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Same basic team makeup as 04 (04 non-pitcher team OPS was .811), except the 08 team won the division by 7 games and were 10 game clear of the playoffs when they started coasting. 04 missed the playoffs by 4 games. -
Every time I think about that Nomar trade, I think about the September 2004 Cubs: C Michael Barrett - .287/.337/.489/.826 1B Derrek Lee - .278/.356/.504/.860 2B Todd Walker - .274/.352/.468/.820 SS Nomar Garciaparra - .297/.364/.455/.819 3B Aramis Ramirez - .318/.373/.578/.951 LF Moises Alou - .293/.361/.557/.919 CF Corey Patterson - .266/.320/.452/.771 RF Sammy Sosa - .253/.332/.517/.849 Bench OF Todd Hollandsworth - .318/.392/.547/.939 OF Ben Grieve - .250/.316/.563/.878 IF Mark Grudzielanek - .297/.364/.455/.819 IF Neifi Perez - .371/.400/.548/.948 (!) Rotation of Prior, Wood, Zambrano, Maddux, Clement, each of the 5 with a 110 or better ERA+, Bullpen with Dempster, Mercker, Hawkins, Remlinger, Rusch, Wuertz and Farnsworth, all of which were better than average (aside from maybe Farnsworth). HOW DID THIS TEAM NOT MAKE THE PLAYOFFS, DUSTY?!
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Games already started today, so lineup changes are effected as of tomorrow anyway, so I'd think it was fine.
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General Trade Deadline Thread
bukie replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Probability of a trade has risen to 90%. @BNightengale The #Cubs are done for the month with no last minute trades So Rizzo, Castro and Samardzija must be the only Cubs left. -
On a good note, the Cubs now actually have two regulars in the top 25 in MLB in walk rate.
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How many more runs do the Cubs need to score here for the perception of the offense to go from awful to mediocre?
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At least the Cubs have been getting base runners regularly. OBP is their general problem, RISP just manifests itself worse when there are fewer chances.
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Maybe it would make sense to only allow trades after keepers are set. How would that make any sense for the people that can take on points and are receiving the star players? I've also made trades for guys in specific point ranges in the past so that I could squeak under the 2000 point limit. I'll still contend that there's no quicker way for bad teams to get star players than to clear their team of points at the deadline, then trade pennies on the dollar during the offseason to take on the points of the star players. Let's look at this from the point of view of the bad teams instead of the good ones. If they're not allowed to make trades for good players after the season, they are going to head into the draft with the same lousy team they ended the year with. Sure, the draft will be a bit deeper, but they only have one of every sixteen picks. It actually makes it MORE likely that rich teams will be able to pick up the good players they had to cast off the previous year instead of having them be distributed to the teams in need. Which works as long as the owners actually do trade for pennies on the dollar instead of dollars on the dollar.
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Maybe it would make sense to only allow trades after keepers are set.
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That was basically my thought as well, but I'd say the renovations and lack of money make .500 in 2014 at least a tad harder to get there. Gun to my head though, playoffs in 2015. They've basically performed like a .500 team in 2013, though it's yet to be seen whether it continues after they lose two productive starting pitchers.
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Also, my team gets zero respect. :P
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I mentioned this in the Random Musings thread, but the NL playoffs are pretty well set right now. So much so, that the Cubs are actually 6th in the NL in 3rd order wins behind the five nearly certain playoff teams.
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Hosmer isn't on Chuck's team anymore, either.
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Tim generally does a lot of trading, though, yes. The potential trick there is that neither of the teams could possibly keep even half of that over the next year, so they'll be offloading them at the end of the year for whatever they can get. The key here is not giving up as much after the year as they give up in midseason. Also, on an unrelated note, I may be looking to upgrade 2B or 3B, and have a spare SS and some incumbent exempt players to offer in return.
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*kicks sand*
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I predict he's back in Iowa within a month. If the Cubs let Vitters stay on the roster all second half last year, they'll probably do the same with Lake. It's not as if he's blocking someone else's opportunity at this point.
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General Trade Deadline Thread
bukie replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Trading for guys like Olt, Grimm, Arrieta and Strop emphasizes a more near-term approach than trading for higher ceiling, lower-level types. You can disagree but you know you are wrong. -
General Trade Deadline Thread
bukie replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Perhaps you might read the points being made and respond to any of them instead of just starting over with a broad and accusatory statement. There's a first time for everything, I suppose. -
Now that the Dodgers woke up, it looks like the NL playoffs are basically set, with only Arizona within 5 games of a playoff spot. Hell, the Cubs would be arguably the next most dangerous team in the NL after Arizona.
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I wonder what the odds were of the Cardinals making the playoffs on that date. Probably not all that terrible since the division was so awful. So depressing. They won the wild card, and the Brewers won 96 games.
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Finally Peter King can think he thinks more than 10 things.
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Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 Hall of Fame class: ...only in baseball.
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07/28 CUBS (Wood) @ S.F. (Lincecum) 3:05 CDT WGN
bukie replied to Sosa21MVP's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Three weeks ago, they finished a road sweep of the White Sox. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 7-28-13
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
trying not to get too hyped here, but he got a post-trade promotion, too, right? It is the FSL, though, his being promoted just means he's played more recently than anyone else in the league. -
Cubs are 41-42 since April 23 (they started 5-13).
