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  1. stitchface
    I think Dempster can be useful but I would prefer a different closer - or perhaps only use him in 2 or 3 run closing situations or favorable matchups.
  2. stitchface
    Mulder's workload was more innings driven than pitches per game driven. I think the A's mishandled his initial injuries though.
  3. stitchface
    Plenty. coming off 2003 they had Woody Williams Matt Morris at the front end Aquired Jeff Suppan as a 3 They unknowns were Jason Marquis and Carpeneter. They had 3 sold starters though in place. going into 2004 there was a pretty solid consensus that St. Louis did not have the staff to contend - much less win 100+ games. they got pretty lucky in the way things panned out - and they built a stellar pen.
  4. stitchface
    I think the Cubs need a significant overhaul at a lot of positions. That means a lot of moves to fill those holes - or at the minimum one huge move (like Cabrera). That kind of action is going to require creativity, planning, and foresight. You seem to be trivializing the requirements as if they are obvious. I think the Cubs need to come up with a plan on how to build a winning team with disregard to the current roster. Then use the current roster to fill the needs either by plugging someone in or by trade. I no longer believe they can build a winner by building around the current roster. There are pieces here but I don't see how they are going to fill the holes around them.
  5. stitchface
    exactly snood. frankly I have seen nothing here that indicates how this team can be overhauled to compete for the world series in one year. to do that would take tremendous creativity and risk. everyone would be available including lee and zambrano. I don't hendry doing anything close to what it would take.
  6. stitchface
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1998.shtml look at those numbers. lots of career years in there. great platoon in left. look down at Mulholland and Beck's lines though - they and wood carried that pitching staff.
  7. stitchface
    You may have a good point about Fontenot. His minor league numbers look pretty solid, I wouldn't mind having him up now over Theriot and Bynum. baseclogger
  8. stitchface
    Maybe the Cubs could "Steal" Loney away from the Dodgers. I mean....if the Padres are considering Kotteras for Wells, (I know Wells is a better pitcher, then Maybring nothing, but still) maybe the Dodgers are just as desparate. hendry will hold out for the backup catcher
  9. stitchface
    this I do believe was the funnest cubs game I ever went to - Saturday night, two sosa homers, wood homer . . . the sixth inning was awesome. Sosa's second homerun cleared the camera in left center - second longest homerun I ever saw live (the first was sexson in arizona). http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B06200CHN1998.htm
  10. stitchface
    ASTROS 11TH: Berry walked; Ausmus out on a sacrifice bunt (third to first) [berry to second]; EUSEBIO BATTED FOR WAGNER; Eusebio struck out; Biggio was walked intentionally; BOGAR RAN FOR BERRY; Gutierrez walked [bogar to third, Biggio to second]; Bell reached on an error by Mulholland [bogar scored (unearned), Biggio to third, Gutierrez to second]; 1 R, 0 H, 1 E, 3 LOB. Cubs 4, Astros 5. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B08150HOU1998.htm
  11. stitchface
    I don't think so. not unless they find a way to dump a lot of bad contracts, sign all the top free agents, and go young everywhere else. do you see that happening? I think they can get back above .500 but they won't be any closer to winning the world series.
  12. stitchface
    I think disgruntled is on to something. You can't fix it in one year so don't try. the key is to actually have a plan for the future and stick to it. this is where things don't seem to go well with hendry. he seems to plan for one year and not consider the future. they aren't building an organization, they are just building a team. when that team isn't good enough, they try to rebuild that team. its just a waste of time.
  13. stitchface
    I was at two of those three at the Dome and saw Sammy's 66th - which temporarily put him in the lead. They had fireworks for him in Houston. I also saw the Mulholland start on Sunday (the only game he pitched in in the series). The cubs had the lead but couldn't hold it. they announced neifi's grand slam as we were walking out of the dome. the comparison to prior is ludicrous.
  14. stitchface
    actually, you would blame the A's. They basically used up his arm then sold him high.
  15. stitchface
    So why play Bynum every day? Lets see what Theriot can do.
  16. stitchface
    do they have a pedro martinez type?
  17. stitchface
    And bye bye 2007, 2008...We bascially would be left with DLEE as your lone power hitter. Scary thought indeed. Ram has got Hendry and the Cubs by their stones! yes he does. especially with this year's free agent pool.
  18. stitchface
    play Theriot.
  19. stitchface
    Neyer is a very smart man. Very smart. But no stat in the world can tell me that replacing Derrek Lee's production with Neifi Perez's (pre-Walker trade) and Mabry/Nevin (post-Walker trade) results in 3-5 game difference, tops. It just can't. the stat is telling you - you just aren't listening.
  20. stitchface
    Wow, I just looked it up the roster, and you're right. That team had no business winning 90 games at all. It's like Major League all over again, plus Sammy. It wasn't all bad. Grace and Morandini had some sexy OBPs, Brant Brown had upwards of 400 PA's with an .850 OPS, and Glenallen Hill had upwards of 150 PA's with a near 1.000 OPS. and he hit a ball onto a roof and then complained about the estimated distance.
  21. stitchface
    best games ever. not in the 90s. ever.
  22. stitchface
    What are you getting at here? Until Diaz hit that homerun, 2004 was a much better year save for the vast improvement of the cardinals. the cubs were on course for 93-95 wins until the wheels came off. they still won one more game than in 2003 though. that clubhouse melt down is probably the best evidence to date of intangibles possibly influencing play and also of dusty's incompetence as a leader.
  23. stitchface
    they can exactly describe the loss of DLee. There isn't a stat that measure the psyhological effects of the loss of DLee. As another poster alluded to, the team surely lost a ton of confidence when their best player went down. And that's not even to mention the loss of his Gold Glove at first. So no, stats can't "exactly" measure the loss of a player of his caliber. if there is psychological effect, that will be reflected in the other player's performances. so, did the other players play worse than normal after lee got hurt? Seems pretty simple to evaluate statistically to me. if the other players didn't play worse, then the psychological effect doesn't exist. I don't really have the time, nor the desire, to look that up. But either way, I think it's kind of silly to say that there isn't a physchological effect of losing your best hitter on an already anemic offense. which isn't what I said - what I said was that effect could be measured if it exists.
  24. stitchface
    He washed out as a Pirate. Bring him up and start him today. Maholm needs a confidence builder. only if you trade us bay.
  25. stitchface
    that quest isn't lonely enough for my taste.
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