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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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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.
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The J E T S replaced Brian Schottenheimer with Tony Sparano at OC.
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Cubs fans are so dumb I love how every time something silly happens they pretend Cubs fans are the only ones who do it
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how is it a bad thing? Hue Jackson was a loony. Because the next coach will be the team's eighth in 12 seasons. You can't keep having this kind of turnover with the coaching staff and expect to have any kind of success. After seven straight years of five or fewer wins, Cable gets fired. Hue Jackson takes over, gets them to a position where a win in the last game gets them into the playoffs, and now he gets fired. It's ridiculous. The Raiders have been ridiculous for a very long time, this firing doesn't change that. A new GM starting fresh and potentially instilling stability could be a very good thing. Stability for the sake of it isn't worth anything, and if the new GM wanted a different style coach there wasn't much benefit in forcing a doomed relationship to continue.
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Right, he's a california guy and Oakland has always had a history as a big passing team, but he was just fired there, so what are his other options? He could sit a year, but he's not exactly Bill Cowher, a year away may shove him down the line. Unless he's getting another head coaching job his best bet is to probably go to a team with a QB in place (so he doesn't have to overpay in draft picks to acquire one). STL could be an option, and I'm sure a couple more should be in the mix. But it wouldn't be outlandish to try and go after him this time.
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Hue Jackson seems like he'd at least be worthy of the passing game coordinator job, would he accept such a position?
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It was weird to talk about Cubs or nobody else in the first place, but not weird to actually hold out for the most money possible now. He owes it to his agent (does he have one still?) to at least try to create some leverage.
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Davis has been on MLB rosters for 12 seasons was he a better pitcher in '07 or '09 than he was this past season? what made him effective in those seasons and a pitching machine this year? I don't know, old age? Injuries? Davis was horrendous over 17 starts in the past 2 years? Why should I care what he did 5 seasons ago? the point is he wasn't a better pitcher, he just had better defense, basically; which is why we care about fielding independent pitching stats and focusing more on peripherals You don't think there's a chance he may have actually been a better pitcher 5 years ago?
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Misc. Free Agent News
jersey cubs fan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
He is a very young guy with no service time. The Mets aren't saving any money on this deal, do they really just not have any space? I like that BR.com lists his position as outfield and pinch hitter. -
He made $12M in 2006 and resigned for $1.75M for the 2007 season at age 30. Resigned again for 2008 for $4.2M. His career looked to be over after 06...it was hanging on by a thread. It being his arm. IIRC though, he was being offered double or triple that figure by other clubs. It was definitely a hometown discount. IIRC this was when he said he felt he owed it to the Cubs because of how much he made while injured. Then last year was more about trying to be the next Ron Santo or something.
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so Wood's camp is leaking all this "he's about to sign in Philly" talk right before the convention to bleed a couple more dollars out of the Cubs.
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Hoyer directed that at @theKapMan these stats guys will use anything to distract you from the cold hard facts
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Castro accused of sexual assault, no charges filed
jersey cubs fan replied to A New Era's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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If they were close to a title I could see it, because being a part of the Cubs team that wins means you will have the chance to draw an income off that memory for the rest of your life. But I doubt many players will take a discounted 1 year deal just to be a part of year 1 of a 2-3 years rebuilding process.
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I can't see that. If he's willing to keep coming back to the Cubs on reasonable terms I'd have to imagine he'd be comfortable waiting out roster manipulation in the meantime. My guess is it would be more about not wanting to come back to a completely overhauled crappy team and/or feeling Theo is lowballing him.
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Refusing to spend money on impact players is being cheap. Holding to a budgetary figure on a middle reliever is just being prudent. And doing this while at the same time wasting money on Reed Johnson and Rodrigo Lopez would qualify as (fill in the blank?) schizophrenic? bi-polar? vindictive?
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Refusing to spend money on impact players is being cheap. Holding to a budgetary figure on a middle reliever is just being prudent.
