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  1. bukie
    My view is that if Wood is going to get a 3-year, 12 million a year deal to pitch somewhere, it's not worth topping/matching/coming close to that. If Wood is going to get a 2-year, 12-13 million a year deal to pitch somewhere, it's worth at least exploring options to keep him around. If Wood is only getting a 1-year deal somewhere for even as much as, say, 14-15 million, there's no reason the Cubs couldn't at least make an attempt to sign him. And either way, they'd better be offering arbitration.
  2. bukie
    Pain and emptiness.
  3. bukie
    So, where would Kerry signing end up worst for the Cubs? Mets, Cards, Brewers?
  4. bukie
    Kerry Wood.
  5. bukie
    Lidge was 32nd in the NL in pitcher VORP. Of course, VORP is affected by the innings that a pitcher pitches, but in an award named after Cy Young, I consider the innings pitched an important part of the equation.
  6. bukie
    How many players in the league have been on the same team since 1998? Trevor Hoffman, John Smoltz, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Jason Varitek....I can't think of any more.
  7. bukie
    If Marmol gets traded for Peavy, the deal had better be Marmol and inconsequential throw-ins for Peavy, and not much else. Marmol isn't getting traded. Letting Kerry go pretty much cements that, IMO. I agree, I was just commenting on his worth in the event Hendry did get stupid and move him. I agree, it was simply a thought based on what seems to be a needless trade for Gregg and the lack of a dominant closer option for SD. Call me a typical over-optimistic Cubs fan, but I really think Gregg is going to get flipped. Let's not forget how GMs way overvalue the save stat, and Gregg had about 30 of them last year.Of course, Hendry could be one of those GMs that way overvalues the save stat.
  8. bukie
    2 near career-ending arm injuries and a heaping of misplaced blame?
  9. bukie
    I hate, hate, hate trading for bullpen arms. The return of investment on doing so is rarely positive.
  10. bukie
    This can only mean that whatever it is must be destroyed with fire.
  11. bukie
    I based my ballot on how well teams outperformed their preseason PECOTA predictions, so obviously, the Astros and Twins made the top of the list.
  12. bukie
    OTL = OverTime Losses, any time a team loses in overtime or a shootout. Those are worth 1 point, and a win is worth 2 points. I think it's a little dumb, because then for some reason overtime games are worth more points overall than regulation games. I think that a few years back, the NHL awarded 3 points for a win, 2 points for an OT win, 1 point for an OT loss, and 0 points for a regulation loss, but that ended up being far too many things to keep track of, and really made the standings cluttered.
  13. bukie
    I think someone mentioned that earlier, or at least I remember making a joke about the Big Ten finally finding a way to make their brand of basketball exciting.
  14. bukie
    I think Wood is a more likely candidate to repeat last year's production than Dempster.
  15. bukie
    Well, Young is better than Jeter, and most of the good fielding SS were in the NL this year. Mike Aviles would've probably been a better choice. Reputation reared its ugly head in the OF for the AL. The best defenders were likely Carlos Gomez, Franklin Gutierrez, and Carl Crawford. Ichiro wasn't a bad pick, but the others were...not so hot. 1B-2B-3B-C were all solid picks.
  16. bukie
    every time a ss goes deep in the hole (that's what she said) some announcer calls it a jeter-play it's like like one highlight just made everyone [expletive] I think I recall seeing an article quantifying that Jeter actually is very good going to his right. The problem is that his range to his left is utterly atrocious. That would confirm -- in part -- people's subjective perceptions that he makes a lot of good plays in the hole, while still covering less ground than any other SS in baseball. I wish I could remember where I saw it. The truth is, at least in 2008, that Jeter plays a very shallow shortstop because of a weak arm. So, the plays that he actually makes are the really short choppers that most SS don't (because they're playing deep). However, anything hit sharply that isn't right at him is going through at an alarming rate. Remember, defense isn't just about preventing errors, it's about making outs on balls hit in your area.
  17. bukie
    Actually, all 3 OF GG are CFs, oddly enough. So is Chris Young. Young definitely considered consideration also. McLouth, oddly enough, comes up last among all major league CFs in RZR and +/- rating. And I can't imagine what the hell GG voters were thinking at first base, when Berkman and Pujols were pretty significantly better than anyone else (well, and Teixiera, but he was traded to the AL).
  18. bukie
    The only really bad choices are Gonzalez at first and McLouth in the OF (considering Beltran was already a CF, and much better). Fred Lewis, Randy Winn and Kosuke Fukudome probably deserved OF consideration.
  19. bukie
    The Fielding Bible is the site the article was referring to. Two good indicators there for Jeter being awful: Jeter vs. Everett (under Fielding Bible Excerpts), and the Three Year Register statistics (in which fielding data was compiled over a 3 year period).
  20. bukie
    According to a panel led by Bill James, "probably the worst fielder in baseball, at any position."
  21. bukie
    Then trading away the benefit from that Brand trade (Chandler) for nothing but wasted cap space was really what compounded the problem.
  22. bukie
    Dodgers?
  23. bukie
    I can't count the sarcastic statements in this thread on two hands. Again, great post, full of substance. And where did I say anything like that? If anything I made some vague reference to HILL not adjusting to big league hitters..not vice versa. Great post, full of substance. Hill was dominant for 1.5 years in the minors and 1.5 years in the majors. Then he somehow "failed to adjust"...to what? How did the big league hitters suddenly force him to adjust? Did they somehow psych him out into throwing wildly? Maybe if you actually used that 8 pound lump on top of your neck, you'd notice that not all the posts are sarcastic, and you've yet to provide a single logical reason for your assertion.
  24. bukie
    USC Texas Oklahoma Ohio St. Michigan Penn St. Florida St. Florida LSU Alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama alabama Alabama could never be as low as 10th.
  25. bukie
    So, after tonight's game, there will only be 4 teams in the NFL with fewer losses than the Bears (Tennessee, NY Giants, Carolina, Wash/Pit winner). That seems amazing to me, considering how mediocre they've played so far and how they let 3 winnable games get away. Of course, there are also only 4 teams below .500 in the NFC, so a lot of teams are tightly bunched this year.
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