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The Chicago Bulls 2007 Offseason Thread
CubColtPacer replied to killthegoat06's topic in Other Sports
The majority of NBA teams are over the salary cap but under the luxury tax threshold. If a team is over the salary cap, the salaries of the traded players need to match up within 25% of each other. I understand that they need to, but my question is what's the purpose? I generally understand the rules of baseball's CBA and the reasons for specific rules. But I don't get the point of the NBA having this rule. The only goal, it seems, is to stop teams from making trades. Unless it was just a failed attempt to force teams to think twice before signing guys to bad deals in the first place. It keeps teams from having a firesale in order to free up cap room, and to keep good teams from being dominant. It's all about competitive balance and stability-the NBA would love to see most of their teams be with the team that drafted them, and that ends up happening more than it does in other sports. It's the same reason why if you are over the cap you can sign your own free agents to a max deal but you have heavy restrictions placed on what you can offer other teams fee agents. Less turnover on the roster means that there is more connection between fans and players. The fact that a good team over the cap has trouble improving means that the talent becomes more dispersed throughout the league. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-30-2007
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
You have it backwards. By using "greater than" signs when you probably meant to use "less than" signs you actually have Mesa as the top farm team and Iowa at the bottom. I think he wanted you to say that so he could jump in and add the last chain: >Chicago Cubs :D -
huh? derosa complained yesterday about how he hasn't gotten use to the day games yet... but he still sucks at night. Do you mean that thread in baseball discussions a couple days back? That was Aramis complaining about the day games if that was it.
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Nice Lee!
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Lou's been having Pagan bat in the 2 spot the last few times this lineup against a left-hander was put in. I don't know why Izturis is any worse for that spot-he's having a good month, and he has great lifetime numbers against Willis. If this were a constant thing, I'd be upset (and I was really upset when Lou put Izturis in the 2 spot against a pitcher he's horrible against, Ben Sheets, early in the season) but he's a pretty decent option there for tonight. With that said, now that I posted this he'll go 0 for 4 and look horrible, but I guess that's how it goes :D
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The first All-Star results are out. The only Cubs starter so far is Alfonso Soriano at 3rd among OFers with Beltran and Bonds. Ken Griffey Jr., Andruw Jones, and Carlos Lee are in hot pursuit. The only other Cubs in the top 5 are Lee in 3rd behind Pujols and Fielder, and Ramirez in 5th behind Wright, Chipper, Cabrera, and Scott Rolen. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070528&content_id=1990778&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
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when Lee's average drops to the .290 range, his slugging percentage will be around .510 based on his career IsoP. he's obviously not hitting for power like he did earlier in his career, so i would expect his slugging percentage to drop to the .470 range, making Lee a .290/.360/.470 player. I doubt Lee falls that far. He's a much better pure hitter than he ever has been before, and one of the better ones in the league. I would guess he'd be somewhere between .310 and .320 on the season. He will have to up the HR totals if he wants to maintain that average. I don't see why-several hitters hit .310 or better in the major leagues last year and had less than 20 home runs. Joe Mauer, Freddy Sanchez, Derek Jeter, Robinson Cano, Ichiro Suzuki, Carlos Guillen, Reed Johnson, Paul Lo Duca, Victor Martinez, Michael Young, Gary Matthews Jr. Even if Lee didn't up his HR totals, what keeps him from joining that group? He's patient and he hits the ball to all fields. He strikes out a lot, but not much more than Jeter or Michael Young (or Miguel Cabrera-who didn't make this list, but only hit 26 home runs last year, struck out 108 times, and still batted .339 in 576 at-bats). Lee doesn't have the ability to sustain a .350 average without the home runs, but I don't see a reason why he couldn't sustain a .310 average.
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when Lee's average drops to the .290 range, his slugging percentage will be around .510 based on his career IsoP. he's obviously not hitting for power like he did earlier in his career, so i would expect his slugging percentage to drop to the .470 range, making Lee a .290/.360/.470 player. I doubt Lee's average falls that far. He's a much better pure hitter than he ever has been before, and one of the better ones in the league. I would guess he'd be somewhere between .310 and .320 on the season.
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Blanco to be Zambo's personal catcher
CubColtPacer replied to OleMissCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Even if true, that's a bit harsh, isn't it? I've never heard Barrett speak and thought to myself, "he's a total moron." I don't necessarily think he was talking about his overall intelligence, just his baseball intelligence. His instincts are pretty bad on the field, and he doesn't seem to take into account the score or spot in the game either. We've seen numerous examples this year-Barrett is the worst of all the Cubs at swinging at the first pitch for a guy who's walked the previous couple guys, his throwing behind the runner, trying to steal 3rd with 2 outs, the list could go on. -
Derrek Lee with runners in scoring position this year-.467/.538/.778 I can think of 3 situations just in the last week and a half where he has done the job-the grand slam against the White Sox, and the single to give the Cubs the 1-0 against the Dodgers in the 8th on Sunday. Plus, he had the single yesterday in the 9th to bring up Ramirez with a chance to win the game. Lee has definitely not had a problem in clutch situations.
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Blanco to be Zambo's personal catcher
CubColtPacer replied to OleMissCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I believe you meant corner infielder or outfielder, and the answer is no, the team does not need another one of those. They desperately need 1 hitter up the middle, because between C, 2B, SS, and CF, they have 7 players, and only 1 of them is hitting well (DeRosa). -
Cut Eyre, bring up lefty Pignatiello
CubColtPacer replied to OleMissCub's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Agreed-this team can't afford to be any more patient with him. If he refuses to go on the DL, and refuses to go on the minors, then he has to be released. -
Wasn't Pagan brought in because a left-hander was on the mound when he was announced, and then Lou didn't want to simply waste him and pinch-hit for the pinch-hitter? Who cares its the 9th inning and you have 2 runners on. You use your best ph in that situation to get the lineup to roll over and get to the top. Who cares if you "waste" Pagan, they wasted Ward by not using our best Ph in the most crucial PH spot. I'm just saying that Lou has used his bench like that for most of the season, and then people get upset when most of the bench is gone during extra innings. I would have pinch-hit Ward there myself, but it seems like most people are very worried about running out of players (which I am not) and using two pinch-hitters for the same spot doesn't help in running out of players.
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Wasn't Pagan brought in because a left-hander was on the mound when he was announced, and then Lou didn't want to simply waste him and pinch-hit for the pinch-hitter? then why not bring in Murton? Pagan has been pretty cold since the first game of the White Sox series. Murton has been better over the last week or so. Either way it's bad. Murton pinch-hit in the seventh.
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Bases loaded in San Diego, 1 out - GIDP 1st and Third in LA, 0 out, fails to make solid contact, runner is held at third Cubs don't score. I could point out several of those cases for Theriot as well-or Cedeno, who was much worse than Izturis: As a SS this year: Izturis-.271/.333/.331 Theriot-.206/.341/.235 Cedeno-.091/.130/.273 Overall Theriot-.278/.343/.338 Izturis-.267/.328/.325 Cedeno: .097/.121/.323 SS as a whole has been a problem for the Cubs this year-not any individual player. Theriot has a 28 point advantage over Izturis in OPS-that's not a very large difference. Any of the Cubs SS is not the reason we are terrible. That's true. SS is actually right about where it's expected to be, maybe even a little bit better. Barrett being terrible, Jones being terrible, Murton/Floyd both being below average, Soriano with the power, and the bullpen are all underperforming what they were expected to do.
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Wasn't Pagan brought in because a left-hander was on the mound when he was announced, and then Lou didn't want to simply waste him and pinch-hit for the pinch-hitter?
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Bases loaded in San Diego, 1 out - GIDP 1st and Third in LA, 0 out, fails to make solid contact, runner is held at third Cubs don't score. I could point out several of those cases for Theriot as well-or Cedeno, who was much worse than Izturis: As a SS this year: Izturis-.271/.333/.331 Theriot-.206/.341/.235 Cedeno-.091/.130/.273 Overall Theriot-.278/.343/.338 Izturis-.267/.328/.325 Cedeno: .097/.121/.323 SS as a whole has been a problem for the Cubs this year-not any individual player. Theriot has a 28 point advantage over Izturis in OPS-that's not a very large difference.
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DeRosa has proven he should play every day. Theriot simply has not whatsoever. His average is down to .273, his OBP is proabbly under .340 now, and he has no power.
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78 through 4.
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He's not slumping a little-he's slumping bigtime. 1 for his last 13 with 1 walk, and 6 for his last 35 with 2 walks during that span and only 1 extra base hit (and he already was trending downward slightly before that). He needs to hit down in the lineup until he can turn this around.
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Lineups Cubs Soriano-LF Floyd-RF Lee-1B Ramirez-3B Barrett-C Jones-CF DeRosa-2B Theriot-SS Marshall-P Marlins Abercrombie-CF Uggla-2B Ramirez-SS Cabrera-3B Willingham-LF Hermida-RF Wood-1B Treanor-C Kim-P
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SOMEBODY TEACH BARRETT A LITTLE SPANISH I actually read that quote and was quite pleased with that move. I'm not sure it will help Z much (it might a little bit, but it's a very small variable) but the team really needs Barrett's bat in the game whenever Hill, Lilly, or Marshall pitches (to make up for their horrible pitcher bats). Considering Blanco is going to play 1 out of every 5 or so days anyway, making him Z's personal catcher is the best solution.
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One question answered-Barrett stealing 3rd was all him, not Piniella at all: http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070526&content_id=1987957&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
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Ramirez pinch-hitting was the best move. Lou couldn't win there either, because there were several people in the game thread calling him several different names if he didn't PH with Ramirez there. What better situation can you put your biggest hitter on the bench in then bases loaded in the late innings? Ok, I understand that. But why not leave him in the game at 3B after that AB? Lou was giving him a day off. Typically, a guy who is getting a scheduled day off like that is available to pinch-hit if needed, but Lou didn't really want him playing any innings unless it was an emergency (which it wasn't) or else the day off would have been wasted.
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That's the one I just don't understand-there is simply no reason for him to be in the game there until he shows that he has started to pitch better in blowout games, which he hasn't done.