not sure, but I bet there's an elastic waistband involved.
  14. Rob
    Stuff is moderated before posting? Is that a thing for new members?
  15. Rob
    I hope somebody asks Jed Hoyer at some point to expand on the Adrian Gonzalez trade. Rumor had it that the Cubs and Red Sox had offered approximately equal packages, but that Hoyer went with the Red Sox because he was more familiar with the guys in the system. I bet he's regretting that about now.
  16. Rob
    Off topic, but people in this thread were wondering about Hollandsworth's shaved dome. Apparently it's a solidarity thing with his sister-in-law who has cancer.
  17. Rob
    Most of Ichiro's peripherals were relatively intact last year. His BABIP was 50 points below his career average which made for most of the difference on offense. What's worrying to me is that this is the first year that his defense wasn't generally well regarded. Most metrics have him average to below-average. Without having seen him much this year, I can't say for certain what the cause is. Losing a step would account for the defensive woes and the dropoff from his ridiculously high career BABIP. Or it could just be that standard BABIP "bad luck" and a bit of noise in the defensive metrics. Trading for him this season probably isn't a good idea (for reasons both related and unrelated to his performance). But if this season lines up well with his career norms, it might not be the worst thing in the world to go after him as a stopgap for 2013. Best to wait and see.
  18. Rob
    Theo wrote an article for the Boston Globe detailing a bit of what went into his decision to come here. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/10/25/farewell_red_sox_nation/
  19. Rob
    Less than 12 hours. My nipples are so hard right now.
  20. Rob
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXSOD1N5lR4&feature=related
  21. Rob
    If Jim Hendry were still our GM, he'd spend all offseason looking for "a good #8 hitter"
  22. Rob
    What? You had multiple people here suggesting her as a viable and appealing option before the whole Theo thing blew up. Yeah, she wasn't the top choice for most of us, but she definitely fell into that group of perfectly acceptable options after Theo, Friedman, etc...
  23. Rob
    Boo this man!
  24. Rob
    All right everybody, you heard the man. RELAX.
  25. Rob
    RELAX
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