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  1. Elrhino
    If Vitters were healthy this year I have no doubt he is easily out hitting Olt while being a full year younger. Olt's regression trend has him closer to joining Bjax in Tenn than Chicago.
  2. Elrhino
    If Vitters were healthy this year I have no doubt he is easily out hitting Olt while being a full year younger. Olt's regression trend has him closer to joining Bjax in Tenn than Chicago.
  3. Elrhino
    Looks like we barely missed another Javy Bomb (which would have put him at .900+ OPS at AA) with a warning track fly out at the wall.
  4. Elrhino
    Javy and Arismendy wearing 1935 Knoxville Giants throwbacks tonight....
  5. Elrhino
    The sample sizes are small at this point, but these 2013 Drafted pitchers in Boise are exciting. It's almost shocking when one of them gives up an earned run. Looks like Wagner had some issues with control, but his ability to strike people out is as advertised.
  6. Elrhino
    Kevin Foster also died of cancer a few years ago.
  7. Elrhino
    Current WHIPs of our 2013 drafted pitchers in Boise... Zastryzny - 1.2 Skulina - 0.83 Masek - 0.90 Fraser - 1.03 Wilson - 0.56 Godley - 0.73 Wagner - 1.00 Combined - 8.87 k/9 In 70+ combined innings pitched, the 2013 class has yet to surrender a HR.
  8. Elrhino
    The KC Manager was also bragging about how much he's improved his defense as well. It does seem like he's at least cleaned up the errors recently.
  9. Elrhino

    Rizzo

    Elrhino replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    He's only hit 6 HRs since late April. He looks like Sid Bream.
  10. Elrhino
    Vogelbach OPSing at .906 for July.
  11. Elrhino
    Hopefully Grimm was just rusty from having gone 15 days between pitching.
  12. Elrhino
    Maybe I'm an irrational fan, but I wish we would give Rosscup a callup rather than dipping back into the poisoned Coleman/Raley well.
  13. Elrhino
    Fangraphs write up on Lake... http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-curious-case-of-junior-lake/
  14. Elrhino
    Agreed. I was hoping for Whitley.
  15. Elrhino
    At least we've augmented Happy Pierce Johnson Day in the minor league threads, with Happy Corey Black Day and Happy CJ Edwards Day. Tennessee might be fun to follow next year.
  16. Elrhino
    Yeah, I think people are generally letting his (surprisingly) good season last year bleed into how much production he's providing this year and how much he will bring next year at 38 years old. A non-contending team traded 1.2 years of a 37 year old 1 WAR player for a young prospect, $6 million freed up to allocate elsewhere in the offseason, and the opportunity to get a young playe some extended at bats for the rest of the season. I don't see how anyone could be "confused" by this trade. It's pretty simple.
  17. Elrhino
    I'd take Whitley. If the Yankees didn't have a bullpen already stacked he would be pitching in the MLB. . He's breezed through the minor league system despite the fact that he didn't start pitching until his junior year of college. His changeup is supposed to be filthy.
  18. Elrhino
    I felt bad the way he was singled out by fans, but at the same time I'm ready to move on. His style of play really was a sore reminder of plate approach from the Hendry/Dusty era. Every time he feebly hacked at a breaking ball low away in the dirt 8 inches off the plate, I died a little inside. Too bad he's going to the Yankees, I wish I could cheer for him.
  19. Elrhino
    The Yankees really got issues at 3B with Youk injuries and ARod's fiasco. I wonder how interested the Yankees would be in Vitters (or Olt) as sweetener in a Soriano trade in order to get a better package. Looking at their numbers, Brent Lillibridge, David Adams and Louis Cruz are astonishingly bad.
  20. Elrhino
    The more I read on Whitley, the more I like him. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1714070-chase-whitley-everything-you-need-to-know-about-intriguing-prospect http://www.yankeeanalysts.com/2011/10/chuck-johnson-on-chase-whitley-36038 I'll take him for 1.2 years of a 1 WAR 37-38 year old player.
  21. Elrhino
    Besides MAYBE Buxton, I wouldn't trade Javy for any prospect in the game. The skillset is just too rare. Some people say he has a high bust possibility, but even if other aspects of his game never fully develop it feels like his floor is a good defensive corner infielder who's going to belt ~25 mistake pitches out of the park a year. He's only 20 years old, what's his power grade going to be at 24?
  22. Elrhino
    Pierce's final line: 5 IP, 0 ER, 3 H, 3 K, 2 BB
  23. Elrhino
    Soriano brings out a lot latent racism and stereotypes about latin players among a lot of fanbases, although obviously the Cub fans are at the forefront given the exposure and that he's on their team. I bring up with friends of other fanbases all the time that Soriano is a servicable player who has value, and I get a lot of "lazy" and "show-off" and "not a team player". Texas fans in particular seem to hold it against him that he was hesitant to move positions for them, but they had absolutely no problems when Mike Young and now Ian Kinsler show reticence about switching positions. In fact, many thought the Rangers organization was in the wrong and had insulted Mike Young when they signed Beltre.
  24. Elrhino
    These two are reporting it will probably happen, so I guess the trade is officially dead. Phil Rogers ‏@ChiTribRogers 1h Cubs don't want a repeat of Ryan Dempster 10/5 nightmare last July. They're spelling out details to Soriano before finalizing deal with NYY. Peter Gammons ‏@pgammo 1h Soriano -yanks likely happens, but there's way to go. Theo Epstein flying to Phoenix, where he and Jed Hoyer will talk with Sosi
  25. Elrhino
    He's pretty much a 1 WAR player with a 100 OPS+ or wRC+. We just pulled that off the streets with Schierholtz for 2 million per. He's not worthless, but neither is a 24 year old MLB ready cost controlled bullpen arm like Whitley. It's a swap of assets that better suits the Cubs needs. This is also assuming Soriano doesn't significantly drop off from 37 to 38 (or get injured). I appreciate that he's a seemingly nice guy and worked well with the young players, but if we're putting value in that do we also hold it against him that he's about the worst example on plate approach plate you could set for young players as the hackiest hacker that ever hacked?
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