SweetZombieJesus

Clearly Castro is the compensation for Theo. Stupid Cobs.

Clearly Castro is the compensation for Theo. Stupid Cobs.

Hey D, have you fought anyone in durley lately? I heard that Dave Kaplan said the cubs are going to roll the cubs next year. How's Shatty and Petro looking lately?

ummm err....wha?

Let's trade Randy Wells to the Cubs to get Randy Wells.

This is moot point for the time being. Is there a rule that team like let's say the pirates offering huge posting fee to guy for the express reason of trading him off for prospects? Let's say the yanks don't want to pay Darvish (or hypothetical japanese player) 60+ mill Let's say the afforementioned pirates win the posting then trade (Darvish/HJP) to the yanks for Montero, Banuelos and Williams. Would that be legal?

I still find this way of thinking very entertaining. We didn't need to bring Theo and company in to sign the most expensive of free agents. Anybody can do that. They brought him in to start building an entire organization that had been torn down through years of bad choices. That work sometimes doesn't look real exciting or create the headlines some need to feel satisfied. But they are doing their thing, and I trust them 100 percent. You can rebuild an organization without punting on an entire year by putting out a roster that looks like crap. You can also rebuild a organization by not spending willy nilly on a uproven player or giving albeit market value but way too long in contract length.

I blame affliction shirts. Those things just bleed steroids.

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You must have missed the Garza trade thread last year.

So in a year Trevor Cahill will be a ace and worth a king's ransom. I mean last year's "OMG THEY OVERPAID FOR RANDY WELLS" was garza.

If the cobs don't win the darvish posting and pay him pujols money I'm going to be pissed. We are a big market team. Also I can't wait for 15 mill per for Cespedes. Start throwing around silly money around like the madoff mets. That's the way to prove you are big market.

If his bat speed is gone it totally can. He can still walk because his eyes are good but if he can't catch up with fastball on a regular basis he's done.

Castro reminds me of the shortstop version of Juan Pierre. He's too high.

It's rare because most guys have really elite talent. Hey use your 15/20 eyesight to see which pitch it is coming off his hand and then turn on it with you superpowerful wrists and batspeed. Whereas Maddux did have an elite arm the difference that made him an legendary player was his head. Exactly how much head does it take to throw a 90 MPH fastball with plus-plus movement and pinpoint control? Maddux's gifts were every bit as much physical as Randy Johnson's. Where did I say Maddux didn't have a elite arm? And I'd argue he won 130 or so games with a fastball that would maybe register 85.

It's rare because most guys have really elite talent. Hey use your 15/20 eyesight to see which pitch it is coming off his hand and then turn on it with you superpowerful wrists and batspeed. Whereas Maddux did have an elite arm the difference that made him an legendary player was his head.

Depends are we talking Phil Nevin 1999-2004? I'd take that over Casey Kotchman.

He would not be our #3 he would certainly be our #2 maybe our 1b. My worry is that Wilson is another guy like Dempster who cashes in on a career year post thirty and lands a albatross type contract.

God, theo is an idiot. FIRE THEO Might as well get the first assinine rant out of the way.

Get real people. It's Castro, Garza, Brett Jackson and McNutt. Keith Law thinks we didn't give up enough.

You're not someone I should expect much from in any future discussions, are' you? One of the board cool guys I guess... Dew, I will possibly get back to that later. Not sure what else there is for me to say considering you're comparing the guy to two completely different players from him and each other and you seem absolutely convinced that patience is the only skill that translates when you get older. Not much I can do to help that really, but I guess I can give it more shots. Maybe you should offer a better comparison then. Maybe Rickey Henderson though you'll probably find that Crawford isn't nearly as good. I don't see where Crawford would be such a good fit for the Cubs anyway. He doesn't get on base enough to bat near the top of the order and he doesn't hit for enough power to bat in the middle of the order. The defense is great but, with less power coming from 3rd base if Ramirez leaves, the Cubs will need more of a run producer from that position. Well, the Cubs would be wise to trade Castro then too. Since a 341 OBP is not good for a top of the order hitter and he doesn't have much power. I don't care about spots in the order. I want good baseball players. Crawford for almost all of his career has been a good baseball player. If the Cubs could flip Soriano for Crawford. Where do I sign? But this is stupid. It's not going to happen.

The Kapman like Mark Derosa, I'm betting it's him.

So he'll have a 810 OPS next year?

Moustakas' contact issue comes in the scouting. He swings at crap and still has trouble with breaking balls. He likes the high fastball too much, and it's an easy pitch to get beat on. How exactly is this different than Vitters?

At this point the cubs would be lucky to trade Zambrano and eating the entire contract for Aaron Miles whilst also having to pay 3 mill dollars for his services again.