Jump to content
North Side Baseball

mul21

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10,868

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    10

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by mul21

  1. mul21
    This just occurred to me. I know the possibility of piggy backing Shark and Cashner has been brought up but I have a little bit of a different spin on it. How about you get one of them (I think I'd go with Shark) stretched out to start the season and have them start through maybe the All-Star break. Just before the break, you send the other guy down to Iowa for 3 weeks maybe to get him stretched out to start. Move the first guy to the pen, stick the second guy in the rotation. You've now had an opportunity to get them both stretched out a bit without overly taxing either one of them and haven't really given up anything in either the rotation or the pen other than the time guy #2 is in Iowa getting stretched out.
  2. mul21
    I'm not sure where you're getting this, but he's still seen as a guy who can be a pretty good ML player. Yeah, he's got work to do, but that's why he's still in the minors. Between how young he was when drafted, illness, injury, and just the amount of time it takes to figure out how to play professional baseball, I have no idea why you're so down on the guy. Also, do you realize that guys who went to college are probably still mostly in the minors? As has been mentioned, he's been young for every single level he's been at in the minors, has had an adjustment period and then figured it out. Not to mention that fact that you're calling a first round draft pick a disappointment if he ends up as an average major league 3B? How many 1st round picks flame out before they get to the majors? Or even AA?
  3. mul21
    Oh yeah baby, the MacPhail/Hendry plan. Worked like a charm last time. Better than the strategy of the last 5 years. At least they ended up with Wood, Prior, Cruz, Z, and a few others out of it. They haven't developed a decent starter in years (unless you count Wells). And I'm not agreeing with him either by the way. Just pointing out that the overall draft/develop strategy has been awful for a while.
  4. mul21
    Baker crushes lefties, plays multiple positions, and isn't very expensive. I have no earthly idea why you want to get rid of him when he's a very useful player. If he was making $5 million, okay, but he's not. Stop trying to get rid of players who are very productive when used properly. It's dumb and makes the team worse.
  5. mul21
    He wants the other 3 percent of the offer to go to Kwame Brown. Did you see that Yahoo! article? Apparently Jordan was leading a group who didn't want to give the players more than 37% at the beginning of the negotiations.
  6. mul21
    To try to say this with any kind of certainty is just dumb and something you can't possibly know.
  7. mul21
    Albert Pujols career vs. RHP - .325 .415 .607 1.021 Prince Fielder career vs. RHP - .294 .411 .577 .988 Albert Pujols career vs. LHP - .338 .437 .648 1.085 Prince Fielder career vs. LHP - .257 .340 .458 .799 So, which stats are for LHP? Better? Pretty obvious if you're paying attention.
  8. mul21
    If they're not idiots about it the city will get paid back tenfold over time if they help with the initial investment. It's a win-win.
  9. mul21
    Rob Emanuel? Really? Wow.
  10. mul21
    Didn't he tweak something minor, like what Cashner just got over, that put the brakes on the experiment? I could have sworn it was a minor injury that would have delayed him getting innings in that killed it.
  11. mul21
    I was about to say. His FIP and xFIP have been 4.00 or higher the past two years, more or less... 2010 FIP: 4.19 xFIP: 4.29 ERA: 4.64 WAR: 1.2 2011 FIP: 3.99 xFIP: 4.23 ERA: 2.98 WAR: 1.5 I'm all for exploring to acquire him because I do think he's a fine pitcher, but I think he's being a little overvalued here A 2.98 ERA in 23 starts is only good for 1.5 WAR? That seems really low.
  12. mul21
    I think that's a bit much It's all in the tOPS+ Looks more to me like it's all in the babip. (unless that was a bad Happy Gilmore joke)
  13. mul21
    I'll unblock ads if you can get rid of the one with the smiley faces that says something and the "You win". Make that go away and I''l happily unblock ads. That one makes me crazy, and it's everywhere!
  14. mul21
    Pujols may not have been affected by LaRussa's status, but LaRussa may have been affected by Pujols's status. Yeah, this is how I look at it. Which is why I said somewhere earlier that LaRussa's decision may have been influenced by Pujols' decision (if he's made one).
  15. mul21
    This was my thought. Maybe Albert told him he's not coming back no matter what. Lots of signs pointing to him leaving, he asked Tony to sign a photo from his rookie year before game 6. That doesn't sound like someone who was planning on being together much longer. Not sure what other signs there are, but it's possible LaRussa told the team at some point during the season that he was done at the end of the year so Pujols knew Game 6 could have been his last game. Nope, first the team heard of it was after the parade yesterday. Mozeliak said on the radio this morning 5 or 6 people knew about it before then. I guess Pujols could have been one of them.
  16. mul21
    Yeah, but that's entirely because of the crazy. If you had Z without the sideshow, as everybody has said, he's a perfectly fine pitcher to have in your rotation who, at the very worst, most likely eats a lot of innings at better than a league average level.
  17. mul21
    He hasn't been with the team in months since his wife has a serious brain tumor(as if there's any other kind). I'd have to say it's a longshot he returns to St. Louis. Was that his evil twin making mound visits the other night? He's been with the team on and off while that's been going on.
  18. mul21
    I'd be surprised to see him back between LaRussa going and some health issues his wife is having.
  19. mul21
    This was my thought. Maybe Albert told him he's not coming back no matter what.
  20. mul21
    Presser in STL as we speak.
  21. mul21
    Dewitt was on the radio down here a few weeks ago and said pretty flat out that the Cardinals didn't make any significant amount of money off of the playoffs unless they went 7 games of the World Series. That being said, I'm sure they made money, but not anything significant enough to pay Pujols any more than they already could. Now, whether he was telling the truth or not is an entirely different story. Interesting side note, I was told that they were selling the empty champagne bottle from the NLCS celebration in the team store at the stadium. WTF?
  22. mul21
    Yes, this. You're getting a much better WAR:$ value by doing it shorter and with a higher AAV. And in the years you would have had him at 1B (7-10), you can get somebody different for cheaper/the same money and get a more accurate value for them.
  23. mul21
    No, we've been over this....it was slick backed. Tim, you really need to start regulating these mods better! :-"
  24. mul21
    Pujols for 6/$200M? I'm in. The one reason I don't want him is the absurdity of giving a guy a 10 year contract that starts in his age 32 season. If you can be done with him at the end of his age 37 season? Awesome, even if the AAV is a bit ridiculous. He'll probably be worth, or close, it until maybe the last year of the deal.
  25. mul21
    Clearly someone who doesn't live amongst their fanbase, which makes them all the more unbearable.
×
×
  • Create New...