Sammy Sofa
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I disagree. I'm curious as to why given how drastically different the baseball draft is from football or basketball in terms of how "necessary" it is to have early picks to typically walk away with the best or most useful players. Baseball teams can easily end up with good or even great players very deep into the draft. Well it seems to me in the past 5 to 6 years with more extensive scouting, most of the top players are more likely to hit than they were in the past. I'm trying to think of the last huge name to flop. I would have to guess Alex Gordon, but even then, that's more because Dayton Moore refuses to give him 500 at bats. Well, I'm not talking about flops; my point is that the draft is typically relatively deep in terms of being able to get useful or better players. A good baseball organization can field both a good team and draft well. It's not as necessary as it is in some of the other sports to be a bad team to have good drafts.
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Maybe not if we get rid of Hendry and actually make a good hire. That's even less likely then the Cubs drafting well.
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I disagree. I'm curious as to why given how drastically different the baseball draft is from football or basketball in terms of how "necessary" it is to have early picks to typically walk away with the best or most useful players. Baseball teams can easily end up with good or even great players very deep into the draft.
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Pick, shmick; it's easy for a good baseball team to still have excellent draft picks. Unless there's another Strasburg or Bryce Harper out there, the draft offers little silver lining.
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Very.
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Umpire steals perfect game from Armando Galarraga
Sammy Sofa replied to 17 Seconds's topic in General Baseball Talk
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/tom_verducci/06/02/joyces.missed.call/index.html?hpt=T2 Sorry Mo, but in this case making arguably the worst call in the history of the sport automatically disqualifies you from being the best. Worst call in the history of the sport?? THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. -
Watch it.
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Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in. That's been my hope, and given Ryno's good soldier status maybe he'd go along with it. But then would Trammel? Would he take a gig where he's essentially a lame duck already just keeping the spot warm for the chosen one? Possibly, if it was done with some kind of understanding that Trammel wouldn't be fired since it was just a one year gig.
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Yeah, Dontrelle still looks likes he's about 16.
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YES, CUBAN B.
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yes But then who's the cool old guy?
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Oh, if only. I would love it if they fired Lou, let Trammel finish the year and then signed him up for at least one full year with Sandberg as the bench coach. I've resigned myself to the inevitability of Sandberg as manager at some point, so at least with that outcome he spends some time with the big league club under someone else as opposed to jumping right in.
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Didn't this spaz make a big weepy farewell post?
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To be fair, I guess, one would expect a team to have gone 1-8 against the Pirates to be a LOT worse than 5 games under .500. I'm not saying that Lou's is off the hook, but whatever. if it weren't for the fact that as a whole, the national league sucks and is rather unimpressive, my opinion is that lou would have been long gone by now. in a normal year, any team that is that close to .500 but is 1-8 to the pirates should have been fired well before the start of june. the extreme mediocrity of the nl is saving a lot of jobs now. Probably true.
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Why is this the only conclusion? Why do you think this is likely as opposed to the much more likely conclusion that they took a low risk gamble on who might be a serviceable 25th man and got REALLY lucky (for the time being)?
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It's ridiculous to conclude that they saw anything other than a low risk 25th man. How the hell can someone look at the Brewers and assume they have some kind of amazing scouting ability that basically nobody else in baseball or focused on baseball had when it comes to McGehee? He's a lucky break.
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The Crew had some kind of indication. I'm not sure what it was, but they knew something. And you know this....how? because they signed him. They aren't signing players who they think will automatically suck. Neither do the Cubs. See dew's post at the top of this page: they almost certainly signed him for vastly different expectations than what they ended up with. McGehee was not on anyone's radar as being this type of player. Look at almost any evaluation of him as a minor leaguer.
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To be fair, I guess, one would expect a team to have gone 1-8 against the Pirates to be a LOT worse than 5 games under .500. I'm not saying that Lou's is off the hook, but whatever.
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Nope. I will be the vulture scooping up tickets for next to nothing. Same here.
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Or the guy who has always been a free swinger was free swinging. I know that, but not realizing the ball got away is inexcusable. No matter what Byrd has done to this point, his free swinging attitude is exactly what the Cubs didn't need. Sure, but it is who he is; he's a very aggressive hitter. If that's what they don't need then they shouldn't have signed him in the first place.
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Or the guy who has always been a free swinger was free swinging.
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What? It's a tangent from the game and it's a discussion about the Cubs. Are the game threads only going to consist of updates as to what happens in the game?
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How could anyone argue it wasn't a fluke? Please point out where people here have argued otherwise. Yes, I'm going to meticulously search through 50,000 posts to try to find a few that back up my opinion. Well, it just seems like an odd conclusion to take. Why would someone still be arguing that it wasn't an outlier season?
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The approach this team has at all times is comical. Whether it's cutting down on their swings with 2 strikes, hitting the ball where it is pitched, swinging at the first pitch after a 4-pitch walk, it's all just bad. And has been bad for the majority of my life as a Cubs fan, except for 2008, when they reverted back to form in the postseason. sOPS+ measures performance relative to the rest of the league within a particular split. Think of it as OPS+ for specific situations alone. The Cubs sOPS+ with 2 strikes is 133. The Cubs sOPS+ with a runner on 3rd < 2 outs is 110. BUMS. MY EYES DON'T LIE.
