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I don't think there is a clause like that. I'm assuming that if they pick up his options, and he finishes up this contract without the necessary service time for free agency, then they will have the option of offering him arbitration or not. If they don't offer, he will be a free agent.
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Yeah, he's had a few nice outings. Still safe to assume a bumpy road ahead for the guy though.
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Actually this makes a lot of sense, assuming they are prepping Coleman to make one of the starts on the DH. It's 15 days away, so they will be able to recall Coleman by then and have enough time to get him on schedule for that date. -
You think so? Back end of the bullpen guys can sit around for 5-7 days at a time, at least when the Cubs aren't starting loogies in the rotation. I'd think what he needs is regular work, which I'm not sure he'd get in Chicago.
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Every major league team deals with unexpected setbacks throughout the season. You have to plan for setbacks, and one of the most basic ones you expect is you will need more than 5 starting pitchers. The Cubs did everything in their power to dwindle what had been decent depth. It doesn't make any sense to give them a pass because of unexpected injuries to pitchers when they purposefully went into the season without pitching depth. For god's sake, they started a damn loogy for a month.
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So you are ignoring trading Gorz? At the time the Cubs traded Gorz they had plenty of pitching depth and no place to put him. I don't consider that one a mistake. By the time Silva was released the equation had changed significantly. The day after they traded him they didn't have any depth. He was their best 6th option at the time.
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They got 2 injuries in the opening week. And a few more in late May. They didn't have an abnormal amount all at once. The whole point is they didn't supply themselves with the necessary depth at starting pitcher. They went into it blind with a whole series of questionable pitchers in the rotation (and on top of that the manager foolishly risked the health of their most stable guy). You can't give them a pass for not having any depth just because if nobody got hurt they wouldn't have needed it.
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So you are ignoring trading Gorz?
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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.
