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  1. KingCubsFan
    Unfortunately, a middle infielder/CF with speed that profiles as a top of the order hitter is right up Dusty's alley. He's basically what Dusty always wanted Corey Patterson to be.
  2. KingCubsFan
    I kind of want the front office that's proven it's capable of taking care of the little things to actually take care of the little things, because their failure to do so sort of implies that they just don't care. I want my front office to take some gambles when they know in ST that the team will suck. Some of those gambles turn out to be useful trade pieces. Some turn out to be Joe Mather. Still a good decision to take the flier even if the result turns out to be a horrible baseball player. They're not going to hit on every bet. I get what you're saying, but since Kyle's issue is that they're putting a player that is known to be bad on the roster and that he wants somebody better in that role, why would that bad player be a better gamble than someone who is better? He was good just two seasons ago. Kyle is acting like he's Yuniesky Betancourt, when in reality he's just as bad as every other 25th man. Good players don't sign to get 150 at bats in a season, and good organizations don't plug talented players into the 6th infielder slot. Lillibridge has a shot to be not-terrible with the bat, and that's about all you can ask.
  3. KingCubsFan
    Nix is pretty much the only one you could make that argument about unless you want to continue hiding behind selective generalizations and pretending things like Old Man Cairo who was terrible last year is a preferable option. Nope. Everyone one of them has been consistently better than Matherbridge. It was more entertaining when you were arguing that Theo Epstein didn't feel like working so he came to the Cubs. Or that Ryan Flaherty was a better option than Ian Stewart.
  4. KingCubsFan
    The Reds had Miguel Cairo. The Cardinals had Daniel Descalo. The Yankees had Jayson Nix. Heck, the A's started Jemille Weeks. Every team has their own Lillibridge. I'm impressed by your ability to be upset by it, though. I'm impressed by your ability to try to just generically lump all those players together, despite them all being much better than Lillibridge. fWAR since 2008: Cairo: 2.2 Weeks: 1.9 Nix: 1.5 Descalso: 1.4 Lillibidrige: -0.9 You listed a bunch of examples of legitimate sixth infielders. Lillibridge isn't that. Are you actually relying on the legitacy of defensive and baserunning metrics of players who get 150-200 PA a year?
  5. KingCubsFan
    Pretty interesting that Almora is ranked higher than Correa and almost as high as Buxton.
  6. KingCubsFan
    The Reds had Miguel Cairo. The Cardinals had Daniel Descalo. The Yankees had Jayson Nix. Heck, the A's started Jemille Weeks. Every team has their own Lillibridge. I'm impressed by your ability to be upset by it, though.
  7. KingCubsFan
    This trade would be really awesome if we trade for Adam Eaton in a few months after Campana replaces him in the starting lineup.
  8. KingCubsFan
    Good to see Sullivan has moved on from trashing players that won't talk to him (Ramirez and Prior) to owners/front office people that won't talk to him.
  9. KingCubsFan
    Most physically gifted? Maybe. But I find it hard to see how anyone can make a legitimate argument that Lebron is close to Jordan. It's similar to the Kobe argument.
  10. KingCubsFan
    Depends on how you define "very valuable." For a team like the Cubs who (a) play in a park with a small CF, (b) already have a CF signed to a small deal putting up a better wOBA, and © have a manager like Sveum whose acumen can inflate the defensive value of guys like Soriano and Barney, that $12 million can be better spent elsewhere and he's really not *that* valuable. For a team with a cavernous home outfield and a manager who prefers guys that can steal bases? He's probably more valuable. When a position player primarily derives his worth from something other than hitting, I think that value becomes very subjective. It's much more nuanced than simply looking at a guy's WAR and declaring that he's really good.
  11. KingCubsFan
    Kind of surprised there wasn't more of an uproar after the Bourn deal. I thought a few weeks ago everyone was hoping to sign him. Considering the money he got, it seems like a pretty big win for the Indians. It's not a bad deal, but this team needs more offense, not more speed and outfield defense. Not sure if Bourn would have helped this team much.
  12. KingCubsFan
    Hopefully Deer was on the other side of the field teaching Barney how to take a walk.
  13. KingCubsFan
    I think unless something in camp changes, you are correct with replacing the left side, moving Webb to RT and Carimi to RG. Even if Carimi was drafted high, he really hasn't shown much as a RT in two years in terms of pass protection. Maybe moving to RG will reduce the injury risk too.
  14. KingCubsFan
    Giving your fan base blue balls isn't a great marketing strategy [expletive] that nonsense; the point is that he needs to get back out there just to get back into the swing of things quicker. Sitting him the whole year if he's actually healthy for part of it accomplishes [expletive] all. If you bring back Rose for the regular season and it gets you, say a #3 seed in the playoffs, then you sit him, that seems like a royal tease. I'd rather sit him UNTIL the playoffs and see if you can't catch lightning in a bottle. Having him sit until the playoffs is far and away the worst idea possible.
  15. KingCubsFan
    Other than better facilities and coaching -> better recruiting -> chance to lose a game and still get to national championship. Maybe I'm completely off-base, but I have to think the facilities at a place like Michigan are pretty similar to any SEC school not named Alabama. Meyer can whine all he wants, but it's pretty simple. SEC schools are located where most of the top talent is, and most of the kids in that football-crazy region grow up thinking Florida/Alabama/Georgia/Auburn is the ultimate prize. The same way every kid in Ohio grows up idolizing OSU players (and continues to idolize them as adults). It's always going to be difficult to persuade kids to go somewhere else where there's no regional tie. It certainly seems like midwest isn't keeping their guys if thats the theory you want to go with though. Other than maybe Ohio State because Ohioans are obnoxious human beings. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Looking at the top 100 from the Midwest this year, only 4 of the top 20 and 10 of the top 50 (depending on how you define the Midwest) left the region. Michigan alone had 8 of the top 20.
  16. KingCubsFan
    Yeah, it's not a bad strategy but I had no problem with the Cubs not doing it last year since they got the second highest pool this year (it sounds like it'll be somewhere around $4.5 M). This year would be a far better year to go well over the pool, with the big league team closer to .500. You definitely can still haul in some talent by getting $100,000-$250,000 guys. Heck, I think you'd have a sound argument if you felt it was a better strategy is to go after a bunch of mid-level 16-year olds than one or two big bonus ones. So if all goes according to plan, and the Cubs are really good in a few years, they could spend some ridiculous amount in the international market during a particularly strong year, and the worst that could happen to them is only being penalized for the following year? If that's the case, I see a lot of big money teams annually in contention pulling this move in the future.
  17. KingCubsFan
    Other than better facilities and coaching -> better recruiting -> chance to lose a game and still get to national championship. Maybe I'm completely off-base, but I have to think the facilities at a place like Michigan are pretty similar to any SEC school not named Alabama. Meyer can whine all he wants, but it's pretty simple. SEC schools are located where most of the top talent is, and most of the kids in that football-crazy region grow up thinking Florida/Alabama/Georgia/Auburn is the ultimate prize. The same way every kid in Ohio grows up idolizing OSU players (and continues to idolize them as adults). It's always going to be difficult to persuade kids to go somewhere else where there's no regional tie.
  18. KingCubsFan
    Yeah it's not like they're doing much else in spring training that will improve their skills. Bunts aren't that important, but it's nice to actually execute them when they're used.
  19. KingCubsFan
    So we're only going to sign/trade for mediocre-good FA (Jackson, Hairston, Dejesus, etc) and all of the great players need to come from the system so that we get them on cheap contracts before they hit FA and then let them walk and if we fail to produce them we just won't look to acquire any? The elite organizations either produce them from their own system or trade for them before they hit free agency. Pretty sure that's the Cubs' plan. examples please. Well I think there's two pretty obvious ones. One of which is already signed to a large extension.
  20. KingCubsFan
    So we're only going to sign/trade for mediocre-good FA (Jackson, Hairston, Dejesus, etc) and all of the great players need to come from the system so that we get them on cheap contracts before they hit FA and then let them walk and if we fail to produce them we just won't look to acquire any? The elite organizations either produce them from their own system or trade for them before they hit free agency. Pretty sure that's the Cubs' plan.
  21. KingCubsFan
    Bargnani isn't very good either (certainly worse than Boozer right now). But I can at least see the reasoning behind the trade. And if the options are trading Boozer for a 27 year-old former #1 pick or amnestying him in a year so Jerry can avoid the luxury tax, I'll take Bargnani. Even if it does make us a little worse this year.
  22. KingCubsFan
    Neither is Boozer. yes, he is Yeah, not sure why those two were tripping over each other to make Boozer out to be some kind of basketball monster. Yep, that's exactly what I was doing.
  23. KingCubsFan
    Neither is Boozer. At least Bargnani can open up the floor for Rose when he comes back. It's a big-time gamble though, given the chemistry of this team and the fact that Bargnani is viewed as not very motivated.
  24. KingCubsFan
    Andrus, too. True, he'll hit the market. But is he a difference making hitter? How much money do you give him as a FA? He's not a guy I'd want to invest 100 mill in. Someone will but it'd be as much about the glove as his bat. I was just highlighting him as a non-pitcher. He's not a difference-making hitter, but if a team ends up giving Michael Bourn $50 million, someone like Andrus should definitely get $100 million.
  25. KingCubsFan
    Andrus, too.
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