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I agree with you. The guy is a lot like Big Z. He has great stuff, but has a hard time putting it all together. Boy has a big temper as well. Zambrano has done a hell of a lot more than him. -
For an arbitration eligible pitcher who isn't all that great? I don't like Vitters, but I would rather he be included in a deal for a guy that is more impressive. Plus, they might need him to start next season when they are clear out of corner hitters.
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I thought he was banged up one of those years. 604 PAs one year, 543 the next. None of the minor league time on rehab stints. Well then my memory is worse than I thought. He's just an inconsistent SOB. Hopefully he's got a decent year left in him.
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Heavens to Betsy! A college kid smoked pot with regularity?
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That is pretty much insane. It's not like it's hard to hit in the AL East. No, but he goes from one of the best divisions to one of the least competitive. I'm not saying it's gonna make him a superstar, but a slight bump in numbers wouldn't surprise me. That isn't a slight bump. And again, he's a hitter. It's not hard to hit in the AL East. A pitcher might benefit from never having to face the Yankees and Red Sox, but both of those teams throw out their fair share of mediocre pitching.
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I thought he was banged up one of those years.
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That is pretty much insane. It's not like it's hard to hit in the AL East.
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Defense isn't the issue. And occasional power is worthless in comparison to the horrible OBP.
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I doubt it too. I also doubt they didn't hit their career norm for 70% of the year and hits anemically bad the other 30%. What is Carlos Pena's career norm? He's had full seasons of sub 800 OPS and one well over 1000. I think his career norm is inconsistency and volatility. He's never been a 160 game player, has lost most of two key seasons I assume to injury and was once again banged up last year. I would guess it's pretty normal for him to have such crappy months and there is no good reason to treat his 2010 season as anything but what it was as a whole. We aren't looking for him to play 4 months of baseball next season. He might OPS 1000 one month, but I think it would be a mistake to expect much more than a low 800 OPS for the season.
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I would bet most guys who had bad years didn't bat poorly all year long.
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I don't see how anybody can think they have to get Webb. He's not very likely to be great, and the Cubs have plenty of decent pitching already.
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Garza won 15 games last year.
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Matt Garza? Arb eligible decent AL east pitcher whose peripherals look a little worse than his traditional numbers. Will they take Randy Wells for him to save money?
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He hit 40 points better with RISP and 60 points better with men on 3rd and less than 2 outs.
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Other than the apparent insistence on having Colvin replace Fukudome as early and as often as possible. Also, I doubt Soto is going to bat third all that often. I would guess Ramirez/Pena/Byrd in the 3/4/5 slots.
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Oh, I see he edited this morning. So that's about 125m for 16 guys and then you are just adding in assumed contracts for the last 9, right?
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If Pena is getting $10m where does this leave 2011 payroll estimates?
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I think this story has been confirmed, right?
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1/10 is a pretty damn good deal for a 33 year old player with his resume to "settle" on, especially when it's as much money as he's ever made in any one year. He sucked last year. Now he has another chance to play for a contract without taking any haircut for his terrible 2010 performance. Even a marginal improvement will go a long way toward convincing a team like the Cubs, with no impact bats in their system, to give him an extension. If he signed 2/14 he'd likely make less over the next two years than signing 1/10 this year.
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Just curious but what would be your first option? I personally prefer this over the money/years Dunn got and over the prospects given up/money/years Gonzalez got. There is nobody in the system even close to being capable of playing 1B at a decent level next year. You are just going to have to go out and overpay another guy next year. If the Texas deal goes through, you have a year to groom Davis or Colvin for the future. They are baseball players. You can't really groom them into being something they are not. Neither of those guys is a decent bet to hit well enough to justify a starting 1B gig.
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Bears game 13: Sunday, Dec 12 vs NE on CBS
jersey cubs fan replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
What they can't do is blitz. Brady will slice them up if they keep wasting defenders on anything but the fewest amount of blitzes necessary. -
Which would be a much much worse decision than just signing Dunn this season.
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Just curious but what would be your first option? I personally prefer this over the money/years Dunn got and over the prospects given up/money/years Gonzalez got. There is nobody in the system even close to being capable of playing 1B at a decent level next year. You are just going to have to go out and overpay another guy next year.
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why? no one would go. they'd be the Clippers x10 You're not giving Chicago fans any credit. People support the [expletive] Chicago Wolves. They'd support a second NBA team. They support the Wolves because they built a reputation of succeeding while offering a dirt cheap product. Chicago is a football first, baseball second and basketball only because of Jordan city. They aren't going to pay NBA prices to see a non-Bulls team.
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Bears game 13: Sunday, Dec 12 vs NE on CBS
jersey cubs fan replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Yeah, Washington is awful. So is Oakland, and they play in and against the worst divisions in football.
