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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Man, if he's starting anywhere in the OF opening day for the Cubs next year I just may cry.
  4. 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.
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Huh. What's the general consensus on using Shark's 2012 team option?
  6. Sammy Sofa
    What the [expletive] are you talking about?
  7. Sammy Sofa
    How?
  8. 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.
  9. 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?"
  10. 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.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    The Cubs placed him waivers because there was no room for him and because he was a wholly unremarkable player. That you're talking like they should have gone out of their way to hold on to him or trade him is absurd. And yes, baseball players are typically inconsistent. McGehee is noticeably inconsistent even with that in mind. His 2009 numbers look decent, but he mostly benefited from only starting 85 games and from the aforementioned insane, unsustainable months. He was a nice surprise for the Brewers, and sure, it would have been nice to have had him for when Aramis went down, but at the time he was claimed there was nowhere to put him and no real pressing argument to try and hold on to him. And I have no idea why you keep talking like Wells should be benched now.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    A long time? They still had Lee last year.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    You seriously don't think an incorrect outcome hurts the game? Sure, baseball will go on as it always has, but you don't think the players and the fans deserve the correct outcome on the field? What if it would be the Cubs screwed out of a playoff game on a hilariously bad call? Would you still feel the same way? Blown calls hurt the integrity of the game. Sure, not as much as like steroids or the Black Sox scandal or the color barrier, but it's still something that can be done away with if possible. I really will never understand the opposition to ensuring the correct outcome is called on the field. No, I seriously don't.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    Oh.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Why? He entertains me.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    Insanity?
  17. Sammy Sofa
    No, because we have no idea what the 2012 Cubs are going to look like. I'll give you my answer when pitchers and catchers report.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Wells has sucked this year but everyone (fans, media and Hendry) would rather worry about Zambrano calling out the team, Zambrano being unhappy about being taken out the game last night, etc. There seems to be accountability for certain players but not all players. I bet you have argued with many posters about not choosing stats from certain months to make a point, but that is what you are doing. Bottom line is McGehee had a much better year in 2010 than you are giving him credit for. Does that mean I think he is great? No. But it is funny that the Cubs let him go for nothing and the Brewers got good production from a minimum salary guy while the Cubs had a cast of average to below average players fill in for Ramirez when he was on the DL. Well, it's pretty clear you have zero understanding as to how he ended up on the Brewers if you're going to look at as "they let him go for nothing." Please, explain to us your version of those events. And yes, he's been a very inconsistent player. And I'm absolutely baffled as to what you expect to be done about Wells. You want him raked over the coals? He's been bad, people recognize that he's bad. What else do you want?
  19. Sammy Sofa
    Jeff Baker will have modest value as a platoon/bench player on a Cubs team that has a ceiling of being mediocre. Then he'll be a free agent. If you can trade him for a lottery ticket like, say, Chris Archer or Michael Burgess, then I'd do it. Those types of guys at least have a shot at being difference-makers at some point in the future. He has zero chance of bringing back guys like that and your conclusion as to what the 2012 Cubs can be seems bizarrely open and shut. As we speak the Cub would need a 20 or so win improvement to get to mediocre. I'd say I'm being generous. And Gorzelanny can bring back Burgess ++, DeRosa can bring back Archer ++, but yet it's asinine to think Baker could bring back a Archer/Burgess type and nothing else? Come on. Yes, the guy you yourself described as a bench/platoon player can bring back the same return as a LH starting pitcher and a starting 2B who can multiple positions. [G.O.B.]COME ON.[/G.O.B.] The Cubs made such a jump 5 years ago. You're also still seemingly hung up on the idea that a team winning less than 90 games isn't worth your time.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Again, you're assuming teams would be willing to give up younger players. There's nothing "wrong" with teams not willing to do that; that's just the reality given what Kosuke is projected to bring to a team he is traded to.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    You're assuming that the other team involved would be willing to give up younger prospects.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    What kind of "scrutiny" are you talking about? You're talking like he should be benched or sent to the minors. And how the [expletive] does he sound "entitled?" And McGehee is not impressive at all. He's a very inconsistent player whose 2009 numbers are skewed by him playing out of his mind in September and June (April and August in 2010). He's been useful to the Brewers because he's been cheap, but his fluctuations seem to have caught up to him and he's absolutely brutal this year.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Jeff Baker will have modest value as a platoon/bench player on a Cubs team that has a ceiling of being mediocre. Then he'll be a free agent. If you can trade him for a lottery ticket like, say, Chris Archer or Michael Burgess, then I'd do it. Those types of guys at least have a shot at being difference-makers at some point in the future. He has zero chance of bringing back guys like that and your conclusion as to what the 2012 Cubs can be seems bizarrely open and shut.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Do most ticket-buying fans even know who Jim Hendry is? Based on my trips to Wrigley, I'm guessing not. Of course they do. Hendry is a well-known scapegoat courtesy of even the hackiest sports radio schlubs, local sports journalists and the hellbeast David Kaplan. Hell, he's brought up all the time by and Len & Bob and Ron/Keith & Pat. A Cubs fan would have to be in a coma or dead to not know who he is.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    It's pretty easy to tell. It's not like there are a ton of examples of candidates for president or GM positions who openly slam the current "administration" of the team that's potentially going to hire them.
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