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  1. davell

    Rizzo

    davell replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    The Pads handled him extremely carelessly. Went from 69 innings in 2012 to 175 last year. Previous high in pros was 110. This one's on them.
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    Cashner to the DL with elbow soreness.
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    I'm not sure why you wouldn't pay attention to his stuff like this. He definitely knows some scouts. He sits with them when he goes to games. It's chatter. He's not trying to break news with info like this. He talks with quite a few BP guys, they don't treat him like a moron or anything. He's got his issues with math, no doubt. But he brings good scouting info on players quite often. I'll look past the blogger mentality of patting yourself on the back when something winds up being correct. He's got sources, there just not air tight. As very few are anyway. That said......Arguello>>>>>>>>ABTY
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    The Marlins do need hitting. I can see them taking Jackson. If Rodon is available at 3, I will be very interested to see if Hahn wants to deal with Boras or not, since they've had plenty of issues with him in the past.
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    It's Garza. Bunting IS smart.
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    Tseng switched to Blackburn. No idea why.
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    The Ricketts seem to have dragged their feet in regards to pretty much every aspect of the rebuild/renovation. It's unfortunate that there didn't seem to be more urgency on their part. They were green.(still are) Have yet to show they're capable owners. My honest thinking is Tom sold Dad on the fact that even if they lose, it's a cash cow. And thought that the renovations would be an easy money grab. Same with getting money from the city. They thought taking a year or two to "get healthy" would be fine, because once the renovations started, they'd start spending. Since it still hasn't, Dad obviously isn't coming off any funds and the debt structure got out ahead of us. And without extra funds, it stays there. And in the meantime, they get to buy the team for free Well sure, because Dad is intelligent.
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    DeRosa trade was in '09. That'd be a positive then. As Archer would have been here for the new guys. But Garza wouldn't have been. On the other hand they'd have Robinson Chirinos. Archer over Garza any day of the week for me. Chirinos is to TT what Vitters is to me.
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    The Ricketts seem to have dragged their feet in regards to pretty much every aspect of the rebuild/renovation. It's unfortunate that there didn't seem to be more urgency on their part. They were green.(still are) Have yet to show they're capable owners. My honest thinking is Tom sold Dad on the fact that even if they lose, it's a cash cow. And thought that the renovations would be an easy money grab. Same with getting money from the city. They thought taking a year or two to "get healthy" would be fine, because once the renovations started, they'd start spending. Since it still hasn't, Dad obviously isn't coming off any funds and the debt structure got out ahead of us. And without extra funds, it stays there.
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    DeRosa trade was in '09. That'd be a positive then. As Archer would have been here for the new guys.
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    What moves did Hendry make in 2010 and 2011? The trade for Garza, signed Byrd. Traded DeRosa. Signed Pena. Extended Marmol. Signed Grabow. Traded Bradley. One draft of Simpson, one of Javy. We could certainly have a different look. But with a payroll being lowered yearly, I doubt we'd be contending. But we'd be further along, unless whoever took over tried piecing things together, as Hendry did during that time.
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    They could have easily kept Ramirez. With the money constraints, I'm not sure of that. We added DeJesus and Maholm that year, while lowering payroll.
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    C Castillo 1B Rizzo 2B Barney/Valbuena SS Castro 3B Olt LF Lake CF Sweeney RF Kalish With Javy, KB, and Alcantara around within a year Versus what he inherited C Soto 1B Nothing 2B Barney SS Castro 3B Nothing LF Soriano-3/54 CF Byrd RF Nothing With Castillo, Jackson, and Vitters waiting Plus 18 mill of Zambrano, multiple years of Marmol, a large one year deal on Dempster If you'd honestly take what Hendry left as an organization over what's here now, I'm not sure there's anything left to be said.
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    No, I don't care how they've gotten to their stat lines yet. Lake and Olt with .700+ OPS's is fine with me. I see Lake with little shot at starting but I'm not going to give up on Olt. Castillo is fine. Kalish is a backup. Every one of them is a below-average player except *maybe* Castillo if he can keep up his "high-K but magically good results when I hit the ball" thing. There is less on the MLB roster now than there was when Epstein took over. If he were leaving, he'd be leaving the new guy a bigger mess than the one he has failed to clean up. That's just not true at all. I think anyone would prefer monetary flexibility over a below average lineup and no flexibility.
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    Unfortunately, those are the only 2 hitters in the bright spot category. The next group is just "not disappointing" and then there are the black holes. There may be 10 guys who could individually be fine on a good roster, but you need more good players to slot ahead of those guys to have a major league caliber lineup. I think we've got 3 of 8 position players filled. With Olt having a chance to be a 4th. It's not ideal obviously. Hopefully 2 more spots are filled from within by mid season next year. It'd leave 2-3 spots to be filled by short term FA and maybe a single long term one. It DOES depend a whole hell of a lot on what Javy, KB, Alcantara look like once they come up obviously. If out of the 3, we get an All Star and a starter, I really like where we're at. If its a starter and 2 busts, we've got a ton of work to do.
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    No, I don't care how they've gotten to their stat lines yet. Lake and Olt with .700+ OPS's is fine with me. I see Lake with little shot at starting but I'm not going to give up on Olt. Castillo is fine. Kalish is a backup.
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    I'm sure this will piss some off, but there are quite a few bright spots. Starlin and Rizzo look like cornerstone players again. Between Lake, Castillo, Olt, and Kalish, all have shown flashes of being a long term contributor. Only Barney and Schierholtz have actually [expletive] the bed. Neither of whom we were counting on or should have expected much trade value from. Shark has been phenomenal-which helps us one way or another Rondon, Grimm, Ramirez, and Wright all have been excellent or at least shown flashes, even Schlitter has been decent. Hammel is pulling a Feldman Edwin has been fairly bad, Wood has been inconsistent and Russell isn't helping things. Only Wood actually matters to me though(Edwin is a back end guy) Only Veras and Villanueva have completely sucked My ire goes to Barney, Schierholtz, Villanueva, and Veras. None of those guys matter long term to me at least. Without looking, I bet those 4 account for the vast majority of our pythag differential.
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    BA has us passing on Kolek, to take Freeland lol.
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    Hrubes! Show up more often! And better to see him hit than not anyway. Good to see him play 3B too, I should probably glance over more than once before determining positions down there....
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    I'm searching and maybe I forgot what exactly I saw-But I thought I saw that 83% of all major league pitchers that have had it, make it back, with the vast majority showing the same or increased velocity. I found the 83%, it was a study between 1986 and 2012 and included fringe guys. So the 83% is actually skewed down with fringe types. But I can't find the velo %.
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    Other than Daniel Hudson, who had to have it again, who else has just flat out not came back?(Vizcaino's pitching, so he doesn't count) The extreme vast majority come back and come back with the same velo. The more I read, the more I go back to thinking Hoffman at 4 and at a huge discount is the best option for us. Even IF Rodon were there, with his shoulder concerns.
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    Pentecost would [expletive] suck, no matter how cheap he came. I'm hoping Sahadev is wrong about Freeland not being an option.
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    He knows his [expletive]. The man is prepared.
  24. davell
    Play up how close you are to your home country, to the point they feel comfortable loaning you out. Defecting the smart and not dangerous way.
  25. davell
    I'm disappointed he's playing 1B. I guess his signing bonus had to come in under 100k, right? The only top IFA list I saw him on was MLB's and Mayo messing up on rankings wouldn't shock me.
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