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Thursday Bruce article.....
SteveSarley replied to Bgbird68's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I think that saying that Hill and Pie being untouchable is brilliant. If he can get more for Hill than what a one-pitch, once-around-the-league, too-old prospect is worth by saying he is untouchable, then God bless him. By the way, I think that calling Pierre, "Slappy" is derrogatory and unfair. Watch him play. Was Podsednik's game in the newspaper what made the Sox get going last year or was it his game on the field. There are way too many people on this board with their heads all screwed up with arcane statisics. Try spending a little time watching a few game and get your head out of the Baseball Abstract. -
Thursday Bruce article.....
SteveSarley replied to Bgbird68's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
What do you expect Hendry to say. "You know, I have an obligation to build a winning team, but more importantly, I have to make the fans happy immediately. We are in awful shape here. Right now, we could not field a weaker club. We have no right fielder and I have no idea what I am going to do to get one. If I play Neifi in right, then what do I do for a second baseman? See what I mean about awful shape? I have no offers out there. I haven't talked to any more free agents. I missed the boat on the guys who signed with other teams. I guess I am going to have to stop talking about how well we are doing because everybody sees through me. I think I will just have to make a last-minute desperation trade for some old, over-priced, piece-of-trash bum and just send the other team a whole bunch of our prospects. You know, the prospects who really aren't very good and have about a snowball's chance of ever playing n the majors, anyway." Does that sound better and make you feel warm and fuzzy? -
Requesting a trade does not mean that the club has to trade a superstar for assorted crap of less thanequal value. Do you think that the O's will believe that we are doing them a favor by taking Tejada off fo their hands?
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I am not sure if a package of Pie, Cedeno, Hill and J. Williams & cash would be enough to make this deal happen. Realize here that everyone proposing trades is talking about getting one superstar in return for a bushel full of "what if's." Would you trade Derrek Lee for the above-mentioned four prospects? I don't think I would. Why would Baltimore trade their version of Derrek Lee for the same?
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I am not sure if a package of Pie, Cedeno, Hill and J. Williams & cash would be enough to make this deal happen. Realize here that everyone proposing trades is talking about getting one superstar in return for a bushel full of "what if's." Would you trade Derrek Lee for the above-mentioned four prospects? I don't think I would. Why would Baltimore trade their version of Derrek Lee for the same?
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Patterson is not "good as gone," he's gone - guaranteed. I hope we can only get something of decent value for him. It would be a shame to have to dump him for nothing, like Sammy last year. I'm surprised that Hairston hasn't been mentioned in any of the rumored trade packages. It was obvious that the coaching staff didn't like him. When you're a "good field - no hit" type of player, it helps if you don't play putrid defense and make incredibly boneheaded baserunning gaffes. Hairston is a goner, too. Although Eli Marrero had a horrendous season offensively last year, I love the idea of having a guy on the bench who can be the third catcher. It makes it much easier on the coaches who are always stuck with never being able to use the second catcher for pinch hit purposes.
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Jehrico writes: "I'd love to see them bring Holla back for that, if only we had a manager with a clue that would use him as the 4th OF/1st bat off of the bench like he's best suited for." Do you think that Hollandsworth was too tired from all of the starts he got? Plain and simple, TH is finished. I have never seen such a complete collapse from a fundamentally sound player like TH did in 2005. Ask Hollandsworth if he wanted to start or be the "4th OF/1st bat off the bench" that you fantasize him to be. I am sure that he would say starter. Or do you think he'd say, "I hope they don't misuse me. I am only a part-time player, at best. All those starts are going to make me so tired I won't be able to hit my way out of a paper bag." Blame Dusty all you want, but there is absolutely no reasonable explanation for Hollandsworth's 2005 other than that his career is over.
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Jehrico: Soriano is not an upgrade over Todd Walker! Please explain.
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There is so much more involved than just those three stats. What about injuries, defense, arm? What are the figures like in comparison to the year before? Is the player on the decline? Right now, if there was a Patterson & ? for Wilkerson deal on the table, I'd be happy seeing BW in right. Then we'd still have plenty to offer for a middle infielder and the money to go and get one of the remaining FA starting pitchers or one of the high-priced arms that teams are looking to move.
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Sosa forced the trade, plain and simple. Everyone in baseball knew that he couldn't go back to the Cubs. Plus, he had gone down in BA, HR's, & RBI's for three consecutive seasons, something not done in over 20 years. (I believe that Kevin McReynolds was the last to do this, in the early nineties) Throw in the incredibly overpaid salary and the whispers about steroids and you have a player nearly impossible to deal. Even though Hendry kept up a brave face, saying that he expected Sammy back and Sammy to rebound, yadda, yadda, everyone knew he couldn't bring him back. They were lucky to get anything in return at all.
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Wish we thought this way...
SteveSarley replied to gerby23's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Trading prospects seems to be a "damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't" proposition. I think Hendry is pretty smart. I also think that Cub fans value our system's prospects much more that the other GM's do. I don't think that we have a "can't miss"prospect in our entire system right now. (I am assuming that Murton and Cedeno are major leaguers, not prospects.) Notice how Hendry has said that Rich Hill is virtually untouchable and that he is still high on Corey Patterson? I think that Hendry is trying to build value, or at least maintain value for Hill and Patterson, in hopes of getting premium quality in return in a trade for them. I believe in trading prospects for established players. I always ask if I think that the prospect will ever be as good as the established player he is traded for. If you don't think the prospect will be better, than why not just go with the proven player. You know what you are getting, not just hoping for development year after year. I've seen too many Keltons, Scotts, Dubois, etc. not get traded while they were still prospects only to see tham swapped for other players who have also never reached their early hype. -
"Je ne sais quoi" is defined as "a quality or attribute that is difficult to describe or express." How do you lose something that you can't explain in the first place. This is another example of a writer attempting to look smarter than he is, by using big words that he doesn't understand.