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Cafardo says Ricketts maybe ready for overhaul
jersey cubs fan replied to Dallas Green's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
speaking of dave littlefield, one of my favorite mlb trades of all time was the one where the pirates acquired matt morris for rajai davis. the pirates were thoroughly out of the playoff race that year and took on like $3m of morris' salary in 2007, then $10m in 2008 (making him the highest-paid pirate in franchise history). he had an ERA around 7 for the pirates and was released 5 games into the 2008 season. littlefield is lucky to have a job in baseball after a trade like that. That thing was so inexplicable before during and after. Never had any idea how or why they justified making the move. -
You're ignoring McNutt getting hurt multiple times in two months and Silva, who was better than Gorz in 2010, quitting well after the trade was made. . Silva flipped out when asked to go to the minor leagues. Every major league pitcher is going to flip out when asked to go to the minors. Then the Cubs released him. He didn't quit. They knew, or at least if their scouts did any homework on the guy they knew, that Silva would not take kindly to a demotion to the minors. If he was their planned 6th guy, they should have kept him.
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Looper and Welly struggling recently are reasons why they were the 7th and 8th pitchers in the depth chart at best. And they may have been lower than that internally at the start of the year before McNutt got hurt and Jay Jackson imploded. We've had a huge number of pitchers - both young and old - drop off the depth chart in a short period of time. And remember, Gorz wasn't a sure thing. He was a pretty big question mark before coming to the Cubs and hadn't had a great deal of success. If he continued his recent success then he was a better option than all of our other guys, but that wasn't a sure thing. Gorz was a very solid backup option in the rotation. No 6th starter is a sure thing, but he was as close as it gets. Crappy old guys just testing the waters of coming back into the game of baseball aren't real options. And Jay Jackson's implosion began when they started making him into a reliever. It wasn't luck that left the Cubs without a viable 6th starter, it was poor planning.
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Boston fans are not just the 35,000 who showed up to Fenway the day you were there. Their numbers have grown exponentially the past decade, and with the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and now potentially the Bruins, they have grown into the most insufferable bunch of crap talking douchebags.
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There's no reason to feel that way. People make all sorts of one liner posts. The ones that take heat are the ones like "only the Cubs".
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Cafardo says Ricketts maybe ready for overhaul
jersey cubs fan replied to Dallas Green's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It's easy to just start piling on when the team is losing the vast majority of their games. By definition, every day that goes by is closer to the day Ricketts makes a change. Nobody has provided any meaningful information about what is going to happen. Ricketts has talked several times about trying to emulate the Red Sox. So it's a no brainer for a Boston beat writer to just throw some crap against the wall about Ricketts being inspired by the Boston series to make a move. If/when something happens, he's going to look good. -
Well played. My experience in Boston last month was for the most part a great one. The Red Sox fans were very cool and welcoming to the thouands of Cubs fans that were at Fenway and around town. Yes, that is probably true. But that is in no way shape or form an accurate depiction about how Boston fans act on a day to day basis. First off, the vast majority of them live nowhere near Boston. Second, Cubs fans have been welcomed into just about every new AL ballpark because they are an historic and non-threatening team. Likewise, my experience in Philly last weekend was the least confrontational I've ever had. Nobody cares about the team that's 10 games under .500.
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I find it funny how people are talking about how Boston has finally exposed Luongo, apparently forgetting what the Blackhawks have done to him repeatedly. I really see no upside to this final. If Vancouver wins, that kind of sucks. But if Boston wins, another Boston team has a title and those people have become America's absolute worst fans. At least when a NY team wins something, half of NY hates it.
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As the primary leadoff man a lot of his baserunners are one of the two catchers and the pitchers who happened to get a hit that wasn't a HR. Not exactly easy to drive in with anything shy of a triple.
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The worst at a made up stat.
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But the fact that his most likely future is being a loogy means it could be a heck of a lot easier to roster him, if not this year, then the following. My point is that time really isn't on his side if he wants to be a starter.
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I'm confused.
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Astros to the AL? Elimination of divisions?
jersey cubs fan replied to d_money's topic in General Baseball Talk
Nope, just every team in a division, then rotate. We'll play every AL team every 3 years. It wouldn't necessarily mean that either. All it would really mean is interleague wouldn't be bunched up in late June. -
It's a stretch to believe this team would ever have been perfectly healthy (also it's their failure to not have any decent pitching depth).
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Astros to the AL? Elimination of divisions?
jersey cubs fan replied to d_money's topic in General Baseball Talk
it's really just about the same number of games as they do now. I'd like to see some sort of NFL styled "play against your standings counterpoint". You can hype up a meeting of last year's WS participants in April. Have the LCS teams play each other around the same time. Hide the worst vs worst matchup for opening weekend. I'm glad to see this is at least a possibility. -
It's pointless to ask a question that can't be answered. Seriously, "maybe the landscape has changed to the point where he can't be effective"? The baseball landscape always changes. A bad 4-5 year stretch should be assumed for a team spending $55m on payroll every season. The fact that he had 9 year stretch of terrific results is much more impressive than his 4-5 years of middling performance is a bad sign. He's 49 years old. He's blown Jim Hendry out of the water in the GM game and yet some people support keeping Hendry because the next guy might be worse. And we're bringing up nonsense about how the landscape of baseball might have passed Billy Beane by while guys like Brian Sabean can win a WS and Kenny Williams can be praised for putting together another sub .500 ballclub on a $100+ million payroll.
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Actually in most rational ways of slicing it and dicing it, he's pretty much performing up to what he's earning.
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You are asking an unanswerable, and meaningless question. Beane was in charge. He's been in charge since 1997 and his results blow away Jim Hendry's results. Fuson and Ricciardi were gone for a long time. Oakland won a hell of a lot of games long after they left, at a better rate than the Cubs. How long does Beane get to be mired in mediocrity before we start to question if maybe the landscape has changed to the point where he's not as effective as he once was? He's at a .468 winning percentage the last 5 years and his roster and farm system don't look to be on the brink of breaking out of that funk. It might be that he would be just as effective as he used to be if he had the Cubs' resources, but it's a more than fair question to ask. It's kind of a pointless question. You can't answer it until he gets a better job. He's a GM who produced terrific results with an extremely low level of resources at his disposal. He wasn't able to maintain those terrific results into a second decade of extremely low resources. He's certainly a better option than Hendry. If you can find somebody better, go right ahead.
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Getting interesting. Saw this in on of those earlier links you listed: This guy has been in the pros since 2006. He may only be 23, but it's going to take a few years to turn him into a guy capable of throwing 100 pitches every fifth day. Doesn't he have to start going on 40-man rosters pretty soon? Isn't that likely something that will work against him in terms of the patience needed to have him stick as a starter.
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Ah, was going off perception rather than facts on that comment. It just seemed like I had seen a bunch of really cheap guys or guys signing for $3-4 million/yr. I'm just going off perception as well, it just seems every LCS team has a $1.2m reliever coming back from something or other and getting ready to cash-in on a stupid contract.
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That's really the average reliever salary? What's the median? I don't know the median either. There are some really high end contracts (Rivera, Cordero for example), but a ton of guys making next to nothing too. As a complete and utter guess, I'd say Kerry is probably on the lower end salary for veteran relievers though. Relievers seem to be either incredibly cheap or way too expensive. It's hard to find guys in the middle ground like Kerry is in. Really? I think there are plenty of $1-2m relievers out there.
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The Cubs have 28 games over the next 28 days, with one off day and off DH, the day after what would have been their other off day, which is now a rescheduled game vs Colorado. They haven't had an off day in 11 days. I wonder to what extent Quade will try and murder his starters while "protecting" his bullpen. If Wood goes on the DL, retroactive to his last outing on June 8, he should be back before that DH.
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That's really the average reliever salary? What's the median?
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You are asking an unanswerable, and meaningless question. Beane was in charge. He's been in charge since 1997 and his results blow away Jim Hendry's results. Fuson and Ricciardi were gone for a long time. Oakland won a hell of a lot of games long after they left, at a better rate than the Cubs.
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Tim trying harder than ever to support nonsensical pro hendry stance That's far more pro-Alderson than pro-Hendry. Really has nothing to do with Jim. Billy Beane has been GM of that team since October 1997. Starting in 2000 they won 90+ games in six of seven seasons, with a payroll that paled in comparison to the normal contenders. And that payroll has not grown in the years since. But you question whether Billy Beane deserves accolades for the job he did while supporting the notion that the Cubs should hang on to Jim Hendry because things could somehow get worse with a different GM. He had a terrific 9 year run, and dealt with no payroll. It's hard enough to find success for a season or two in their situation, you can't expect them to maintain dominance over a decade and a half.
