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  1. KingCubsFan
    If he doesn't have car troubles getting to the yard. I thought that's what we signed Concepcion for?
  2. KingCubsFan
    Don't know when Shark went all gritty and old school, but managers and GM's tend to love that kind of talk. Where have you been? He's always spouted this kind of stuff.
  3. KingCubsFan
    Is Soler finally playing today?
  4. KingCubsFan
    Only if we can swap Ricketts for Reinsdorf. Whoa there.
  5. KingCubsFan
    It doesn't matter, the Sox try harder.
  6. KingCubsFan
    Alcantara needs to start drawing some walks.
  7. KingCubsFan
    sigh...those were the days
  8. KingCubsFan
    Cameron is only talking about prospect rankings though. The draft is a different animal. In the draft, upside should probably trump polish in most instances.
  9. KingCubsFan
    At least we're not the Twins. Sano is out for the year and Buxton hasn't played yet.
  10. KingCubsFan
    Maybe that team looked like a contender in Hendry's mind. Anyone else could see they were going to be bad.
  11. KingCubsFan
    Stanton's K rate in his first season in AA was 29%. I'm not too worried, although it is definitely something to watch.
  12. KingCubsFan
    That should be Kyle's slogan.
  13. KingCubsFan
    Well, even in a best case scenario, he's probably shut down for a while and he won't pitch much more than the 116 innings he threw last year. Which pushes back his ETA for the majors.
  14. KingCubsFan
    I kind of remember reading something like this back when pitchers began throwing it more. Specifically, when Esteban Loiaza was awesome for the White Sox that one year. I think the theory was based on the fact that a lot of pitchers lost velocity on their 4-seamer as a result of throwing more cutters, but I could be wrong. Anyhow, I haven't seen anything on it recently.
  15. KingCubsFan
    I don't think anyone is, actually. It just seems like people took the "they're targeting far away pitchers" (and i think even the catchers thing was mentioned) idea from a troll pretending to have sources and ran with it. I was expecting it to just go ignored. He didn't indicate he had any sources. He just said something that seems pretty logical. Are you aware of who psd marlin bystro is? Yeah, some random guy who claims to be an insider.
  16. KingCubsFan
    I don't think anyone is, actually. It just seems like people took the "they're targeting far away pitchers" (and i think even the catchers thing was mentioned) idea from a troll pretending to have sources and ran with it. I was expecting it to just go ignored. He didn't indicate he had any sources. He just said something that seems pretty logical.
  17. KingCubsFan
    If they keep both picks, my guess is one guy is a foreign player they can stash.
  18. KingCubsFan
    So at what point do we become more intrigued with Balaguert? He's not walking that much, but he's not striking out a ton either.
  19. KingCubsFan
    Glad to see the power, but I wish he'd start walking a bit more.
  20. KingCubsFan
    I don't see the need to move him up much before mid-July/August. 300-350 PAs at AA. I don't think AAA is a necessity for an elite prospect. He could conceivably come up this year in August after dominating AA. Or he could get a taste of AAA this year and make a token appearance there to start 2015 before being in the majors for good. I don't really think this FO is going to be skipping AAA for many/any of these guys (I also don't think the 600PA thing is to be taken literally, either, FWIW). Like Baez, Bryant could probably use a taste of some of the softer stuff AAA would bring, too. I ask because they weren't reluctant to move him from A to A+ (and, well, A+ to AA) quickly after he dominated in a pretty similar fashion to what he's doing at AA now. My guess is he'll move up in June, and probably up to the majors in September when the AAA season is over.
  21. KingCubsFan
    If you're negative about every prospect, you're bound to be right 90% of the time.
  22. KingCubsFan
    What do we make of the fact that Sanchez is really bad at throwing strikes, and at his highest two levels has a sub-8 K/9? He's a fine prospect but all indications are that he'll be valued like he's an elite prospect that's actually gotten hitters out, which I don't really have much interest in. Honestly, I like Stroman more myself. But lots say that Sanchez hasn't tapped fully into his potential yet either. Is it his release point? I'm not remembering right now what it is that supposedly needs a bit of cleaning up. That said, it doesn't look like Arizona is going to be buying. They look awful. So my hopes of KT throwing Bradley our way has already basically evaporated. Taillon is already hurt. KC maybe? Seems like Ventura has too much buzz for them to trade him and Zimmer has more warts than either of Sanchez or Stroman to me. Would the Mets part with Syndergaard and Montero? Seems unlikely to me anyway. Who else is left? That has legit pitching prospects? I mean, we COULD trade for hitting, but we HAVE to acquire some young pitching at some point soon. Law was concerned that the Jays were tinkering with his delivery and increased his injury risk as a result.
  23. KingCubsFan
    I am surprised that 2/5 is the among the worst for out of the zone contact. The list of the best isn't exactly an impressive list of hitters either: Barney, Pierre, Scutaro, Callaspo, Votto (obvious outlier).
  24. KingCubsFan
    Theo on Corey Black: http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/10785209/theo-epstein-says-alfonso-soriano-trade-benefited-chicago-cubs-new-york-yankees
  25. KingCubsFan
    So better than Matt Garza?
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