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The Gil Meche Thread
goonys evil twin replied to RynoRules's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I assumed all along that Hendry was going to go after a mediocre innings eater type who he could rely on for several decent starts. Instead, he's sticking to his tried and true love for the unreliable guy who walks everybody. There's no way to get around it, Meche has been a bad pitcher in his career. The only times he wasn't below average was when he through partial seasons as a rookie and 2nd year player. -
Week 11: Bears at NY Jets - Sunday, Nov 19, 12 pm CST
goonys evil twin replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
Time to move on from the Giants game. Bears are now 7 point favorites over the Jets, last I saw was 5.5. This could be the battle of letdown games. The Jets coming off a huge road win over their biggest nemesis, and the Bears coming off a huge road win over their closest conference opponent. The Jets don't pressure the QB much, but they got to Brady. And everybody around here is talking about this magnificent new scheme put in place during their bye week. Jets fans and media is extremely confident about their chances. Three weeks ago they were assuming the loss, now they are pretty confident in a win. -
It's the "guys who can catch the ball" of 2007. Imagine for a second that the 2007 infielders all produce at their career averages in 2007, unlikely, but not absurd. Lee - 155 games, 123 OPS+ DeRosa - 100 games, 90 OPS+ Izturis - 100 games, 68 OPS+ Ramirez - 140 games, 109 OPS+ Throw in a bad-nutted Michael Barrett - 130 games 91 OPS+, backed up by Blanco - 50 games, 66 OPS+ Man, the pitching better be really really good this year.
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Same old crap. But it's too early to complain, right? Payroll doesn't matter when more money just means more expensive non-producers.
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Agreed. This is an eh move but you're right Soto could have been our backup. And no eh move means much on its own. The problem comes in when you have a series of eh moves and you end up spending $10-15 million on worthless ballplayers that could easily be replaced for a handful of guys combining to make $2 million. If Hendry was the GM of Pittsburgh he could have gotten the same type of player, but would have paid less because he had to. Giving Hendry more money to spend doesn't seem to make him better able to acquire good baseball players. He can just afford to overpay more of the same mediocre talent.
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I wonder if Hendry is thinking about Blanco being the starter in 2008. Barrett will be a free agent before that season, and if he has a decent seasons, he'll cost nearly $10 million.
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Is Hendry only going to be making moves based on analysis of the players 2006 season? Blanco has an almost career year, a year in which he still sucked, and he gets a raise. Brilliant. The money is going fast. Will any be left for actual improvements to the baseball team?
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Problem is, Lou Pineilla and Jim Hendry might think otherwise. It probably doesn't matter what they think. Izturis's body won't allow it, and DeRosa's probably won't know how to do it. Izzy's body will probably hold out long enough for us to sink 10 games under .500 and out of the race. DeRosa might not be all that bad, but the real question has always been "where's the pitching, Jim?" I find it highly likely that the answer to that question is simply, there's not going to be any significant pitching acquisitions. The thing is, they don't have to be big time pitching acquisitions, just good ones. But if there isn't a major influx of starting pitching, there better be bigtime hitting acquisitions, not a series of mediocre ones. At least one side of the Cubs has to be great. They have to be great at preventing runs or great at scoring runs. If you are great at one, you can afford to be only decent at the other. Going into the season they are terrible at both.
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Westbrook versus Lee
goonys evil twin replied to stitchface's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I could deal with a guy like Westbrook, especially for a reliever. The Yankees should be after him, as that type of pitcher, above average innings eater, could with 25 games with them. -
I can in no way imagine that Theriot would put up a .298, 13, 74 line next year. I could see Theriot approaching DeRosa's career line, .273/.331/.404, with an upgrade in OBP and downgrade in SLG. Something close to what Ryan did in 2004, 2005 and 2006, with a .350+ OBP, and .370-.380 SLG, is quite possible. Nothing special, but it could certainly help the team, especially at his cost. I highly doubt DeRosa does much more than his career line.
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If Hendry is serious about being locked into DeRosa and Izturis in the middle infield (let's hope those are just words, and not his true thoughts), then a guy like Baldelli added to the lineup is only sufficient if they also upgrade over Jones in right, or go with aces for the rotation. You can talk about being able to win with mediocre offense all you want (and we're still a step below mediocre), but you can only do that with an amazing pitching staff. And the Cubs do not have anything resembling an amazing pitching staff, and they won't have one if they just get innings eating above average guys. Baldelli is okay, but he's not special, and he's not reliable. He could have a huge breakout year in 2007, but you don't build a winning team around "coulds".
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Problem is, Lou Pineilla and Jim Hendry might think otherwise. It probably doesn't matter what they think. Izturis's body won't allow it, and DeRosa's probably won't know how to do it.
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That looks pretty decent to me. You? (with pitching improvements ofcourse) DeRosa can't hit RHP, Jones can't LHP, Izzy can't hit anybody, so you have two offensive black holes in the lineup every day. Not necessarily. Neither DeRosa nor Izturis is an everyday player, so it might not be every day that you have a black hole.
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What is this garbage? Why can't a person be critical of a signing that sends lots of money to a utility player who is reportedly going to try and be the everyday 2B without being accused of always being critical? Do you seriously not see the potential downside risk to this signing? It's at least as strong as any upside opportunity.
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Because fans realize the team is on a budget. Every dollar spent on mediocrity is a dollar that can't be spent on good players. All teams not owned by Steinbrenner have mediocrity. This guy could be better than mediocre, as was the case in 2006. Not all teams give $13 million to mediocrity. Bottom line is this guy would have to significantly outproduce his past 3 years for this not to hurt the team. And asking a 30 something player to significantly outproduce what he did before is not wise.
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What does this have to do with anything? Just because the Cubs may have been foolish enough to think about having this guy play 3B next year does not mean others were. And that fact, well, it's not really a fact, does not all of a sudden mean this is a good signing.
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If Hendry keeps paying the same dollar per production as he's paying here, the team won't be getting much better.
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Because fans realize the team is on a budget. Every dollar spent on mediocrity is a dollar that can't be spent on good players.
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You can just as easily say it was brought up by a fluke 2006. Quit making excuses. It's a bad contract. Quit trying to erase the guy's 2006. I didn't try to erase it. I take it into account. I said about 20 times that if he repeats 2006, he'll be good. The problem is the rest of his career, and his age, doesn't indicate he has much of a chance.
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The Board of Directors had to get together and agree to it. $42 Million should take about 10 minutes to agree to. Just because we are in a hurry to know doesn't mean they are in a hurry to announce. A couple of days makes no difference to them. I have no idea what the media in Japan is like around this, but I am guessing it is pretty big. Might as well milk the spotlight from their perspective. For what purpose? What will they gain by "milking" the spotlight that comes with selling their best player? I would think it's more of a case of making sure they are going to be able to get, and keep, the promised money.
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You can just as easily say it was brought up by a fluke 2006. Quit making excuses. It's a bad contract. Quit being a pompous prick. Not everyone agrees with you. People who aren't dumb do.
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You can just as easily say it was brought up by a fluke 2006. Quit making excuses. It's a bad contract.
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Then we should forget about getting better and hope to heck 81 wins takes the division and Lou can manage to get 81 wins out of this team.
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Not crippling a team is no defense for a bad contract. The problem is Hendry tends to find multiples versions of this contract, which tend to not cripple on their own, but when combined together, hurt the team significantly. I don't give a crap if he doesn't cripple the team. You don't go into the offseason looking for guys who won't cripple the team. You look for guys that will help a bad team get significantly better.
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As starting 2B? Any number of players. As utility guy? Probably 100 guys that wouldn't cost over $4m per year for 3 years.