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  1. jersey cubs fan
    There's a lot of heroin in Seattle
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Where'd you see that? Some Cleveland news article during the frantic googling. I think it was 97 or 98 in a rehab start in Arizona. wouldn't that be more like "as a reliever" than as a starter if he was just throwing an inning or two?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Thank god for Obamacare otherwise all these injured dudes would skyrocket the Cubs health care costs and ruin the savings they've seen in payroll.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    must be a rehabbing pitcher as he's thrown 10 innings in 2 years
  5. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs guy is not on this list.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Cubs take Rondon after Houston takes Fields
  7. jersey cubs fan
    rondon from cleveland
  8. jersey cubs fan
    ooo, fun time waster houston is on the clock take Josh Fields
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Unless we plan on Campana being on the roster, we definitely need another OFer. Without looking them up, Brett mentioned Schierholtz' splits against lefties aren't that bad. Not sure if this was mentioned, but Heyman said he turned down 2/5 from someone. He also has an extra year of control, if we decide to offer him arb after 2013. Not sure what you mean by "not that bad", but he's hit .284/.317/.391 against LHP in his career which is only a tick higher than what the Cubs got out of RF last year, good for 2nd to last in the league. It's more like his splits vs RHP aren't that impressive for platoon purposes, as that would only place him in 13th place among last year's NL RF. Bottom line is the other half of this platoon is going to have to be a hell of a lot better against LHP for RF to be anything but below average.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't assume he could "easily" platoon with a partner to be that productive. And there's next to no upside. He's just a blah player expected to give blah production on a blah team. Exactly what we expected but still disappointing to anybody that actually wants to see the Cubs win more than they lose.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I think I'd like to find any reason to vote for somebody other than Vizcaino, because a currently rehabbing post op 22 year old with less than 270 innings over 5 years as a pro leaves me with all sorts of doubts. But nobody else in the system is interesting enough to consider.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    So a little over a year in and with no improvements to the major league team Theo is already using back channels to pressure Tom for a contract extension. That seems odd.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Exactly. Whether you believe the number is 13.5 or not is nearly irrelevant. All indicators(scouting reports, basic stats, advanced stats) are that Barney is a terrific defender and has been his entire career. Similarly, indicators are that Cabrera is not very good defensively and hasn't been for most/all of his career. Make your own judgement as to whether that closes the offensive gap, but the "defensive metrics aren't perfect, so there's no way an offensive gap could be closed by them" is just anti-logic. And yet the point still stands that unquantifiable defensive advantages plus the theoretical value of more team control are not going to change the value of these two players to the extent that you were insinuated it could or should.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Well it's a good thing fielding doesn't matter at all, because then they look much further apart than they actually are. Barney's transition to SS isn't a slam dunk That's fair. Just pointing out that it's not exactly intellectually honest to compare them as offensive players only, especially when Cabrera is a pretty [expletive] fielder. It's also not intellectually honest to treat defensive metrics as reliable.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Jeff Keppinger was asking for 12m/year? I have not been paying attention but that seems incredibly unlikely.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    The gap between Cabrera and Barney isn't that much when you have the former for 2 years and the latter for 4... I don't think everybody else is as obsessed with rating time under control as some sort of skill to compare players as people on this board. There's a clearly better player in that comparison. Do you think time of team control (and - hand in hand - salary) isn't a huge factor in how teams value players? Not as huge as the actual difference between the players skill. Which was the point.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The coaching, scheme and team around him will play a major part in whether a QB makes it.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Didn't Brenly choose to leave?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    The gap between Cabrera and Barney isn't that much when you have the former for 2 years and the latter for 4... I don't think everybody else is as obsessed with rating time under control as some sort of skill to compare players as people on this board. There's a clearly better player in that comparison.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    It always makes me wonder what certain coaches and talent scouts see in NCAA prospects because I remember being nothing but unimpressed with McIlroy in college Not that being a 3rd string guy bouncing around for a while counts for a lot, but I'd like someone that at least looked good/ at running an offense at SOME point It's the "winner" tag. People have decided McElroy "just wins games" and so he gets a roster spot over QB who might actually be good. Which "might actually be good" QB is missing out on a roster sport with the Jets?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    They finished +7, 8 teams with a worse record had a better run differential. Over their last 7 games they went 5-2 with a +18.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    That's an American? For shame.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    @jprutherford: Steve Burton of @wbzsports in Boston is reporting that a deal to end the lockout could be announced soon. Burton is very tuned into Bruins.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Almora could be quite good but should at the very least be not bad for a while. Soler could be significantly better but could be a massive bust. Vizcaino is an already been injured pitcher. I'd have to go with Almora on this if there's any value in being an average major leaguer.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    It seemed likely anyways. It's a shame he was having a down year before the injury Ryan Clady will surely be re-signed/tagged so we have to hope for Brandon Albert to hit free agency, I think. It's a flashback to the Williams draft. This OL did a good job yesterday as far as pass blocking but Forte had nothing to run thru. There biggest needs are OL/TE as mentioned. But maybe I'm too critical of Bears' playcallers but am I the only one who thinks dating back to Turner' 1st go-around that they have all been crap? I'm starting to question my own judgement. Maybe this is overly picky but I always hear people talk about "play calling", when in fact the problem is the actual offensive scheme. It's not as much about calling the right plays as it is designing the right plays in the first place. The SF game was a perfect example of a team that was properly coached and prepared with a scheme to take advantage of their own strengths and attack the opponents' weaknesses, while the Bears were running a high school attack. The entire plan seems to be just have Cutler get the ball to Marshall somehow and then either run right or left a lot.
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