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  1. bmkhawk
    Your statement about his defense. And I disagree with your assessments on all. He is the best of that lot.
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    No way Dusty benches Hollandsworth for another lefty-hitting outfielder. I think you are wrong. Check back w/ me in six weeks. Gerut has much more talent than Holla does. Yet their performance throughout their careers has been fairly similar. Well, that is a somewhat deceiving point considering that Gerut has less than two full season's worth of at bats in his career and Holla has been up for about 8 seasons (or whatever) now. Also, when comparing the two, I tihnk it is fair to say that a guy like Gerut fits into the team's plans next year while Holla likely does not.
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    What in the world is your basis for this statement?
  4. bmkhawk
    No way Dusty benches Hollandsworth for another lefty-hitting outfielder. I think you are wrong. Check back w/ me in six weeks. Gerut has much more talent than Holla does. dusty doesn't care about talent. just the "years experience" on the back of your baseball card. Yeah, I'm sure that's it.
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    Good lord...that is really not a good assessment of Gerut's abilities. Let's see what he can do when he gets healthy. He has speed. He can walk...has very good plate presence. He has decent pop. I see more upside in him than Dubois. By the way, I don't understand all the talk of Gerut in center. Sure, he gives the team one other option (pretty much their only other option) to play center while CP is in the minors. I see him and Murton in a platoon in left.
  6. bmkhawk
    No way Dusty benches Hollandsworth for another lefty-hitting outfielder. I think you are wrong. Check back w/ me in six weeks. Gerut has much more talent than Holla does.
  7. bmkhawk
    Because some around here tend to overvalue Cub prospects? I really think it is that simple. While this wasn't a trade that brought in major improvement, I think it improved the team just the same. I guess we'll see.
  8. bmkhawk
    There's still a possibility that trade could end up being a bust for bust trade. Minor league performances are awesome and everything, but, you gotta go with ML performance to evaluate trades. I disagree. Even if Bay turns out to be a bust, the Cubs didn't optimize his trade value - they surely could have gotten more for him than Bartosh (and if not, they should have kept Bear). Yes, I just read the whole thread. :shock: I re: Bay...it's not always that simple. Bear would have had to been placed on the 40 man this year or have been risked being exposed to the Rule 5 draft. Now, it is probably unlikely that he would have been taken, but it is certainly another factor to consider.
  9. bmkhawk
    Finally, a reasonable post. I don't get some of you...you revere OBP on such a high level, and then we get posts like "I prefer Preston Wilson to Gerut". Makes little sense.
  10. bmkhawk
    Grieve, Murton, Hollandsworth, Hairston, Dubois, or Greenburg could have carried the outfielder role. How the heck do you know that? You have only seen Greenburg in one at bat...and he got hit. Dubois struggled toward quite a bit this year. Grieve...well, he's Grieve. Holla hasn't shown much this year either, save for lately. I don't understand how you can just throw all of those names out there like that means something.
  11. bmkhawk
    Nice personal slam! Oh boy, what a reach.
  12. bmkhawk
    Dubois played in 52 games. Maybe he only started 20...although even that seems low.
  13. bmkhawk
    Or Ben Grieve.
  14. bmkhawk
    It's depressing to think of what we could have had selling Cruz when his value was sky-high.... :x And I agree with your statement. As someone else earlier (and appropriately) pointed out...who really sells high anyway? Then he would just be open to all kind of criticism at the time the trade was made. Again, I think this is a situation where we are valuing our own prospects too highly. Gerut is a pretty good player.
  15. bmkhawk
    All everyone's saying is that it seems odd, given that we already have Hollandsworth and Grieve, and Gerut isn't better than either. I strongly disagree. I don't think you know much about Gerut.
  16. bmkhawk
    Absolutely. No question. It would have been nice to see them play Raffy in lefty and keep both though. That's what happens when a desperate franchise uses short-term thinking. That '89 season was followed by a decade of incompetence. But these decisions aren't just made in a vacuum. There were obviously other considerations than pure baseball talent involved here. By the way, I have my doubts as to the validity of that quote by Dawson.
  17. bmkhawk
    I would check those minor league numbers again if I were you.
  18. bmkhawk
    why? they're both young, toolsy, raw cf'ers who lack plate discipline and will both be rushed to the majors and yanked around in the batting order. it's actually a pretty good comparison, and you'd think the cubs would have learned from the mistakes they made w/ patterson. What mistakes? Pie has played almost a whole year at each level up through AA so far...and succeeded at each level. Comparing his rise through the minors and Pattersons is not really accurate at all. The Cubs could bring up Pie to end this season and I wouldn't feel like he was being rushed at all. Patterson was brought up after only having real good success at low A and skipping levels. Way different.
  19. bmkhawk
    And equally dumb to presume that a coach is making up certain things that he is telling Corey in order to save his job.
  20. bmkhawk
    How is that different than the "Dusty is stupid and i know this by watching him on tv" threads? I think it's a lot easier to evaluate a manager's performance (which is where calling him stupid would come from) by watching him on tv than it would be to determine whether a certain player is stubborn or not. It's not like you can tell that Corey isn't trying in earnest to take more pitches and not swing at high fastballs. I can tell pretty easily that Dusty thinks playing Neifi instead of Ronny is a good idea. But how easy is it to see what the coaches are telling Corey behind the scene? And correspondingly, how well he responds to said directives?
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    Or maybe, just maybe...it's possible that Corey's struggles are really the result of his own stubbornness all along? It may be hard for some to acknowledge that possibility, but it is certainly a very real one.
  23. bmkhawk
    you could just stop reading baker quote threads That's true I suppose. Both are about as meaningless.
  24. bmkhawk
    Thanks for taking the time to find that article. That said, I don't see it as backing up your contentions in this thread.
  25. bmkhawk
    And none of this "piling" was done in 2001 and 2003?
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