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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Whatever. They're all named Juan, right? Their moms are lazy that way.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Not quite sure what you're getting at here. A player's on field performance has little to do with what they evangelize as a coach. Take Joe Morgan for example. If there was ever a player who understood the value of a walk, Morgan and his career .121 IsoD should be that guy. But you listen to him stumble his way through broadcasts and it's clear he doesn't understand the concept at all. The opposite is true as well, people can understand the value of the walk but not be able to execute for a variety of reasons(lack of talent, pitch recognition, etc). Right, that seems like a really faulty way to point out the Cubs failings when it comes to developing players. Look around most of the minors and I'm very confident that most of the coaches who were former players had sub-.350 OBP's.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    Holy [expletive]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Bergen_%28baseball%29
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Wow, never seen an ERA like this before: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kammebo01.shtml
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Koyie Hill might not be the best candidate of all the backup catcher playing today, let alone all-time. It's hard to tell catcher's defensive ratings very well, but Hill is not particularly close to being the worst offensive catcher in the league. WHUT BUT ONLY THE COBS AND THE FUTILITY AND THE MANGLED HAND AND HENDRY LIKES DONUTS I guarantee you there's at least one person here who honestly believes that Soriano should be on this list. I don't know who that person is...but they're out there.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah, looking at him as the 6th or 7th starter is ultimately largely redundant. The point still stands that a series of events had to go very, very wrong (arguably to an unusual degree) for the idea of Gorzelanny being traded being a truly damnable decision by Hendry. Like TT said, Gorzelanny did not figure into the Cubs long-term plans, they had multiple options besides him at the time, and dealing him would net them a group of intriguing prospects and free up a couple million dollars. It ended up that having Gorzelanny would have lessened the pain of this year (though likely not by much), but personally I don't see trading him as being particularly egregious.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    KARMAKARMAKARMA
  8. Sammy Sofa
    No, it's not a strawman; I honestly can't get worked up over the idea of moving someone like Gorzelanny. Again, most teams are able to ride out a major pitching injury going the route the Cubs took this season. I mean, trading Marmol before this season ideally would have lessened the talent of the team going into this season, but I would have been all about that. Trading DeRosa before 2009 technically lessened the talent of the team before the season but it was a good move. If the Cubs wanted to go the route of selling relatively high on a mediocre pitcher and save a bit of money in case they needed to spend during the season, meh, really doesn't bother me. A LOT of things had to go wrong for Tom [expletive] Gorzelanny to start suddenly looking so good.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Nice. I went with Rollins, hoping he'd have a bounceback year playing for a new contract. Not a bad first half, but I'm ripping off your pick instead.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Am I reading this right? You would trade Marmol for Colby Rasmus? He's a career .259 hitter, doesn't get on base at a real good level, doesn't steal bases, and is only a 20 HR power guy. I've got to believe you're massively overrating his trade value.. Maybe I am wrong? I mean, I think Jackson could be brought up and put up similar numbers w/ a bit less power. He's only 24, and was very good in his age 23 season. He's regressed somewhat this year, but again, only 24, so this is the time to buy low on a player (if he's truly on the outs with the Cardinals) with that much promise and who was that highly rated as a prospect (#3 before 2009 and #5 before 2008). A player like that is much more valuable than an expensive closer.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    There's always someone out there who inexplicably gets all sweaty and flushed when they see a successful drag bunt.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I had completely forgotten just how bad Guillen was. For some reason I thought he was a decent player. grit doesnt age well edit: I should post this in another thread, but Ozzie never got along with Big Frank because Frank didn't hustle. Amazingly a large portion of Sox fans sided with Ozzie on this and thought he was an important player of some of their good mid 90s teams Yup. He's still got that reputation, too.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    Oh I agree, I'm just saying there's plenty of examples of players that would benefit their game by learning how to lay down a damn bunt when asked to. Like who?
  14. Sammy Sofa
    I'm "arguing" that bemoaning Gorzelanny not being on the team is largely irrelevant when it comes to the situation they're in this season. Yes, having Gorzelanny as a 6th starter would have been a viable backup plan when one is planning for the season on paper. No, having Gorzelanny as the 6th pitcher this season wouldn't have made much of an actual difference this season. If someone can convincingly argue that holding on to Gorzelanny would have resulted in the Cubs not being at least 12 games under .500 at this point, I'm all ears. And that leads to the crux of my point, is that it wasn't like it was Gorzelanny or bust when it came to dealing with 2 starters going down so early. Most of the time a team will stumble across an acceptable replacement via retread FA signings or internal options, and the Cubs certainly paraded out a bunch of pitchers where it wasn't unreasonable to assume that at least one could put together a stretch of starts that were tolerable (emphasis on "tolerable," before the usual suspects start flipping out and frothing at the mouth thinking that I'm expecting a bunch of good starts out of garbage) instead of the absolutely catastrophic slew of starts that the Cubs got.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    He looked directly into the camera in a recent interview and it was very unpleasant. Quade on film is always unpleasant.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    There are plenty of players where if they "don't know how to bunt" it doesn't matter at all.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    This is not true. There is a difference between a 'sacrifice fly', a 'sacrifice bunt' and a 'sacrifice hit'. Two are outs and one is a hit. In 1926, the sacrifice fly rule was changed and in 1931, the individual sacrifice fly stat was wiped out until 1954. So a 'sacrifice hit' was a hit when 'The Babe and 'The Iron Horse' played. No. They both fell under the same category until 1954. You're wrong, and common sense makes that abundantly clear. The sac fly/hit has a really weird history, but the numbers you're desperately hoping show that Ruth and Gehrig bunted a lot simply don't do that. http://research.sabr.org/journals/sacrifice-fly
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Hah! Nice.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    MOST OF THOSE WEREN'T BUNTS.
  20. Sammy Sofa
    Right, but if Gorz was not an essential part of the team at the time of the trade, why is he all of a sudden now? Because the team is so bad and people start looking for more things to blame. Gorzelanny goes from being Gorzelanny to the lost salvation given away for nothing. Not at all. Gorzelanny was a nice player for the Cubs and they gave him away for nothing. It didn't make much sense at all at the time and it came back to bite them when they decided to go into the season with no 6th starter and needed two. It's also BS that people keep offering the injury excuse as to why the Cubs suck when the Cubs put themselves in the situation they are in. How did it "bite" them? Oooh, the Cubs MIGHT be 12 or 13 games under .500 instead of 17. Lordy, Lordy, be still my beating heart. And I don't know why you think reality is "BS." The Cubs suck for a number of reasons, and injuries to the starting rotation have played a big part. Still having Gorzelanny would have done little to alleviate that.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    And they were bad because the Cubs didn't go into the season with a viable 6th starter. They still would have been horrific if they had Gorzelanny.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    I can't believe I'm trotting out this cliche, but....even the best hitters fail 7 times out of 10. Yes, bunting is different than swinging away, but people talk about players "knowing how to bunt" like they expect, no, DEMAND that they lay down a successful bunt every single time they attempt to. They talk like since it's something they don't have to do very often they should be able to do it without fail every time they're called on to do it. If that's the case, then don't you expect a starting player to get on base every single time they called on to pinch hit? You get people talking like bunting is some kind of muscle memory activity, where if you practice it enough you can just do it in your sleep and always succeed at laying one down.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Right, but if Gorz was not an essential part of the team at the time of the trade, why is he all of a sudden now? Because the team is so bad and people start looking for more things to blame. Gorzelanny goes from being Gorzelanny to the lost salvation given away for nothing.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    We aren't paid executives in charge of the decision making. I'm just curious what has changed that took people from thinking it was a great trade at the time to thinking now that it was a terrible trade at the time. If Gorz wasn't the greatly superior option at the time, what has changed to make him clearly that at the time of the trade? They got rid of all the other options as well and had no others. Most people assumed they wouldn't go into the season without a 6th starter. Most people would also assume that all of the in-house and retread options would be as horrific as it turned out. There's bad and then there's 2011 Cubs #4-5 starting pitcher bad.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    In addition to that, up until fairly recently (I just don't remember exactly when) moving a runner from 1st to 2nd and/or 2nd to 3rd with a long fly ball out was scored as a sacrifice fly, too. Yes, I should have clarified this, too. Thanks for that, Fred. Benchwarmer's vision of an often-bunting Ruth or Gehrig is pure fantasy.
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