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  1. goonys evil twin
    I would think you would have to-I mean, it was 2002, and he did pitch those innings. So he has reached 200 innings once, and gotten within 3 innings another time. That's still not great, but it's not as bad. I guess you don't get the humor. He threw 76.66666666666666 innings for the Yankees, and 23.333333333333333 innings for the A's. Add that up and it equals 100. The only way you get to 200 is if you add those two numbers to the total, of 100. You are double counting. I assume you are looking at his ESPN page. You see 3 categories of 2002. The first one is NYY, the 2nd is OAK, and the 3rd is his total for the year.
  2. goonys evil twin
    Murton most likely, who I would not want to part with. Beane probably looks at our farm system and laughs. He shouldn't be laughing. His isn't very good either He keeps churning out players that win 90+ and divisions. Something has to be working in that system.
  3. goonys evil twin
    I'm fine with Lilly being the 2nd banana to whomever else they sign this year. I just think it's inaccurate to paint him as a reliable #3. He's never even thrown 200 innings in his career. I do like that his name is Theodore Roosevelt though. I keep hearing that about him-doesn't his 2002 numbers add up to 200 innings exactly though? Only if you add up his innings with NY and OAK, and then add that total to his total (ie, doubling the actual total of 100)
  4. goonys evil twin
    I'm fine with Lilly being the 2nd banana to whomever else they sign this year. I just think it's inaccurate to paint him as a reliable #3. He's never even thrown 200 innings in his career. I do like that his name is Theodore Roosevelt though.
  5. goonys evil twin
    Of course you'd like to look at it like that, because it's the only way to make your case. But in reality he's bee inconsistent. He's got a fairly high walk rate, his ERA+ has been up and down and he's highly susceptible to the HR. I liked him as a guy who you'd slot at the end of your rotation and hope for 180 mediocre innings. But he's nowhere near a #3 pitcher, and clearly not consistent.
  6. goonys evil twin
    $9.375MM/yr...... yeah, that's malarky. If that is true, and the Cubs are actually trying to get Schmidt, they're dooming themselves by driving up his price on their own by giving Lilly a contract like this. It's not malarky - it's market value. If Lilly wanted 12+ then he would be overvalued. But as is, 7 million a year nets you a reliable #4 veteran starter, and 9-10 million a reliable #3 veteran starter in the current market. How is Lilly a reliable #3? He's an inconsistent, one year up, one year down, type of pitcher. He was atrocious as recently as 2005.
  7. goonys evil twin
    Beane and Hendry have dealt with each other in the past. They are actually a good matchup due to their completely different valuation of players. If I love apples, and you love oranges, odds are we can make a trade. As much as these guys have "their way" they are still going to have some guys in their systems who aren't like the others.
  8. goonys evil twin
    There isn't all much more that he could do being 2 years away from free agency. I'm sure on the open market he would have gotten more, but I doubt arbitration would have given him too much more, especially when this is a pretty decent raise from last year. I didn't realize he had 2 years remaining. It seems like he's been around longer than that. Still, that's a very low number for arbitration, Pierre made double that last year.
  9. goonys evil twin
    Given Pierre's contract, Pods should fire his agent.
  10. goonys evil twin
    Probably not the best way to get more carries. I read that earlier and didn't think much of it.
  11. goonys evil twin
    Ouch The Cubs made the playoffs 4 times in the last 22 seasons, and that was during a time when they were typically in the top 10-12 in payroll, they'd have to go 11 straight without the playoffs in order for Soriano to never see October baseball in Wrigley. That's doubtful in the wild card era, especially with what looks like a top 5 payroll. Even Hendry wouldn't do that.
  12. goonys evil twin
    What do you do about all the others? Why do you have to explain it to your kid? Because I want to raise my kid with standards. I would suggest using nothing to do with major league baseball as standards for raising your kids. I don't think there's much to be gained from teaching them lessons about what happens within any sports league. But if you must, you could teach them about innocent until proven guilty, you could teach them about the dangers of doing anything for glory citing the immense level of criticism against Big Mac in comparison to all the adulation before. There is sure to be a massive backlash if he is elected, which would give you a chance to teach them about the consequences of your current choices in the future. I wouldn't want to teach my kids (which I don't have), that bad guys always face punishment and only good guys succeed. It's not true.
  13. goonys evil twin
    What do you do about all the others? Why do you have to explain it to your kid?
  14. goonys evil twin
    He left Just Ducky early!
  15. goonys evil twin
    Well, they got our guy that produced exactly zero position players, maybe we can pawn off some leftover scrubs on them. Some? We have a minor league system full of them. Yeah, but we probably can't pawn off all of them, just some.
  16. goonys evil twin
    The results on the field weren't great, but MacPhail was the president of the business that is the Chicago Cubs, and he did not come anywhere close to running that business into the ground. MacPhail put his ambitions of becoming commissioner over the success of the Cubs. That is why you never saw any major FA signings for the Cubs. He didn't want to be viewed as someone responsible for driving up salaries and payrolls. He sucks. Yeah, so what? I didn't like him as the Cubs president either. That doesn't mean he wasn't successful at his job and isn't a good candidate for commish.
  17. goonys evil twin
    McGwire hit .263/.394/.588 for his career. He led his league in OBP twice, OPS twice, OPS+ 4 times. He had a career OPS+ of 163. Glenallen Hill was a 1 dimensional HR hitter, so was Kingman. McGwire was an extremely productive hitter for a dozen years.
  18. goonys evil twin
    Well, they got our guy that produced exactly zero position players, maybe we can pawn off some leftover scrubs on them.
  19. goonys evil twin
    Hadn't heard anything about it. I wonder if Bruce Miles would like to discuss this.
  20. goonys evil twin
    Kris Benson should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Seriously, with that wife of his, he might. Benson is like a Gil Meche without the upside. He stinks, and he's far from a lock to be a 200 innings guy. He's okay for a back of the rotation guy on a team with a great lineup. Unfortunately, Hendry probably thinks he has a great lineup, which he doesn't.
  21. goonys evil twin
    The results on the field weren't great, but MacPhail was the president of the business that is the Chicago Cubs, and he did not come anywhere close to running that business into the ground.
  22. goonys evil twin
    I'm guessing he'll be fine. Coors circa 2007 is not the same Coors. Whatever they did with the balls, it has cut down on the offense. Hawkins was a decent reliever in both 2005 and 2006. He was great for 4 of the previous 5 years. I don't see him ever getting back to that level of performance, but a decent year in middle relief is hardly out of the question.
  23. goonys evil twin
    I know it's fun and all to make fun of Prior, but can we at least acknowledge that when he pitched, he pitched well in both 2004 and 2005? Is it that hard? ERA+ of 113 and 116 in those years with 285 innings pitched is better than some names we've heard rumored to be in the Cubs rotation next year.
  24. goonys evil twin
    Even if it was the complete opposite of defeatist, it wouldn't contribute to the Cubs getting to the World Series. I don't think much of this. As these sites become more and more popular, you are going to have a firethecoach.com sites bought up the minute anybody is hired, or even rumored to be a candidate.
  25. goonys evil twin
    That is a very questionable OF. Not one of those guys is a great bet to play 150 games. At the minimum they should get somebody to platoon with Pena, and they probably need a legit 5th guy who can substitute for either Crisp or Drew if they suffer setbacks. I can't see them going into the season with that OF, unless they have some serious upgrades for the 4th/5th slots.
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