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Really? McCaskey was telling people they hired McGinnis before they ever signed anything, and now Emery may be telling people the Bears hired him before they've actually signed anything.
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I wouldn't assume he starts in the majors. But Byrd has been a huge candidate to be moved all offseason and will remain so until he's actually gone. Brett Jackson on a corner may lose a lot of value, I like the idea of being able to include him in a deal if it helps them get what they want. If you dump Soriano and Byrd before July there's going to be plenty of space for everybody that needs to play. DeJesus isn't a longterm asset by any measure, so he's probably a good candidate to be flipped if they do end up stockpiling OF and keeping Jackson. -
Sweet a reverse Dave McGinnis. A running joke because everybody makes fun of the nerdy boy scout and all his earnestness?
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Moving a pretty good market from the NL to the AL isn't going to help balance against the AL having more good markets.
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On field baseball strategy is checkers. A cat could implement it. There's nothing interesting about what the manager does. I like to see players play the game, not blowhards attempt to justify their position and salary by "making things happen".
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Yes! I haven't seen many address this on twitter and on sites I that I read. They lost a DH, so just let Fielder and Cabrera rotate between DH and 1B for 2012. They can worry about 2013 when it gets here, and when Martinez is going to be 30-something years old and coming off ACL surgery. I mean, that guy is not gonna be a lock to be a great performer by that point, I wouldn't think. I actually saw a projected lineup that had Ryan Rayburn at DH and Miggy at 3B. If he's in the lineup, why in the world wouldn't they just put Rayburn at 3B? Maybe they just want him to play some 3B in spring training just to maintain some flexibility. I can't imagine they will actually line up that way in real games.
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It makes sense for them to go after the guy, but I'm not sure it makes a ton of sense to go crazy. Yes there's a Cuban population down there, but I have my doubts about how well they can monetize that base by signing an expensive Cuban. Plus, Florida has been "in" on everybody this year, but they've still acquired just a manager, a couple Chicago pitching castoffs and Jose Reyes. They've committed some money, but I'm not sure how willing they are to go even higher. They could just be happy with the non-stop press they've received all winter just by being willing to be open about their supposed targets.
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He's 26 and a small righty. They tried him as a starter then moved him into the pen with mixed results. After 5 years of that they probably saw enough.
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Cubs 6-1 odds to win 2012 World Series?
jersey cubs fan replied to Old Style's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
No way you saw that right, the Cubs are like 25-30/1. They are right in the middle and that is only because of how often people put money on the Cubs as a longshot. They are like 15/1 to even make the World Series. -
Boras must have called a hit on Victor Martinez.
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BA & BP's Cubs Top Prospect Lists
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
No. LaHair? They've made that statement a few times now. My guess is unless he bombs miserably in the spring he will be the opening day starter. I don't think they'll be starting Rizzo anywhere but AAA, regardless of what LaHair does in the spring. Hoyer came out and said that he made a mistake calling up Rizzo so soon and that spring wouldn't change his stance on Rizzo starting in AAA. I'd imagine he stays there however long it needs to be to push his clock back one year. That has been my assumption as well. I was talking about LaHair though. I guess if he's just beyond awful you could see some other fill-in at the position. But it's his for now. -
But the sex cannon decision doesn't make a lot of sense, so that goes against what was said earlier. This acquisition doesn't make it more sensible to go after Garza. It actually allows them to make a similar impact while holding onto their prospects. A team with a lot of money tied up into veterans needs its prospects to start filling holes when those deals become harmful.
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BA & BP's Cubs Top Prospect Lists
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
No. LaHair? They've made that statement a few times now. My guess is unless he bombs miserably in the spring he will be the opening day starter. -
Oooh. I vaguely recall Tim arguing with me on that point at sometime in the past. But I may have said something stupider and not be remembering. I think it's probably supposed to be limb, because you are suggesting the thing holding you up may break. Going out on a ledge suggests suicide.
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After the initial shock, this was my first rational thought. The Fielder move is surely a win-now move -- goodness, they must know that the deal is going to be really bad at the end -- so jumping in for Garza seems to make a lot of sense. Not really. They are already positioned to win now, at the very least their division. If anything this deal is more of a reason to keep their own prospects so in 3-4 years they will have affordable players to fill in for the aging fatties.
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holy schnikes
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2012 College Football Offseason Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
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"Darwin Barney's entire career says he can't consistently put up a .660 OPS in the majors" is a very different argument from "If you take out his best month, he's bad, so he's bad." I can buy the former, but not the latter. Well then stop trying to be a dope and formulating other people's statement incorrectly.
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His second best month was July. Ranking them by OPS, it was April, July, May, August, September, June. I don't see a clear pattern there of declining as he kept playing. Like any hitter, he had some hot times and some slow times. His hottest time coming in April doesn't mean it should be disregarded, any more than a hot September means a guy has "figured it out." When it's a fairly middling prospect who outperforms expectations for one month at the outset of his career and then sucks the rest of the season there's no reason to pretend it was just another month in a long career. He sucked overall with the bat and he sucked major balls without April propping him up. He spent most of the season with a line that actually looked decent overall, which clouded some people's opinions about how he was doing along the way. But we're still just talking about a 26 year old with a 600+ PA supply of poor hitting.
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April counts, but it's still an outlier with 5 consecutive months of significantly worse performance. I don't get why people make the "why doesn't it count" argument when people bring up the rational point that he declined as he kept playing. He sucked with the bat last year. There's no reason to pretend otherwise. He was below average in comparison to all hitters and in comparison to 2B.
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What are you saying? His major league numbers are .271/.310/.345, that is across the board worse than the MLe you listed.
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Well, it might be hard for him to match it because it'll probably take another 800 OPS month, which is unlikely considering how quickly the league figured him out and how incapable he seems of adjusting. His post ASB OPS was 50 points lower than the overall. Even if such a drop is something an offense can theoretically absorb, it is a real decline and certainly something we might be seeing with him.
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FWIW, Soriano outperformed the Cubs total LF production last year, by 26 SLG points. Tyler Colvin, Blake DeWitt and Luis Montanez managed to drag Soriano's .243/.290/.474 line down to .248/.294/.448. If Soriano continues to decline you could still see a situation where his backup/platoon partner keeps the overall LF production in-line with last season.
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You're so valiant.
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Basically he's a boy scout who has been around football his entire life and would be nice to have on staff, but should probably never get a gig as a GM.
