Sammy Sofa
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Who wrote that, WSR? -
Yeah, Garza still holds a lot of value in the offseason with the way guys seem to be getting locked up. It's frustrating to see their plans fall through right now, but I'm confident they can handle the rebound if necessary.
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"[expletive], WHY AM I STUCK WITH THIS TALENTED PITCHER?!?! OH, WOE IS ME." Are you really that clueless or just trolling? Who the [expletive] cares how talented is. A. He's not going to be around when this teams competitive. B. This team needs to be building for the future and acquiring as much young talent as it can. It's not rocket science. We need to turn him into multiple talented pitchers that will be around for when we are competitive, that's what I think most of us would prefer. It's impossible a 28-year-old pitcher will be around when they're next competitive? Don't be ridiculous. Management has given every indication they weren't planning on having him around. So they change their plans if necessary.
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"[expletive], WHY AM I STUCK WITH THIS TALENTED PITCHER?!?! OH, WOE IS ME." Are you really that clueless or just trolling? Who the [expletive] cares how talented is. A. He's not going to be around when this teams competitive. B. This team needs to be building for the future and acquiring as much young talent as it can. It's not rocket science. We need to turn him into multiple talented pitchers that will be around for when we are competitive, that's what I think most of us would prefer. It's impossible a 28-year-old pitcher will be around when they're next competitive? Don't be ridiculous.
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"[expletive], WHY AM I STUCK WITH THIS TALENTED PITCHER?!?! OH, WOE IS ME." You're kidding yourself if you think he's not pissed about this turn of events. They were shopping him around because they wanted to, and now those efforts have been severely hindered. Yeah, but it's not like the alternative is something horrible or unworkable. Basically it's the FO's job to have a continually evolving plan and to deal with these kinds of issues, so I'm not sweating it.
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Bob expects athletes to be out there in full makeup at all times.
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"[expletive], WHY AM I STUCK WITH THIS TALENTED PITCHER?!?! OH, WOE IS ME."
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But keeping Garza is good. Not in the long run. In the longest run.
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But keeping Garza is good.
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07/27 Cardinals (Lynn) @ Cubs (Wood) 1:20 CDT, CSN
Sammy Sofa replied to ctcf's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Excellent.
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If it comes down to an issue of what they need then what they want becomes irrelevant, especially if it's a guy who initially exercised his 10/5 rights.
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Patience, my succulent little chunk of blubber.
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Oh, Youtube. First comment: Which, of course, 22 people gave a thumbs up to.
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False. You keep moving the goalposts as to what you're even arguing and making up what others are saying, and I really just don't give a [expletive] about it anymore. We're done.
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I mean, if your goal is to look at player evaluation as simply being a matter of good or bad, then there's nothing further to discuss. That's primo meatballery.
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I cut them down to show you the painfully obvious; it's your problem, not mine, that you don't understand BAbip and LD% and the like to see that he was actually performing (and how his numbers in April were skewed) along the lines of what was hoped until the wrist sidelined him. Of course players are going to go hot and cold, and we only have a little sample size with which to judge Stewart this year, but you're acting like his good numbers are flukishly good as opposed to being what should be expected. Based on the numbers, yes, it appeared that he had a decent shot of getting back to his 2009-2010 production until he had to be shut down. You're trying to present any success he had as an anomaly when those numbers are actually more in line with his career numbers than being representative of some kind of anomalous hot streak. Unless you're saying you think the 182 PA from 2011 and 2007 are more indicative of his line than the 1236 PA between 2008 and 2010.
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Also from that blog post... Ugh.
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I honestly have no idea how to argue with this. You're convinced that what you managed to watch is somehow more accurate than the stats. You're talking like Ian Stewart and Ian Stewart's wrist are two separate things. I'm pretty confident you're pretty confident in a lot of weird things. I have no idea what you're talking about; Ian Stewart has not played at all in the 2nd half of this season.
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Yeah, as a teacher myself the whole "I don't give a [expletive] about grammar and spelling because it's the internet" that guys like this and hccf all but brag about drives me up the wall. How is spelling things correctly and trying to use proper grammar something you just switch off? I can understand abbreviations/acronyms or not capitalizing, but these guys seemingly have everything just break down on them when they're trying to put together a thought. It honestly reads like someone who is drunk or having a stroke.
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Maybe. Look, in all seriousness, you're giving your eyes way too much credit.
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Sounds about right.
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And now I posted the whole thing. I don't care what you "felt;" the numbers show he WAS tremendously unlucky to start the season. You adjust his numbers based on that and, shocker, his pre-May numbers look like his May numbers which, double-shocker are in the area of what we'd be hoping he'd be able to put up. He was bouncing back from 2011 and was trending in the right direction until he could no longer play through the wrist issues. That's why they traded for him, and that's why it's still an interesting question of what he'll be able to do after the surgery.
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That's how you guarantee you are .500. Might as well claim it all!
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You can't be .500 when at some point you've agreed with everyone.
