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Err...the lower seeds don't have home field advantage.
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Why would you like to think that? 1/3 of the teams in a league make the playoffs. If you are .500 at the deadline, you should not be selling off. Because I think their plan from the beginning was to clean house and start fresh, while maximizing the value of their current assets to get as much as possible for them. Part of it backfired on them when Garza and Marmol got injured and Dempster didn't want to go to Atlanta, but they still made out with a couple top 10 prospects in Villanueva and Vizcaino. And I like to think that if they had a plan from the beginning they'd stick to it if every gamble broke right for them just as it did when almost everything broke wrong for them.
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One good move the Cubs front office made: not hiring Sideshow Bob.
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What I'm most curious about is what the FO would have done if some of the flyers had paid off (i.e. Dolis was able to miss bats, Wood was effective, and Stewart played like he did a few years back) and the Cubs had somehow managed to hover around .500 at the deadline. Would they have sold everything off and torpedoed the year? I'd like to think they still would have done the same thing they did, which could have made the fan base even more disgruntled with the process.
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Tim, I mostly agree with your assessment, but I don't really have a problem with Camp's results from this year. They brought in Camp as a short term late inning replacement, and it worked out overall. For the vast majority of the year, Camp was the team's best reliever, until seemingly running out of gas in late August and September. The only real baffling thing to me was Corpas and just how many innings the guy got after being acquired.
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Consider the bullpen when the new front office took over. There were six quality holdovers. Listed in order of quality, from best to worst: - Sean Marshall: Traded for Travis Wood, Dave Sappelt and Ronald Torreyes. Then and now considered good value for one year of a reliever, but the only case where they gave up short-term WAR for long-term projections.. - Carlos Marmol: Terrible for three weeks, found injured, more valuable than 2011 after being healthy. Using him in the pen this year was a net plus. - Jeff Samardzija: Converted to quality starter, which made him about 5 times as valuable to the team. Good move. - Kerry Wood: Retired a month into the season after signing an extension in the offseason. - James Russell: More valuable in the pen this year than last year. Good move keeping him. - Andrew Cashner: Traded for Anthony Rizzo, who was worth five times as much as Cashner this year despite only playing since June. Good move. Which of the above six decisions the front office made for this year would you criticize? Just about the only one I would take issue with was keeping on Marmol all year, but he was basically untradeable while injured, so what can you do?
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Orioles over Rangers in 1 Braves over Cardinals in 1 Orioles over Yankees in 4 A's over Tigers in 4 Nationals over Braves in 5 Giants over Reds in 3 A's over Orioles in 6 Nationals over Giants in 5 A's over Nationals in 5
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I can't. I can only see that it perhaps has. It's a plausible explanation for why we fielded so many awful players, especially the bullpen. Here's another explanation on the bullpen: the bullpen is a crap shoot. It's made up of the most volatile of players in MLB, pitchers who aren't solid and/or durable enough to be starters. The options are to either invest heavily in "more stable" relievers and hope you hit on more of the "sure things", or scrounge relievers from your (and other) system pitchers that aren't considered much of real prospects. Since the FO wasn't looking to go all in to win this year, they (wisely, IMO) chose option B, and it didn't work out this year.
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A new site focused on American soccer put together their top 100 US players based on votes from 10 "soccer experts": http://americansoccernow.com/asn_100#.UG2csU3A8gw List looks pretty good to me, and the site looks better. Might have a new place to go check out soccer info.
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The plan failed, but overhauling the minor league system and focusing on developing your own players then adding what you need from the free agent pile after your kids start to contribute is the same thing. It failed. But it's the same plan. Hopefully these guys do a better job implementing it. MacPhail's plan failed for two primary reasons: 1) Their minor league development and scouting had no idea what constituted a valuable hitting prospect or how to develop one. 2) The manager he hired torpedoed the valuable arms the club was stockpiling. Then Hendry took over and came up with a new plan every offseason, from "get more lefthanded" to "get a feel-good club house environment" ro "get guys who hit well with RISP because that's totally how Moneyball worked, right?"
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Between Detroit making the playoffs and LA not making them and Cabrera winning the Triple Crown, there's no way Cabrera won't win the MVP.
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Re: Games in which the Cubs are not playing
bukie replied to El Duderino's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The A's have the tiebreaker over the Yankees, but not the Orioles. The Rangers have the tiebreaker over the Orioles should they lose tonight though. -
Looks like the Cubs already found their fall guy for the 101 loss season, as they let 3B coach Pat Listach go, per Bruce Miles tweet.
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Re: Games in which the Cubs are not playing
bukie replied to El Duderino's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
He's also throwing to his personal catcher, Geovany Soto. -
Houston only has $5.5 million in payroll committed for 2013, and $5 million of that is to help pay for Wandy Rodriguez.
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No PPR, my other WRs are Calvin Johnson, Mike Wallace, Hakeem Nicks and Lance Moore, and my other TE is Heath Miller.
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One other thing I noticed from the FO data: Detroit's schedule from here on out is murderous. They've already played St. Louis, Tennessee, and home vs. Minnesota. They still have games against Jacksonville and Indy, but the rest of their schedule is as follows: 2 v CHI (3-1) 2 v GB (2-2) @ MIN (3-1) @ ARI (4-0) @ PHI (3-1) v SEA (2-2) v ATL (4-0) v HOU (4-0)
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The Bears' DVOA actually went up from last week, but other teams' DVOA went up more due to the reconfiguring of opponent adjustments from 2011 projections (how teams finished last year) to 2012 results (how teams are this year). There's basically a steep dropoff after #9 (Minny), and then a vast ocean between #11 (Seattle) and #13 (Philly).
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The Cardinals might be 4-0, but they're way too high in rankings right now. They've been outplayed in three of their four games.
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Some times it's just your night.
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I was just offered Darren McFadden and Reggie Wayne for Jimmy Graham and Jordy Nelson. I'm really thin at RB since Kevin Smith stopped getting time and Helu went on IR (my only RBs right now are Bradshaw and Green-Ellis). I'm tempted to go for it despite D-Mac and Oakland's struggles this year.
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I suppose this is more for any OKC fan's benefit than anyone else, but for anyone that wasn't familiar with Pruiti's work before getting hired on for the Thunder, these were the last two articles he wrote up before getting hired: Oklahoma City's Bigs Problem How James Harden's Hesitation Cost the Thunder The guy was doing things with video analysis that nobody else was doing before, and spawned hundreds of imitators, and now he's got a vested interest in one particular team. Maybe the best non-player hire of the offseason.
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He got hit in Florida. Also, the Marlins with a gimmick? That's so new and different.
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You could've just stopped there.
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Still three left with Arizona. Right, but they've already been swept in Arizona once this year.
