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No, Z has 70 AB's..besides, his OPS is .581 anyway.
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Carl Crawford
CubColtPacer replied to jmajew's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Why does everyone think Crawford would make a difference on the Cubs? This year he is having a career year, and he wouldn't even be an improvement over the Cubs current OF's. Crawford .303 BA/.345 OBP /835 OPS Jones .287 BA/ .335 OBP/ .839 OPS Murton .298 BA/ .365 OBP/ .811 OPS It seems like the Cubs already have 2 similar players in the OF. You conveniently left out the outfielder he would be replacing: Pierre: .291/.330/.390/.720 Crawford is only 25 so there is the potential for him to improve even more and his OPS has improved every year. :oops: I saw him listed as a LF on his stat page. Even considering there is a spot for him to fit in the OF, would you trade Rich Hill for Jacque Jones? Considering how much everyone complains about how bad Jones is and how big of a waste of money he was, it is interesting to see everyone clamouring for a guy that actually puts up worse numbers(outside of SBs). It is also worth repeating that Crawford puts up his numbers at nearly half the salary of Jones and probably at least half of what Pierre will seek, at least for 2007. You simply cannot ignore the production per dollar and the expected increase in productivity. Hill is not a sure thing. He is probably going to be very good, but he could suffer a 2007 sophmore slump. I am sure that Hill would not be enough actually. Crawford will make 4 million in 2007, Jones will make between 5 and 6 million-that's not nearly half of the salary of Jones. In 2008, they'll make about the same salary when Crawford's salary jumps to 5.25 million. If he replaces Pierre in center though, he could be a definite upgrade-just as long as it is not at the expense of our starting pitching next year, because that's a spot we'll be even more desperate at. -
Yes, it does.
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No Bynum or Neifi, so not quite. But pretty damn close. No A-Ram, Lee, or Barrett either. And since Zambrano isn't pitching or hitting, this has to contend. I would agree that this is definitely the worst lineup of the year. Moore, Cedeno, Theriot, and Mabry is our worst infield combination of the year (Theriot is the best of the bunch by far, especially right now, but if Ramirez or Lee were in there with Neifi instead of Theriot the infield would still be better), and when you add Blanco at C instead of Barrett, it makes it the worst lineup. Of course you know that means we'll probably score a few runs.
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How much of '05? Overall, he was bad. I wouldn't call him bad at least ERA wise in 05. 4.52 is right about league average. Rusch had 2 terrible months in 05 ERA wise. Here are his month by month breakdowns April (13.2 IP) 2.03 ERA May (32.2 IP) 2.48 ERA June (32.2 IP) 4.41 ERA July (12.2 IP) 7.82 ERA August (22.1 IP) 8.87 ERA September (31.2 IP) 3.41 ERA Rusch is still a left handed pitcher that in the last 3 years has had 1 good year, 1 average year (with some great parts and some horrible parts), and 1 absolutely terrible year. If he shows any signs of coming back to average at the start of next year, he will still have some trade value.
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http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/72365,CST-SPT-cub26.article I get Atlanta Braves radio, and during a game they were talking about how the same thing was about to happen to the rookies. I believe for them that it's the last time they have a series in New York, so they said the players have to walk through the airport in New York in those costumes. So it does happen at least in the Bobby Cox clubhouse.
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You have some fine choices up there, but no poll like this is complete without Bill Walton.
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Also Bruce confirmed in one of the threads the day after the trade that Hendry went after prospects, and the Dodgers refused him. If anybody really wants to know where, just respond here, and I'll try and find it for you.
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You don't have to wait. Lou has already predicted ND to go to the national championship game. I wish I were kidding. Yeah, as an ND fan even I thought that was crazy. We have a decent shot of losing a game before USC (not a specific game, but just an upset where we don't come out to play), we then could very easily lose to USC, and even if those two things don't happen, we'd have to hope that the undefeateds go down and the polls favoring us over possible 1 loss teams like Ohio State, Texas, and let's say Auburn. All of those together makes our chance to go to the national title game as remote at best. I do think they have a good shot at going to a BCS bowl though-we would almost certainly get in to one of those with a 10-2 record, and I certainly hope we don't lose twice more-although I know with this team, anything is possible-good or bad.
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Or do they mean to the right side? It was a bunt to the left side that the 3rd baseman threw into right. The Reds are just terrible defensively-bunting could be a good option against them because they can't field it.
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Penn State cannot take advantage-missed field goal.
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Tip Ball-another INT for Penn State-Penn State ball on the Ohio State 25.
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They've done a ok job of running the ball (Pittman has the most carries, 8 carries for 42), 66 rushing yards overall-but when you only have 34 passing yards at halftime and an INT, it's just hard to consistently move the ball.
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I don't have a link but I saw it a couple times on the ESPN2 bottom line but it said "Adam Vinatieri, Corey Simon, Bob Sanders, and Brandon Stokley out for Sunday's game vs Jaguars". Here it is..in addition to those is one of our defensive ends that plays a decent amount Josh Thomas, and a TE Ben Hartsock-one source has has Hartsock going to IR. What a loss for the Colts tomorrow-it will be an extremely tough game. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/SPORTS03/60923002/1100
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I was laughing at that too..the clock was running when he called that "unnecessary timeout" as they called it. Oh well, it was funny at least. BTW, for a game most of you cannot see, Colorado is up 10-0 in the second quarter on Georgia.
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I just realized something..at least they didn't go to a 4 man rotation for once with the off day, so at least Z got an extra day off between starts. He looked like he was fine last start, but that's still good for him-and looking at the schedule, he should get an extra day again before his last start.
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Middle of the order tonight is the ones not getting it done (besides of course Soto and the pitcher at the bottom): 1-2 hitters- 2 for 4, 2 BB's, 1 R 3-5 hitters-0 for 7, 1 BB, 0-3 RISP (Ramirez 0-1, Murton 0-1, Pagan 0-1) 6-7 hitters- 2 for 4, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 R 8-9 hitters- 0 for 4 Edit: Typo
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There's a shock!!! I'm not shocked :wink: CUBS are 21-19 when they average 3.4 P/PA or fewer.... 41-72 when they don't Go CUBS !! That statistic blows my mind It doesn't really to me with the roster we have assembled. We have a few players that do a great deal better when they hit a pitch early in the count-Jones is a perfect example of this. When they get deeper in the count, that usually means they are getting behind in the count, which leads to bad outs for these types of hitters. When aggressive hitters are hitting well, their pitch count tends to go down because they are attacking the first good pitch they see and hitting it hard somewhere-when they are having problems, they swing and miss at bad pitches and might never see a good pitch in the at-bat.
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Yeah, it looks like a pick your poison type of thing. You either get Theriot/Blanco/Soto (and sometimes Pagan for Jones), or you get Bynum/Moore/Blanco (and sometimes Pagan for Murton). Which lineup set do people want to see more (because these seem to be the only 2 combinations Dusty wants to send out)
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I say no to Durham - I'm still mad about him letting the ball go between his legs in the playoffs that one time. OK..without the smiley here I can't tell..are you joking or not? Because it's a good joke if you are, but it's not a very good serious thing if you are holding Ray Durham responsible for Leon Durham's mistake.
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link I hope we go get Fredi Gonzalez before Florida does. But something tells me JH will welcome Girardi with open arms. I agree. It seems like a perfect marketing-feel-good-story move for the Cubs... I'm just listening to Mike and Mike in the Morning though, and in an interview with Gammons he says that he believes the Cubs organization is not nearly as enthused about signing Girardi as the media and fans would be. BTW, the rumor also is there are some teams who would actually fire thier manager to go out and try to get Girardi-I don't really understand that sentiment.
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That isn't a smart move unless he only threw a few pitches. What part of the game was the delay? I just looked up the recap of the game. The delay was in the second, and both starting pitchers returned to the game.
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Hendry was right. It will only take about 5 moves to bring the team back to contention. Does DFAing Rusch, Jones, and Dempster only count as one move? :? Sure let's designate them and loose $14 mil. Are you sure you don't want to try to trade them first? Why? I'd rather put Hendry under the gun w/ 10 days to do something (i.e. trade). DFAing somebody doesn't mean you aren't trading them. I'll take a bullproof cup in exchange for the 3 of them. At least we'd get something of use. If we had to throw in a couple million (like with Nevin) to get a decent prospect in return, that's fine too, but just getting rid of them (and their salaries) is the main thing. We'd just be freeing up space on the 40 man while buying us time to do something with those 3. If we need to DFA Jones-does that mean Detroit needs to DFA Ordonez (823 OPS, 16 Mill), Milwaukee's Jenkins (781 OPS, 7.8 Mil), St. Louis's Encarnacion (776 OPS, 3.5 Mil), Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki (768 OPS, 12.5 Mil), Oakland's Jay Payton (752 OPS, 4 Mil), and San Fransisco's Randy Winn (708 OPS, 5 Mil)? Those are only the qualified RF's who are making around the same or more money than Jones and doing worse than him this season in OPS, and some of them are doing significantly worse. (BTW-in addition to all those excluded already because of their low contracts and the RF's not qualified, I also excluded Giles-we could argue all day if his OBP was more important than Jacque's slugging (Jacque has a 51 point jump in OPS) so I left Giles off the list). There are 12 other RF's not listed-I'm sure if we looked at each of their right fielders, we could find at least several more who Jacque is outproducing this year. My point is, if you want to trade him then fine. DFA'ing him means though you're not going to get a deal that will give you the proper value for Jones-he has value in the league. Same for Dempster to a lesser extent. Rusch? wouldn't bother me in the least if that happened-at this point, I'd rather do it after spring training (to see if either he retires or if he has anything left), but any of those options would be better than letting him repeat this year next year.
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Week 3: Bears @ Minnesota - Sunday, Sept. 24th, 12 pm CST
CubColtPacer replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
Also on the front of: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ That's not good... Hey now, it's the website, not the magazine... Besides, how many times was Michael Jordan on the cover of SI? :) Or basically anyone else that is/was great in pro sports... Michael Jordan was sooo great even SI couldn't stop him. :D Anyone can be great and lose in the postseason, only to see someone else covered after the championship is over (see Dee Brown and UNC). Anyone have any stats that say the curse is limited to their worthless magazine and not their website :wink: Luckily for Bears fans, the SI cover curse has been replaced..now it's the Madden cover curse-what is it, 7 straight bad years in a row? -
There's nothing 'sort of' about it. He came right out and said Murton should be the guy next year. And yet he won't start him everyday right now. I believe he's been playing Murton more than Jones the last few weeks-3-4 weeks maybe? I think you mean Pagan, not Jones. I think many people would argue that Dusty could play Pagan in CF if he really feels the need to see him play. No, I meant Jones. In early August, Pagan was playing 30-40 percent of the time in LF. Now, Dusty has switched some of Pagan's at-bats over to RF and taken Jones out instead of Murton, at least some of the time. Apparently Pagan is still getting a little more playing time in LF than RF, but it's gotten better. Yes, Dusty could play Pagan in center-but we know he's not going to do that, except for that one game where he came in late to play CF.