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Brenly not returning for 2013 (Jim Deshaies hired pg 14)
sneakypower replied to italianocubsfan7's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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That or when the Trib/Zell finally allowed him (or even forced him) to spend money there weren't great options on the market for the long term deals. It's been put out there that the trib was more behind signing Soriano than Hendry, or at least forced him to add some years/$$. In no way am I a Hendry apologist but I think part of the awful contracts was him being forced to spend money by ownership. I always get accused of bringing Hendry's name into these discussions and being a Hendry apologist, but many of you can't seem to discuss anything without bringing up Hendry As I've pointed out many times before that the situation was completely different because ownership gave Hendry the money and told him to buy a winning team. Theo has been given complete autonomy to spend money or cut payroll as he pleases. As for bloated contracts on a underperforming team, you might look at $262 million in contracts that the Red Sox are sending to the Dodgers and guess who negotiated those deals. http://synthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/emperor.jpg
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he's so good, when he's not striking out
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i don't feel sorry for them, but i can't imagine how appalled i'd be if i were a Giants fan earlier this season LA actually used a lineup of Gordon, Herrera, Rivera, Hairston Jr, Loney, Castellanos, Gwynn Jr, Treanor now it's something like Victorino/Crawford, M. Ellis, Kemp, A. Gonzalez, Ethier, Hanley, AJ Ellis, Cruz that's unfathomable THEY HAD JERRY HAIRSTON BATTING CLEANUP AND DH-ING
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like this? http://espn.go.com/mlb/freeagents/_/type/dollars
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it was strangely prophetic
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and when we pass on guys that make sense, i'll pick up a torch and join you, but it seems like an insane thing to be outraged about, pre-emptively
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didn't Casey Kotchman have a 2.8 fWAR last year? fwiw, Kurt Suzuki and James Loney had 2.3 fWAR seasons too last year Dempster and Marshall were good enough players, but their contract statuses sucked most of the value out of them as assets Until Theo rode in on his magic unicorn and convinced teams to pay significant value for these previously worthless pieces. Gotcha. YOO HOO, you used the term "trade rape" to describe the Marshall trade you miserable idiot
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Oh, win? Just win games? Why don’t I strap on my win helmet, and squeeze into a win cannon and fire off into win land, where wins grow on winnies!
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didn't Casey Kotchman have a 2.8 fWAR last year? fwiw, Kurt Suzuki and James Loney had 2.3 fWAR seasons too last year Dempster and Marshall were good enough players, but their contract statuses sucked most of the value out of them as assets
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most had given up on Cashner as a starter due to all the injuries Marshall was a (great) middle reliever in his last arb year...when do guys like that get traded for a significant return? Brett Jackson i liked, you can add him to my earlier list Szczur wasn't a top-100 guy to anybody but BA; what would you realistically trade for a top-150ish prospect? what did we even trade Soto for again?
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he left Theo & co with a bunch of penny stocks- that some have gained in value (Dempster fluking into a sub-3 ERA, or Barney's fielding stats jumping likely as a result of positioning) isn't really a huge credit to Hendry yes, that's basically what i'm saying by this same absurd twisted logic, we know Larry Andersen was simply oozing with trade value when the Red Sox dealt him
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(when i said he left them nothing, i assumed it was easily understood that meant nothing of value...he obviously left him some players with which to actually physically field a team, and not that he made off with all his players like some dastardly bandit)
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Marshall. Barney. Dempster. Cashner. Samardzija. hindsight BS a FA-to-be middle reliever a guy with a career 79 OPS+ a 35yo FA-to-be coming off a 4.80 ERA season a pitcher coming off a shoulder injury who'd still never topped 100 IP a wild reliever who'd never even produced a 4.25 xFIP none of these were assets with significant value at the beginning of the year
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Hendry left them nothing - Castro, Garza and...Baez, i guess i don't think i can really emphasize this and repeat this often enough
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Would our farm system be any worse right now if we signed free agents this past offseason? Would our 2013 team be better? absolutely, we would have made a misguided attempt at contention and kept Marshall, Dempster, Cashner, Maholm, etc. in most likely a completely futile endeavor (trying to compete this year)* Pujols, Wilson, Ramirez...their primes are all behind them and they are likely to decline going forward; they'd make us worse next year and beyond relative to the younger, more appropriate, more intelligent FA signings we're likely to make *edit: would we also have had the funds remaining available to sign Soler?
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is this even a real argument? if we barely scraped out a .500 season with the $400M we handed out to those guys, where do we go from here? pick up a few more high-profile FAs again this offseason to fill all the holes? is that even a remotely feasible option? i guess i could understand such desperate impatience if you're 85 years old right now
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1.5 games out, in the worst division in baseball they have the same record as Oakland, and Pittsburgh
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And that scares the hell out of me. see, this is what i'm talking about the preference around here was to aimlessly throw money at Ramirez, Pujols/Fielder, Wilson in some flaccid attempt to be a .500 team again in all the raging over our current plight, it's somehow been glossed over that the new FO inherited like three useful assets in the entire system; it's not their fault people had absurdly unrealistic expectations
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did backtobanks change his name to southsideryan
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Bartolo Colon suspended 50 games for PED's
sneakypower replied to Banedon's topic in General Baseball Talk
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yeesh, 1 GO : 11 FO for Wood
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similarly, the Tigers have three 900+ OPS players, four of the top 14 starters in the AL for FIP, and three relievers with 127 ERA+ or better, and they're barely keeping afloat
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his twitter MothaFucka Jones @chatsportsACE Whoa, this App State weed article has gone VIRAL. MothaFucka Jones @chatsportsACE @BlakeLinder the great part is everyone knows me and has an opinion. any writer who is loved by all is a joke and a team homer. #kingofmedia MothaFucka Jones @chatsportsACE @fish0462 this is the biggest story on the sports internet right now. i am sure they are aware. GR SSR basically just cited da bum
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thanks for pointing that out, i had almost lost all respect for the wrong person
