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  1. davell
    Ha is only 19 and playing in Peoria, so I definitely think it's way too early to write him off. I'm not remotely close to giving up on Rhee either, as he's pitching decently in Daytona, with this being his first full year back from TJS. Lee has done nothing whatsoever to make us think any less of him in Peoria as a 19 year old, in fact I'll go out on a limb and say he's going to be a top 100 guy after this year is over. So, I'm still extremely encouraged by the Pac Rim pipeline. Of course, Jung has shown little, to nothing, and Dong Yub Kim can't get healthy enough to even give us a look at him. It seems like we go out and get one decent bonus guy out of the July 2nd signings, last year it was Contreras, who has since been suspended(and I'm kind of curious if we even still own his rights honestly, as he doesn't show up on the restricted list for either DSL team, while the other guy who got suspended does show up) By the way, I'm not sure Harman is going to be all that easy to pry away from Clemson. A buddy of mine, who's an alumni and knows some of the coaches down there, doesn't seem to think he'll be leaving school. No idea whether or not he's TRULY connected or not though.
  2. davell
    I think you are dead on. I'm going to give Wilken the benefit of the doubt on this and take him for his word that he believed Simpson was the BPA. If that was the case, it was a smart move by the Cubs, and they used their leverage properly prior to signing him. If they had waited until after the draft to discuss $$, Simpson would have had more leverage. I've came around somewhat on the Simpson pick and agree that the Cubs made a prudent move in signing him for LESS than slot. Where my problem lies though(and I will give them the benefit of the doubt this year, since we still have July 2nd and hopefully more Pac Rim signings to go) is what they did AFTER taking Simpson. I figure this is what most anyone who has voiced a dissenting opinion on our draft is thinking as well. We are a major market team and we SHOULD be acting like it. Take some chances on some of the hard to sign guys, basically, is what we were all hoping for. And with the Simpson pick, I think we were all thinking we'd get a couple of marquee type names later on, but we didn't. This WAS considered a weak draft, we have already signed a Pac Rim guy for more money than we gave our 1st rounder and we still have the International signing period as well, so I'm trying to stay positive about things in this department.......
  3. davell
    I'm certainly glad we're getting guys signed, but I sincerely hope that the Simpson pick was a Wilken special and NOT a signability type pick. The Ricketts' have said they were going to increase scouting and player development money and I was really expecting to see this happen during the draft honestly. I guess we'll spend more than last year, but we should, since we were picking higher obviously. On the other hand, we DID sign Yeong Jin Kim and give him 1.2 mill already and still have the entire July 2nd International signing period to go as well, although I've not seen us linked to much down there yet either. Right now, I'm a little disapointed honestly, but am going to give Ricketts the benefit of the doubt for a year or so, on these type of situations. But, I really, really hope we take Boston's approach longterm, as there draft was phenomenal, if they only get HALF of the guys signed that require overslotting, from what we've read about.......
  4. davell
    I'm not as down on Vitters as alot of guys on here are, but I'll go with Jackson over him, at any rate. His upside seems higher, although Vitters probably has the higher floor. In the end for me, I'll take the possible upside of 20/20, high OBP, lefty CFer, with good D over the possible .300 hitting, 25 homer, lower OBP, with below average defense upside of Vitters.
  5. davell
    I figure we could rid ourselves of Theriot and I'm all for it, but I also believe the time has since passed where we could expect ANYTHING of value in return. Maybe get ONE guy who at least has some sort of upside that's still in A ball or something.
  6. davell
    Final line for him.
  7. davell
    Samardzija started for Iowa tonight. :-)) Personally, I think he's not ever going to be anything other than POSSIBLY a middle innings guy at his best, but it is an absolute joke that the Cubs continue to yo-yo him around as much as they have.
  8. davell
    I'm picturing LeMahieu as a utility guy at this point. I'm still thinking he'll eventually hit for some sort of power, albeit alot more doubles than homers.
  9. davell
    When I logged on here and saw there were ZERO posts about today's boxscores, I figured we had had a crappy day. I was right. :( On a side note, I think that the most surprising player to see struggle this year for me is Brooks Raley. I had hopes that he would already be in AA by now personally and instead if I was making a top 30 prospect list for the Cubs, I'm not even positive he'd be on it.
  10. davell
    What I think WILL happen, in the end, is Sandberg will be our manager in 2011(whether we like it or not). I'm just figuring that Ricketts will cater to the majority of Cub fans, in this case. I think about the only way it doesn't happen is if by some chance Torre is an actual option for us.
  11. davell
    The Cubs didn't draft players who were worth a total of $6 million. Most of the overslot guys should be in the Trey McNutt/Nick Struck mode ($100-200k bonuses) with maybe a $500k possibly. And they're not going to sign all the "potentially tough to sign" HS and JC kids who are summer follows, even if they wanted to. The reason I brought it up that way is because I figure Simpson gets 1.5 and it wouldn't shock me to see Golden get a mill and Gibbs get kind of close to that possibly. If you're sitting around 3-3.5ish after those 3, I would think that somewhere down the rest of these guys, maybe we have to give out at least 1-2 400/500K bonuses to get the guys to leave college or skip.
  12. davell
    Is Han signing in July? I was under the impression that he was waiting a year before he signs somewhere? Not sure why, but I thought I read it somewhere anyway......
  13. davell
    By the way, I was perusing the DSL box scores and came up on an OF named Delbis Arcila. His LISTED birthday is 4/30/93 and he's 6'3, 190. Lefty hitter. He's putting up a .324/.439/.382 line so far in 11 games. At any rate, he seems like probably the first guy for us to keep an eye on down there anyway.
  14. davell
    From what I can gather, most of the pundits seem to be agreeing that we had a fairly bad draft. Of course, that means absolutely zilch. I'm intrigued by some of the picks obviously. Enough to give it a B or so actually, but again, it means absolutely zilch. I think when we CAN judge this draft though, is on August 16th. I know I've harped on it plenty already, but I want to see some money spent. It certainly seems like we took some guys we're going to have to "buy". Now, let's do it and then we have to put our trust in Wilken and hope we bought guys worth buying. I really want to see 6 mill or so spent anyway from this draft and based on the guys we took, it looks like that can happen. Basically, I just want to see a true commitment made to the system, especially since our major league team is hamstrung some.
  15. davell
    Cerda doesn't have an official at bat tonight because he's walked 4 times.
  16. davell
    I'd like to see him back out there for the 8th.
  17. davell
    I wish we could find something out on Dong Yub Kim personally. I'm actually wondering if he'll even be ready for Arizona or Boise this year. He was hurt last year too, from what I can remember down in Australia......
  18. davell
    While I can certainly see how people think Lou is playing out the string here, I'm not sure I agree with that assessment honestly. He's done TONS of stuff. None of it has worked though. He moved Z to the pen, he benched Theriot kind of, he switches the damn batting order every day. He's played flip-flop with everyone's role in the bullpen multiple times, other than Marmol. He's getting Colvin more time, he's gotten Hill more time. He (and Hendry obviously) brought up Castro and Cashner. I'm not saying, by any stretch of the imagination, that I agree with his in-game management, or quite a few of these decisions, of which he's responsible for, but he's been active anyway....... In the end, I still see this team as an 80ish win team, short of injuries or a modest firesale(which I AM hoping for) of getting rid of what guys it's actually possible to move.
  19. davell
    Yesterday was a great pitching day, today looks like a hitting day....... Vitters is 2-3 so far with 2 RBI. B Jackson is 2-3 with a grand slam, a steal, 5 RBI and a walk. Lee is 2-2 with a walk(Peoria's only 2 hits to this point actually) On the pitching side, Rusin had a very solid outing. 6.1 IP 4H 1R 1ER 2W 6K
  20. davell
    While I certainly agree on limiting pitchers counts and innings, especially youngsters, what's changed over the last 20 years or so? It was a different ballgame even when Williams pitched and it was much different 30-40 years ago. Why are guys much more apt to get hurt now than they were then? I CAN see why former players are frustrated by this kind of thing at least...... Is it that guys are throwing too many different pitches at this point? I have no idea what kind of arsenal a Bob Feller or a Bob Gibson had, for instance. Because they were throwing just as hard as these guys today. My thinking is that MAYBE pitchers from back then could "take off" a few batters per game, as the hitters weren't as good as they are today, 1-8 or 1-9 in an order, and that it could at least "technically" help limit a guys pitches somewhat. Anyway, just curious to see what others thoughts are.......
  21. davell
    I figure that Kim Jin Yeoung will be ranked somewhere in our top 10, even with him not coming over until next year. You'd think so anyway, with the 1.2 mill bonus.......Lee was ranked in our top 10 before he came over, if I remember correctly. Personally, I think I'd go like this right now: 1 B Jackson 2 J Jackson 3 Lee 4 Vitters 5 Archer 6 McNutt 7 Carpenter 8 Rhee 9 Flaherty 10 Coleman
  22. davell
    First off, does anyone know what the most money any team has spent on a single year's draft? I'm curious, because the Red Sox took Vitek, Brentz, Ranaudo and Workman, who were all potential 1st rounders. Then you add in Cecchini, who wants over a mill, Coyle, who's going to be very tough to pry away from UNC, Perkins, Price, Leblanc, Duke, and Jaffe and you have the makings of a draft that I would think has to have the potential to break all previous records for money spent. I kind of doubt the Red Sox get ALL of these guys signed, but I do think they'll get most anyway. As for our draft, how many guys so far do we THINK will have to be overslotted? I could see Golden and Gibbs both getting more than where they were picked. But, i could see Simpson signing for less than slot as well possibly. Just by the bios, it seems like Ben Wells, Cameron Greathouse, Ryan Hartman, Cody Cox, Austin Reed, and Dustin Geiger could all be looking for decent bonuses. They all sound pretty intriguing. I'm SURE Brooks Pinckard will be wanting a pretty significant overslot too, but based on the bio, he'd probably be the least likely to get one, if it were up to me anyway. At any rate, I want to see a solid commitment from the Cubs this draft and hope we spend a solid amount getting these guys signed, if need be.
  23. davell
    I bet Steve Phillips still believes that trading him for Oswalt is a good move for the Nats.
  24. davell
    Who had the better line tonight? Carpenter 6.1IP 3H 0R 1W 6K or Archer 6IP 2H 0R 2W 8K :D
  25. davell
    We just took Bryce Harper's brother, Bryan. Lefty pitcher who appears to have decent stuff.
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