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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I almost feel that way as well. It's more of an annoyance than huge disappointment.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    The details don't really matter at this point. The concept is worth exploring and not worth the vitriol. But I'm not sure how much they have to go beyond 4/15. Assume for a second a team coming back late in the game. They probably are very low on TO or maybe even out of TO. You'd have to make that 15 yard completion to get a 1st down but it's not like the clock stops immediately like it does after an onside kick.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, but Rizzo had a pretty terrible contact rate in his debut and adjustments were made to fix it. Nobody's expecting Jackson to hit like Rizzo, but if he can even get the K% down to 25%, he's much better off than he was before. In his debut. In his very brief debut. A period of time that was very brief. Jackson has been like this a while and got worse and worse for a whole hell of a lot longer. It's pretty much the definition of who he is as a hitter and has been since the day they signed him when they talked about the one thing he struggle with, making contact with the baseball. Rizzo was tweaking his swing along the way, the type of normal adjustment everybody who isn't Vladdyesque must make as a professional moving up the ladder. Jackson's a complete clusterpuck at this point. The situations are not comparable and it's pointless to bring up Rizzo when discussing what is expected/hoped for from Jackson.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Other than the first few games this year I completely agree.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    The situations are not really comparable. How are they not? How are you even asking this question?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    The situations are not really comparable.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I assume they are looking at Stewart as a potential coaching candidate down the road and this is just a way to keep on his good side so he'll consider them when his playing career ends.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I don't understand the uproar.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    that, and i don't think there's been a moment of consideration given to him ever stepping foot in the minors, unless to eventually rehab an injury or something truthfully, Castro and Rizzo are more prospects than this guy, with much further development still needed for both I'm with these guys. I don't really see how you compare this guy with the rest, nor do I see what the purpose would be. He's an old major league reliever. He's not a prospect in any way shape or form. It may not be the letter of the law for prospects but at sure as heck is the spirit.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    There's a lot of heroin in Seattle
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    must be a rehabbing pitcher as he's thrown 10 innings in 2 years
  14. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs guy is not on this list.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Cubs take Rondon after Houston takes Fields
  16. jersey cubs fan
    rondon from cleveland
  17. jersey cubs fan
    ooo, fun time waster houston is on the clock take Josh Fields
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Jeff Keppinger was asking for 12m/year? I have not been paying attention but that seems incredibly unlikely.
  25. 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.
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