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  1. fromthestretch
    Crap. Garland and Oswalt. Carlos Lee. Crap. Garland could get lit up in that park. Garland IS going to get lit up in that park. Jon Garland is the quintessential product of what goes right with great run support. He's not the stud pitcher a lot of people think he is. He's not awful either, but he's not THAT good i didn't know run support affected ERA+ or WHIP. The one thing that Garland has gotten better at the past couple years is not walking people. Outside of that, he's a low-strikeout, sinker-ball pitcher who somehow tends to give up a fair share of homers and quite a few hits. Moving to the NL might help him, but pitching half his games in the Juice Box won't. Edited to Add: Despite the fact that I don't think Garland is all that great, I certainly would have preferred him over Lilly or Meche.
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    I hope you're wrong, too.
  3. fromthestretch
    Crap. Garland and Oswalt. Carlos Lee. Crap. Garland could get lit up in that park.
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    He's a decent bat off the bench. Can play 1B and LF and provides some power from the left-side. Kind of eliminates the "need" for Cliff Floyd now.
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    Huff Hendry must be sour on him as that name hasn't even come up all winter Maybe Huff doesn't get along with Lou. I'm not sure.
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    Huff
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    I still don't understand how the Nats justified giving starts to guys like Ramon Ortiz and Pedro Astacio when Rauch most likely could have outperformed both of them as a starter.
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    Hell, if that's the case, trade Jones, put Soriano in CF, and get Aubrey Huff to play RF. He's more durable than Floyd and could fill in at a corner infield spot if needed.
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    How are Meche and Lilly guaranteed to give you the innings you need?
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    I am fine with this. He could probably leverage that contract into buying the Cubs, and then solve all their problems. But then he'd be saddled with a $600 mil contract to begin his reign. Maybe he could then convince himself to take a massive pay cut for the good of his company. It would be interesting to see how the union would react to that since he'd be player AND owner in that scenario. :lol:
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    And I think you'll find that you are very wrong about that. There were probably people willing to trade him if it made the team better, but that doesn't mean they didn't think he'd succeed.
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    I think Overbay is by far the better player. .312/.372/.508 I don't think Choi would approach that. I would also disagree that he hasn't had a chance. Outside of Florida (before they dealt him), what team gave him a chance to be a regular starter? Florida was the only one, and he played well for them. Ummm... LA? He played in 133 games in 2005 with the Dodgers. He didn't have a terrible year, .253/.336/.453. His numbers this year at Pawtucket were awful, but as some have noted, he was recovering from a knee problem. .207/.347/.361. He has always been a fan of the SABR and stat crows, and rightfully so. Yet the last two organization he has been with, LA (with Depodesta and company in 2004 and 2005) and Boston haven't seemed to value him too highly. I think he can be adequate, but I don't think he will ever be considerd a really good player. He amounts to just about every other Cub "prospect" that came up during that time, overrated. He may have played 133 games in 2005, but he didn't even get close to 400 plate appearances, which tells me that several of his games played were not as a starter. He averaged over 3.5 plate appearances per game as a Marlin and only 2.7 as a Dodger.
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    I think Overbay is by far the better player. .312/.372/.508 I don't think Choi would approach that. I would also disagree that he hasn't had a chance. Outside of Florida (before they dealt him), what team gave him a chance to be a regular starter? Florida was the only one, and he played well for them.
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    he's a jerk to be sure, but if its steroids that bothers you, I think we better start admitting he is just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, so? This would excuse what exactly, in your mind? I love that argument - hey, he wasn't the only one cheating, so let's get in on the fun. If you can't beat em' join em', eh? I very much want the Cubs to win - but I don't want to win that badly. If the Cubs aren't going to win b/c they won't sign Bonds, so be it. And, BTW, I have no problem with outing each and every user. My ire is not directed at Bonds individually. I think his point is that if you're going to stop liking the Cubs if they sign a steroid user, you (not you specifically) probably shouldn't like the Cubs at all as they are now since they (like just about every other team) have most likely already had a few players use performance enhancing drugs of some sort.
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    If I remember correctly, the Cubs scored more runs per game without Lofton than with him in 2003. Kenny Lofton does not guarantee the Cubs a playoff spot in 2004.
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    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. While it was only 184 plate appearances, Pena hit much better against righties than lefties last year. I think Crisp is probably the weak link of the outfielders there. Edited to add: This is my 1000th post. Go me.
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    I don't wanna sound gay or nothing, but that is one sweet avatar you've got there, dude. Well done. :lol:
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    If this actually happened, Augie Ojeda would be on the 25-man roster every year. We don't need that.
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    Well, in 1993 he was on FLA catching Charlie Hough, so that's probably a reason why that's bad. Not sure if there were any knuckleballers on his Padres team where he had the 22 passed balls Good point about Hough, but still....23 passed balls? The White Sox catchers that caught Hough the year before combined for 13 for the whole season. As for the 1987 Padres, the starters who ate the bulk of the innings were Whitson, Show, Jimmy Jones, Hawkins, and Mark Grant, while McCullers tossed over 100 innings out of the pen.
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    Just looked at his page on baseball-reference.com. I never realized that he had a few seasons where he had some problems with passed balls. He had 22 passed balls his first full season. In 1993, he had 23 passed balls. That's a helluva lot for a guy with a reputation as a good defensive catcher. Hell, it's a lot for a catcher who isn't known for his defense.
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    There are many better uses of a roster spot than Randall Simon. If you're lucky enough to have the top 5 non-starters in all of baseball, yeah. Simon would be a solid bench option. Are there better? Yeah. Will we find 5 better guys to fill our bench with? Highly unlikely. A .283/.320/.422 career line isn't exactly what I want out of a bench player that can only play first base. I could accept that from a guy that can adequately play a few different positions, but not a guy that can just play 1B. Just about any team should be able to do better than that. A team with the financial resources of the Cubs should definitely be able to top that.
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    My only problem with Larkin is his durability. He only played 140 or more games in seven of his 19 seasons. Other than that, he was a great baserunner, a very good offensive shortstop, and played the position very well defensively. I think he's HOF worthy.
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    There are many better uses of a roster spot than Randall Simon.
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    Good for him! I respect your reasons for not thinking he is HOF worthy more than I do Rosenthal's. At least you're basing it on what he did (or didn't do) on the field, whereas it appears Rosenthal simply won't vote for him because there's a chance he took an illegal substance, whether there's proof or not. Hell, he even admits that andro was legal when McGwire was "caught" using it.
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    His numbers will probably improve coming to the NL. His cost to aquire is a lot more palatable than paying Gil Meche or Greg Maddux. Yea, coming to the NL will help, but you never know - I don't think that's a variable you can count on to come true. Secondly, I would actually rather pay/overpay to acquire Meche. In the playoffs, Westbrook's stuff wont win you a game, neither will Maddux' - at least with Meche you have a chance. If some team is going to overpay for Gil Meche, I hope it's not the Cubs.
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