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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Glad you've come to your senses.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    TAKE THE SHOT.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    True, but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying having a decent OFer to fill-in for Sizemore and Choo while they are on the DL is more valuable than money to the Indians. How much can the Indians up their payroll? They may have been trying to keep from adding much payroll either because they're right against their cap or they plan on pursuing another player(s) who will cost money. Right. Kosuke is a role player move, not an impact player. That team doesn't spend a lot and very well could be crunching the numbers in anticipation of an actual impact move before the deadline.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Makes sense. The Cubs' system looked a LOT worse 2 years ago, Soriano would have been even more expensive, and the best players that the Cubs had (outside of Soto) were pretty expensive themselves.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Because Kosuke Fukudome isn't the kind of player you can force a last minute deal for.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    I would assume the Cubs wanted some kind of player return and that's the best that was made available to them of what they wanted.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    I'm having trouble following your logic. Given that these guys are in the Indian's minor league system and aren't any great shakes I can't imagine they're making all that much. Why would the Indians, a team with limited financial resources, take on more of Fukudome's contract instead of giving up a pair of likely inconsequential prospects who almost certainly aren't costing 500k, much less a million dollars? Money is more valuable to the Indians than these guys.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Don't really follow the logic here. I'm wanting the Cubs to give less money to the Indians in return for taking no minor leaguers in the trade. Instead of getting organizational filler and covering 4 million of his contract. Take no players back and pay less of Kosuke's remaining salary. That way the Cubs would have more money to spend on their draft picks. How much are these players making?
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe. I mean, I like Kosuke, but he is what he is at this point and the Cubs simply were not in a good position to get much back for him.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    I guess it can't rebound then. If he's this bad, why are the Indians trading for him when they have so much at stake this season? I guess their scouts are idiots. But if they want him, they want him. It doesn't mean the Cubs have to take these guys in return? Just cover less of the salary. Because maybe the money saved her is going to signing their draft picks from their very good draft this year. Really would rather go with that than picking up the tab for Kosuke so they can get a marginal increase in the return they're getting from the Indians. And the Indians probably want him because he's cheap in this deal and because there's the chance his OBP could rebound. I'm just pointed out the trend that would indicate why the Cubs weren't going to get a very good return for him. You're simply overvaluing him.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    His defense isn't very good. Look up his metrics. It's serviceable, but in no way are we talking about some kind of defensive whiz. Fukudome's OBP month by month this year: .486 .389 .315 .329
  12. Sammy Sofa
    So then I will ask you, too; why do you think a team would give up a younger player? I guarantee you the only way they'd have a chance of that is if they took no money back. And it would probably have been only that one prospect. And even then it probably wouldn't have been offered. Fukudome has minimal value right now.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    THE MILK'S GONE BAD.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Yes, all, of his stats this year have somehow come against the Cubs. It's really rather amazing.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    I still don't understand why you're so convinced the Cubs could have gotten younger prospects if they wanted to. It's not like they had much leverage. "Oh, so you won't give us a better return for our expensive, declining, old corner OF who hits for almost no power and doesn't really play very good defense anymore? WELL, TOO BAD."
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Man, if he's starting anywhere in the OF opening day for the Cubs next year I just may cry. Probably Jackson, no? Or would that be too soon for him? Probably too soon, though if he was starting the season with the Cubs I'd expect him to get the nod in CF and Byrd to get the shift to RF.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    No, I was talking about the "wheels officially falling off" NOW because of Marlon Byrd joking around. As opposed to what, they hadn't "fallen off" when they've played baseball garbage the entire season. Yeah, a player half-joking about wanting to go to a team in a playoff race as opposed to staying on an awful one is just chaos in the clubhouse. Better trade him fast before he infects everyone else.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Man, if he's starting anywhere in the OF opening day for the Cubs next year I just may cry.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, he's been pretty solid for a while now. I say keep him around. It's $3.2 million dollars, but it would only be for the one year. His team option 2013 is, I believe, a separate decision that doesn't automatically vest if the 2012 option is used. He'd ideally be backup if a starter went down, too.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Huh. What's the general consensus on using Shark's 2012 team option?
  21. Sammy Sofa
    What the [expletive] are you talking about?
  22. Sammy Sofa
    How?
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Probably not. I really wouldn't lose any sleep if he was kept on for his final year, but I doubt a new FO would do such a thing.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    So what? You said it yourself, it's all hindsight. At the time he was claimed there was little, if any reason to bemoan the "loss" of Casey McGehee. There was no room for him at the time, he was an unremarkable minor league player who was already 25, and his very brief time with the Cubs (just 25 PA, granted), was beyond abysmal (.167 .160 .208 .368). It's ridiculous to think what could have been since there's no logical argument to the Cubs going out of their way to keep him at the time he was claimed. The Brewers got lucky, period. So your complaint is you want Quade making the dumb comments he made about Castro about other players? What the [expletive]? Shouldn't the complaint be "I don't want Quade saying ANYTHING that stupid about anyone?"
  25. Sammy Sofa
    You keep defining very narrow parameters in regards to 2012 in order to make your argument. Now it's "refusing to trade any of the current guys in hopes that mediocre is good enough" when the reality is that the Cubs have a decent chance to be better than that (even though your metric of "mediocre," between 85 and 89 wins, is nothing to dismiss, yet you keep doing just that) and Baker cheaply fills a need, in his platoon-y way, at 2B but also potentially 3B if they end up not bringing Aramis back. He simply has too much specific value to the Cubs next year, a year where they could easily contend, while not having enough general value to net the type of return you're talking about. Like it or not, the Cubs simply do not have any guys right now where you could justify moving them (or are even able to move them) and taking a hit next year because of the return they'd bring. The bottom line is that you are drastically overestimating what the Cubs can get in return for these players vs. what they can ideally provide for an ideally contending Cubs team next season.
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