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I'm not a huge fan of the bleachers. But sitting in the first few rows of the UD or in the terrace is the best way to watch baseball. If you want a new ballpark, become a Cards fan.
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i may be complete mistaken, but I thought Carroll was generally very good when it came to injury stuff and just terrible with...well, everything else.
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Nobody likes you.
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doing something for the sake of doing something, without really caring about the quality of the decision is pretty horrendous managing. -
Lous a freaking idiot Part 2 2009 season
Tracer Bullet replied to Keener98's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Does Fukudome have a history of sucking against LHP? Wasn't he a really good hitter in Japan? I wonder if Lou decided he can't hit LHP last year when Fukudome wasn't hitting anything and now just carried over that conclusion to this year. Would be nice to have a LH hitter than could stay in the game against LHP (or PH against LHP). -
What if the Cubs become sellers?
Tracer Bullet replied to Tim's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Even if we suck, I don't know why we'd trade Lilly unless we got back an impact player for next year. The Cubs aren't likely to be rebuilding for 2011. They'd still be looking at Soto, ARam, Theriot, Bradley, Fukudome, Soriano, and Lee if he won't agree to a trade with Z, Lilly, Dempster and maybe Harden in the rotation. Doesn't make sense to pay as much as they're going to pay those guys in 2010 to try to build for 2011. And we don't have so much pitching that we can give away Lilly without bringing a ML ready arm back in the deal. -
His slugging is nearly 100 points higher than last year and his OBP is still respectable (.358 - 30 points below last year). With an OPS pushing .800, I'm fine with what he's become. Especially since last year's OBP wasn't based on discipline and patience as much as it was a high BABIP. Pushing 800? That's a fairly loose interpretation of that concept. You could also say it's in the process of falling well below 800. Theriot isn't going to OPS 800 this year. However, the fact that he has struck out more frequently this year is not a meaningful complaint about his approach. He needs to mix it up between shooting the ball to right and turning on pitches when possible. If he strikes out a bit more, so be it. Just "putting the ball in play" isn't an accomplishment, especially when you consider all his GIDP (and despite last year's high BABIP). A Theriot strike out is no worse than a Theriot pop out to 2nd. I'm no Theriot apologist, but I think it would be more fair to say Theriot's OPS has hovered around .800 most of the year than to say it's in the process of falling well-below .800. It's basically fluttered between .750 and .850 since mid-April. The last couple weeks it's been .780-.815. I don't disagree that it's highly unlikely that he'll OPS .800 all year.
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I don't think he's really healthy. I think he's hurting and Lou would rather play him at 80% or so than DL him. It's hard to blame him, given how limited our replacement options are. But would it really be that bad to play Fukudome against LHP? I don't think it's hard to blame him at all. Fox and Hoffpauir can platoon in RF, and Fukudome can play more often against LHP if necessary. It's not like he's keeping a productive bat in the lineup despite injury. He's keeping a guy who can't hit worth a crap and is a clumsy bastard in the OF. Plus, it's in the best interest of the organization if Bradley does not play in games in which he is not 100%. Yeah, I'd rather have Fox up and Bradley on the DL than have him out there in his current state. I'd rather see Fukudome play every day with Hoff in RF against RHP and Johnson in CF against LHP than a Fox/Hoff platoon. But Hendry doesn't seem to want to DL Bradley for nagging injuries and Lou has shown no interest in playing Fukudome against LHP. This thing is such a mess.
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I don't think he's really healthy. I think he's hurting and Lou would rather play him at 80% or so than DL him. It's hard to blame him, given how limited our replacement options are. But would it really be that bad to play Fukudome against LHP? Seems like every time he hits a ball on the ground and has to move past first gear trying to get to first, he pulls something. You could almost hear the frustration in Len's voice during the game last night when he pulled up lame again running to first.
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Is Street still arbitration eligible or is he a FA after this year? Cot's says he's only signed to avoid arbitration twice. Doesn't that mean he has 1 more arbitration year left? Or am I reading that wrong? ETA - google search suggests he's a FA after 2010. So Street's worth even more to his new team.
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Isn't Jones the guy who once threw a baseball directly into the ground about 10' in front of him? I don't think that addresses either point, but that was funny.
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Yeah, that's something I didn't look at close enough. They don't play a road interleague game until June 23, so Fox could be recalled for that if it looks like they'll be facing some LHP. Would still be nice to have a bench option that hits for good power. And Fox was hitting everyone in Iowa, so there's no reason to limit him to LHP (I understand the platoon at DH, I just mean as a bench option, he's not brutal against RHP).
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I'm struggling to keep these guys straight, but isn't he the only one that's actually a really good defensive SS?
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The point isn't whether you're giving them a prospect or not, it's having them take on Heilman and Miles. Maybe they take Heilman, but what would the Rockies want with Aaron Miles?
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Yeah, I'd think they'd want prospects who could help them in the future as opposed to swapping veterans for veterans. I'd think they'd be interested in cutting some costs, and getting prospects, which is is what the original post already noted. Actually it was a single prospect and our garbage. So it wasn't swapping veterans for veterans. It was some of their garbage, for some of our garbage, swapping out relievers with reasonably decent careers so far, with them saving money and getting a prospect. Maybe throw in another prospect if you insist. come on - the originally proposed deal was just terrible. It wasn't garbage for garbage. Atkins has been brutal for 2 months, but Street has been very good. You don't just give away closers with good numbers in the last year of their contract for Miles and Heilman.
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that part won't last But that's just icing, right? Miles can't hit and his defense is worse than Blanco's. If 2 middle infielders can't hit, might as well take the great defensive player.
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Please stop bringing the Aram trade up> It's like picking at a 6 year old scab at this point. Let it heal, please. Sucks about Roberto Clemente, Jake.
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Matt Holiday?
Tracer Bullet replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
i'm a little slow, so I'm going to try to spell this out. Are you suggesting that looking at road numbers for a guy who played the majority of his road games in huge pitcher's parks like SF, LA, and SD isn't wise if you're not looking to add the game to a team that plays its home games in such a park? Yes, Coors inflates numbers. And the other NLW parks deflate them. Odd to eliminate one outlier and base your analysis entirely on numbers impacted by the other outliers. -
I picked him up in like 3 leagues before that start. Some of those teams still suck. The fantasy gods have not been smiling on me this year.
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Z says he'll Retire at end of Current Contract
Tracer Bullet replied to Sammys Boombox's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
His family probably has a picture of Jesus on one side of their mantle and Jim Hendry on the other. agreed. What a idiot Hendry is. Zambrano sucks He's not half the pitcher Kyle Lohse is. I would've rather given that money to Jason Marquis. A - he's not even knocking Hendry B - are you really mocking a guy for knocking Hendry when your sig is making fun of Dusty, one of Hendry's biggest failures? -
Top 10 worst FA signings by the Cubs all-time
Tracer Bullet replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
After 2007 would have been perfect For straight value, sure. But it would have also left the Cubs with a huge hole at 1B in 2008 (at least what would reasonably be expected to be a huge hole). You don't trade away one of your key hitters (which Lee was still at the time) when you have absolutely no idea how you're going to replace him, even if you do think he will decline and not be worth his contract. By the time the Cubs knew they had a potential fill in there, his 10/5 rights would have already kicked in. A - it was more of a "hindsight being 20/20" post B - but I don't think his 10/5 rights kicked in until after last season, so they could have traded him before 7/31 of last year too. Now, this all assumes there's someone willing to take his contract, which might not be reasonable. I don't really know. But I would have liked to see him dealth in '07. And I don't particularly want Hoff to be the starting 1B and I sure didn't want it in '07. But there are a ton of good-to-great 1B out there. Finding one in a trade or FA that has a better contract than Lee couldn't be that difficult. -
Top 10 worst FA signings by the Cubs all-time
Tracer Bullet replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
not a free agent signing. But a bad free agent re-signing. The NTC is killing us It was a midseason extension... but you're still right about the NTC. If anything that should serve as a reminder to rethink the option of tossing out a NTC like it's the extra change you dump in the "Save [insert childs name] Foundation" at the gas station When did you want to trade DLee? Because he's got 10/5 rights now as well - which make the NTC basically meaningless. After 2007 would have been perfect -
The fake account had 4 followers? Just how much damage was it doing, Tony? Without the lawsuit, how many people ever read these things? For a baseball genius, you're a dumbass.
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DeRosa isn't an everyday RF'er.
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It's actually $5M, $9M and $12M in each season. And then a $4 million signing bonus. So we're paying him $5 million this season. The $4m may be allocated over the life of the contract, but it was paid the day he signed. He's effectively getting $9m, $9m, and $12m. It's $18m guaranteed for 2 years and $30m all but guaranteed for 3 unless one of the less-stable NSBB'ers knocks him off after he's played 70 games this year. Doesn't matter how you slice it, it's been a horrible contract so far. He could easily put up a .900+ OPS for the next 2.5 years for us. But he could just as easily suck terribly.
