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  1. Danny82
    Meche for me.
  2. Danny82
    Some people need a scapegoat for every situation. The GMs job is to acquire good players for the team. It's not scapegoating to complain when your GM doesn't acquire good players for the team. It *is* scapegoating when the offseason is not yet over and we don't know just how open Schmidt was to leaving the west coast. Blaming the GM in a vacuum is the very definition of scapegoating.
  3. Danny82
    Some people need a scapegoat for every situation.
  4. Danny82
    Of course it is. Was I representing it to be anything other than my opinion?
  5. Danny82
    Please no. Zito is not going to be worth nearly what he will end up getting paid. Do you think Schmidt is worth over 15mil? I personally don't think so especially considering he already has lost velocity and has age concerns. He's much closer to being worth 15+M than Zito is. Zito is going to be one of, if not THE biggest signing this year that a team is going to regret down the road.
  6. Danny82
    Please no. Zito is not going to be worth nearly what he will end up getting paid.
  7. Danny82
    If you look at the #s, "those geniuses" on this board were actually correct. In Hill's 1st stint with the Cubs last year, he had 15 walks in 19 innings. He was sent back down, and they tried a different approach with him. When he came back up in late July, after one shaky outing, he had 21 walks in 76 innings. Its not necessarily about scouting, sometimes its about coaching. Now only if we had a pitching coach at the Major League level. And it's not only about #'s either with a guy just breaking into the majors, is it?
  8. Danny82
    I'm guessing it would have taken more to get him to come to the Midwest.
  9. Danny82
    My point remains. If two hypothetical batters are equal across the board, then sure, I'll take the lefty in that situation. However, batter A (righty) is even a slightly better hitter than batter B (lefty), I'll take batter A and not look back. I honestly don't see why a team "needs" anything other than good hitters, regardless of which side they hit from.
  10. Danny82
    True. The guy two to his right seems to be making a play for the ball though too.
  11. Danny82
    Didn't the Sun-Times publish his address the next day or something like that? If so, man that is the very definition of "subhuman".
  12. Danny82
    Wait, why did I think that Ryno was going to be the Cubs' first base coach in 2007? Who got that job?
  13. Danny82
    Again, I'm not asking you to. However, you and I both know that, if healthy for a whole season, he has the power to hit more than 16 HRs in a year. And your posts make it seem like he has only demonstrated the ability to hit 16 home runs over the course of the season, which isn't accurate.
  14. Danny82
    I'm not asking for you to hand him anything, but I think you can be a little more objective in discussing his abilities by noting that his 16 home runs came in only 360 at bats. There's no reason to hide the ball a bit while making your point.
  15. Danny82
    He should be able to start everyday without hurting you, and has a chance to be really helpful. He's a nice role player right now, but not much of a difference maker. Although the speed/small ball crowd probably loves him more than others. I think he is more than a role player. If he can stay healthy, he has the power to hit 30 HRs, which might increase over time. Plus, he is one heck of an athlete. If he ever develops better plate discipline, he will have a very high ceiling.
  16. Danny82
    Yeah, but how many times are the Cubs going to face those kinds of pitchers? For all of those countless other times that they face a normal pitcher, isn't the added benefit of having a better hitter (over having a lesser hitter who hits left handed) going to pay off more over the course of the season? Isn't having a lefty hitter in the lineup for the sake of having a lefty in the lineup sort of like making policy decisions based on the exception rather than the rule?
  17. Danny82
    The Cubs or Colorado? For the Cubs, you trade Jones and you're left with? Colorado needs a CF'er more than anything, Sullivan is a 4th OF'er starting for the Rockies. The Cubs. Honestly, who cares what side of the plate his replacement hits from as long as he can hit? This whole "need a few lefties to break up a run of right handed hitters" is an outdated notion as far as I am concerned. If the batter can hit, he can hit, regardless of what side of the plate he is doing that hitting from.
  18. Danny82
    Why do they need another LH bat in the line-up?
  19. Danny82
    Jennings is overrated on this board. He is not that good of a pitcher in my book. You could probably get the same production out of Jason Marquis. Marquis is very similiar to Jennings in his style of pitching. Jennings is 28, was statistically the 7th best pitcher in the NL last year (better than Schmidt, btw), had a career year in allowing hits, hits for extra bases, walk rate, and K/BB. Marquis is not as likely to give you the same production. He's had similar years to Jennings 2006, but Jennings has never been as bad as Marquis in the other years. While I agree that Jennings certainly had a good year last year (and I would like it if the Cubs could acquire his services), he was quite bad in 2004 and 2005. Arguably just as bad as Marquis was this past year. not really. actually not even close. going by ERA+, Jennings has never been more than slightly below average. Marquis put up a 'should not be in the major leagues' level last year, and its the third season he's done so. But why is ERA+ the only stat to consider? How are WHIPs of 1.70 and 1.56 anything but "bad"?
  20. Danny82
    Jennings is overrated on this board. He is not that good of a pitcher in my book. You could probably get the same production out of Jason Marquis. Marquis is very similiar to Jennings in his style of pitching. Jennings is 28, was statistically the 7th best pitcher in the NL last year (better than Schmidt, btw), had a career year in allowing hits, hits for extra bases, walk rate, and K/BB. Marquis is not as likely to give you the same production. He's had similar years to Jennings 2006, but Jennings has never been as bad as Marquis in the other years. While I agree that Jennings certainly had a good year last year (and I would like it if the Cubs could acquire his services), he was quite bad in 2004 and 2005. Arguably just as bad as Marquis was this past year.
  21. Danny82
    My point doesn't turn on whether or not there are some idiot GMs out there. For every Coletti out there, there is a Beane or Epstein that is hailed as a genius by many on this board.
  22. Danny82
    I find it interesting that between a) how highly valued Church appears to be on this board, and b) how little used he is by the Nationals some team hasn't made a move to acquire him. If he was truly as valuable as some on here seem to think, don't you think that at least ONE other GM would have made a move for him? It doesn't look like it would take much to pry him from the Nationals.
  23. Danny82
    Do any other trades come to mind where Hendry vastly overpaid?
  24. Danny82
    So why didn't 8 for Soriano get same reaction? If we do it for Soriano please do it for Schmidt. The risk in giving a long term contract to a position player is much less than giving one to a pitcher.
  25. Danny82
    His OBP may not be "high", but it is pretty good. He certainly knows how to take a walk.
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