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Watching sombody write Meche into the #2 spot in the rotation made me vomit in my mouth a little bit. Meche is a decent #5 or a bad #4. He's not a #2 and never will be. Why do you say that? Because he's not that good? That really doesn't answer my question. What would answer it? He's not good, he's never been good, and the chances for him to ever be good are very slim.
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Quit ordering them and switch to a real drink.
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I don't know about where he wants to play. But the Cubs.com article had this quip: "He likes to hit," O'Brien said. "Jim Hendry was saying, 'Tell Ted, we're still not finished. We're going to go out and get a good left-handed bat.' And Ted said, 'Why? You've got me.' He likes to think he can hit." I'm not sure a guy talks like that, "You've got me" if he's not really wanting to pitch there. Maybe that's a stretch, but I think the Cubs might be offering the most money/years, and he likes that. NY has been offering guys 1 or 2 years so far.
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That deal makes very little sense. I just logged on and heard them talking about, I believe, Contreras, and then Stone talked about them getting back a guy like Lackey (or somebody else) who could slide into their rotation.
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Did I just hear Steve Stone say the Sox might be able to trade Contreras and get back Lackey?
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Me either, though they would still need a right-handed option to occasionally play CF, which is probablly where the experimental options come in (bring up Pie, tryout Theriot, etc.) Not sure how Pie fits into the RH options experiment. But that's what I initially thought. Then, I asked myself why. Why would they need a RH option to play some center. I say you'd bat Lofton/Church in the 2 hole against RHP, and then DeRosa in the 2 hole against LHP. But I could live with one of Lofton/Church hitting 8th even against LHP. It would be nice to have a guy like Michaels subbing in at times, but I'm not sure it's really necessary.
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Sign Lofton and trade for Church. Which one is the 4th OF? doesn't really matter to me - Lofton is old so he'll need time off, and Church can play LF and CF. Let them split time in CF. Neither guy is going to get pissed off if he isn't playing more than half the time. It would be a decent offensive OF.
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Pitching Trade Options
goonys evil twin replied to CP_414's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
But is he healthy? Yeah, a down year like that is enough to at least throw the maybe in there. It can't just be ignored. -
bingo. If the thinking involves Floyd as an everyday man, there isn't much thinking going on.
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Sign Lofton and trade for Church. Which one is the 4th OF?
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The goal is not to do what is best for Murton, the goal is to maximize production. If Floyd/Murton is better than Murton, it helps the team. And I don't even think it really hurts Matt's development. Is there another 4th OF type you have in mind? The Cubs need more offense, desperately. Mixing in a LH hitting LF isn't the ideal way to find it, but they do need it.
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Well, if they get 700 PA out of LF, I'm not sure they think Floyd would give them anymore than 300, in which case Murton would have 400 there, and probably another 50-75 in pinch hitting opportunities and starts elsewhere.
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What does deserve have to do with it? Izturis doesn't deserve a job. Lilly and Meche don't deserve the contracts they are likely to get. We don't deserve the crap we've seen.
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I think it would be pretty cool if they somehow ended up with a platoon of Michaels and Church. You could end up with something like a 825 OPS out of CF, with a decent 4th OF whenever one of them is sitting.
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Pitching Trade Options
goonys evil twin replied to CP_414's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I think Pavano should be put on the available list. -
I'd give them Hill and J. Jones and their pick of an AA pitcher for Hudson and Andruw Jones at call it an offseason. The minor league would need some serious restocking (but let's be honest, it already does). So the rotation would be Zambrano, Hudson, Miller, Marshall and Prior?
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I don't think Aramis will ever bat directly behind Soriano. You see, Soriano was on base. Doesn't mean Aramis was directly behind him. Ooooooh, didn't notice that, you win.
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I don't think Aramis will ever bat directly behind Soriano.
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Milli
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2002: 156 IP 2006: 131 IP Beat me to it.
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I actually don't even think the Yankees are in the Lilly talks. I haven't heard squat in NY about them being interested. Pettite and Clemens have been the names I've read and heard discussed.
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What's the point in any of this? 99% of the players we talk about as potential help for the team will never be Cubs. Just because Jim Hendry is unlikely to do something doesn't mean it's not worth a discussion. We've already discussed Bonds. We already know that he won't be playing here, while we didn't know that with guys like Schmidt and Lugo. And Dunn and Caberra and Abreu and Burrell and ARod and Jennings and Westbrook and (fill in a billion names here). Last year the most obvious thing Hendry could have done to make this team better in 2007 and 2008 was trade for Bobby Abreu, but it never appeared he ever had the slightest bit of interest. I don't think it was anymore pointless to discuss how he could help the team than any other topic.
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With Padilla getting three years, and Schmidt getting three years, Lilly can't possibly be getting 5 years, can he? He doesn't even deserve 4.
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confirmed by espn.com Who is this O'Brien character? He seems a little loose-lipped even for an agent. Coming right out in your face and just putting the offered numbers out there seems a bit forward to me. I don't think I've ever heard, for example, Scott Boras do that. It looks like espn.com is saying 40-44, the agent didn't appear to mention the numbers, at least in the quote.
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What's the point in any of this? 99% of the players we talk about as potential help for the team will never be Cubs. Just because Jim Hendry is unlikely to do something doesn't mean it's not worth a discussion.