Sammy Sofa
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Which if true might make him better than some of those "better options waiting in the minors". This is especially true when you consider the Cubs' record on developing position players. Right now, I imagine Ryan Flaherty could top Darwin Barney and his post-April .600 OPS. We'll have to wait and see whether Flaherty and/or the other prospects take over 2B next year. As I stated before, he won the job this year and has managed to keep Baker and DeWitt on the bench as utility players. He hasn't "won" anything. Baker is a platoon player who certainly should be getting the starts against LH pitchers. The only argument to trot him out there over DeWitt is that Barney at least is better defensively since both have been brutal offensively. Barney has in no way shown that he should be considered anything near a lock at 2B. -
Damn, that's sad.
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There's no [expletive] way that's serious, right? Even the Bum is looking down on this.
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Still a ton of Colvin love, too. I've heard/talked to a number of people that still don't like that the Cubs signed Pena and think that Colvin should have been the full time 1B.
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Personally, I'd prefer the later firing because I think it makes the chances that much better that as much as possible of the FO goes with Hendry.
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Why does this ridiculous notion keep getting repeated? Did you mistake that as his him saying that Hendry's replacement would be likely to get a PERMANENT promotion to GM? Because what he actually said isn't "ridiculous" at all and is what usually happens when a manager is fired midseason. I took that as him saying the only option for replacing Hendry right now is with an internal interim GM. It's technically not the only option, but it's by far the most likely one.
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Why does this ridiculous notion keep getting repeated? Did you mistake that as his him saying that Hendry's replacement would be likely to get a PERMANENT promotion to GM? Because what he actually said isn't "ridiculous" at all and is what usually happens when a manager is fired midseason.
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But it is inexplicable in the business of baseball to see an interim GM hired from the outside midseason to then only be dismissed several months later once the season ends. And I don't see the point of firing Hendry now because I think the a good chunk of the FO needs to go as well. Just make it a big boot out the door for multiple people (likely Bush included at the end of the season). Firing just Hendry and maybe a select few others now, in my opinion, makes it too unlikely that the FO gets the comprehensive overhaul that it needs. It isn't. But at the point/situation the team is in right now there's arguable negligible difference in terms of what is being "gained" between firing Hendry now and in October. Hendry should have been fired already, but how is he costing them more money between now and the end of the season if he's fired in October instead of during the season?
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isn't firing hendry for some place-holder from another organization (and who is really going to leave a job with another organization to be a 3-month GM who isn't allowed to do anything?) also really freaking stupid? Hire some lifer like Torre or Bobby Cox to be the interm GM and have that person help Ricketts hire the new guy. It's not rocket science. I don't need to know that Torre is already employed by MLB, he's an example of someone who could do it. He doesn't have to fire the lot of them, I was trying to make a point that it doesn't matter who is the placeholder. It does if you're inexplicably hiring someone outside of the organization to be the placeholder/lame duck GM for 3 months. Really, how many times has that happened? Sometimes people aren't being flippant if they're really just confused over why someone would think something so unusual (and that's being generous) would be seriously proposed. You still haven't explained why the Ricketts would be "stupid" if the fired Hendry in October instead of July. The slow part you've explained just fine, but not the stupid. Not firing Hendry now doesn't preclude them from knowing now who they want to pursue after he's fired.
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I've already done that on numerous occasions only to get some flippant response, I'll not waste my time. How are dew and XZero's responses "flippant?" Why is firing a GM in October instead of July stupid? Who do you expect to man the FO is you want everyone fired now? That seems like a pretty big sticking point.
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Because the vast majority of the time the interim manager is someone from the current FO, so firing "the lot of them" in the middle of the season seems pretty dense unless they already a replacement FO lined up. Explain how firing Hendry after this season means Ricketts is "stupid."
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No, it's all over.
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My world is shattered.
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How would his midseason replacement not be a lame duck?
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Hurrah.
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Definitely.
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Valverde is hilarious. I really wish the game had more celebrations like this. And yeah, it's [expletive] that hitters can't show off.
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7/2 WSox (Humber) @ Cubs (Garza), 3:10 CDT, Fox
Sammy Sofa replied to CubmanPi's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Who gives a [expletive]? As bad as Quade can be at least he's not Sandberg.
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Mostly because people wanted a serviceable player who would be cheap and not signed into a longterm deal. Fortunately Byrd was willing to sign as cheap as he did and for only 3 years. and many people though byrd signed for too much at the time. Despite Cameron's past consistency it just seemed likely this contract would end bad for him. One of the reasons he was signed to only a 2-year-deal. It would be nice to be in the Red Sox' situation where a team can afford to take a chance like this and it isn't a make or break-type of signing.
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Cubs talking to Texas?
Sammy Sofa replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I agree. I've never been a fan of creating one hole to fill another. It's one thing to move players who are coming to the end of their deals or are blocking decent players or ones that are overvalued due to the position they play (relievers)...it's another to just blindly say that "everyone can go." I never understand people who automatically assume that's a good move. It's basically saying, "yeah, this garbage season we're watching right now? I want to see that for the next 5+ years." -
Cubs talking to Texas?
Sammy Sofa replied to Backtobanks's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Trading doesn't automatically make a team better. Creating a hole without a viable replacement available internally or via FA isn't making the team better. -
Mostly because people wanted a serviceable player who would be cheap and not signed into a longterm deal. Fortunately Byrd was willing to sign as cheap as he did and for only 3 years.
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OH GOD, IT'S EVERYWHERE
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...said completely unironically on a day where the Cubs bullpen pitched every inning after the first and was fantastic until Grabow.
