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  1. Sarcastic
    So basically, we'd sacrifice C position for the forseeable future to get whatever Barrett in a down year with a few months left on his contract would get us. Oh, and 5.6 million next year. None of the options we'd have for catcher next year would be appealing at all. By the way, I didn't say that quote in your post, that was goony.
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    Still not getting it, so i will recap it for ya one more time. We trade Jones to the A's for Kendall, clearing 5.6M next year in cap room and fixing the disfunctionality of our OF. We then flip Barrett for a prospect over to the AL. Barrett is probably leaving anyway, so might as well get something for him. The difference between Barrett and Kendall at the moment is 1 WS. We gain 5.6M next year to use either on the FA market or to re-sign Z, v 2.0. Because remember, we may or may not have a 100M payroll depending on the new ownership, so we may need to conserve some cash. Jones is the 6th highest paid player on the Cubs atm and is a waste of talent and money. He is an albatross and his deal is a boondoggle (link for Raisin b/c he obviously gets confused when i use big words http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/boondoggle). Then who is the catcher? That'd be Kendall. In 2008. Koyie Hill? :lol:
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    It has been said, but I think it bears repeating. Marshall looks really high in that picture.
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    Still not getting it, so i will recap it for ya one more time. We trade Jones to the A's for Kendall, clearing 5.6M next year in cap room and fixing the disfunctionality of our OF. We then flip Barrett for a prospect over to the AL. Barrett is probably leaving anyway, so might as well get something for him. The difference between Barrett and Kendall at the moment is 1 WS. We gain 5.6M next year to use either on the FA market or to re-sign Z, v 2.0. Because remember, we may or may not have a 100M payroll depending on the new ownership, so we may need to conserve some cash. Jones is the 6th highest paid player on the Cubs atm and is a waste of talent and money. He is an albatross and his deal is a boondoggle (link for Raisin b/c he obviously gets confused when i use big words http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/boondoggle). Then who is the catcher? That'd be Kendall.
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    Why are people so excited about Fontenot and Theriot? Neither of them has had a great career in the minors and neither of them are still young guys by prospect standards (27 years old). How can either of them be considered a good solution at 2B? DeRosa's production is also out of line with his career, but he looks like a better bet for 2B than either of those two due to the fact that he has recently put up similar numbers over the course of 500+ ABs. If we could get a good price for him, do it, but I think his trade value is probably not as high as his actual value at this point.
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    Who's getting swept, the Rangers or the Cubs?
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    But you forgot to mention Cotts! Or Cherry! How could they resist a chance to put one of those guys in their pen?
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    Yep. The one who doesnt drink the Kool Aid. See also my CP fan club. CP was a bum then, he is a bum now. Patterson and Barrett are not comparable. Barrett has had actual sustained success (3 seasons) in the majors. Patterson had 1/2 a season before being injured. There is much more reason to think Barrett can have a decent season than there was to think Patterson was going to turn it around when he tanked last year.
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    Crud, Brewers win.
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    Jones is still due 7.8M, including 5.6M next year. I can think of a lot better uses for 5.6M dollars player wise. Barrett is a liability b/c of his defense and lack of production this season. He is a FA at seasons end and probably wont re-sign with us (thank God). We should cash in and get what we can for him now. Kendall is not a long term solution. We just get by with him offensively, but he still has a better skill set defensively than Barrett. He also would likely bring us a Type B pick in next years draft when we would lose him to FA at seasons end. So in essence we lose Jones, Barrett, and a B prospect for Kendall, a Type B pick, and whatever we get for Barrett. The amount of money you are talking about saving for next year (Jones' 5.6 mil) does not justify downgrading a position so severely. As much as you may hate Barrett, he is a much better player than Kendall. Considering that his value is probably down due to his poor performance this season, I doubt we get anything that makes trading him worthwhile.
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    Barrett is avg a PB every 58 innings, Kendall every 90 innings. Thats a bit of difference. NL Avg for starters is almost 124 innings per PB. And again its not the long term solution. it is ridding ourselves of 2 albatross no later than the end of the year, instead of letting the Jones thing drag on forever. How can either Jones or Barrett be counted as albatrosses? Barrett's salary is pretty low for a starting catcher, and should we decide to go another direction, we don't own him anything after this year. Jones' salary is a bit higher, but also nothing that is going to tie down a team with a $100 million payroll, and he only has one more year on his contract. I'd like to get Jones of the payroll next year, but Barrett can hardly be called an albatross. EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Barrett and Jones only making about $4 million and $6 million (next year), respectively? Barrett's contract is actually pretty cheap. Jones' I'd like to get rid of, but it isn't worth downgrading a position to do it.
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    That is a fair statement. What "for real" means can be interpreted in many ways. I would agree that the Brewers will probably be leading or in the race for the rest of the season.
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    I agree on the other penalties, but 5 starts for a pitcher is a much more severe penalty than 5 games. 5 starts is about 1/6 of a starter's season. I don't think that what Young did was so different from Lee's infraction to justify that sentence. I would like to see him miss at least 10 games though to be sure he is out for at least one start.
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    I'm really surprised that his suspension was this short, actually.
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    Other than Verlander (the only game they've lost between those teams) they faced the back end of those rotations. They also lost 2 of 3 to the Rangers (needing extra innings to avoid a sweep). And? Wins are wins. His point, I believe, was that because those wins came against the worst pitchers on said good teams, they don't mean as much as far as proving how good the Brewers actually are. I'd be inclined to agree. They certainly don't guarantee that we'll see the beginning of the season Brewers for the rest of the year. I think it proves a lot. You have to beat who you face and they did. Doesn't seem like other teams in the AL are having a real easy time against the Tigers one way or another. Just containing that offense is an accomplishment. You have to beat who you face, but what starters go during the series make a big difference as far as determining "who you face". The othe teams in the AL have to face both the Tigers and Twins better pitchers as well. As far as offense goes, containing the Tigers is impressive, containing the Twins, not so much. They are definitely the team to beat in the division by virtue of their current record alone, but I would go about crowning them just yet. They've had their struggles, and I'm sure they will continue to in the future.
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    Other than Verlander (the only game they've lost between those teams) they faced the back end of those rotations. They also lost 2 of 3 to the Rangers (needing extra innings to avoid a sweep). And? Wins are wins. His point, I believe, was that because those wins came against the worst pitchers on said good teams, they don't mean as much as far as proving how good the Brewers actually are. I'd be inclined to agree. They certainly don't guarantee that we'll see the beginning of the season Brewers for the rest of the year.
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    I doubt Barrett comes cheap in the offseason. Somebody will pay him decent money and likely in the AL where he can DH. Who would pay Barrett big money to DH? His bat isn't that valuable by DH standards.
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    The Cubs should break that one easily. I've always thought DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak would be the hardest to break, but in retrospect, you have to give it to Cy Young's 511 wins. No pitcher will ever break that in the era of modern baseball.
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    The Padres are the best team we will be playingon this 21 game stretch. By quite a bit, too.
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    His defensive and offensive skills seem to be on the decline. Now would be the time to trade him if you want anything of value in return. Then again, being that he is going to be a FA after this year, i really don't see the Cubs getting anything better than a B prospect in return. And that is even pushing it. Which is exactly why you shouldn't trade your best available catcher.
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    I expected the Cubs to go 3-3 against the Mariners and Padres, and I guess I am satisfied with that with a stretch of really easy schedule coming up. These are two good teams, especially the Padres, and splitting the two series isn't bad. What I wasn't expecting was for the Brewers to magically break out of their slump to beat two solid ALC teams. I thought we were at least going to stay even with them.
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    Why is every ball flying out of the park for the Padres today? They aren't exactly a power hitting team.
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    Here's today's fake rally.
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    I've got to go with "Pledge Your Allegiance" too. The others are stupid and inane, but that slogan is just outright absurd. It was the only one that made me laugh.
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