KaiserCesar
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Projecting who starts off where in 2010-Hitters
KaiserCesar replied to davell's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Color me slightly shocked that they're not gonna start him in AA. I know he held his own there last year, but that was a rather small sampling. Either way I'm pleased he's shown enough poise that the team has faith in him to start the season at the highest level he can get to in the minors Yeah, I guess the success in the AFL has made them more comfortable bumping him up -
the problem is it probably won't stop when the regular season starts so, the reason for not practicing something in spring training is that your manager is deranged and can't stop doing something once he's started it? how much of a caricature do we need to create? what are you even talking about? the cubs (mostly because of lou) ran into wayyy too many outs on the basepaths last season. so when they start off the next spring training by telling players to be even MORE aggressive, it's pretty clear where lou's plans are headed. i don't think it's clear where lou's plans are headed after a few spring training games
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He's still 19 years old. It's a perfectly reasonable decision. And what is he outperforms Fontenot doing ST? It wouldn't hurt to hold the decision until later. Then Fontenot and Baker share time at second base to start the season.
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He's only had 122 ABs above A ball. He's probably unlikely to match what Theriot or Fontebaker can give us. There's no need for him on the big league team right now. I liked it a lot better when the roster was made up so I could combine the names "Fontheriot" Maybe we'll get it back once Castro comes up...maybe
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ST - 3/5 Diamondbacks (Haren) @ Cubs (Z!) 2:05 CST
KaiserCesar replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
It still depends on if he can continue to handle CF now that he has bulked up. He probably can be a player that can do something like .285/.320/.480. As a decent CF he can be just fine as a starter. He would never be anything special but not a weakness either. It is basically the Jacque Jones career path and if Colvin moves to a corner like Jones he will struggle a bit (his good years would be just fine for a corner but he would have some down power years that would be a disappointment). Yeah, at this point, Jacque Jones is a pretty good comparison to Colvin's upside. Of course, a lot of time is still left in Colvin's career, but he could definitely peak as an average starting outfielder for a few years. -
yeah, not impressive. the arm itself is pretty impressive, but not his ability to make it throw a baseball
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two times now scales has gone nicely to his left
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cashner, i think
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suburbs, where everyone is ridiculously fat
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wow, look at soto scampering over to try to get that ball
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but...but... left handed
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http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/R/James-Russell-1.shtml
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prettay prettay good
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If only pitchers could somehow literally eat innings, then Silva might have a little value. note: i didn't come up with this one
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the good news is taylor and forte are both good pass catchers and should be pretty interchangeable. part of forte's 09 was injury, but he definitely was expected to make at least some kind of leap from 08. both will get time and the bears will have a better offense as a result
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settling in, nothing to worry about except for the fact that he might be the 5th starter
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the problem is it probably won't stop when the regular season starts so, the reason for not practicing something in spring training is that your manager is deranged and can't stop doing something once he's started it? how much of a caricature do we need to create?
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I don't think so. We've got Marmol as the closer either way and Grabow should be decent enough. After that, we've got Marshall, Gaub, Stevens and Caridad who all either have shown their ability or have a lot of talent. I'd wait a while, see how the pen falls together and then see what's available. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to a Downs deal if we didn't trade much. i think that if john grabow is your second best reliever, you've got problems. and what if marmol pitches like last year? then it's a complete disaster. He may or may not end up being the second best reliever, who knows. I share the sentiment with the other posters who are saying it's all variation. Some guys are bound to have good years and other's aren't. Like any other year, this could be a good or bad bullpen.
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ST - 3/5 Diamondbacks (Haren) @ Cubs (Z!) 2:05 CST
KaiserCesar replied to UMFan83's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Yeah, he seems to be in great shape and playing well. I think a year in Iowa with some possible time on the Chicago bench followed by an '11 on the bench is his best case scenario. He could start if 2 of Soriano/Fukudome/Nady are hurt or if Byrd goes down. Other than that, he could be the starter in '12 after Fukudome's contract runs if everything works out for him. It's nice to have a little bit of depth. -
This is the only time where you can work on it in a game situation without the chance of some real negative consequences. Bravo for using spring training time wisely
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That's not what I said. The idea would be, the bad chemistry of Bradley impacts on-field performance in ways that can't be measured easily, if at all. That's obviously much different than there being no impact. Would you agree that on-field performance is measured accurately via statistics? If so, shouldn't you be able to look at the statistics of individual players, and based on their relationship with Bradley, judge him on that. I mean, if he was this monstruous force that, it affected how people performed on the field, shouldn't it have AFFECTED HOW PEOPLE PERFORMED ON THE FIELD?? It's called separating variables, determining causation instead of just correlation etc etc. It COULD have an impact on statistics but its not really possible to objectively determine what that impact is because you don't know what is affecting what. In an ideal world we would conduct a scientific experiment where we create one Cubs team where Bradley is a jerk and one where he is nice and see who is better, but we can't, so relax.
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Man,I do not like the looks of the pen. We all know wild and unpredictable Marmol can be, and hes the best of the bunch. Other than that we have the decent but way over paid Grabow, some combination or Marshall, Silva, and Gorzolanny, and a bunch of unprovens. I just hope someone can step up. Yeah, there's a lot of unprovens, but the fact is that there are a lot of them who could potentially contribute. It may take a little while to figure out who's reliable and who's not, but there's definitely enough adequate guys in the mix.
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How many years until hes a starter in the Big Leagues? Anybody wanna guess? June He really is that good eh? I've heard about how good of a fielder he is but can he hit? Up to this point, he hasn't been great at either, but he could be very good in both, probably sooner in terms of fielding. Despite the lack of power (he's young, so people are projecting more later) he has handled the bat well at every level, so quick development could allow him to be in the majors relatively soon.
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Figure of speech. If you asked me if I would trade Peavy for the packages that the White Sox gave up or for the rumored packages the Cubs were offering, I would not. You would give up a lot for potentially one year of Adrian Gonzalez, since he becomes a highest bidder free agent at the end of his remaining one year deal? I'm not as bold as you. I'd be willing to give up any of our prospects outside of Castro for him, assuming we could get a long term deal worked out. There's some word that the price could be high enough to include Gordon Beckham http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/12985283/white-sox-camp-tour-peavy-fitting-in-making-own-pitch If they are willing to give that up, no one is going to top that offer.
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Nobody's that bad at BABIP. Bad hitters tend to have a lot of strikeouts and few extra-base hits, but they still have decent BABIPs. Indeed, Orie had a .690 or so major league OPS in less than 600 ABs by the time he left the Cubs. There was some degree of bad luck in all likelihood and Orie subsequently posted an OPS in the low-mid 700's with Florida, still in less than 500 ABs. The thing is, he never really got more than a cup of coffee in the majors after the age of 26 when he would have been peaking. If he had some better luck (both BABIP and organizationally) he could have been an average starter, but instead he got labeled AAAA or something and just put together good years in Omaha, Columbus, Iowa, Nashville and New Orleans without getting another chance. There's probably a bunch of guys like this in history and just get a variety of factors that keep them from really establishing themselves.