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Your inability to think and read critically while arguing about the exaggerated implications of the 25th man on a 100-loss team is a baffling combination.
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I kind of want the front office that's proven it's capable of taking care of the little things to actually take care of the little things, because their failure to do so sort of implies that they just don't care. I want my front office to take some gambles when they know in ST that the team will suck. Some of those gambles turn out to be useful trade pieces. Some turn out to be Joe Mather. Still a good decision to take the flier even if the result turns out to be a horrible baseball player. They're not going to hit on every bet. I get what you're saying, but since Kyle's issue is that they're putting a player that is known to be bad on the roster and that he wants somebody better in that role, why would that bad player be a better gamble than someone who is better? If there was an obviously better player available with no long term implications, great. If there's a couple of bad players and you think you can catch lightning in a bottle with one for a couple months and flip him in a trade, it was worth it.
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Yeah, I don't want that at all. I don't want them giving up on teams in spring training. Taking a gamble on the 25th man is hardly giving up. Maybe they thought they could tweak something to make him useful and it seemed to be working in ST but didn't work out. Who knows. So he sucked. Meh. Mather isn't the reason we missed the playoffs.
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[expletive] Nancy Reagan.
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Going to 20 schools or backing out on the Maryland and Rutgers deals?
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I kind of want the front office that's proven it's capable of taking care of the little things to actually take care of the little things, because their failure to do so sort of implies that they just don't care. I want my front office to take some gambles when they know in ST that the team will suck. Some of those gambles turn out to be useful trade pieces. Some turn out to be Joe Mather. Still a good decision to take the flier even if the result turns out to be a horrible baseball player. They're not going to hit on every bet.
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Depends. How far are they from 85 again?
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BA, BP, etc. Cubs Top Prospects List
Tracer Bullet replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
The one with fewer players makes you happier? I think this is just WSR being WSR. He meant BA not BP, and I am assuming the "other guy" is Bradley Ankrom. Yep -
Less than half a WAR 6 weeks before the season? Yeah, somewhere between there and 5 WAR is a reasonable range.
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Damnit. If I'd known he can fly, I wouldn't have been so happy about the deal. I'd still be happy bc he can't hit but I'd be less happy.
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Hey whatever floats your boat. But I didn't say the two guys that will score the most points. I said the two best players. SP score more in this league, so saying the SP will put up more points than a SS and 3B is a very low bar. Tulo and Headley were the best SS and 3B that would have been available. Cueto may have been among the top projected SP available, but he was in a group with a few other SP. The drop from Cueto to the next guy is almost meaningless - not true for Tulo and Headley. I'm not sure what the point is, I guess. It just feels odd, I think, for some of the rest of the league when you made a trade to put yourself just barely over the limit on the deadline and then had to trade away two top 5 guys at their positions in an almost literally last second deal to bail out HBC b/c you had to dump points to get back under the limit again. Pretty huge windfall for HBC.
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Anyone interested in moving up for the #1 pick?
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NFL Offseason/Coaching Carousel/non-playoff talk
Tracer Bullet replied to Banedon's topic in Other Sports
Goodell made nearly $30m in 2011. great googly moogly http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8952737/roger-goodell-compensation-nearly-tripled-2949m-2011 -
Dear lord, i love baseball. why do i let myself get so excited.
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If Lane is trolling the Trojans, I'm impressed. Otherwise, his everyove continues to baffle me.
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Mauer actually had 455 but that doesn't change your points. But Niese isn't exempt. He had 5 starts in 09 and much more than 5 each of the last 3 years.
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Forgive me if this was addressed, but is Reddick exempt ? I thought he had 50+ AB's in 09. If I'm wrong, please disregard. You're right. Over 50 PAs in 09, 10, 11, and 12.
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Wait, you made that trade with hbc for 2 guys he wasn't going to keep, you gave up the best SS and a top 5 3b (clearly the two best players in the deal), you only made the deal to get under the cap when it turns out you were wrong about your backup SS being exempt, and now you end up with no SS and just 9 keepers? That was a pretty brutal last-minute trade before I knew all of that. I sure hope hbc didn't know you were banking on Desmond being exempt bc that would be really underhanded.
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Saw some pretty funny Photoshop work with this one. http://blacksportsonline.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Reuben-Foster-Sleep-2.jpg
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I thought it was 100 abs That's the minor league limit
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Meh. It's leaps and bounds better than him refusing to acknowledge that his swing needed fixing. I'll take a young player with potential working hard to fix a problem over the alternative any day of the week. Well no kidding. Nobody is talking alternative. A young player being willing to work on stuff isn't out of the ordinary. What is, or will be actually meaningful is if he can translate the work to the field. Good thing you and Dexter are here to keep the unbridled optimism in check. I was getting a little tired of the last several pages talking about Jackson's HOF speech and all but I was too timid to speak up. What is the point of your asinine statement? Lol
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The 2012 Offseason Thread
Tracer Bullet replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I understand the point, I guess I just don't see how the cubs current roster makes a difference as to the relative value of adding a base stealer. Would a prolific base stealer be less important on the 80s Cardinals that I hated playing against on RBI baseball? Seems to me Bourn's value as a base stealer and base runner generally is important regardless of how good his teammates are in those areas. In fact, the only impact I could see would be the reverse of what you're saying (i.e., he's unable to steal or go first to third bc the team as a whole are so bad at base running, so his value is diminished on a team full of base cloggers). I'm not advocating that position, I'm just saying it seems more plausible than saying Bourn is even more valuable bc he adds an element in base running that the Cubs don't have. -
The 2012 Offseason Thread
Tracer Bullet replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Does the lack of a prominent base stealer really mean that Bourn's prowess is more valuable? I guess I don't see that connection. Obviously a significant improvement in defense over the alternative is still an improvement, though I do think the size of the OF, a manager's ability to improve defense by positioning, and the staff's FB/GB rate (which I don't know) could mitigate that difference somewhat. I still think he'd be worth the contract for the cubs just not terribly concerned they missed out on him. -
Meh. It's leaps and bounds better than him refusing to acknowledge that his swing needed fixing. I'll take a young player with potential working hard to fix a problem over the alternative any day of the week. Well no kidding. Nobody is talking alternative. A young player being willing to work on stuff isn't out of the ordinary. What is, or will be actually meaningful is if he can translate the work to the field. Good thing you and Dexter are here to keep the unbridled optimism in check. I was getting a little tired of the last several pages talking about Jackson's HOF speech and all but I was too timid to speak up.
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Meh. It's leaps and bounds better than him refusing to acknowledge that his swing needed fixing. I'll take a young player with potential working hard to fix a problem over the alternative any day of the week.
