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  1. Tracer Bullet
    You'd do the same thing tlr did? Why?
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    Good for him.
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    Where? Why? Places like Baseball Prospectus and Hardball Times have done articles about it in the past. The idea is that some in the industry suspect that the extra day of rest doesn't really help much in terms of avoiding injuries or maintaining performance, but nobody wants their team to be the test subjects. I remember reading such articles a long time ago. I seem to recall Neyer discussing it, but may have been bp it tht. I don't recall a 75-pitch limit but maybe that's new or the rockies are crazy.
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    He's working Stepanek now
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    I hate Federer. Glad Murray's path has opened up though.
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    If you don't see it, I can't help you see it. I don't think you can make anyone see it bc it's not there. Your argument, as written, is as ct summarized.
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    we don't want or need you drug use posts
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    Not much too it. He doesn't have the pitch repitorie to make it through a line up two to three times, so he has to throw strikes. He literally has no margin for error. Entering today, he had the 11th highest strikeout rate and the 6th highest swinging strike percentage among starters in baseball (obviously today will bring that down a little). Whatever his struggles have been lately, how can those numbers be reconciled with the root cause being a lack of stuff? It's easy to do when you just say things that you don't know anything about. He's blinded by his ND hate. He being cubinny, not ccp.
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    He got the nickname as one of the best WR in cfb
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    Has anyone analyzed this? Pretty crazy swing.
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    I'd probably rather have Pujols at 3b than Headley, now that you mention it.
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    http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15968 There's good stuff here, though the full article requires a bp subscription
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    Who will have three years of service time and has apparently plateaued into what he's going to be. A 23 year old who has played 3 years with the same team is by definition young and not a journeyman. This isn't Miggy Cabrera or even Castro at 23. This is a young guy who had 125 IP in A ball before being (stupidly?) promoted. He may have plateaued but he'd still be part of a youth movement if he were on the Cubs in this hypo. I think 2 of Vitters, Bjax and Castillo and 1 young prospect-type SP (like Turner) plus Rizzo would be acceptable but not ideal heading into next year (subject to change based on 2nd half performance). I'd like Castillo and BJax (esp if he stops striking out 1/3 of the time) to earn a shot but hope Vitters can maintain or improve at Iowa thru June of next year.
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    Porcello is 23.
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    I'm not baiting. Use whatever stupid semantic argument you want. The cubs went hard after a top IFA that BA said some teams would have had as their 1-1 pick in this year's amateur draft and now you're trying to claim that he was just some nobody player bc you want to keep up this argument that you admitted you jumped into lazily halfway thru without even fully knowing what you were arguing and just decided to be contrarian.
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    King Felix isn't an impact player? You're full of [expletive] Kyle.
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    and if he's not an "impact player" what's he doing on this list? viewtopic.php?p=2786227#p2786227
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    IFA is not an apples to apples comparison to ML FA contracts. I don't have to tell you this.
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    The board nearly blew up when they didn't sign cespedes bc people thought he'd be an impact player soon. The fact that he hasn't been in his first 3 months isn't really the point.
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    I certainly can because those two things are not mutually inclusive. Jorge Soler was one of the premier targets of the offseason (bleeding into the season) but is not (currently) a difference maker at the major league level. The Cubs signed Soler and yet still punted on this season. Same with Cespedes. I would have loved to sign Cespedes but he is neither a difference maker at the major league level nor a sign that the Cubs were not punting this year. The Cubs went 71-91 last year, management surely could not have believed that an unproven Cuban defector was the lynchpin to contention. Kyle argued that the FO wouldn't sign any notable FAs bc they didn't last year (you may or may not agree, my response above was directed at Kyle's argument). Cespedes is a notable FA that they went after really hard. Being a notable FA doesn't mean, and I've never said it meant, that signing him would have made them a contender. I think the FO knew they wouldn't field a contender this year and wanted to sign cespedes if the terms were right (knowing he wouldn't make them a contender this year) bc he'd be a valuable asset when the team was ready to contend. I think the same may well be true of Upton this year.
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    Sweet, participation trophies! Flippance aside, I believe you're being Panglossian. Cespedes, who I wanted, was not going to make the Cubs a contender (unless you think his -0.4 WAR would suffice to make the Cubs a good team?). He was an expensive flyer. As for Darvish, I'm rather dubious a competitive bid was made, as that would seem to run counter to everything else that has occured. I have think and actually hope management made the decision to punt this year. If that's not what they thought they were doing, color me rather concerned. If by punt you mean not contend, yes, that's what they were doing. But they could have signed cespedes to the 6-year deal they offered and not ruin their long term plan. I wouldn't be surprised if they make a run at Upton this year. But I'll be shocked if they get into a bidding war at some really high price. Wildly overpaying last year and this year doesn't make sense when the team sucks so much.
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    IIRC from the reports, which were actually fairly specific, the Cubs were pretty sure that 6/$36 would get him and were surprised when he took 4/36 without giving them a chance to match or counter. It was a years issue. My recollections is they were given the chance to match but declined. Maybe they weren't willing to sign him for just 4 years when they thought he'd take a year or two to adjust or bc this year was going to be a waste.
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    Yeah, no
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    You can't simultaneously say they won't try to sign any talented FAs and then claim, in retrospect, that one of the premier targets of last offseason isn't a difference maker. Maybe they set the budget at his estimated value based on their scouting and that's why they let him go to the As - would make sense since it was a years issue, basically.
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    He was put on the 7-day DL bc he has a slight twinge in his side and the PawSox needed a roster spot when they had to call up a SP when Cook was held out so he could start for Boston this weekend. Per the Providence Journal
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