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  1. KaiserCesar
    There's a pretty big difference in age and service time between Vitters this offseason and Colvin last offseason. Vitters seems to be at the age and time in his development where he'd be a good building piece going forward.
  2. KaiserCesar
    With so many teams in on the bidding, it's unlikely the Cards could offer up the best package considering they'd be trading within the division. On top of that, how much better would the Cardinals package have to be it to be worth giving them Garza?
  3. KaiserCesar
    I think its reading quite a bit into it to try to draw something negative or positive from an elite athlete seeing some of the most highly regarded medical professionals in sports. Why take anything for granted on this rehab?
  4. KaiserCesar
    Convenient time for an Orlando Hudson at bat
  5. KaiserCesar
    "He got a cookie right there and couldn't do anything with it"
  6. KaiserCesar
    I remember when those sliders in the zone induced swings and misses.
  7. KaiserCesar
    119th pitch coming up...
  8. KaiserCesar
    Didn't see what happened. Did Reed make a nice play? There was a flare out to right when it was 1st and 2nd 1 out. Reed had to come in pretty far, and it looked like he had a good read on it. Probably not a play Lahair makes. Now we see if Reed do the other thing he does better than Lahair to get an RBI, put the ball in play.
  9. KaiserCesar
    Harrelson is starting to ratchet up the complaining with that called check swing strike. If the Cubs pull this one out, we'll probably hear about it at the end, too.
  10. KaiserCesar
    Great defensive replacement, Sveum is a genius.
  11. KaiserCesar
    And Clevenger is playing 1st?
  12. KaiserCesar
    Vitters homer
  13. KaiserCesar
    I think football is different in that the window of opportunity for a winning team is only a few years, while a good baseball team can have sustained success for over half a decade. Even if your top pick is 1-2 years away, if you have an established foundation, chances are that the majority of good players will still be cheap and have plenty of prime years ahead of them. For the Cubs, Rizzo and Jackson will at least be cheap if and when next year's top pick makes it to the big leagues. Some of the guys in the low minors now will likely only have a little bit of service time or will be waiting to come up together. I think next year's pick is more than relevant in the medium-term rebuilding plans.
  14. KaiserCesar
    http://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/ Looking at the adjusted standings based on run differential and the others based on expected runs, the Cubs have played just about well enough to lose 100 games even over the course of a year. So, I don't think it's quite as bad as it looks. The team has positions that could easily improve as well as get worse, so I'd expect something around that 62-100 mark.
  15. KaiserCesar
    Perhaps our current Left Fielder could end up on a other team in the not too distant future and nobody wants to see a combination of Johnson/Campana/Mather composing 2/3 of our OF no matter how lost of a season it is. Any chance it's to see Sappelt in CF even though he's been pretty awful at the plate this year? That position is one of the biggest offensive black holes on the Cubs at the moment, so they could be looking to try anything as we know what we have in the current bunch.
  16. KaiserCesar
    Soriano is better than any of the organizational LF solutions for the foreseeable future, assuming Jackson plays CF and Lahair can't play the OF well. If the big payoff to dumping him is a couple of fringe prospects and accruing service time for some other players, then I don't see why you wouldn't hold onto him in the hopes that he might be productive on a winning team. An OF acquisition by trade or FA might change the calculus, but I dont have a problem with him currently being on the team.
  17. KaiserCesar
    5 k's, 3 groundouts and a pop out for Wood so far. All on 35 pitches through 3.
  18. KaiserCesar
    Soriano with the highest OPS in that lineup, if you discount Wood's 1.333
  19. KaiserCesar
    Any deal with Castellanos I think has to be at least considered given the ridiculous year he's having. He's got a .497 babip, but has also improved the walk and K rates. I don't think that's enough to not require an elite pitching talent in return for Garza.
  20. KaiserCesar
    Some of that would have to be elite pitching talent since everyone who has been named to this point is a position player.
  21. KaiserCesar
    I have a really, really hard time putting that on Vitters. Unless it's for another team. I want to, and it'd be awesome, but I just don't see him being better than Ian Stewart at this time next year, and I don't see us getting good trade value for Stewart unless the BABIP gods stop crapping all over him. I have such a hard time envisioning what the 2013 Cubs will look like and so many moves are bound to happen. At this point, I think the proper question will be whether or not Vitters/Jackson will be capable of starting on opening day and then we'll see how the roster shakes out.
  22. KaiserCesar
    He has 450 PA's combined now at AAA, while he had 565 at AA which is by far more than he had at any other level. I don't think him being taken slowly through the minors is a real concern.
  23. KaiserCesar
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=jackso003bre Just checking out Jackson's BR page, he's got just about as many PA's as he did last year in AAA and his numbers are pretty similar if you look beyond the OPS. The BB rate is about 3% lower, and the ISO is .020 different, but the K rate is actually the same around 30% and the other big difference is BABIP which was pretty darn high last year.
  24. KaiserCesar
    If Vitters gets a full year in Iowa without getting hurt, we'll be in uncharted waters in regards to his development given that he hasn't had an uninterrupted year at any level. I'm very curious to see what the last 2/3 of the year bring for him and whether this can be his best year as a pro.
  25. KaiserCesar
    To be fair on the Colvin vs Stewart front, Colvin has a LD% of 28% while Stewart has 18%. Limited plate appearances for Colvin, but he's done some things well while his BB and K rates are worse than his 2010 season.
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