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  1. Gunned
    If Pierre returns to a .360 OBP next year and steals at a 75 percent success rate -- is that acceptable? I'm not saying he will ... just wondering what you'd think about those numbers.
  2. Gunned
    It's just every single move -- be it a signing, a missed opportunity, a loss, a bad game by a player -- spawns knee-jerk reactions out of most of them. And that never, ever happens here.
  3. Gunned
    A team with a $100 million payroll should never, ever, ever have to "punt" a season. That's ridiculous.
  4. Gunned
    Maybe we can trade Patterson for Furcal.
  5. Gunned
    Sorry I didn't finsih my thought. He doesn't steal effetively enough to warrent the attempts so..... Don't overvalue the benefit of a leadoff hitter. I'm not overvaluing him as a leadoff hitter. He can get on base and steal as the third hitter in an inning just as easily as he can to start off an inning. I am curious why you say he doesn't steal effectively? Last year he stole 46 and was caught 10 times, in 2004 he stole 29 out of 35, and the year before that it was 25 out of 27. I don't know the league SB averages but that seems like a high precentage to me. Something tells me he has no response for the stolen base argument.
  6. Gunned
    Sorry I didn't finsih my thought. He doesn't steal effetively enough to warrent the attempts so..... Don't overvalue the benefit of a leadoff hitter. The baseline for effectively stealing bases is about 75 percent. Furcal is consistently in the low to mid 80s. He's EXTREMELY effective at base-stealing.
  7. Gunned
    Absolutely agree. Think about this folks: 5 years and $45M for a guy, who has never achieved an OPS over .795, and who's OBP has not been above .352 in the last 4 seasons. This is just not smart. Ronny at shortstop. Trade for the biggest RF bat you can possibly get, throw all the trade chips at him. I'm thinking Abreu-size. Walker at 2B. Plug CF. Bradley when the Dodgers non-tender would do. Barrett, Lee, Ramirez and Murton to fill it out. I fully endorse this idea even if it means the Cubs have to trade Pinto and Pie to get Abreu. Abreu actually fills two needs for this team. Pie and Pinto won't get it done. They're going to want Prior or Zambrano.
  8. Gunned
    Absolutely agree. Think about this folks: 5 years and $45M for a guy, who has never achieved an OPS over .795, and who's OBP has not been above .352 in the last 4 seasons. This is just not smart. He's a SS who hits leadoff. There aren't many of those who have an OPS above .800. It's basically Derek Jeter and ... Derek Jeter.[/b]
  9. Gunned
    Yeah...now if the Braves would just re-sign Furcal...they'red be almost no one to insure Neifi doesn't play 4 days a week. :roll: You just gotta have faith Hendry can net Furcal. I dont want Pierre and his microscopic OBP anywhere around here. You mean his career .355 OBP?
  10. Gunned
    Because Desipio is vastly more interesting than any other Cubs site out there. I get a lot of info on NSBB, but it's pretty bland and humorless. There's absolutely no comparison between Desipio and this place when it comes to entertainment.
  11. Gunned
    Just because the 1996 rotation was awful doesn't mean I'll sit idly by and accept a back end of the rotation that includes an ineffective Greg Maddux and Glendon Rusch. It's this kind of thinking that lets Cubs' management get excited over things like back-to-back winning seasons and "staying close despite injuries." It's pathetic and it's a large part of the reason the Cubs are nearing 100 years without a championship.
  12. Gunned
    "Almost" is the key word. Trading Juan Cruz for slugs like Pratt and Lewis was pretty dismal and qualifies for "fleeced" status in my books. Especially when you consider that the Braves were able to use Cruz as part of a package to land Tim Hudson. I think it's a fair distinction that when Hendry is trading "to get someone", he does a pretty good job(Nomar, Ramirez, Barrett, Lee). When he is trading "to get rid of someone", that's when he screws up(Cruz, Sosa, Farnsworth; Hawkins is the exception). No GM is right 100% of the time, bad moves happen to even to the best GM's. Naturally. I just think it's worth pointing out that most of Hendry's good deals come when he's trying to "get" someone, and most of his bad deals come when he's trying to "get rid of" someone. I think that's true of all GMs. If you're just trying to get someone off your team, you're probably not going to get the same value.
  13. Gunned
    Are you trying to imply that you were the first to think of trading for Luis Castillo? Or are you simply pointing out that Rozner is a complete hack unable to compose an unprompted thought? He is so gifted and well-liked that Ryne Sandberg mentioned him by name during his Hall of Fame induction speech, as an example. Regardless of the Tribune Co. owning the Cubs, it's the Daily Herald guys like Mr. Miles and Mr. Rozner, who are "in the know" on all things Cubs. That's the most gushing paragraph of nonsense I've ever read. Gifted? We're not talking about John Updike here. He's a sportswriter whose columns generally consist of recycled thoughts, reader submissions and bad Alex Kaseberg jokes. Ryne Sandberg mentioned Rozner because the Roz spent the better part of the last decade sucking up to Ryno. Of course Sandberg likes him. And yes, I'm sure if the Cubs trade for Castillo, it'll be because you put it out in the public forum. Good work. They probably didn't even know he existed until you took all the discussion from this board, put it into an e-mail, fired it off to Rozner and claimed it as your own.
  14. Gunned
    I think we should also ban inflammatory and potentially offensive words like: stinks, darn, rats, crap, and LaRussa. Anything that might allow even the slightest bit of personal expression -- let's be rid of it. Especially on a place like an Internet message board.
  15. Gunned
    So is Pierre coming or not?
  16. Gunned
    So why doesn't that hold true for hitters? Prospectus are the same people who believe that a strikeout for a hitter is the same as any other out, right? I'm not trying to be contrarian ... I just want to know what the difference is.
  17. Gunned
    Eyre has pitched a grand total of 11 innings for Baker.
  18. Gunned
    We're number 3! We're number 3! Sounds kind of like what we can expect in the National League Central standings for the next few years... If we're lucky ...
  19. Gunned
    That's fine. Just wondering.
  20. Gunned
    What players DO you like?
  21. Gunned
    But more often than not, Furcal won't even be on base, so Pierre could just try and slap one through the hole. Yeah, because Furcal puts up such awful OBAs from year-to-year.
  22. Gunned
    The Cubs have been doing this as long as I can remember. Let Player A walk because you're pursuing via trade/FA Player B. Player B doesn't come here, Player A is gone, so you're stuck with incredibly inferior Player C. Yeah - none of th other ML teams do this...ever. I never once said no other team did it. I'm stating the Cubs do it far more often than other teams. Do you closely follow the free agent negotiations of all other Major League teams?
  23. Gunned
    Yeah really. I mean Furcal is very good but is he that much better than Jimmy Rollins or Edgar Renteria? I just don't understand some of these agents sometimes. Well, since you asked: Furcal: 03: 292/352/443/25 steals (93 percent success) 04: 279/345/414/29 steals (83 percent success) 05: 284/348/429/46 steals (82 percent success) Rollins: 03: 263/320/387/20 steals (63 percent success) 04: 289/348/455/30 steals (77 percent success) 05: 290/338/431/41 steals (87 percent success) Renteria: 03: 330/394/480/34 steals (83 percent success) 04: 287/327/401/17 steals (61 percent success) 05: 276/335/385/9 steals (69 percent success) First, Renteria is mired in an awful decline. That signing is only going to get worse and worse for Boston. Second, Rollins and Furcal are amazingly similar players -- Rollins' numbers are encouraging (for Phillies fans, I guess) because he still appears to be improving, while Furcal has been pretty consistent. I'd probably give the edge to Furcal since he gets on base more, and we all know that's what a leadoff man should really be doing. Rollins got a 5 year/$40 million deal, so Furcal is probably worth (in market value, at least) a bit more than that.
  24. Gunned
    It's much more likely that Pierre returns to his .374 OBA of two seasons ago.
  25. Gunned
    But he's not a finished product!!!!!!!!! I don't understand your comment. People on this board think it's funny when you sarcastically over-exaggerate. To each his own, I suppose.
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