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volstad warming in pen is interesting. Today would be his schedule start day. I wonder if there is any sort of plan to start piggy backing a couple of these pray for rain guys. -
The roster is neither aging or expensive. It's getting younger on a daily basis. A fair amount of the young talent already is contributing. There are certainly portions of the roster that are aging and expensive. I would say that Soriano (36@19M), Stewart (27@2.2M), DeJesus (32@4.2M), Marmol (29@7M) are candidates to be traded during 2013. I don't disagree that some of the young talent is already there. Are you saying that you think the team will compete earlier than 2015? If so, I hope you're right but I don't see it. I'm just saying I disagree with your characterization of the roster and who is doing what now. The problem is more about not having enough positions filled by guys you can count on to give quality production, not that it's aging and expensive. Soriano is the only expensive guy, and he's been good. You need good players to win. The Cubs don't have many of them and they just gave a couple of them away via trade.
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Bruce Miles @BruceMiles2112 #Cubs Wood is at 72 pitches after only 3 innings. The third included a homer, a walk and a balk.
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The roster is neither aging or expensive. It's getting younger on a daily basis. A fair amount of the young talent already is contributing.
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.317/.368/.442 in July. A little worse than that since the all star break, but almost exactly that in the last 10 games. So, it looks like he had a hot start to July, a mediocre middle of the month and a good end to July.
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Will Michael Lewis ever write a book about this blind side?
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Lahair was .000/.167/.000 before that double
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.381 .409 .714 1123
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So Theo was just [expletive] around with Ned Colletti for two weeks for his health before ultimately accepting a lesser package from the Rangers. He never said no, just wanted time to think about it, ATL set an expiration on the offer and pulled it before Demp could make a decision. No, he made a decision but in an effort to save his ass he just didn't say anything officially.
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they've sucked for three years, i can only hope we're well past the mid-point
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how much longer is Lahair going to be playing?
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the cubs need to replace the hookers they use to recruit players.
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I don't get this. You think he's going to replace Maholm in 2013? That's madness. From a value standpoint, I think we're absolutely no worse off in 2013 with Vizcaino + 6.5 million dollars than Maholm. Maholm is simply not a high bar. I still don't see how this says anything different about the fact that they are going to suck in 2013 and it's going to be a long time until they are good.
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I don't get this. You think he's going to replace Maholm in 2013? That's madness.
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What in the holy hell are you talking about? We have to wait for this season to be over to have an opinion on how good the team is? Where is the overreaction? The Cubs suck. The way things are going, on many fronts, it seems plainly obvious that the best we can hope for next season is to suck less. Yeah. Calmer than you are dude. Way to get all doom-town with months of reconstruction left before the first pitch is even thrown in 2013. Get all doom town? I'm looking at the team rationally, and with the assumptions that the front office actually is going to be continuing the plan they've had all along. There's next to no chance of being good next season.
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Him pitching in the majors seems like a very stupid idea to me. If there is any hope of him starting, he'll need the work to stretch out in a controlled minor league environment. If he's going to the bullpen, he'll still need regular work that isn't as easy to come by in a major league bullpen.
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What in the holy hell are you talking about? We have to wait for this season to be over to have an opinion on how good the team is? Where is the overreaction? The Cubs suck. The way things are going, on many fronts, it seems plainly obvious that the best we can hope for next season is to suck less.
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How was he not a key cog in the rotation? Because he's easily replaced? Maholm had value, but it was as a guy you can count on for 200 IP of not-bad pitching. He was traded for great value that is set to be MLB ready next year, so I'm going to be skeptical if he's viewed as the tipping point for someone thinking that the front office is tanking future seasons. He's not a tipping point, he's one of many pieces that won't be around to help the team be respectable. I have no idea what sort of weird line of thinking you are trying to use here, but the fact is the 2013 Cubs are getting worse and worse. A year ago the 2013 Cubs had a chance of being respectable. That is becoming less and less possible with every move. I'm not against the trade, but the fact is a guy who can give you 200 IP of not bad pitching is something the 2013 team is going to be desperate for, as none of the people in the organization project to coming close to that.
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Better than what? Than this season's team. Oh, goody. It shouldn't be hard to improve upon this god awful team. Doesn't mean they will be any good.
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How was he not a key cog in the rotation?
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Better than what?
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I think the trade of Maholm and the intention to trade Garza and Soriano say more about the 2013 intentions than any quote could. Maybe, although for 2013 the value of Vizcaino and Chapman might not be all that different than Maholm's 200 IP of 2 WAR. Considering how many of their trades have brought MLB or near MLB talent(Vizcaino, Wood, Rizzo, Delgado*, Stewart, Volstad), I'd want to see what the deal for Garza or Soriano looks like before taking it as a white flag. And even then, incremental improvements that are not enough yet is long ways away from Greenberg's "3 years away minimum, and maybe more" tone in the article. Regardless of the tone of some article, the Cubs have put themselves in a very difficult position to even pretend to try to win in 2013, and that's really all that matters. They are making this an unnecessarily long and painful process.
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no, they lost yesterday
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Sure, but we were talking about Olympic swimming It's naive to think that it's pretty easy to catch the dopers. Everybody who follows sports knows that the drugs are ahead of the tests. There's a lot more money in cheating than in catching the cheaters.
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http://deadspin.com/5930786/wont-some-nfl-team-please-give-anthony-spice-adams-a-job anthony adams is available
