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  1. Fro
    :good: Going to be an awesome year, enough grit, hustle, small ball, and decent starting pitching to stay in games long enough to blow them in the later innings.
  2. Fro
    Looks better than what was there before, IMHO. :good:
  3. Fro
    It feels like we're about a third of the way there as far as the team rebuild goes. If we sign Soler as expected that'd get us up to about 40%. By 2014 we should have the core of the future team in place and then we'll just have to wait to see if the young talent develops and fill the holes if they don't.
  4. Fro
    Well, that was a bullet dodged... I'm guessing he'll have to go under the knife by the end of the year (they will "rehab him", then he will "man up" and pitch a few starts, then they will do a MRI and discover tendon/ligament damage in the arm/shoulder).
  5. Fro
    Sure, it can happen, but a lot of "ifs" have to line up.
  6. Fro
    I really can't see the ducks all getting in a row for this happen by 2013.
  7. Fro
    Good call to pass with the price getting that high... Cespedes is going to have to be an absolute superstar to be worth that contract.
  8. Fro
    Yea, those are the main things for me too. The rest of it could all be torn down/gutted/rebuilt/whatever. Agreed... although add the general sightlines and feel inside to that (i.e. when they rebuild the main grandstands at some point, it shouldn't look like an entirely different place when you're inside the park when they're done).
  9. Fro
    I hope this includes the tablets for all the players on the team to study all this data and video as well.
  10. Fro
    If you notice, we're collecting left-handed hitters too. Stewart, Rizzo, DeJesus etc. Maybe they're looking at the park factor for Wrigley Field showing that it's one of the best places in the league for LHs to hit HRs the last few years (obviously that's more of a factor with Stewart and Rizzo than DeJesus).
  11. Fro
    Considering Castro hasn't even been arrested yet and it's been several months, I highly doubt anything comes from this unless he goes in for questioning and does extremely poorly there (and he won't because he'll have super lawyers with him). Seems like "He Said/She Said" thing and we'll never know the truth. Hopefully Castro learns to make better judgements from now on.
  12. Fro
    Really like this trade... fantastic move.
  13. Fro
    Theo/Hoyer's master plan is to sign all the 4th OFs in the league and then sell them off at the trade deadline.
  14. Fro
    They could put part of the leftover money towards making Soriano go away. That'd leave us with essentially a blank slate for 2013 with no bad contracts on the books.
  15. Fro
    Good move... that's the biggest open area around the stadium. Gives them a decent amount of land to play with and would be a better location for some of the "Triangle Building" features than the other piece of land.
  16. Fro
    Yep, he turns 30 today. Not worth taking a gamble on at this point with age and all the injuries.
  17. Fro
    Offer him 7 years with a 3-year player option for huge bank that vests if he gets his body fat down to a certain percentage.
  18. Fro
    Agree with all the comments that this is a smart signing. We should get pretty good value compared to what we're paying in and it gives us some more flexibility to further improve the team.
  19. Fro
    Exactly, they'll find new ways to exploit the system. Probably will actually give us more of an edge over other teams than keeping the old system where everyone had figured out the loopholes. I think this hurts the smaller-market teams more than anyone else in the long term.
  20. Fro
    Maddux can spend lots of time with his family with a dump truck of money for pay for them to all live in Chicago.
  21. Fro
    I don't really disagree with that approach, but as bukie pointed out, if they aren't doing things that others would consider reckless(130+ pitch outings, high PAP numbers, etc), then it's hard to claim that they're proving wrong all the doubters. There's not a bunch of fans second-guessing long toss distances. Maybe I'm in the minority, but... If they handled it correctly, I don't think there would be any problem in going back to a four man rotation. I would definitely trust the current FO and whoever they choose as manager to handle that much more the the previous FO and managers. Why would they want to do that? There's a good reason for the 5 man rotation. Anything that's "conventional wisdom" needs to be scientifically studied and re-examined. I think in this area stats don't tell the whole story and you need to look at what you can do as far as nutrition/exercise, routine, and mechanics, and if you get the right combination you can probably reduce the pitcher's recovery time.
  22. Fro
    I'd like to see Martinez just because he'd be able to bring along a lot of what the Rays were doing (i.e. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/6908844/information-age-changing-way-game-played ). Lots of defensive shifts based on data that add up to save runs. I'm sure he can talk stats with Theo.
  23. Fro
    Well, the equation is really Aramis v.s. 2 scrub players + the player(s) you spend his $15 million on You may gain more wins playing 2 scrubs at 3B and signing CJ Wilson versus resigning Aram and having Cashner start.
  24. Fro
    I have no idea why they just don't steal the NFL's replay system. Get the right call made. Most of the time a replay would be faster than the old fat manager slowly waddling out and arguing with the umpires for 2-3 minutes and then slowly waddling back to the dugout. I'm also in favor of computers calling strikes and balls.
  25. Fro
    It's ok to admit that they are in trouble. They likely will be paying Z to play elsewhere so they will need to find three 2 and possibly 3 SP. They are paying Soriano lots of money to play near replacement level. They likely will need to find a 3rd, 1st, and 2nd baseman (at sme point) Who is going to play RF? There closer looks like he suffering the same malady as Brad Lidge. They have no game changing talent in the upper level of the minor leagues. The system has to be flushed and mostly rebuilt. They started with this draft, but there is a long way to go. They certainly have some difficulties but with all the $$$ coming off the books by the 2013 season there's no reason why this team can't contend for the division while you rebuild the farm. We just need a GM who'll spend wisely.
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