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  1. Mephistopheles
    when will people realize i wasnt the problem a week or so ago? it wasnt me but i was bitched at. oh well. jones should never be in a lineup against a southpaw. i dont care if hes 40 for 40 off them in his career.
  2. Mephistopheles
    So Soriano doesn't count? (Maybe you're thinking he's past his prime...) 31 at the start of an 8 year deal? Yeah.... Santana would be 30 and a pitcher. Pitchers prime and position player primes don't really match up. For guys who actually make it through their early-to-mid twenties intact, I believe the prime years are generally considered to be around 30-31. Although I may be way off there. 29-30 for pitchers. Santanas going to be a huge injury risk with the innings getting up there routinely.
  3. Mephistopheles
    Last year about this time everyone was saying "If anyone thinks the Yankees will be outbid for Matsuzaka, you're smoking something." http://sports.bodogbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/daisuke-matsuzaka-red-sox.jpg
  4. Mephistopheles
    The West isn't balanced with 4 good teams. 3/4 of the West represent 3/5 of the worst offenses in the NL. And because those offenses are so bad, and the ballparks are generally pitching friendly, all the teams in the West have inflated pitching numbers. this is incorrect circular reasoning. Two of the parks are extreme pitchers parks and two of the parks are extreme hitters parks. They tend to cancel out overall. Obviously the teams that play in the uber extremes (Col and SD) need to be monitored but that's about it. LA is a pitchers park, but not that big of a deal. The Padres pitching staff has been good, and it's not just Petco. The team has a the second best road ERA in the league and this isn't because of the western division. In fact, in a limited sample, their team ERA on the road against teams not from the West is 3.60
  5. Mephistopheles
    pagans not a league average hitter. hes much worse. marquis is overperforming overall and youve agreed with that. ive addressed aramis
  6. Mephistopheles
    Overs: Ryan Theriot Mark DeRosa Derrek Lee Angel Pagan Aramis Ramirez Mike Fontenot Ted Lilly Jason Marquis Sean Marshall Carlos Marmol (Although he may be this good) Right At: Alfonso Soriano All the catchers: they suck and thats expected Rich Hill (Hill may be overproducing depending on who you ask) Carlos Zambrano Bob Howry Ryan Dempster Michael Wuertz Below: Matt Murton Cliff Floyd Jacque Jones Scott Eyre
  7. Mephistopheles
    I thought they got a bad return on the Gagne trade.
  8. Mephistopheles
    Keith Law is worthless. He should know that while the Cubs have played a weaker schedule, the schedule doesn't cause this drastic of a turn around.
  9. Mephistopheles
    He's having an excellent year defensively by almost every metric you go by. Even if he's this good, which is fine. My point still stands. The Cubs are having a lot of players playing over their heads. A lot more than most teams.
  10. Mephistopheles
    :?: What does that mean :?: Pretty sure he's talking about Lee and Aram at 1st and 3rd. This isn't true. Ramirez is having arguably the best season of his career and Lee is having by far the second best season of his career. The two of them aren't playing significantly over their true level, but they are playing over it. Marquis is playing significantly over his. I was talking about Jones and Murton.
  11. Mephistopheles
    Probably not.
  12. Mephistopheles
    It's not okay to stand pat. The Cubs aren't a very good club once over performers return to their true level. For the most part a lot of guys are overachieving. The only guys who aren't are stuck between just two positions.
  13. Mephistopheles
    Musk_Rat isn't knowledgeable. I don't care what the hell people call him. It's like what pitchers call their pitches. It doesn't matter - the pitch type should be named by what it does. The fact someone may see he is a natural shortstop doesnt mean hes a natural SS. the fact is hes a 2B, you can semantically call him a natural SS but it doesnt change the fact hes a 2B.
  14. Mephistopheles
    sure you are.
  15. Mephistopheles
    They should start him all the time and say it's your job. You cant lose it.
  16. Mephistopheles
    Of course I am going to focus on those two years. To say that Lopez's 20-24 age seasons mean anything after two years of being an above average hitter (overall!) not to mention a lot more above average at SS is kinda foolhardy. On defense he's not good, but Wrigley's grass and the fact most of our pitching staff are either neutral or flyball prone pitchers will minimize the hit on defense. His bat will probably give us a league average shortstop overall -- something Theriot does not. Again, I'm not saying Lopez is going to be an All-Star, I'm saying he fills up a hole at a pretty good rate. He's no superstar, but he's certainly not what hes done this year. Well of course I would rather do that. I just don't see our system having the firepower to outbid other teams who may be interested. We can get lucky on this deal and then make a sure upgrade elsewhere. We've upgraded the team and we've made a deal that will probably upgrade the team
  17. Mephistopheles
    That's nice. I'm a forward-thinker. "That's nice", now foward-think this. In Lopez's 7 season, he has posted an OPS above .750 once. That's nice. He wasn't a full-time starter until he was 25 and got a lot of on the job training as a young player. Since then he's been pretty good with most of his OPS being OBP-driven (which means OPS underrates him). That's nice. Remove 2005 and his .258/.321/.399 line ges even uglier. His .294 OBP in 377 ABs this year screams "pretty good job" to me. Did I mention he is an awful defensive SS? That's nice but he's been good two of three years as a starter, which is more than Cedeno will probably say. He's not good defensively, but not anemic. He'll get the job done. He's not any worse than Theriot.
  18. Mephistopheles
    That's nice, but the real culprit isn't going to be outfield production. It's going to be shortstop and catcher production.
  19. Mephistopheles
    That's nice. I'm a forward-thinker. "That's nice", now foward-think this. In Lopez's 7 season, he has posted an OPS above .750 once. That's nice. He wasn't a full-time starter until he was 25 and got a lot of on the job training as a young player. Since then he's been pretty good with most of his OPS being OBP-driven (which means OPS underrates him).
  20. Mephistopheles
    Kendall was the big move.
  21. Mephistopheles
    I'm all for giving Cedeno a shot, I just don't particularly see it happening. He's been tearing up AAA for a long stretch and hasn't gotten the recall yet. That said, if Cedeno pans out is he any better than what Lopez was in 2005-06? No, that seems to be Cedeno's upside and the fact that Lopez has done it during his age 25 and 26 seasons suggest that he's much more likely to re-attain that level of production.
  22. Mephistopheles
    That's nice. I'm a forward-thinker.
  23. Mephistopheles
    Laura transferred it to the mod board.
  24. Mephistopheles
    Disclaimer: This thread is different from the other shortstop threads. It doesn't involve statistics or even moving guys. The fact that it doesn't involve statistics should make the discussion more intelligent, as backwards as that is. I don't believe his name has been mentioned around here. Felipe Lopez had two very good seasons in 2005 and 2006 and is still relatively young and is in his prime (just turned 27). He's shown average power with above average on base skills. He's been terrible this year, but it would be a good buy low chance. He can also split time at 2B and SS so we can play matchups with DeRosa, Fonte and Theriot. If the Cubs aren't going to call up Ronny Cedeno, I wouldn't be shocked if the Cubs could deal Cedeno for Lopez straight up. He's still arby in 2008 and won't be an FA until 09. It's a pretty good idea and it has the all-important Meph Stamp of Approval.
  25. Mephistopheles
    http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-coachkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns
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