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  1. goonys evil twin
    It was poorly constructed. But it should not be a .370 W% team. Dusty has gotten the worst possible results out of this group. They were never going to be a 90+ win team, but they should have been above the .500 mark, and even after all the injuries, should be able to flirt with the .500 mark. It was a horrible attempt to build a championship team, but this should not be approaching 20 games under .500.
  2. goonys evil twin
    All we've had is bad. How you can accuse anybody of being a fairweather fan, no matter how you couch those accusations, is beyond me. I am one that spoke about not watching much and not caring, so you are claiming that I am a fairweather fan. I'm just sick of the ineptness. I don't have to watch every game and cheer loudly to prove my fandom.
  3. goonys evil twin
    I'm not rooting against them. I hope they win. But when they fall behind, and eventually lose, I just don't care.
  4. goonys evil twin
    I think it has to do with his track record for producing major league talent. He had 12 straight 1st round picks make it to the bigs. That's pretty darn impressive. Guys reaching the bigs is nice and all, but that doesn't win championships. You need to draft impact players.
  5. goonys evil twin
    I really wanted Beltran, but understood the concern over finances. My theory is, however, that if you are going to overspend on players, overspend on players who have a chance to be great. Overspend on guys who can make a difference. I'd rather overspend by $5m/year on a star than $1.5-2m/year on multipe crap players.
  6. goonys evil twin
    Does "we" refer to the fans theoretically running the team, or the Cubs themselves. There's no reason why we the fans wouldn't trade Neifi to NY (other than the fact that the Yankees probably wouldn't want him - they actually value offense). But the Cubs wouldn't because they think he's the uber-utility guy and a must have commodity.
  7. goonys evil twin
    I guess you just didn't look at the numbers. His "clutch" stats aren't routinely better than his regular stats. Sometimes they are a little better, sometimes a little worse, and in the case of this year, his close and late are much worse. He's the same hitter virtually all the time. And that's a very good hitter. So, when you give a very good hitter lots of opportunities to have a bit clutch hits, which is what a great team with great team OBP will give a guy, you will have numerous instances where he'll come through. You'll also have a lot of times when he'll fail, just like every ballplayer has lots of times when they fail.
  8. goonys evil twin
    :wave: Oooh, ooh, call on me, I know. The answer is zero. Plus, he's only made the playoffs in 4 of 13 seasons, despite claiming his teams always play deep in October. And he's just 3-4 in postseason series.
  9. goonys evil twin
    Ortiz 2006 Overall .264 .374 .551 Runners on .298 .388 .583 RISP .279 .398 .523 Close and late .231 .286 .667 2003-2005 Overall .297 .383 .600 Runners on .309 .409 .575 RISP .328 .425 .555 Close and late .326 .408 .724 When you are a really good player, and you player for a really good team that is really popular and really emphasizes OBP, you are going to have a lot of chances to have meaningful hits. All it takes is a handful of walk offs or other heroics to give you the label (just as Jim Leyritz), and the more chances you get more likely you'll cash in on a few. As long as your failures don't stick out too much, and your team enjoys success, they will forget those and concentrate on the big ones. This explains why Jeter is excused for coming up short so often and considered clutch, even though his postseason numbers mirror his regular seasons and he has come up short repeatedly in recent postseasons.
  10. goonys evil twin
    I''m not really obsessed with him, or overly impressed with his abilities. We're just more or less looking at possible scenarios for a Walker trade. He really isnt that bad though, and unfortunately on this team his stats look even better. I'm not obsessed, or fascinated either. But he did have a 132 ERA+ last year at 26. He was a really good 4 year pitcher at ND, 1st round draft selection of the Mets in 2001, and solid minor leaguer. He does have a bit of a control issue, but his walk rates haven't been as bad as Wellemeyer and Leicester, for example. I think he's got one more pre-arbitration season before he starts to lose his value as a decent cheap arm, and has to start producing. He wouldn't be a bad guy to have on the roster, but he couldn't start right away and would not automatically slot in as one of the Cubs best pitchers, as somebody insinuated before.
  11. goonys evil twin
    Very few burst onto the scene. The Cubs got scene bursters with Wood and Prior. But they abused the heck out of them and couldn't keep them healthy. That's one of the big problems with devoting the vast majority of your minor league system to pitching. Pitching is unreliable. And who are all these other teams with first year guys tearing it up from the outset? It just doesn't happen all that frequently. The difference is most other teams don't send a guy down for struggling and blame their struggles on the kid. The Yankees for instance have an impotent Melky out there everyday and he's as much of an OF butcher as any Cubs fielder.
  12. goonys evil twin
    Maybe you just don't understand player development in baseball. Players don't just step onto the field and improve in a straight line. Almost all of them suffer setbacks. To "blame" a rookie, or get upset with a young player for experience normal setbacks in his career is just plain old illogical.
  13. goonys evil twin
    Seriously, they are awful. Two right down the middle and one off the pipes.
  14. goonys evil twin
    these guys suck at PK.
  15. goonys evil twin
    Prior was on the 60 day DL.
  16. goonys evil twin
    You won't hold vets accountable to the standards of their contract but you will criticize young players who struggle when they enter the big leagues?
  17. goonys evil twin
    Fine, but the fact remains it's silly to expect similar production out of a $350,000 kid and $5 million vets, and it's absurd to point the blame for team failure on the kids when so many vets have failed.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Unless he got a chance to start against the Cubs lineup. Then he'd efficiently make it through 6 untarnished innings.
  19. goonys evil twin
    He's drafted guys who have made the majors. But he hasn't exactly created a juggernaut with his picks. You can't write it off, but there's nothing wrong with criticizing, nor assuming the worst until you've been proved otherwise.
  20. goonys evil twin
    I do, obviously, that's why I posted about it. It bothers me when people can't spell a simple name. Especially a former GM that actually GM'd in the same division as Derrek. Like I said, it bothers me. It's not a simple name, it's a variation of the more common spelling. Get over it.
  21. goonys evil twin
    I highly doubt that. Baker is blaming his team's failings on the kids, which in his mind will be the legitimate reason not to play kids in the future. He will look back at the time he did play them and they let him down, point that out to his critics and go from there. Dusty isn't saying the kid's struggles have contributed to the team struggles, he's said the kids are the reason for the team's struggles. He's got crap veterans playing like crap and they keep getting props for giving it their all, but the kids get called out repeatedly for not doing the job. It's quintessential Baker, make excuses for the losses, push the blame away from himself, and humiliate young players all at once.
  22. goonys evil twin
    Rookies don't have to be hitting .300/.350/.475 to contribute to the team. Good teams should be able to fit a less than spectaculiar young hitter or two into a lineup without a problem. The problem with the Cubs is their veterans aren't any good, so people expect the kids to make up the difference. That's not how it should work.
  23. goonys evil twin
    it just bothers me because i've seen so many people do it (derek, derrick, derreck). I don't get what's so hard about spelling a name correctly. If it was Mientkiewicz or something, fine. But Derrek? Ugh. Just a pet peeve. It's not spelled correctly so often because it was poorly spelled by his parents. Blame them. Derek is how you spell Derek in America. If you want to spell it differently, expect mistakes.
  24. goonys evil twin
    Why exactly would you never trade pitching for hitting?
  25. goonys evil twin
    I certainly have not forgotten him. But his presence is no defense for Baker. I would flip those roles around. Baker "speaks evil". Despite his reputation as a player manager that deflects heat, he will target guys he feels are letting him down and subtely, or not so subtely, call them out in the press. Usually they are young guys. I'd say that MacPhail is speaks no evil. He only talks about how happy he is with Hendry's work and has said little else about the Cubs themselves. I'd say Hendry sees no evil because he's just absolutely blind to the real problems that have held down this team. Baker hears no evil because he gets asked the questions all the time and will hear none of it.
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