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  1. CubColtPacer
    i bet he's at colts training camp and doesn't have internet access there. Why does Bob Sanders post then? Sanders is not practicing like usual. I don't think he's been at practice once at TC yet. I wish he'd get off the board and on to the field before the playoffs this time. :D
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    I don't know why we need to do that now. See what the next 2-3 weeks bring first. If the Cubs fall out of the race, use the final month to do the youth movement. If the Cubs can hang in without both of them (which is possible the way the rest of the Central is going) they get Soriano back in early September and who knows what happens after that.
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    That's an amazing stat It's actually a really flawed stat, considering a decent percentage of the time he's been up this season he's played as a defensive replacement (and defensive replacements are typically only used when teams are winning). The Cubs are 18-12 when Pie starts. BTW, that 32-16 number is now 32-17. Pie pinch-hit last night, and the Cubs lost.
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    According to the newspaper article (and Rotoworld), option 2 is not an option. Not sure if that's not how waivers work or not. The A's do have that option, but I think the newspaper is just assuming that Oakland won't give him away. There would really be no reason for them to do that.
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    You're trying to use last night's game as an example that Jones cannot hit? The one he went 2 for 4 with a double and a walk? OK wrong example, basically there's no reason to start him CF over Pie, Pie may not hit better but, he's the superior defensive player and probably, base runner - those facts alone are reason enough to permanently remove Jones from CF. Normally I'd at least be sympathetic to the view that the Cubs need a good defensive presence in CF. However, with Soriano and Ramirez out right now, the Cubs need every advantage in offense that they can possibly get at the moment, and right now that's Jones.
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    This is the best suggestion IMO. Yeah, it's the best we can do. But Daryl Ward hitting Cleanup? It's not good by any means. :( He had a 926 OPS last year and a 900 OPS so far this year (.333/.456/.444 line so far this year). He would be just fine as a cleanup hitter IF he can maintain those numbers starting against right-handers for a couple weeks (I'd still sit him against left-handers). That's a big if of course. Ward is another guy that with the at-bats he has so far this year should have 3-4 home runs on the season, and he has 0. It's strange.
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    If Aramis is on the DL, I think the Cubs would have to risk letting Ward get several starts in the OF. They would need all the offense they can get. If they put a lineup out there most days of: Theriot Patterson/Fontenot Lee Ward DeRosa Jones Murton Kendall Pitcher That might be enough to hang around for a couple weeks until Aramis and Soriano got back.
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    You're trying to use last night's game as an example that Jones cannot hit? The one he went 2 for 4 with a double and a walk?
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    I think that's ludicrous. The budget didn't change. He blew it. So they were negotiating with Z just for fun then? They got all the way to the point where the contract would be signed, and then Hendry looked at Z and said "Oh yeah, I forgot, I don't have any money to give you. I've known about this for a couple months, but I negotiated with you anyway. Sorry" I think that's a lot more ludicrous then to think the budget changed directly after the sale. Z's contract has nothing to do with the 2007 team. Hendry had over $100m to spend on the 2007 team and blew it, just like the $100m he blew in 2006 and the $90+ he blew in 2005. Yes, he didn't make the roster right. We're conceding that. We're talking about the trade deadline though. Hendry thought he had the budget to add a player at the deadline, and he would have had it, except the budget changed on Opening Day. Therefore, Hendry gets the blame for the 2007 roster, but not the blame for adding nobody of significance at the deadline, because the only guys he could add would be rentals.
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    I think that's ludicrous. The budget didn't change. He blew it. So they were negotiating with Z just for fun then? They got all the way to the point where the contract would be signed, and then Hendry looked at Z and said "Oh yeah, I forgot, I don't have any money to give you. I've known about this for a couple months, but I negotiated with you anyway. Sorry" I think that's a lot more ludicrous then to think the budget changed directly after the sale.
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    That's my point. Most GMs operate under a budget and can't just add to payroll. You have to build a winner in those circumstances, no excuses. Now people are trying to excuse Jim's failures because of a perceived handcuffing by ownership, when he's really just operating under the same rules as everybody else. Fair enough, but you said it backwards. "Not being able to add money to the payroll is an excuse most GM's don't get to use." = most GM's are able to add money to the payroll. No, what I said was they can't use the excuse. Everybody knows going in they have a budget. Saying in July that a GM had his hands tied by ownership isn't an excuse for not building a better team in the first place. My point is people need to quit offering up this excuse for Hendry. He's had the benefit of vastly more resources than most GMs during his tenure, now that his hands may be tied (while still using a much bigger budget) it's no excuse for failure. Everybody knows they have a budget, it's just most G.M.s know their budget. Hendry had his budget suddenly change on him by ownership Opening Day.
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    I can't see how he can make a trade that will be that horrible. Unless he trades with a team in the N.L. cellar, he won't be able to trade anybody on the 40 man, and how many people of value left are there that aren't on the 40 man? Basically, he'd have a hard time absolutely getting fleeced at this point, because he's limited at what he can offer.
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    Just think of all the years that Soriano's contract will come back and hurt us. I wonder about that. Is the Byrnes contract a signal that the market is not going to trend back down anytime soon, or has it just not happened yet? The 2007 offseason will be very interesting-if it is the spending spree around the league that 2006 was, then all the big contracts around the league won't look as bad relatively.
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    The strange thing about this game is that if you looked at the box score, you would have thought the Cubs would have scored a lot of runs Theriot: 3 for 5 Jones: 2 for 4, 2B, BB Lee: 0 for 3, 2 BB Floyd: 1 for 4, 1 BB DeRosa: 2 for 5, 1 2B Fontenot: 1 for 5 Murton: 2 for 4 Hill: 1 for 3, 1 BB So of the 8 positional players, every single player got on base at least once. 7 of the 8 players got on at least twice (everybody except Fontenot), and Theriot and Jones got on 3 times each. To have 17 baserunners and only manage 2 runs is very, very hard to do. It takes bad power and very bad luck on when hits are distributed, and the Cubs had both tonight.
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    It was hit pretty hard to center. In a normal situation, it still would have been a send, but with a 6 run deficit even a 10-15 percent chance of being thrown out is too much to risk.
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    Pitch Counts: Oswalt-55 Z-31
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    It was a contact play. With Hill up next, it was the best move to make, but it happened to be one of the easiest ground balls there could be to throw him out at the plate.
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    I would consider putting Jones in the 2 spot against favorable matchups right now. However, this is not one of them, and I'd rather have put DeRosa there, then Murton tonight. We'll see if it works out or not.
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    Not really, but you can count them up here: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/2007_lu.shtml The Cubs are 14-7 when Pie starts in CF since June 3rd The Cubs are 14-7 when Jones starts in CF since June 3rd The Cubs are 8-9 when Pagan starts in CF since June 3rd Kendall has a little more evidence for your contention (the Cubs are 7-9 when Kendall starts) but considering that the biggest problem for the Cubs during those games is bad offense, and considering Kendall brings better offense then either Koyie Hill or Bowen, the switch to Kendall was not the reason the Cubs started losing. Welcome to the board btw.
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    It's possible nobody knew how bad it really was or that he was trying to hide it for a while (wouldn't you?). I can certainly understand some of his loss of thinking over the last few days because of it though-that has to be a distraction.
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    At worst it will be tonight-they mentioned who Monday's winner was on the Cubs radio broadcast last night.
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    Everyone knows what's wrong with him. He has a knee injury that he says won't be 100 percent until at least the offseason. The organization made a plan for him that involved regular days off, and they've stuck to that.
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    A tough inning there. Only bright side, Williams is at 75 pitches though 3.
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    I'm not sure about the 10 games part. The Cubs have 14 home runs since the All-Star Break-6 of those have come from Lee, 3 from Soriano, 2 from Theriot, 1 from Ramirez, 1 from Pagan, 1 from Koyie Hill
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    Maybe that's because he isn't a big leaguer at this point. You try and find me one other team trying to make the playoffs running that asshat out there everyday. You mean like the Dodgers running Juan Pierre out there everyday, or the Tigers running out Craig Monroe out everyday?
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