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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'm curious how you make that assumption at this point, especially the on base part. Their three best OBP contributors, Fukudome, Ramirez and Pena, are either gone or very likely to be gone. I would not make that assumption until I see the replacements.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    If you are very lucky, you call it 1998. 1998 without Sosa
  3. jersey cubs fan
    You probably shouldn't start with 71 as the base case. But the point remains, replacing Ramirez with platoon players who were already counted on to contribute to the team with Ramirez while also failing to add some impact elsewhere is a recipe for another horrible season in 2012.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    And that's where we disagree. This team is a lot closer to average than it is a complete mess, presuming we clean up the back of the rotation and get a small upgrade in the outfield by replacing Tyler Colvin's playing time with Brett Jackson. I don't know what you want to call the area between complete mess and almost average, but it's not good. And that's where the Cubs are without Ramirez or replacement studs.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously? The team is coming in as a complete mess. If you don't get studs and you already lock in another downgrade elsewhere, this team isn't going anywhere. They need, and obviously can afford, major upgrades.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    That may not be the lede depending on the source. That could be some random scout jabbering about obvious things like, the Cubs need pitching and Buerhle is a pitcher. I think it's odd that at his age he's talking about 2-3 years, but I would guess he could get the Jayson Werth treatment and be way overpaid by somebody if he wanted. I also think he really does hate all things Cubs.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    What is so BS about it? He ran the business before, and runs it now. If it was just BS they would just let him go. Sure he runs the biz side, and I have no issue with that, but what I was trying to say I guess is Crane was THE Pres and now everyone knows Theo is. The fact Crane got to keep Pres on his biz card is all that it amounts to. I look at it as they moved him sideways to bring in a real Pres. He ran the business before and he runs the business before. He wasn't really running the baseball side, so while, sure, they moved him sideways, he's still doing the same damn thing.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I think we'd be better off letting the money do the talking for now and have Theo/Hoyer talk to them about future plans.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure what the blah blah blah is about, but Ricketts doesn't strike me as the "get that guy out of here" type of owner. He couldn't envision it, but I think he also said he wouldn't hire a baseball guy to watch over his baseball guy and he didn't envision getting Theo and Hoyer before the offseason.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, it's going to be really tough to sell guys on the whole "chance to win" idea. It's going to have to be about the money for now. You shifted your opinion entirely based on letting Ramirez walk? Huh? I think the Cubs are capable of fielding a decent team next year, but it will require bringing in a couple studs. The problem is the team without those studs pretty much sucks, so you'd have to convince them to come with money. That's been my opinion all along. The lack of Ramirez just makes the supporting cast look that much worse.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, it's going to be really tough to sell guys on the whole "chance to win" idea. It's going to have to be about the money for now.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know how the hell you define productive or several, but that's nonsense.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Correct me if I'm wrong but he pretty much sucks in the field, can't stay healthy and is unreliable at the plate.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    He's just comparing runs scored totals, not how they compare to the league. Obviously that doesn't make any sense. The Cubs were 8th this year and 10th last year and 2009. In 2006 they were 15th. They've definitely had worse offenses than this season.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I'm much more intrigued about the idea of a platoon than the actual implementation.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    1b, starting rotation. If you really wanted to, you could probably upgrade 2b or CF with a free agent as well. They could use help at any OF position.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    He's either got a good chance of staying, or Epstein is doing a very good job bluffing it in order to keep his trade value reasonable. Either way, I like it. That's exactly what it is. I'd be absolutely stunned if Zambrano played another game in a Cubs uniform. I would not be so sure, and I don't know why anybody would be stunned. He's under contract to pitch for the Cubs. He's capable of pitching well. The Cubs are in desperate need of starting pitching. There's a fairly simple scenario for seeing him pitch for the Cubs. He didn't molest a Ricketts kid or anything.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Well, even though his free swinging overly aggressive approach was the opposite of what I like, he made it work and was my favorite Cub this past decade. Hard to complain about consistent high end production.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    It was Aramis, not Zambrano. Theo basically said he'd like to have him back but wont be offering him the sort of contract he's likely to get elsewhere. Yeah, I don't know why I typed Zambrano but I realized it just as I sent it, then edited.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    lost the signal just as Bruce Miles was asking a question related to Ramirez
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Theo steps in on the Zambrano question asked to Hoyer. "It's his first day, I have to save the softballs for him." Theo has had conversations with Praver and it was enlightening. He told Levine that it sounds like he's come to his conclusion, but we have to come to ours.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    interesting answer about reaching a consensus on decisions without letting the media know who was arguing which side. McCleod says its too early to tell exactly how the draft will be run with regards to final say.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    baseball ops question Hoyer has traditional GM duties, he will be Theo's right hand man with regard to the big league club, while McCleod will be his right hand man with regards to the minor league team. He was somewhat vague in how those duties will be broken up.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    theo says they are getting closer to resolving manager situation they had a good long meeting we have a lot to process and we hope to have a resolution within a week. sounds to me like he is gone, but who knows
  25. jersey cubs fan
    A lot less excitement around this one. Still pretty crazy to realize the Cubs have a legit top notch front office.
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