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Z taken out early due to back spasms (day-to-day)
CubColtPacer replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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There was a lot more to the interview by that Summary of the Interview Hendry said that the injuries have been unfortunate, but that the team cannot use that as an excuse and that the team needs to be fixed He said that Murton, Cedeno, and Theriot would be gettting a lot of playing time in September He said that they would "entertain the possibility" of re-signing Pierre He said there might not be 10-12 new faces next year, but that they definitely need some new players, and that the team needs to be fixed over the offseason. As has been reported, he said that another catcher and Ryu will be up tomorrow. Pie will probably not join them, but will work out in Arizona and be ready to play winter ball. There was a lot of good in this interview-one of the better Hendry interviews I've seen.
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I hate to do all of this, but I have been swimming in so much information that I'm beginning to wonder if I have this right. I'm going to list 4 teams here-if you see any holes or any upgrades, please let me know. I have listed 2 trades I have offered other clubs-see if I should cancel the trades or not, and see if I should pick up Gabriel in the two leagues I have put it on. Thank you-I know this is a lot of information, but I'd really appreciate a quick look to see if I've missed something. Team 1, 2, and 3 are standard Yahoo leagues-1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Def/ST, 1 K, 10 teams Team 4 is a 12 team league-1 QB, 1 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 RB/WR, 1 WR/TE, 1 DEF, 1 HC, 1K (standard scoring-HC is 2 points for a win, -2 for a loss) Ok, here they are: Team 1 QB: Palmer, Vick RB: Ronnie Brown, Dillon, Bush, Maroney, Mike Bell WR: Steve Smith, Holt, Horn, Burleson, Gabriel TE: Gates K: Scobee Def: New England Team 2 QB: Plummer, Vick RB: LJ, Dillon, Droughns, Jamal Lewis, Gore WR: Boldin, Wayne, Horn, Mason, Porter TE: Gates K: Akers Def: Washington Trade (Offered By me): Dillon+Droughns+Horn+Porter for Tomlinson+Watson Possible FA: Gabriel Team 3 QB: Mcnabb, Favre RB: Barber, Dillon, McAllister, Droughns WR: Steve Smith, Wayne, TJ Houshmanzadeh, Burleson, Rod Smith, Muhammad TE: Heath Miller, Witten K: Elam Def: Denver Possible FA: Doug Gabriel Team 4: QB: Manning, McNair RB: Rudi Johnson, Maroney WR: Boldin, Santana Moss, TJ, Horn, Bryant, Gabriel TE: Crumpler, Watson, Dallas Clark K: Tynes Def: Colts HC: Patriots, Broncos Offered Trade by me (Boldin+Horn for McGahee+Addai)
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BTW, for those interested, Randall Simon just walked to give the Phillies 1st and 2nd 1 down against the Braves in the ninth-apparently he's 2 for 2 with a BB since gettting called up.
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Excuse me, it appears to be a hit now by Reyes.
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BTW, Oswalt's perfect game is over in the 7th on an Adam Everett error. The no-hitter continues.
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Great job on the squeeze there.
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Well, Soto has hit the ball about 120 feet combined in his two at-bats already-Schmidt is a very tough pitcher to face in your first game up this time, though.
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just wasn't high enough-hit the wall on a line.
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Murton has done a much better job of hitting that pitch down and in hard in his recent hot streak-nice job!
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Nice job of hanging in there and driving that run in Jones.
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When Alou is in the ballpark, the check swing groundout comes back-even if he's not the player to do it.
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Alfonso made no attempt to get out of the way and should not have been awarded first. Fred, do you remember back in the day when Drysdale was going for the consecutive scoreless inning record he had the bases loaded, hit a batter, the ump called it a ball because the batter made no attempt to move, then Drysdale got him out to end the inning and keep the streak alive? By the way, if the batter is in the strike zone when hit, the ump is supposed to call a strike. Yes, I remember it well, but I don't believe there is a umpire in the game today that would make that call now !! It wouldn't have mattered this time anyway-it was off the plate, and it would have been ball 4 even if it didn't hit him-I was wondering why he let it hit him because of that.
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Are you hoping for this Fred? Usually you post this type of stat after someone just did that-trying to predict the future now? :D
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BTW, looking up at his career stats-Blanco has played at 1st one other career game in 1997 with the Dodgers when he initially came up to the major leagues. His only other positions are 1 game at 3rd in 1997 and 1 game in LF in 1999.
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How can you not give credit to Dan Johnson for bringing that run home?? I dont understand why you dont give credit to a guy who did his job. :? you're not serious are you? the A's were down two in the bottom of the ninth . . . pretty self explanatory, isn't it? Yeah it's pretty self explanatory. Not giving credit to a guy who did his job is crazy. If you're going to make a out, make it productive. That is exactly what Dan Johnson did. I would rather have Dan Johnson bringing home that run on a sac fly, rather than not bringing home that run at all. As a fan of productive outs, that runner at 3rd base versus that runner at home down by 2 in the ninth makes absolutely no difference at all-Johnson's job is to get on base there, not trade an out for a run that doesn't matter in that context (another hit is needed to score a run anyway-and that hit would have brought the runner home). If they had been down by only 1, Johnson's out would have been incredibly important. If it had been the 8th inning down by 2, then it's an ok out to make to trade for the run, although not ideal. In the 9th down by 2 though, hitting a sac fly is not a batter's job.
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I would agree with that. Hendry's job is to let the other clubs know that certain players are available, but it won't do much good to call clubs and beg them to take players off their hands. Once those teams know those players are available, Hendry would just have to wait and see if anybody likes them enough to want to make an offer.
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Of course he redeems himself just one minute later by returning the next punt for a TD.
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Georgia's first TD of the season was taken away-their punt returner returned the punt 66 yards, started to celebrate a little bit early, and threw the ball when he was on the 2 yard line-by the time he touched it again, he was standing out of bounds out of the back of the end zone-and on replay it was ruled a touchback for Western Kentucky. Now that's humiliating.
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That is true. Thanks for the correction.
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Fair enough, but two things. 1.) Do you want a hitter of Aramis' quality trying to move runner over instead of drive them in, honestly? 2.) Aramis has had 110 opportunities (AB-SO-H). So one third of those could have came with less than 2 outs, 73 chances. Then ARam has 13 GIDP, giving him 60 chances. And again, we know he didn't do it every time. 51 total chances for David Wright 36 total chances for Jacque Jones Honestly no, I don't want Aramis doing it. Personally, the hitters who would be the best at doing that this year for this team have all split at-bats (and I was too lazy to look at other team's players like this). I do believe that some players do this better than others-and that stats do not show this in a hugely effective manner, but I do agree that this happens at a small enough rate to not turn a terrible offensive player into a valuable one, for example. It's just a small factor that when combined with other factors that could turn into the tiebreaker between similar players.
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Considering the fact the team is nowhere near a playoff spot and they have virtually zero chance of making the playoffs, what could Hendry possibly have to do that would be more important than making moves at a crucial and well known deadline that might help the team be better next year? If Hendry didn't work his schedule to free up time to work deals at the deadline, it's just further proof that he is not cut out for the job. Not that I need any further proof anyway. I'm already convinced he's clueless. He's saying that Hendry might have been working on other trades, but just ones that didn't go through and so weren't heard about. For all we know, the Twins were interested in other players, and only became interested in Nevin at the last minute-it's not like they called the Cubs, and the Cubs office said that Hendry was out playing golf or something. Many deals get started right before the deadline-that doesn't mean GM's don't work before that. It's just funny to me-Hendry makes a smart move, and yet he gets villified for the timing of it? I consider it a no-brainer move. I agree with that-it's not a move that I'm going to praise Hendry a great deal for (it really depends if he got something valuable for Nevin or not, if not, this is a no-impact trade). I guess I'm just surprised that Hendry makes the move, and then people claim he was lazy just because the Twins and Cubs didn't start discussions until the day of the 31st-when it is just as likely that the Twins didn't need anybody until then, or were looking at other players than that Hendry was automatically lazy in his job.
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Without going into the question (which is too complicated for me tonight), Pierre is probably a bad example to use for this discussion for the fact that he has batted leadoff all this time, which limits the chances that he will come up with runners on. For example-Ramirez has had 192 AB's in those 4 situations this season, even though he has 80 less AB's than Pierre. Jones has 169 AB's in those situations in 445 AB's. To compare, David Wright has had 196 AB's in those situations out of 493 AB's overall.
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I think Dusty mentioned something about he wanted to wait till like the 5th for some of these guys since that's when their season ended or something? I seem to remember hearing that. Iowa is done on the 4th. Will we see Restovich considering he's not on the 40 man? I bet we will see Restovich up. If we plan to use him beyond this year (which I doubt) he'll be fine on the 40 man, and we will want to use him. If we don't, then he can be released off of the 40 man after the season-he can take Nevin's spot for now, though.
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Considering the fact the team is nowhere near a playoff spot and they have virtually zero chance of making the playoffs, what could Hendry possibly have to do that would be more important than making moves at a crucial and well known deadline that might help the team be better next year? If Hendry didn't work his schedule to free up time to work deals at the deadline, it's just further proof that he is not cut out for the job. Not that I need any further proof anyway. I'm already convinced he's clueless. He's saying that Hendry might have been working on other trades, but just ones that didn't go through and so weren't heard about. For all we know, the Twins were interested in other players, and only became interested in Nevin at the last minute-it's not like they called the Cubs, and the Cubs office said that Hendry was out playing golf or something. Many deals get started right before the deadline-that doesn't mean GM's don't work before that. It's just funny to me-Hendry makes a smart move, and yet he gets villified for the timing of it?