Sammy Sofa

Colvin got plenty of playing time in 2011; he was horrible. And yes, you were ridiculed because you harp on and on about player history regardless of how many PA it is or whether it was the minors or the majors or which league in the minors it was or what health issues were being dealt with. You're determined to find concrete patterns in select stat lines like some kind of annoying baseball Beautiful Mind and then act like they're a lock that a player will succeed or fail...until it's case like Trumbo, and then it's all out the window. That is why you are ridiculed, coupled with how torturous it is to read your posts. And yes, you want to make time for promising young players. The Cubs have a shortage of such in the OF (and had a lack of players willing to take a pitch), and like it or not you need to at least try to field a team, so signing a guy like Dejesus on the cheap makes perfect sense. He's not blocking anyone. Then Stewart is picked up because they also have a dearth of players at 3B and he's an intriguing reclamation project. That's it. That's as far as it goes. Any positive things said about Stewart have been out of the hope that he'd be able to bounce back and be a serviceable 3B option until a long term option was found. Colvin, as you've said yourself, had no future with the team, so it was a break even trade at worst.

According to Fangraphs, yes (offensively). According to BR, no.

The weird thing is that Neely has been concluding his posts with this thought...after getting worked up during the previous paragraph about Stewart. Yeah, it's strange that most of his posts seem to be agreeing with the general sentiment about this now. He's just still inexplicably hung up on the idea of the mythical Ian Stewart superfan or Colvin not getting patted on the head.

Yes, we're all very well aware of the simplistic way you look at career stats. Shall we go over DeJesus again? Nobody has any problem pointing out Colvin is technically having a better year than Stewart; it just doesn't matter. It's ridiculous to get worked up in any way over the 0.7 WAR player vs. the 0.0 WAR player.

Pretty much my thinking, too; until the deadline passes or Atlanta makes another pitching trade, I'm expecting this to get done.

That was as magnificently stupid as I had hoped for...and more. Bless you, kind sir.

billy would have beat those [expletive] to death with the [expletive] face bat like the bear jew Yes.

I still say this'll turn out OK. Heed my words.

from what i can tell, fredi gonzalez was his manager for 12 starts in 1997-98 and then dempster played on the marlins when gonzalez was the third base coach. that hardly seems like a situation that would lead to them being BFFs. FRIENDSHIP DECLARED INELIGIBLE.

people just don't understand how james loney changed the very essence of who he is He literally shrank a few inches.

I wish the Ted Lilly Fan Club was still up and running.

The [expletive] is that.

Was Fredi with the Marlins when Dempster was?

Yeah, he NEEDS to do that. He owes us.

Totally reasonable.

He's so big and so brave.

Well, god [expletive] dammit. I wanted this one sooooo bad.

Well, YOU can fret, because everyone hates you.

Because Lord knows Garza could only be good next year.

Don't fret, my swarthy little monkeys.

Man, what screwed up Yahoo? They have the score listed 1-0, with the Cubs only having 1 hit, yet they have Soto listed as hitting a HR in the 2nd (they also have Castro's in the 1B).

there is nothing to like in either. valbuena's value? he's cheaper. So what? They're both on the team. Incorrect. Nobody here is a "huge backer of Stewart." There's a huge difference between explaining how you can look at a player/countering hyperbole and being some kind of superfan. I'm wrong all the time; the FO is far from infallable. My point is, and has been, is that arguing whether the Cubs or Rockies "won" between Ian Stewart and Tyler Colvin is nearly meaningless. Now I see what MSG-T was saying when it was like your post was written by two different people; so you DO agree with me? OK, good so far (though saying Colvin and Stewart were similarly "highly regarded" is a HUGE stretch)... ...wait, what? Why wouldn't they see what he can do after his surgery? It's not like they have anyone beating down the door at 3B. Good...point? Man, this was a schizo post.

Do not fret, my fat little dumplings.