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He's not going to dictate that Lovie has to be his head coach forever or anything. He wants Lovie to stay this year. That is not a big deal. If Ted gives Lovie an extension this offseason then it will be a problem, but a GM doesn't have to clean house on day one to get the chance to build the team how he wants. And if Lovie doesn't win next year he'll have the chance to find another coach. Angelo was given the chance to work with the incumbent coach for a couple years, then he hired his own new guy while having a full decade to do what he could with the team. The new GM should expect something similar, a decade to make it work as long as he doesn't tank and an opportunity to hire a new coach if he needs one. It doesn't make a lot of sense for a new GM to clean house on day one here anyway.
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You can still get a quality GM to take the job under a team president, quit obsessing over the freaking president's role. It exists in sports.
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Trading Soriano
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Depends on what you mean by "mediocre," "slightly," "better" and "worse." don't forget "is". -
Yeah, he's the only one on the list that's interesting.
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Well, I never thought they were doing nothing, and with a list this uninspiring it really doesn't do anything to assuage my fears.
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Misc. Free Agent News
jersey cubs fan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I disagree with the Grienke can't handle Chicago nonsense. If the Cubs suck the media will get snarky and it would inevitably end poorly, but it's not about going down with class and style. It's about trying to be good, and if the guy can handle pitching in major league baseball he can handle pitching in major league baseball. -
Trading Soriano
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Castro will be good. Rizzo will be good. Jackson might be good. In the meantime, we need people to fill in the other spots. So stop obsessing over meantime fill-ins. -
Trading Soriano
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
he only managed a .270/.325/.385 MLE in AAA, and even giving him +7 between defense & baserunning keeps him at "substandard" in a full season of PA MLB LFer hit .255/320/408 last year, so that wouldn't exactly leave him wildly trailing offensively. Going with 270/325/385, the closest comp I can find last season would have been Juan Rivera: 258/319/382 in 132 games. Take out Rivera's baserunning and defense and plugging in a +7 for Sappelt and prorate it out to 150 games, and you get 1.7 fWAR. That would have placed him 10th among qualified LFers last year. I know it's semantics because even at 10th among qualified LFers, nobody's getting geeked about a 1.7 fWAR. But given that Soriano is deep into his decline phase and gave us 1.3 fWAR last season, and that Sappelt has some upside given his age, I see no reason not to give him the LF job and be comfortable with it for 2012. A lot of people play LF in MLB, being a little below average compared to all of them isn't good. I think you need to stop obsessing over the idea of justifying not good players getting playing time and start thinking more about what players will be good. Not sucking isn't a goal. -
Greg Olson as the passing game coordinator and some two bit scout being hired GM would just be so GD annoying.
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Soto
jersey cubs fan replied to Lefty's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
It's certainly not as easy as trading a solid starting pitcher, but it's definitely happened and is possible. -
ESPN insider doesn't say anything, they just collect rumors based on reports of other sites, all stories we've heard. http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/the-gms-office/post?id=3217
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I tend not to believe a word of this I think there's a clear distinction between shopping guys and listening to offers. I think the Cubs shopped Marshall, and when a team knows they aren't going to keep a pending free agent, they will shop him. But the Cubs made it clear early on (remember Peter Gammons insisting Garza would eventually be dealt back in November?) they would listen on Garza but aren't necessarily shopping him.
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In MLB, the best baseball players will win. In the NFL, talent does not translate in the same way. You can't just acquire the best talent and go play. Scheme matters, game planning matters, and getting that talent to play together matters. Coaches are the key there. The NFL doesn't have Theo Epsteins. This was the main reason why I wasn't ecstatic about Angelo getting fired. He was pretty good at his job, but there's no telling how good the next guy will be.
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Right. An NFL coaching staff is much, much more important than a baseball coaching staff, but as the Bears have showed, talented coaches can only mask the deficiencies of inferior players for so long. But those coaches determine a lot about what talented is selected and the future of that talent. And there are loads of very talented players that don't pan out, due in no small part to a bad fit in a coach's scheme.
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Lots of sports teams have business men in between the GM position and the owner. There's no good reason to compare this to the Cubs situation. NFL GMs aren't the difference makers that MLB GMs are. Coaches determine the direction of the team.
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The Score isn't exactly a great place to get your information. Ted Phillips is an annoyance, but a cancer? There's no reason why the next GM has to report directly to the owner. The McCaskeys are not Jerry Jones/Dan Snyder or even Jim Irsay types. They aren't in their making any sort of decisions from an ownership perspective. They hired a guy who is capable of being what a president/CEO type needs to be. There's reason to doubt if he will, but he's been around the NFL for decades and should be capable of hiring the right person.
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Essentially, yes. Phillips went from an accountant to a team executive in the 90's and became CEO/President in 99. When he went through the Hatley dismissal and Angelo hiring he was pretty new to the job. He hired a pretty good candidate who stabilized a fairly pathetic franchise and became pretty active in league-wide activities as the executive face of the Bears. He should have contacts he can trust who can answer his questions, he should have a pretty good idea of who is out there, who is available and who the right guys are. He's got the resume of a guy who should be able to hire a good GM, and he's not an idiot. He may be looking at this in too much of a cocky "we want a person who wants to be a Bear" mentality and he may end up screwing it up, but he's capable of hiring the right guy.
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I don't trust the guy in the least and he shouldn't have his job, but I still think he's quite capable of making the right hire. It would be so very Bears though to need an embarrassing outcome here to convince ownership that Ted needs to be replaced.
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yay for 2-week delayed reactions
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Soto
jersey cubs fan replied to Lefty's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Yup, no point in pulling a Garza with Soto because there's no way you can drive up his price this offseason. In the meantime, the Cubs aren't exactly flush with guys who can do what he's done in the majors, which has been at the very least not hurting the team, and at times essentially carrying the team. I wouldn't mind trading him by July if he has a hot start, but right now there's next to no point in even asking. -
I'm probably wrong, but Sparano seemed like a decent HC. I'm surprised nobody wanted to give him another shot. The Dolphins had high expectations (for some odd reason) and fell flat on their faces the past three years. Nobody was going to jump on Sparano as HC until he reestablishes himself as an underling somewhere.
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Obviously it depends on where offense goes, but right now an .830 OPS from 1b is above-average. Throw in plus defense and you've definitely got a long-term solution. Best comps I could find in 2011: Mark Teixeira hit .248/341/494 with good defense and was worth 4.2 fWAR in 4.2 fWAR Carlos Santana hit .239/351/457 with negative defense and was worth 3.8 fWAR in 155 games. Michael Cuddyer hit 284/356/459 with slightly negative defense and baserunning for 3.1 fWAR in 139 games. You make a good point but the concern is probably that if a guy peaks as an 830 OPS 1B, he's going to be a 785 OPS 1B at a pretty young age and maybe out of baseball by 33, so while it can be an exceptable level of production, one guy probably isn't going to do it for long.
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It was a quirky point in sports history but hardly a blunder that needs to be on anybody's resume. The ASG is a silly break from the season, the winner was pointless until everybody overreacted to the tie.
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I think Lopez is more of a "break in case of emergency guy" than somebody you can yo-yo back and forth. And it's going to be a while before I pencil in Samardzija as an actual starter.
