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  1. bukie
    If the Rays win today, they'll become just the 4th team in MLB history to go 18 games under .500 and then recover to reach .500 later the same year.
  2. bukie
    If you really think that's true, you severely underestimate Texas's love of football.
  3. bukie
    They interviewed Baker after the game and he mentioned he's available to pitch again today if needed. Hasn't reached his innings limit yet.
  4. bukie
    A bench of Ruggiano, Coghlan and Valbuena would be a decent start for next season.
  5. bukie
    http://www.gifsplosion.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/groundhog-day-bill-murray-smashes-alarm-clock.gif
  6. bukie
    And just like that, the Rays are 3.5 games out of a playoff spot after being 18 under .500 earlier in the year.
  7. bukie
    TIL Kane County is 67-36 on the year.
  8. bukie
    My guess is that it still flares up occasionally but not as often. If we win the WS, I'll still think it sometimes but probably won't feel like arguing it (kind of like how Epstein left Boston in a mess, but it's not worth arguing because they did win the WS the one time they made the playoffs). I hope it never comes to this, but I'm more curious what happens if we plateau out at benign mediocrity. What happens if the following plausible scenario happens: 2015: Finish around .500 2016: Contend for playoff spot all year but finish outside the playoffs, something like the 90-72 2012 Rays 2017: Have one of those "every pitcher gets injured" years that good teams have sometimes, finish 84-78, out of playoffs What will the fanbase's mood look like then? Probably "Damn, that sucks, but I'm glad our window isn't closed yet. since we have 7 hitters on the team under 27."
  9. bukie
    And again, hand-waving away all the ways the FO has managed to add value to the franchise as both meaningless and easy understates the job they've actually done. I do suppose, though, if they hit on every successful FA over the past 3 years, the team would be better. Course, the worst case for that scenario puts the team in far worse shape than they are now.
  10. bukie
    Everyone's "floor" is "not being a productive major league player".
  11. bukie
    Has there been any player anyone can think of that had good pedigree, put up minor league and major league struggling stats like Vitters and the light just clicked turning him into a starter or even good player? I know he is what he probably is and hes not necessarily young but he's also not necessarily for sure too old to improve. Is there anybody we can compare Vitters too that can give us any sort of hope. I know if possible its a 1 in 1000 chance of probably happening but still. I dont know why I even care but I guess I used to like Vitters a lot as a prospect around 08 or 09 ? Ryan Ludwick? Dont believe he made his ML debut until he was 29. That was about the only name that came to mind, but his struggles were much more related to injury than being bad at baseball. Jose Bautista was bad at baseball for 6 years until he broke out at age 29.
  12. bukie
    .274/.338/.535/.873 overall, .302/.396/.698/1.094 in the month of June (he was promoted after 6/28) I thought it was somewhere around where Almora was/is. Bunch more power, though.
  13. bukie
    How well was Javy doing in Daytona before he got the promotion to AA?
  14. bukie

    Rizzo

    bukie replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Since 2013: Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder combined: 4.5 fWAR Anthony Rizzo: 4.8 fWAR
  15. bukie
    I cant remember the last good pitcher to stick with one team. It seems even less likely to happen with the arm injuries now and the fear of long pitching deals. I guess Mariano did it but I cant think of a SP. Glavine. Also Verlander so far.
  16. bukie
    The "Because I said so" reasoning is a non-starter. But not quite as much of a non-starter as Hinrich.
  17. bukie
    McDermott with his worst offensive game of the summer league so far, with just 1-6 on 3 pointers. He did make that following a sequence where he blocked two consecutive shots and then hit the 3 in transition, though. Bulls basically destroying the whole summer league right now as well, winning 4 games by a total of 88 points.
  18. bukie
    Every stateside Cub minor league affiliate is within 1 game of playoff contention right now. Boise losing tonight would put them in trouble, though.
  19. bukie
    Right here meaning netting (often significant) value in every deal, and hitting on all significant draft and IFA picks. Practically every deal they've made has improved the organization overall, and if you take into account the difference in player development, even the assets that were here have improved stock markedly.
  20. bukie
    Sure, Rumplestiltskin spun straw into gold, but that's easy to do when you have so much straw to work with and time to do it. We're not giving enough credit to the guy that provided all the straw. Yeah. That's totally what happened. Certainly closer to the truth than the handwaving you constantly do about how easy it is to do things right.
  21. bukie
    Sure, Rumplestiltskin spun straw into gold, but that's easy to do when you have so much straw to work with and time to do it. We're not giving enough credit to the guy that provided all the straw.
  22. bukie
    Newcastle, maybe.
  23. bukie
    If only they realized Ryan Dempster could close about a month earlier.
  24. bukie
    good for 1.7 WAR in 129 games Because he was bad defensively. 8 of the 9 starters had OPS+ of 109 or better (Patterson was 96). The Cubs got 9 starts all year from a pitcher that didn't finish with an ERA+ under 110 (Mitre pitched 9 starts and did terrible). LaTroy Hawkins had a 168 ERA+, Mercker, Remlinger, Leicester, and Wuertz all pitched at least 30 games in relief and posted above average ERA+. Basically Farnsworth got 72 appearances and wasn't that good, and Dusty had a bench full of Dusty favorites that he kept giving plate appearances to that had no business on a major league roster (Ordonez, Macias, Goodwin, Gonzalez).
  25. bukie
    Todd Walker led off and played 2B and hit .274/.352/.468.
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