TC3_Hinrich12

An article I wrote at a blog I contribute to... I’m not writing this to convince you that this is a good signing or he will ever be anything close to worth it. I don’t think it’s possible to do that, he’s already, even before he was a Cub, thrown under the bridge and not given a chance. I’m writing this to stop the non sense Burnitz/Patterson comparisons, play the numbers game and tell you what you’re getting. If you want to really know what you’re getting, don’t be brainwashed and give in to the garbage you read on the internet or newspaper, they don’t know crap. In case you didn’t already know, I am also a Twins fan since 2001 and have seen him play consistantly since then. These writers, they just look at the numbers, they don’t know anything about him. Take it from a Twins fan, no biasness, Ima be real as possible. So if you want to really have a true scouting report, read this and not the other garbage. Sorry if this is too long, I have plenty of things to say. First off, lets stop the Burnitz/ Patterson comparisons. That’s crap, it doesn’t make any sense at all. None whatsoever. All we hear is the strikeout comparisons with him and Patterson. Now we’ve all seen Patterson play, he is not Jacque Jones, not even close. He’s the worst player a lot of us have seen in our lifetime as baseball fans period. Stop the nonsense K comparisons. Yes JJ does K a lot, but not close to Patterson. JJ has 737 career strikeouts in 3492 career AB’s, that’s a 21.1% K rate (yes, a stat I invented by myself). Patterson has 552 career K’s in 2176 career AB’s for a 25.3% K rate. Last year JJ K’d only twice more and Patterson missed a huge part of the season. I have figured these K stats before and from what I remember Patterson had something like the 7th highest K rate in the MLB, JJ was not on the list. Last year’s K rates, JJ had 120 K’s in 523 AB’s for a 22.9% K rate. Patterson had 118 K’s in 451 AB’s for a 26.1% rate. That’s terrible, and 22.9 to 26.1 is a big difference. This is all people have to say when they compare these 2 is the strikeouts, that’s all they point out. I am not saying JJ’s K rates are acceptable, they’re not, he does K way too much. But not nearly as much as Patterson. Remember, Patterson had 168 strikeouts in 04 and has gotten over 140 twice, JJ’s worst is 129. Would you like to keep playing the numbers game? Please, lets keep doing that, I’d be more than happy. Oh, and what did Patterson say during the middle of the season? “It’s just a game.” JJ’s never said that, he never will, and leaves it all out on the field every time. Now Burnitz to Jones is a better comparison, statistically. But they are no where near the same player, not even close. Jones has speed and has a glove, etc. Don’t be fooled by his SB #’s, he has plenty of speed but is not a good base stealer. And he won’t make Moises Alou esk baserunning plays. But that’s a whole other issue for later. 2005 was a tough year for the Twins and Jacque Jones, it flat out sucked. Jones had his injury problems and his uncle, who raised him passed away during the season. Try playing with that on your mind. Torii Hunter got injured on July 31st and that’s when everything was officialy done. Don’t judge him by his 05 year, don’t. You know these types of years, they happen to every team. What are you getting with Jones? This kind of goes with the nonsense comparisons to Burnitz. I say it all the time, you’re getting a leader. Why do I always say he’s a leader? If you ever watched a Twins game, him and Torii Hunter were the glue that held that team together from 02-04, they were true leaders, the heart and soul of the team. I believe you need a guy like JJ to win, I don’t buy into the best talent out there. I like to compare it to a Chicago Bulls refernce. Did they have the best talent in 04-05 season? No way, they were all young guys. You know a big reason why they won? 2 guys that never get credit, Antonio Davis and Jannero Pargo. Not the best comparison but those guys kept it together. Pargo didn’t show up a lot in the box score but he was the joker in the locker room and kept it loose. AD was the vet leader. Cubs have no leaders like JJ. But who will be JJ’s Torii Hunter? I think Juan Pierre, I really see these guys being the vocal leaders and getting along. You’re getting a clutch hitter and I have numbers to prove it. I can recall hundreds of times he came through in the clutch, even last year. Numbers will say he wasn’t a clutch hitter in 2005, but like I said, 2005 just was not a good year overall for everyone on that team. Lets play the numbers game, I’d be more than happy to. 2003: He hit 294/4/27 with RISP and 2 outs. He hit 308/5/58 with runners on. In the 7th or later, he hit 302/2/18 and extra inning was 5 for 10 with a home run and 5 RBI. “Late inning pressure situations” he hit 328/1/8. 2004: 217 with RISP and 2 outs, 272 RISP overall. He hit 256/12/68 with runners on. 7th or later, he hit 277/9/31 and “Late inning pressure situations” was 325/6/19. Clutch. Here, I’ll spell it for you, C-L-U-T-C-H! You’re getting a guy that that plays great defense, gold glove calibor. He does have a terrible arm, sometimes his throws to home will go in the RF stands. But he makes up for it with range. People don’t know about his glove because of Torii Hunter, but he has a great glove. And we’re always saying we want defense! You’re getting an energy guy. We don’t have one of those, one of those guys that gets a big hit and pumps up the team. He brings the adrenaline and that makes the whole team play a lot better. He can be the igniter. Since I’ve babbled too long, i’ll get to the point. Overall you’re getting a guy that is a leader, clutch hitter, energy guy and a great glove. But he will K and he will go into slumps. When he slumps it’s hard to watch him, he swings at everything and that’s where his K’s come from. He is a bad thrower and hasn’t reached his potential in his career, but he is a quality player. When he’s playing like he can, he is one hell of a player and is fun to watch. Oh, and why does he not get a lot of RBI? In 03 and 04, he led off over half the season and look who was on the team, not many OBP guys. Now he’ll be hitting behing Lee and Ramirez. I expect him to return to his 02-04 form and get 275+ 25 and 80+ with plenty of intangibles. He can hit for average and has hit under 275 only twice in this 7 year careerwith a 279 career avg. He’s hit for 300 twice.

Pippen, he was a huge part in bringing us 6 championships. Pippen will always be above Ryno to me.

Simple question, who will always be above to you? Please, try and only vote if you live/lived in Chicago, I want to see something. Thanks.

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NOW it's with no question the defense.

It doesn't matter to me anymore (but I do think it should have been handled another way), but I just had to laugh at some of the words used to explain why this poll was canceled. Like "soft core pornogrohy." Go ahead and delete this message, but I am sorry that was funny to me.

I was one of those who posted "offensive" pics and "obnoxious" comments. But I am not sorry because I don't think I did anything wrong. I don't agree with this and I don't think this was handled the right way by the mods. But I'm not here to critisize because I am not a mod and I am sure they do a great job. If I posted my opinions on this I'm sure I would get banned, so I'll stfu.

And I could say the same thing for rock. Loud guitars, you can barely hear the singer screaming, "I wanna die I wanna die! Yeah Yeah Yeah I wanna die! It's wrist slitting time!!!" While wearing all black clothes, dressing like freaks, having piercings on every inch of your body with those stupid spikes while bein proud about it. If your post wasn't racist it was at least stereotypical. But I guess you could say the same for my post.

Pierre Why does Patterson have any votes?

Too bad Nene apparently tore his ACL, scratch him off the Bulls' big man list. Even with all the problems at C, I still see them getting a 6th seed. I love how everyone gives us no respect... again. Good, I like it. Will just have to prove them wrong once again.

Not necissarily (butchered that), he could be looking to trade him.

Walker is a 32 year old who is also injury prone and cannot field... at all. Cheap or not, in my opinion, he has to go. They both have to go.

I voted TJ Take TJ out of the lineup and have Cedric Benson start, Bears have one win at most.

Bears D or TJ?

I don't care, I wanted to congratulate them myself with my own thread