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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Well, yeah, when you oversimplify things like that it makes him sound much better than he actually is. Vogelbach ideally projects to have significant value because he appears to be a much better hitter than Viciedo's flawed, one-dimensional output. Breaking it down to only saying "neither one is a good fielder" is effectively ignoring the really obvious differences in their offensive approach and makes it sound like they're similar players. They're not. Viciedo's value is basically only in his home runs. He effectively negates that value with how bad he is at basically everything else (both offensive and defensive). It's questionable whether or not he'd even be able to hack it as a DH, much less on a team where he'd actually have to play the field.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Vogelbach's value is in the form of his bat, not at all defensively. He will likely contribute to the Cubs via trade unless Rizzo regresses. I realize this -- same with Viciedo. Except....it's not the same. They're very different hitters. And as we've said, Vogelbach's main value to the Cubs right now is his trade potential.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    He really looks like they just pulled some hungover bro out of Wrigleyville, threw a suit on him and then tossed him up in front of the press. And man, the Cubs' clubhouse never fails to look so hideous and embarrassing.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    He'd still be a big fat load out there, too. It's not like they can "coach him up" a la Soriano or something because he has the mobility of a wooly mammoth stuck in a tar pit.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    My Volgelbach love is based mostly out of the idea that he'll ideally be a valuable trade commodity as opposed to actually playing on the Cubs. Unless the NL pulls its head out of its ass and they adopt the DH. Vogelbach also shits all over Viciedo in terms of OPS; Viciedo's numbers are waaaaay too reliant on slugging. Plus: holy [expletive], compare their strikeouts-to-walks ratios.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    GET BACK HERE WITH THAT GARBAGE, KYLE.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, it's not like those splits are skewed or anything (218 to 544 PA). Oh, Aramis. We're so very, very sorry.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    I'd have no problem getting him for the right deal (namely they don't give up much of anything) if they think they can improve his monstrous defense to, y'know, actually make him useful. I just doubt that's really doable since he's a big fat load.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Guy hits 25 home runs a decade ago and has his wrist surgically removed: UPSIDE! Guy hits 25 home runs last year: No use for him. But yeah, if he can't play 3b, never mind. You're really letting this stupid bit/character you feel you have to play punch your brain in the balls. You're really just going to keep dropping "BUT HE HIT 25 HOME RUNSSSSSSSSS!!!" out there like that?
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Is it his half a win in almost 150 games last year that intrigues you? I'm guessing it's the 25 HRs and history of playing 3b. And despite that he was, like, really bad. Even if that's true, that still would make him a major upgrade over what we have now at 3b. My God, you're as delusional as you are hideous.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    5) Vogelbach 6) Fujikawa 7) Maples
  12. Sammy Sofa
    Suddenly this whole debacle was worth it.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Andy You know a thread has reached true depths of awfulness when the only person bearable is TRUFFLE with an Andy burn.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Really?
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I do know they won a freakish amount of one-run games and come from behind games, and yes, I seem to recall it being pointed out that they had actually been outscored by their opponents pretty deep into the season.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    OK, NOW one should ask "what the [expletive] are the Red Sox doing?".
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Then bringing up the illegality of certain PEDs is moot.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    He's discussing the use of illegal substances.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    You're really going with this one? In terms of exchanging players who don't figure into the future for those that do, yes. Well, that's a hilarious way to spin your wildly incorrect statement, but whatever.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    You're really going with this one?
  22. Sammy Sofa
    That was also a much different run environment. When the Cubs got rid of Pagan he was going on 27 years old and had been easily below average in 2 part time seasons. He could've been handled differently, but players in that situation get pushed out all the time, especially guys like Pagan who were never well regarded prospects. He also went through that really bad bout with colitis that caused him to lose a lot of strength. I can't really fault Hendry for moving him when the Mets came asking because it looked like he wasn't going to amount to much.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    So what is a realistic extension for Cutler if he takes a "hometown discount"? Not sure how much of a discount we're talking about if he didn't go into more details. I know he's supposed to make like 8-8.5 mil next year. I imagine it's a 3-4 years extension after next season. Will it be still 8-9 mil/yr or more like 10-11? It was mostly joking around, but Cutler was pretty insistent it would be something like 5-10%.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    who did people want? sutcliffe? Basically any ex-Cub you can think of, including some that are dead. Oh, and there was an ongoing debate about whether the Cubs or the WS had a better announcing team, with quite a few Cubs fans bemoaning that they didn't have Hawk and Stone.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Worth it just for the furious meatball responses on the Cubs' Facebook posting about this.
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