Sammy Sofa
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Peavy to White Sox AGAIN!
Sammy Sofa replied to Keener98's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
True, Kenny Williams is definitely no stranger to making big trades or getting big name players. Griffey last year, Peavy this year. Is this sarcasm? haha no not at all, for the past 5 years Kenny has made big trades, whether it be out of the blue or long-speculated. It just seems like he's always out there making a phone call or acquiring a player or two around this time. Very agressive. Some of the players he has acquired via trade since 2004: Freddy Garcia Jose Contreras Matt Thornton Gavin Floyd Javier Vazquez Orlando Cabrera Carlos Quentin Nick Swisher Ken Griffey Jr. Horacio Ramirez Tony Pena Jake Peavy Some of his moves are good but a bunch are obviously just moves for the sake of making moves. My initial response was mostly referring to you singling out the Griffey trade as a good one when it's essentially the epitome of making a move simply because the deadline is near. -
Ahh...."hopefully", "promising". Right up there with "crapshoot" and "ahh shucks". Are you serious? You do realize that I said that because the 2009 draft just occured, right? Are you honestly thinking teams should be able to know whether or not all or even most of their 2009 draft picks were successful or not by this point?
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Just depressing. This guy should have been one of the greats.
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As much as I've been against Fox starting, holy crap, Hill, needs a day off before he drops dead.
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Once again, as numerous people have pointed out, the noticeable and promising improvements to the Cubs' drafting took place in 2007 and 2008 and hopefully 2009 as well. If you insist on only looking at 2003 through 2006 you're just creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody is going to say that 2003-2006 were as a whole good draft years.
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Hendry is better than most GM's? How in [expletive]'s sake did you determine that? I'm saying most GM's each year are tolerable at best. Hendry is one of that group of "most GM's" in that he's tolerable/average at best. His replacement is likely to also be in that group, as is whoever replaces that person, and whoever replaces that person and so on and so on. If the Cubs somehow end up with one of the very few and rare truly good GM's, fantastic, but I'm not going to think that's likely to happen. No, I think a sound and well researched hire would do a better job with a top five NL payroll every year. Most GM's are "sound and well researched" hires and most of them end up being not very good at their job or only serviceable at it over the long run. I have no idea why you think the Ricketts will be different types of owners in that regard and are likely to hire a GM better than Hendry. If anything, they're likely to hire someone worse than Hendry. Like I said, I have no problem with Hendry being let go before his contract is up, but whoever replaces him is likely just going to be complained about in the same manner, just over different details.
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Wow, Arnold Layne, badnews and wrigley23 all on the same page. Talk about a perfect storm.
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Werd.
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I don't know if that's going to happen thus far, against decent teams on the road, the Cubs have been absolute garbage. Sure, they can beat up on the likes of the Reds, Nationals and Pirates but, except for the odd game here or there, they've gotten the crap beat out of them by Phillies, Cardinals and shortly, the Marlins. Honestly, they're going to get swept this weekend and it's not going to be close. No team plays mostly "decent teams" on the road. You talk like they've played the Phillies in a ton of games on the road this year. They played 3 games against them: 1 was a blowout in their favor, 1 was a blowout in the Cubs' favor and one was up in the air until the very end. The rest of their road numbers in the first half are skewed by the offensive drought they were in for most of May and June. That's not saying that they'll suddenly be road worldbeaters this half, but it's way too soon since they've seemingly started turning things around to just assume that the results of the first half will be repeated.
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Agreed it is the worst move in since brock. Letting Greg Maddux walk in his prime was peanuts compared to the awesome power of a 35 year old middle infielder in the final year of his deal who was coming off a career year. I'd love to see the look on your face if DeRo ends up with 25+ HR, 90+ RBI and a Division Title with the Cards while having something like $40 million less to work with than Hendry. If you don't think DeRosa was bungled, you're on your third great big jug of apologist Kool-Aid. Nothing was "bungled" in the actual trade of DeRosa. The "bungling" was in who Hendry signed to help replace him. There were several options that likely would have offset DeRosa not being on the team, plus there's zero guarentee he would have produced as he has so far if he stayed on the Cubs. Why would he have been immune to the general offensive malaise that plagued the majority of the team for most of May and June? You keep talking about him like he's some kind of gamechanging impact player and he's not. Trading a player like DeRosa with one year left and his age for what the Cubs got was a good move. Who was signed to help replace him was not. The latter does not negate the former.
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He's a "mixed bag" with a top five NL payroll every year of his tenure. That's not acceptable. The Cubs system is openly mocked by various outlets, and he is known for one of the worst contracts in MLB. You act like he's singled out left and right as one of the worst GM's. He's not. "Openly mocked?" Really? The Cubs' system has obvious flaws and a ways to go to being where it should be but to make like it's the joke of the league and people are cracking up over it left and right is ridiculous. Can you actually make your case without hyperbole, gigantic generalizations, completely glossing over huge things that don't back up your tirades or being absurdly melodramatic? Plenty of GM's are known for having given out bad contracts. Therein lies the rub that you refuse to accept: any replacement of Hendry is at least just as likely to be comparable in his results or worse than Hendry. Most GM's year after year are just tolerable or worse. Do you honestly think that any replacement of Hendry is likely to do a better job? Like I said, I have no problem with someone else taking over, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking they're likely to be better.
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Those would be pretty stupid reasons to be THE reasons anyone should be fired, especially someone with a track record as varied as Hendry's. Where a player ends up after they are (initially) traded or released or not resigned is completely out of the GM's hands that decided those things. And DeRosa going to the Cardinals isn't "one of the most embarassing Cubs GM moves in decades." You'd basically have to ignore the last 60 years of Cubs history to think that and think that DeRosa is a much better player than he actually is and completely make up that he was traded for "scraps." The bottom line is that you refuse to look at Hendry through anything except his bad moves. He's got plenty of those, but he's also got plenty of acceptable and good moves as well. He's not my ideal choice as a GM and I wouldn't mind if he was let go before his contract was up but he's a decidedly mixed bag at the end of the day when evaluated as a whole. You refuse to see him as that and have propped him up effectively as a cartoonish villain where anyone else in the GM role would be better than him.
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He won't be. And you're wrong.
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Maybe he wouldn't.
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Meh. Get 'em tomorrow.
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Awwwww, poopies.
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Damn, Len got my hopes up with that call on Uggla heading home. Not nearly as close as he made it sound.
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Yeah, he's been consistent in general with both teams but his zone is a piece of [expletive].
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Crap, I thought Rammy was gonna kill strike 2.
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Man, this game is SOOOOOOO boring.
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Crafty Hill!
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Fox is merciless if you make a mistake pitching to him. He's not the most "versatile" of hitters out there, but give him what he likes and he'll make you pay.
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Ok, now THAT was exciting.
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In what dimension? You think it was a clear ball? Without a doubt. This ump has had several bad calls tonight but not that one.
