Sammy Sofa
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Well, he hasn't gotten the chance to prove himself this year, and when he had the chance last year he did prove himself. Not that it's Quade's fault Colvin hasn't had that opportunity, but the fact remains he's had little chance to show his stuff this year. He sucked from day one this year, like over the top sucking. Right, I'm not saying he deserved time in an OF that included Soriano/Byrd/Fukudome. Len's point is that he hasn't gotten a true opportunity to see if his success is for real, which is true. Most of that reason is he didn't earn any PT and there were 3 other OFs. Sure, but it's not like the 4th OF doesn't get plenty of PA. No, he's not starting, but if a guy has talent it's going to show through even in a semi-regular capacity. Colvin did the exact opposite and looked about as bad as an MLB player can be. Then he went to the minors and, outside of a relatively brief blip, sucked some more. If he had shown he was capable of doing ANYTHING this year he would have gotten more than enough playing time, but he didn't. -
Maybe...but I doubt it. I still think it was a case of other teams trying to buy low on an expensive guy having a bad year. Mike Adams, by contrast, is a relatively cheap guy having a great year.
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Why is that? I think it's probably the case where Hendry overvalues him based on his "ability" to rack up saves. Given the unnecessary longterm extension last year I'd bet he just has little to no interest in listening to any offer. Which is why I don't think for a second the Cubs offered or were willing to accept any deal that had them picking up the tab. If that's the case then there's no way they were being offered anything but junk for a $17 million dollar closer having a bad year and with an arm in danger of falling off any time he takes the mound.
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I used to think this, but I find that harder to believe considering what the Padres got for Mike Adams. And if Hendry was indeed offering to eat salary and still getting offered nothing, that's fine. But reports seem to suggest that he was basically ignoring calls on his players in a quest to give himself hope for next season, and that's a bit more concerning. There were no reports that the Cubs were willing to eat Marmol's contract; simply that there teams interested in acquiring (no doubt hoping they smelled blood in the water and he could be had for garbage). Whatever team picked him up would be paying him approx. $17 million dollars. Mike Adams is probably going to end up costing around $4 million.
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There absolutely is a whole hell of a lot wrong with that. He's talking about given the current circumstances. Unless you think there's a clear path to being a 90 win team next year. Well, gooney had to delete the rest of the post to remove the context so he could find something to argue about.
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Yes, I get it, and it's largely a moot point. There's not much to learn about Tyler Colvin. He's not very good at baseball. He might be serviceable if the Cubs cobble together some kind of monstrous Frankenstein platoon in LF, but God help us if he's starting in RF next year.
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I'm not sure how the heck anybody can possibly think of a scenario in which we can go into 2012 knowing that Colvin is the guy. But at least if he hits well in the next 300AB's you'll have a better feel. He had fewer than 100AB's this season before he was sent down. I don't think he's the guy but Cubs management seems to think so. I want him to sink or swim and make the decision perfectly clear heading into 2012. How will these AB's make the decision "perfectly clear?"
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Well, he hasn't gotten the chance to prove himself this year, and when he had the chance last year he did prove himself. Not that it's Quade's fault Colvin hasn't had that opportunity, but the fact remains he's had little chance to show his stuff this year. He sucked from day one this year, like over the top sucking. Yeah, no kidding. It's not like he was a few games from righting the ship or something.
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Right. I'd have zero problem trading Marmol for a good return, but I highly doubt the Cubs were offered anything that made trading him worth it.
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The Cubs can have a hugely successful season next year even if it means they "only" get back to .500 and don't make the playoffs
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Another shitty bit of analysis that hinges on the "trade guys just to trade them" mentality.
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What record?
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Between this and the politics thread you're on a roll tonight.
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I figured everyone knew that since it was brought every single time the Cubs played the Pirates when they had Ward.
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Oh, look, there it is again.
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Leave it to our Cubs to wrap their first two winning streaks of the year with a 5 game losing streak. Your Cubs, maybe. MY Cubs are about win 14 in a row.
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Well this is pretty damn great.
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CASTRO WALKED. *HEARTHEARTHEART*
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RARRRGH!!!
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I actually stared open-mouthed at the TV when Colvin hit that shot.
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It's incorrect because it's obviously incorrect. There's no metric to gauge the specific level of scrutiny prospects get, but there's basically this: Jackie Robinson Everyone else I mean, Bryce Harper is hardly the first highly touted prospect to come along. And what scrutiny are people even talking about? Calling him a douchebag because of his stupid truck? Making fun of his shitty tattoos that he showed off to everyone? Everything else is what prospects with these type of expectations get.
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But the difference is astronomical. It's like saying that Uranus is the biggest planet since Saturn. That's great, but Saturn is [expletive]-all huge compared to Uranus. It's a loaded, needless comparison that comes across sounding dumb. How about, "I've never seen a prospect get this kind of scrutiny?"
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That's stupid. The scrutiny that Bryce Harper, highly touted offensive prospect, is not even in the same universe as Jackie Robinson, THE (ACKNOWLEDGED) FIRST BLACK PLAYER IN MLB HISTORY. If you want to say that Harper is getting more scrutiny than the usual top prospect, sure I'm on board with that. But that's still nothing like what Robinson went through. It's a horrible, horrible, moronic comparison.
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And yes, before anyone thinks they're being brilliant, I know who Tony Torasco is.
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It's just a complete lack of perspective.
