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I'm still having trouble believing that all of these brilliant, successful businessmen (Ricketts, Epstein, etc.) with their army of lawyers and financial advisors didn't have a clue about where they might be financially at this point.
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Mat Gamel
Backtobanks replied to Guancous's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Seems kind of redundant after getting Olt, but I guess it's worth a flier because he's cheap. -
I never said it would be a bad thing, but so far having the smartest FO hasn't done much to help at the ML level. It would be a group that'd eventually win, so long as they don't succumb to groupthink ala Pearl Harbor. Does your post come with a guarantee?
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Dartmouth, Northwestern, Stanford, plus all of the wonks in the FO. We may not win many games, but we'll lead the league in IQ.
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Maddux, Pena, etc. don't have the ML managing experience. Hinch has some experience, but most importantly will probably come cheap.
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That was the first thing that I thought of too. Girardi will cost >$3 million per year for a minimum of 3 years.
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You mean there are stats out there (besides "bubblegum stats") that prove he had a good year?
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I don't see a problem with their OF assuming they let Crisp go to FA.
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21 players total have an OPS over .850. The last place Blue Jays have 3 of them, and the last place Rockies have another two. The Rays and Indians have zero, and the only playoff teams that have more than one are the Cardinals (Carpenter, Holliday) and Reds (Votto, Choo). Four playoff teams have a player with a .900 OPS or better (Cabrera, Ortiz, Votto, McCutchen). The offensive environment is severely changed from what it was 3-5 years ago, and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. Your opinions are so far from the realm of reality, it's pointless to even address them, but hopefully this minor look gives you a vague idea how absurd you are. Discussing how Rizzo's OPS of .820 would fit into a winning record is difficult because you would have to factor in things like the strength of the piching staff and which division you're playing in. Right now the Cubs don't have the pitching staff to win with great pitching/weak offense and the NL Central is one of the strongest divisions in baseball.
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allow me to introduce to you the .830 OPS all-star 1B http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/headshots/mlb/players/full/30399.png&w=350&h=254 Man, you guys are something. The point was brandon belt is putting up those numbers and no he is not considered an all star type first baseman. Craig also had an OPS of .872 at that time, not .830 that he has now. Of course even at that, there were Votto, Goldschmidt,and Freeman to go along with Craig. All of which were pushing .900 ops or above. So unless you count a getting voted in by the fans..when stats don't really matter or being the lone rep for your team, .820 ain't getting it done at first base saddest part is you guys are defending this by hoping he becomes Belt, is that really what you had pictured? I like him, he's probably my favorite player but it doesn't make me blind to fact that so far he is no where near what we were sold. Also, he was being marketed as the face of the franchise and being in the middle of the league's 1B doesn't say much for the franchise.
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The FO ought to always listen to offers on anyone. If someone is going to overpay in a big way, trade him. As other discussions have pointed out, some of our top prospects are going to be traded at some point to build the team, so why not Castro. Next year is another down year and hopefully Baez will be ready full-time in 2015.
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Epstein did it (in Boston, not quite NY) and he's getting accolades while we're still losing 95 games. If Girardi could get us to 80 losses next year, he could run for Mayor.
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Why wouldn't someone like Girardi want to come to the Cubs. The bar has been set extremely low for the past 2 seasons, so any kind of improvement will make you a hero. Then you have the uber-prospects coming up in 2015 and the possibility of increased payroll. As long as you get a multi-year contract, I can't see any downside.
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The Cubs are, in reality, a financial asset. Like stock in a company or a piece of real estate. The Cubs are a company and Wrigley Field is the store where they sell the product. You can purchase it live, on TV, the internet or the radio. We use sabermetrics to determine wins over replacement. What this measures is the performance of one player relative to other players at his position, correct? How is that different than the market share of a product? The performance of a team is determined by the market share of it's mix of 25 products. One way to maximize value is to have inexpensive products that out perform the market which allows for increased investment in products which can dominate their product category. The Cubs are not like a piece of real estate because Ricketts has poured tons of money into real estate while cutting money from the Cubs.
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Yes, wave after wave. Instead of sorting through other teams garbage, we will have our own. They will be cheaper and better. Mathis anyone? We can sort through our own garbage instead of other teams garbage? :lol:
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Before you criticize "salary dumps", what do you think it's going to be if we go after Price, Stanton, etc.
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Hell, there are kids still in HS that are as old as the Cubs" top prospects.
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:yahoo: Can you make us a 5 team trade involving the rooftop owners, Seattle Slew, the where's the beef lady, a pack of 1988 Score Baseball cards, and a bottle of Yoohoo? It'd make more sense than your response to this, I guess you're having a rough day. I'll explain Plaid suggested we bribe Tunney and Treymon commented that we don't have the money until we do revenue generating things first. I thought it was pretty funny.
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Right now it doesn't look like we should expect a "winning team" next year, so I don't think we can talk about a "turnaround for the major league team" just yet.
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If you are looking at the numbers he's putting up as your criteria, Murphy and Lake are the only Cubs we need to worry about. :lol:
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It's very possible that they hired bad coaches and then told them what they should be teaching.
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Well their "organizational philosophy" includes hiring coaches that look like they've been detrimental to Castro, Rizzo, and Barney.
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Wouldn't it make sense to front load the deal given the projected payroll for the next couple of years is relatively low? Why would that make sense? They don't have much space the next couple years, but do have theoretical space in 3-5 years. 17.5 is quite a bit of money for Choo when he's 34 years old and 35 years old. I was thinking of the 25+ million they might have to pay when they try to trade him after the 2015 season.
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Maybe the FO ought to handle FO stuff and let the players, coaches, and manager handle handle the "on the field" stuff.