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  1. mul21
    Is that sarcasm? You're tracing a forearm injury from 7 years prior to Wainwright getting TJS? No. He had some forearm problems and they found a slight UCL tear that held up for a long time before he actually had to get it fixed. Granted, that's probably an extreme outlier, but obviously not impossible.
  2. mul21
    He stole a base almost 50% of the time he reached based. He also scored approximately half of the time that he reached base. Pretty amazing numbers. You do realize that him scoring that often only has a small amount to do with his ability right? The SB numbers are impressive though.
  3. mul21
    And forearm injuries aren't just a sore throat either. Forearm injuries very often presage TJS. Over what time-frame? Depends. Sometimes 2 weeks, sometimes 7-8 years (a la Wainwright).
  4. mul21
    Well, newly signed FAs can't be traded until June 15 or July 1 or whatever, so that would be a problem. But I have no idea if they could trade his rights before they signed him. I would imagine there has to be something in the agreement on posting players between the NPB and MLB that would keep a team from doing that.
  5. mul21
    Goold: "What do you make of these discussions?" Agent: "Why I could make a hat, or a brooch, a pterodactyl. . . ." Wow, getting that makes me feel old. Great movie though. It took me years to really get the "I have a drinking problem" joke where he pours the screwdriver all over his face.
  6. mul21
    Seeing as how the best we could do for Ramirez is Ian Stewart, I'm going to go with "yes." Way to cherry pick the single most barren position this off season. Also, Ramirez is not currently with the team, so he's not part of the discussion anyway.
  7. mul21
    He absolutely is suggesting punting longterm. If you trade off all your actually productive players, and let the rest walk, without acquiring any impact players in return, it will take an extremely long time to get back to being competitive. You would effectively be starting from scratch and that takes time. The Cubs will suck for multiple years if they do that. No he's not. Read it again. He's setting them up for a major reload, be it from FA signings or trades, next off season. That's not a 4-5 year rebuild. The sheer volume of good prospects you'd have from trading all those guys would be huge or you'd get some very useful major league pieces that you can fill in around.
  8. mul21
    Because that's not really one of the main reasons. It's a fairly minor reason, actually. Spending lots of money isn't the problem. Spending it on the wrong guys is. 31 yr old guys with holes in their swings aren't a good bet for an 8 yr deal. Zambrano has definitely been more of a problem since signing his deal, but I'm not sure anybody was real upset with that. Who knew he'd go completely bat [expletive] crazy like he has.
  9. mul21
    So your goal is trying to win in 2020 (maybe)? How could you possibly come to that conclusion from what he posted? He's sacrificing 2012 to get a boatload of young guys and free up payroll to add significant pieces in the off season next year and be relatively competitive in 2013 with a lot of upside going forward. -Young guys don't always pan out -The FA class next year sucks offensively Not the point, but they're allowed to trade some of the young guys they acquire for bats as well. The real point is that in no way does what he's suggesting indicate punting the next 4-5 seasons to build from within and be terrible while doing it. It doesn't guarantee anything, but it certainly isn't a total rebuild that's going to take 4-5 years.
  10. mul21
    So your goal is trying to win in 2020 (maybe)? How could you possibly come to that conclusion from what he posted? He's sacrificing 2012 to get a boatload of young guys and free up payroll to add significant pieces in the off season next year and be relatively competitive in 2013 with a lot of upside going forward.
  11. mul21
    The rumors last night and today were that the Ham Fighters were expected to accept the highest bid tonight (Tuesday morning in Japan) and that winning team would be announced shortly thereafter. It sounds like the Ham Fighters will announce their acceptance of the winning bid themselves, and then MLB will announce which team made that bid (since the Fighters don't know the identity of the bids). What form that will appear in, I have no idea. Quit calling them the Ham Fighters. They're owned/sponsored by Nippon Ham. That'd be like calling the Cubs the Steaks Cubs if they were called the Chicago Omaha Steaks Cubs.
  12. mul21
    Hmmm... that could be a very interesting team to trade with I don't want anything to do with Rasmus. He's a headcase and was deathly afraid of the wall at Busch. He won't catch anything even close to the wall at Wrigley and I think he's destined for a corner OF spot sooner rather than later anyway, where his bat doesn't play nearly as well..
  13. mul21
    That's just idiotic. He slipped on the crappy Soldier Field turf. Blame the park district if you're going to be ridiculous about it. Not that I'm excusing some of Knox's dumb plays, but to blame him for the way the season turned out is just way off base.
  14. mul21
    Any streams for the game?
  15. mul21
    In case anybody missed SNL last night.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul2dhNaQgxM&feature=email
  16. mul21
    Can somebody look and see what Dusty's typical pythag vs. actual record is season by season for his career? I'd be interested to see if his stupidity has an affect on that in any way.
  17. mul21
    Seriously, these refs aren't calling [expletive] and Illinois is just rattled by it.
  18. mul21
    I'm not sure this game could be played any more sloppily than it has been. And Leonard has amazing vision.
  19. mul21
    Just more speculation by another media goon but something. kind of. That's definitely odd, especially because Strauss isn't one to typically throw stuff out there if he's not pretty damn sure of it. He's not just another rumor mongerer like so many of these guys have become. I'm really kind of perplexed by that.
  20. mul21
    Sullinger might be broken. Just hurt his foot against South Carolina, tried to come back in and then limped back off the court.
  21. mul21
    My favorite part is when he says they have a proven "mythology" for doing background checks. How does an idiot who can't speak in public effectively become the GM of an NFL franchise?
  22. mul21
    He's just 25 years old, has a very good approach at the plate (15.7% BB rate), and has shown the ability to hit for power in the minors (.497 SLG in AAA, though a grain of salt because it was PCL). And the line you posted is his career minor league line, not his PCL line. In 1 PCL season (477 PAs), he's posted a .253/.379/.414 line. Not too encouraging, but consider this: 1st 237 AAA PAs: .244/.363/.360 Next 225 AAA PAs: .279/.404/.497 He's shown pretty clear improvement in a similar number of PAs. 279/404/497 in the PCL from a 1b still doesn't excite me either. A .901 OPS doesn't excite you? I understand the PCL inflation, but that's pretty damn good and if you can get him without giving up too much, him putting up and .850 OPS at Wrigley isn't a pipe dream by any means.
  23. mul21

    Cubs DVDs

    mul21 replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    That 5 game series at Wrigley was my first baseball season in St. Louis and that was absolutely amazing to be able to talk trash after that series was over. I haven't had much to talk about since then unfortunately.
  24. mul21
    I think the wild inconsistency/inaccuracy of defensive metrics is the issue. Yes, you can generally tell if a guy is preventing/allowing more runs than an average guy might, but quantifying exactly how many is pretty inexact and something I have a problem really putting a ton of value in outside of just generalizing whether a guy is a good, average, or bad defender.
  25. mul21
    Perhaps a move similar to the Soriano signing in an attempt to boost franchise value prior to a sale?
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